| Tip 233 | Take a Picture of the Screen |
Your Mac has a powerful screen-grabbing facility built in, with a variety of ways of accessing it.
Using Keystrokes
The simplest way to take a shot of the screen is to tap Shift+Command+3. This will output an image to the desktop, although beware if you’re playing a DVD movie—the DVD movie window will be blank because movies are copyrighted.
If you want to grab a specific area of the screen, hit Shift+Command+4 instead. The cursor will change to a crosshair, and you can click and drag to define an area that will be turned into a screenshot and output to the desktop. Hold Space while dragging, without releasing the mouse button, and you can reposition the screenshot frame. Hit Esc to cancel.
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