How to take a screenshot on your smartphone, tablet, notebook or desktop computer.
The Macintosh operating system has always made it easy to capture a screen shot. A screen shot is an image of your computer desktop or an active window. Here's a summary of all the keyboard shortcuts you can use to capture your screen in Mac OS X. Entire screen: To capture the entire screen, press Command-Shift-3. The screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on.

How do I take a screenshot?
press	PrtScn	=	Windows captures the entire screen and copies it to the (invisible) clipboard. Note: On some notebooks you have to hold Fn and then press PrtScn instead.
Where can I find that key?
PrtScnScrLkPause				Look for this group of keys at the upper right of your keyboard. Note: Print Screen (PrtScn) might have been abbreviated differently on your keyboard.
How do I take a screenshot of a single window?
hold down	Alt	and press	PrtScn	=	Windows captures only the currently active window and copies it to the clipboard.

Apr 14, 2021 If you add a spacebar press to command+shift+4, you can screenshot an open window. (Press the option key before the shortcut to get rid of the drop shadow that macOS will add to the window capture.

How do I take a screenshot of a specific area?
hold down	⊞	and	Shift	and press	S	=	Use your mouse to draw a rectangle in order to specify what to capture. Windows then copies it to the clipboard. Since: Windows 10 Creators Update.

I guess it’s in the clipboard now. How can I paste it into a document or something?
hold down	Ctrl	and press	V	=	Windows pastes the screenshot (that is in the clipboard) into a document or image you are currently editing.
Where should I paste it? I just need a (graphics) file.
Start “Paint” Paste Save
How do I take a screenshot and have it directly as a file?
hold down	⊞	and press	PrtScn	=	Windows (8 or 10) captures the entire screen and saves it as a file to your Pictures >Screenshots folder.
Can you show me in a video?
Is there a dedicated program for taking screenshots? How can I find it?

Many people search for ways of taking screenshot in mac…it is very simple to take screen shot in PC(windows) but mac have no special button to take screen shot .

So here we are providing you few ways by which you can easily take screenshot on mac.

screenshot on mac

1..Command+shift+3: full screen screenshot, save screenshot to desktop

2. Command+shift+4: screenshot of the selected area of the mouse, save the screenshot to the desktop

3. Command+shift+4+Space (space bar): Screenshot of the program window. After pressing this group of shortcut keys, a camera-like icon will appear. Then use the mouse to click a left mouse button on a window and take a screenshot of a window. . In the above screenshot, the image is saved on the desktop by default.

Take Screenshot For Mac

Extended function: After

pressing Command+shift+4, draw a grabbed area, do not release the mouse, then:

Hold this space to move this area
Hold down Shift and drag the X or Y axis to drag
Press and hold Option to zoom in according to the center of the area.
Finally, all screenshots will be displayed directly on the desktop.

Restore the picture:

For the picture that has been edited, if you want to restore the previous appearance, in the state of previewing the picture, click the file in the top line of the screen → Restore to → Browse all versions, then click Restore, the default is saved. .

Mac image location after screenshot

The files generated by the default screenshot of the MAC system are all saved on the desktop.

1. change the location of the save method:

Open “Terminal” (Application – “Utilities” and enter the following command: (USERNAME is replaced with your username)

Shortcut Keys For Mac Screenshot

Defaultswritecom.apple.screencapturelocation /Users/USERNAME/Documents//Users/USERNAME/Documents

(Documents is the file save path you want to set. If you don’t like to put it in “Documents”, you can set it yourself.)

2, restore the system default settings

Open Terminal (Applications -> Utilities) and enter the following command:

Screenshot For Mac Shortcut

Defaults delete com.apple.screencapture location

How To Screenshot On Mac Keyboard

If the desktop can’t find the wrong shortcuts, it’s the “shift” “command” and “3” keys. Let’s try it.