Emma Ava
In this article, I am going to discuss how to take a screenshot on Mac using these 4 ways. Depending on which Apple computer you have — MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, or iMac — you may have up to four ways to take a screenshot.
Knowing how to take a screenshot on Mac is an essential skill if you want to capture what’s currently on your Mac, whether it’s tickets to an event, an email you’ve just received, or simply a snapshot of your desktop.
You have three ways to take a screenshot on Mac with keyboard shortcuts– and if you have a MacBook with a touch bar you have a fourth method. In this guide, we’ll show you the various keyboard shortcuts you need to know to take a screenshot on your Mac. We’ll also show you walk you what you can do with those screenshots once you’ve taken them. Apple gives you a fair number of options to easily save, delete and open the screenshot on Mac for markup if you’re looking for more guides on using your Apple device.
Command-Shift-3
This keyboard shortcut captures a screenshot on Mac of your entire screen.
Shift-Command-4
Use this keyboard combo to turn your cursor into a crosshair, which you can drag to select a portion of your screen to capture. Release the mouse button or trackpad to take the shot.
Press and release the space bar: The crosshair turns into a little camera icon, which you can move over any open window. Click on your desired window to take a screenshot of it. A screenshot captured by this method features a white border around the window with a bit of a drop shadow.
Press and hold the space bar (after dragging to highlight an area but before releasing the mouse button or trackpad): This locks in the shape and size of the selection area but lets you reposition it on the screen. It’s very handy if your initial selection area is off by a few pixels; just hold down the space bar to reposition it before releasing the mouse button to snap a screenshot.
Hold down the Shift key (after dragging to highlight an area but before releasing the mouse button or trackpad): This locks in each side of the selection area made with the crosshairs save the bottom edge, letting you move your mouse up or down to position the bottom edge.
Without releasing the mouse button, release the Shift key and hit it again to reposition the right edge of your selection area. You can toggle between moving the bottom edge and right edge by keeping the mouse button or touchpad engaged and pressing the Shift key.
Shift-Command-5
A shortcut command introduced in MacOS Mojave (2018), this combination calls up a small panel at the bottom of your display with your screen capture options. There are three screenshot buttons that let you capture the entire screen, a window or a selection of your screen.
Likewise, the two video-recording buttons let you record your entire screen or a selection of it. On the left is an X button to close the screenshot panel, but you can also just hit the Escape key to exit out.
On the right side is an Options button. It lets you choose where to save your screenshot — Desktop, Documents, Clipboard, Mail, Messages, Preview or Other Location and set a 5- or 10-second delay so you can line up items that might otherwise disappear when you engage your screenshot tool.
By default, the Show Floating Thumbnail option is enabled, which puts a little preview thumbnail of your just-capture screenshot in the lower-right corner of your screen, similar to the screenshot procedure with iOS. Unlike your iPhone ($899 at Amazon), you can turn off this preview thumbnail on your Mac. Lastly, you can choose to show your mouse pointer in a screenshot or video.
If the screenshot panel is in your way, you can grab its left edge and drag it to a new spot on your screen.
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