SEE: WWDC 2020: The biggest takeaways (free PDF) (TechRepublic) With the spacebar held down and your finger on the mouse/trackpad you can move your selection around the screen to get its placement just right. Don’t take your finger off the mouse or trackpad, either. To move the area you selected, press and hold the spacebar, and release your fingers from Shift and Command. If you realize you’ve captured an area slightly off from what you wanted, don’t release any buttons yet: You have two options to reposition or resize your selection. You’ll see the screenshot thumbnail appear just like you did with the whole screen method (the same goes for the additional options below).įigure C What a selected area of screen looks like. To capture part of the screen using the crosshairs simply click, drag, and release ( Figure C). When you hit those buttons your cursor will turn into a pair of crosshairs ( Figure B) that let you select a portion of the screen to capture. The initial keyboard shortcut for this is Command + Shift + 4. You could use the above keyboard shortcut to capture the whole screen and then crop, but if you just want to capture a single window or part of the screen there’s keyboard options for that as well.
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How to take a screenshot in macOS with options If you want to edit or mark up the screenshot you just took, you can click on the thumbnail before it disappears, or find the screenshot on your desktop and open it in Preview, where you’ll find editing and markup tools to crop, add notes, etc.
You’ll know you’ve taken a successful screenshot when you see a thumbnail in the lower right corner of the screen ( Figure A).įigure A The automatic thumbnail you’ll see when capturing a screenshot. You don’t have any options with this method-it captures the entire screen and anything on it. The quickest, easiest way to take a screenshot is to press Command + Shift + 3.
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SEE: How to take screenshots in Windows 10 (TechRepublic) How to take a quick screenshot in macOS We’ll cover both here, so hopefully you’ll find a new preferred method for capturing all, or part, of the screen on your Mac. There’s more to taking screenshots than just a single key combination, and if keyboard shortcuts aren’t your style, there’s also a built-in screen capture app in macOS as well.
SEE: macOS Big Sur: A cheat sheet (free PDF) (TechRepublic) Almost all my work is done on my MacBook Air, and thankfully Apple has made taking screenshots in macOS as easy as pressing three keys. I write quite a few how-tos like this one, and they often necessitate taking screenshots of my work to provide as examples. Quick glossary: Metaverse (TechRepublic Premium)
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Working with PDFs is a breeze with PDF Converter Pro TechRepublic Editor-in-Chief Bill Detwiler bids farewell, introduces new Managing Editor, Tamara Scottīecome a Linux expert just in time for the 2022 boom Image: EMIL IMARIETLI / Getty Images What's hot at TechRepublic Apple has baked powerful shortcuts for capturing all or part of the screen into macOS, and you can use all of them without having to launch a single additional app.
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