Fun with the Mac OS X’s built-in Screen capture tool



Mac OS X’s built-in screen capture tool has a variety of tricks you might find useful. Here are as follows:

To screenshot your whole screen, press:
COMMAND + SHIFT + 3

To screenshot just a part of the screen, press (the mouse cursor will change to a crosshair icon):
COMMAND + SHIFT + 4

To screenshot a specific window (even the pop-up icon that appears when your change the volume or the screen’s brightness!), press:
COMMAND + SHIFT + 4, then press SPACEBAR (the cursor will change to a camera icon)

To screenshot while locking horizontally or vertically, press:
COMMAND + SHIFT + 4, then press and hold SHIFT

To screenshot while the maintaining a perfect squared screenshot, press:
COMMAND + SHIFT + 4, then press and hold ALT

If you want to have more control over screen capture, like recording the desktop screen as a video (with audio of course!), install Snapz Pro from Ambrosia Software.

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