{"id":5107,"date":"2010-12-22T08:36:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T13:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T08:36:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T13:36:51","slug":"macintosh-screen-capture-hints-techniques","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/macintosh-related\/macintosh-screen-capture-hints-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Macintosh Screen Capture Hints &#038; Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the least known keyboard commands on the Macintosh is the built-in features of Mac OS X to take a screenshot of the screen. \u00c2\u00a0While the shortcuts are second nature to me, I often find that people are not aware of them. \u00c2\u00a0So here is a quick summary of the how to take a screenshot:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Take a picture of an area of the screen<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 This is by far my favorite shortcut.\u00c2\u00a0 If you press\u00c2\u00a0<em>Command + shift + 4<\/em> you can select the area of the screen that you want to take a picture of.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 By default it will save the image to your desktop but you can change the default destination.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, some extra great features for Leopard users follow:\n<ol>\n<li><em>Command + shift + 4<\/em> and then press your\u00c2\u00a0<em>space bar<\/em> to capture the window that is directly under the cursor. \u00c2\u00a0This is the easiest, and most often used by myself.<\/li>\n<li><em>Command + shift + 4 <\/em>will by default allow you to select an area on the screen, by holding the space bar, you will lock the size of the window, but be allowed to drag the capture window around.<\/li>\n<li><em>Command + shift + 4<\/em> and the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Option<\/em> key will allow you to area you have selected\u00c2\u00a0bigger by expanding all sides from the center.<\/li>\n<li><em>Command + shift + 4<\/em> and then the\u00c2\u00a0<em>shift<\/em> key again will allow you to resize one edge of the selected area.<\/li>\n<li><em>Shift + control + command +4 <\/em>will take a screenshot of a selected area and copy it to the clipboard.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Take a picture of your whole screen<\/strong>. \u00c2\u00a0 If you press<em>Command + shift + 3<\/em> your current screen will be captured and saved to your default folder.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You can change the default format of screenshots<\/strong>.<strong> <\/strong>By default the format of screenshots are dependent on the OS.\u00c2\u00a0 Typically in 10.5 &amp; 10.6, screen capture is saved\u00c2\u00a0as a PNG file. \u00c2\u00a0 You can however change the default format by doing the following:\n<ul>\n<li>Open up a Terminal (Applications&gt;&gt;Utilities&gt;&gt;Terminal).<\/li>\n<li>Type the following code at the prompt:<\/li>\n<p>defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg<br \/>\nkillall SystemUIServer<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>You can<\/strong> <strong>use the Preview application<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 You can also take a screenshot by opening up the standard Mac Preview application (Applications&gt;&gt;Preview).\u00c2\u00a0 You get all the options mentioned above.\u00c2\u00a0 Open up the application, go to the File menu and select Take Screen Shot (pick full screen, partial area, or window).\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really that simple.<\/li>\n<li>For the advanced user, you can use the QuickTime Player in Snow Leopard, to make a screen movie. \u00c2\u00a0This is a video capture of what is on the screen, and is completely free. \u00c2\u00a0You can choose to capture the Audio at the same time, or you could use Use iMovie, or QuickTime player to create an audio track and merge the files together, and then have a tutorial video, without spending any money on extra tools.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Another reason that I like this functionality so much is that it is\u00c2\u00a0<strong>FREE. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the least known keyboard commands on the Macintosh is the built-in features of Mac OS X to take a screenshot of the screen. \u00c2\u00a0While the shortcuts are second nature to me, I often find that people are not aware of them. \u00c2\u00a0So here is a quick summary of the how to take a <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/macintosh-related\/macintosh-screen-capture-hints-techniques\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":218,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5107\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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