how do you take a picture of the screen (desktop)?

[snooziums]

How do you take a picture of the current screen and save it to either the clipboard or a file?

I knew that this could be done from System 7 through Mac OS 9, however what is the command for Mac OS X ?

[Gee]

How do you take a picture of the current screen and save it to either the clipboard or a file?

I knew that this could be done from System 7 through Mac OS 9, however what is the command for Mac OS X ?

Apple-Shift-3
(Appears as a PDF on the desktop...)

Cheers
G

[Nermal]

Cmd-Shift-3 takes a shot of the entire screen.
Cmd-Shift-4 lets you draw a box around what you want a shot of.
Cmd-Shift-4 then Space takes a shot of a single window.

[HexMonkey]

And holding down control during any of them (control-command-shift-3 etc) puts the screenshot on the clipboard instead of in a file.

[gekko513]

And holding down control during any of them (control-command-shift-3 etc) puts the screenshot on the clipboard instead of in a file.
What does control-command-shift-alt-3 do? :p .......... And why do I have a ^ key that does nothing on the right side of the spacebar??

[7on]

What does control-command-shift-alt-3 do? :p .......... And why do I have a ^ key that does nothing on the right side of the spacebar??

If you're right Control key doesn't work then it's busted. Because it should work.

[FuzzyBallz]

do a search.