How Do I Take A Screen Shot

[TomKease]

I am having an issue with my TIME CAPSULE and I made an appt. to see a GENIUS. Since I can't take my Time Capsule with me I wanted to take a screen shot of the issue to better explain the problem

I'm sure there is a very simple answer to this and I'm kinda embarassed to even ask.

Thanks for your help in advance!!!

TK

 

[ziggyonice]

There are lots of different keyboard shortcuts to do this for you, but easiest way is the application called "Grab" in your Utilities folder (Applications folder > Utilities > Grab). You can also learn a lot of the shortcuts by going into the "Help" menu in the menu bar, and just type "screen shot". You'd be surprised at some of the stuff you can learn just from "Help"!

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

cmd+shift+4
cmd+shift+3
Cmd+shift+4 <space>

 

[staccato83]

command+shift+3 for entire screen

command+shift+4 for only a certain part of the screen

 

[alphaod]

Cmd+shift+4 <space>

And that does the current window.

 

[gixxerredliner]

Wait...

So when you guys post those really cool screen grabs on this site, those are the command fuctions you use to actually take that screen shot?

 

[om3ga785]

there's also a screen shot widget you can add from Apple's widget downloads too.

It's called Screenshot Plus 3.0

 

[VPrime]

You can also use a free app called Skitch.
It can take screenshots, do quick edits, and upload them to your account. Pretty awesome software.

 

[Eric S.]

MacRumors has a good guide on taking screenshots:
http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X

 

[RRutter]

There are tons of threads about this already..

Mroogle before you re-post!

 

[lazydesi]

use skitch

 

[SHADO]

command+shift+3 for entire screen

command+shift+4 for only a certain part of the screen

And also command+shift+4+spacebar will take a screenshot of a window. I use all of these shortcuts frequently.

 

[johny5]

been grabbing screenshots for a while now, but it can be a nightmare searching through on your desktop. Is there any way to have the screens captured into a folder on your desktop?

 

[arthursiew]

Command+Shift+4.

 

[acfusion29]

been grabbing screenshots for a while now, but it can be a nightmare searching through on your desktop. Is there any way to have the screens captured into a folder on your desktop?

How much stuff do you have on your desktop? The screen shots are named 'Picture 1/2/3/etc' anyways, so it shouldn't be too hard to find.

 

[AlphaBoy85]

Download Jing

 

[johny5]

How much stuff do you have on your desktop? The screen shots are named 'Picture 1/2/3/etc' anyways, so it shouldn't be too hard to find.

I do have a fair amount of clutter to be honest.
For the moment i did a big clear out today and figured you cant change to save within a folder and I should be moving/renaming the grabs as I do them.

 

[ensgaard]

how do u scroll the window up/down & capture everything??

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

how do u scroll the window up/down & capture everything??

There's probably a special firefox plugin that could do that, but I don't think there's a way to do that in OS X.

 

[ensgaard]

There's probably a special firefox plugin that could do that, but I don't think there's a way to do that in OS X.

noted....there should a 3rd party software can do this right?? but i still prefer using the shift+command+4+(to make it scroll the whole window)...

 

[dpaanlka]

There's probably a special firefox plugin that could do that, but I don't think there's a way to do that in OS X.

Or a standalone application called Paparazzi.

noted....there should a 3rd party software can do this right?? but i still prefer using the shift+command+4+(to make it scroll the whole window)...

That wouldn't really work the way you describe. Imagine taking a picture of a park with a still camera while spinning around really fast.