Comments on: Taking Screenshots is a Snap

By: user301676

user301676 — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 03:48:12 +0000

Taking screenshots on Mac by pressing some keyboard shortcuts works great, but it won’t work for capturing screen with mouse cursor and capturing the scrollable web page. In this case, you can discover solutions here: http://screenshot.net/screenshot-on-macbook.html

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:04:23 +0000

Awesome article. I knew about the Command Shift 4 for screenshots, but never knew about the control key for copying to clipboard...much more convenient than Windows 7 Snipping Tool and now I won't have to waste time deleting screenshots from my desktop. Thanks!

By: Kyle Cronin

Kyle Cronin — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 03:55:00 +0000

Great article! In addition to being able to use the space bar to move the selection when using ⌘⇧4, you can also use ⇧ to resize in a single direction and ⌥ to resize opposite sides at the same time as seen in this video:

http://www.macworld.com/article/164123/2011/12/mac_os_x_screenshot_secrets.html

(In the video he says that with ⌘⇧4 and ⌥ the rectangle retains its height to width ratio, but it’s more general than that – dragging up moves the top of the rectangle opposite with the down, and the left of the rectangle opposite the right)

By: jaberg

jaberg — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:33:18 +0000

There is an entire paragraph devoted to that very process.

By: Timothy Mueller-Harder

Timothy Mueller-Harder — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:31:52 +0000

But great article! Sorry I forgot to praise it in that comment. :D

By: Timothy Mueller-Harder

Timothy Mueller-Harder — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:31:10 +0000

Also, you neglected to mention that simply pressing the spacebar (rather than holding it) while shift-command-4-ing lets you snap a window or menu.

By: Ian C.

Ian C. — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:39:23 +0000

While I love the built-in screen shot tools in OS X, I've found that it's rarely the case I just want a snap of a window. I usually want to call something out too: point to something, circle something, etc. And for that, screen shots combined with Skitch have proved to be awesome. Skitch is free in the MAS and a super-powerful way to mark up your screen shots.

By: bmike

bmike — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:14:14 +0000

This is fantastic! I'm going to bookmark this for new to mac users looking to create and document things on their mac.