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

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snooziums

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jun 16, 2004

• #1

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 ?

 

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Gee

macrumors 65816

• Jun 16, 2004

• #2

snooziums said:

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 ?

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

Cheers
G

 

Nermal

Moderator

Staff member

• Jun 16, 2004

• #3

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

Administrator emeritus

• Jun 16, 2004

• #4

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

macrumors 603

• Jun 16, 2004

• #5

HexMonkey said:

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

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

 

7on

macrumors 601

• Jun 17, 2004

• #6

gekko513 said:

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

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

 

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FuzzyBallz

macrumors 6502a

• Jun 17, 2004

• #7

do a search.