Print screen? Or different name for Mac

[MikeAppz]

I just switched over from a PC. If I want to do a print screen (at least that is what it was called on a dell) and copy it to the clipboard or save the image of my screen, how do I do this? Is there a key for this on the keyboard like on PC's

 

[mikes63737]

Command+Shift+3 will save your entire screen as a PNG image.

Command+Shift+4 will allow you to select part of your screen and save that as a PNG image.

Edit: PNG's are saved to the desktop.

 

[gekko513]

There are four different keyboard combination to do a screen capture.

cmd+shift+3 - capture screen to a file on the desktop
cmd+ctrl+shift+3 - capture screen to the clipboard
cmd+shift+4 - capture screen selection to a file on the desktop
cmd+ctrl+shift+4 - capture screen selection to the clipboard

See "System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse" for more useful keyboard shortcuts.

 

[macOSX-tastic]

you can also download a handy little widget here:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/screenshotplus.html

S

 

[slooksterPSV]

YOU GUYS OMG you forgot the best one!!!

CMD+SHIFT+4 then press Spacebar to take snapshots of windows/desktops =O

It's awesome when you get the camera

 

[motulist]

slooksterPSV, that's awesome! I never knew that one.

 

[truz]

slooksterPSV, that's awesome! I never knew that one.

I agree, this is a very handy one thanks

 

[disconap]

That is so awesome, thanks for the little camera! Makes my life a lot easier.

 

[iMarley]

I'm running 10.3.9 and when I take a screenshot it saves it to the destop as a pdf??? Is there anyway to change this?

 

[motulist]

Yeah, upgrade to 10.4 Seriously though, I'm pretty sure there's no way to change it in 10.3.

 

[disconap]

Other than converting it in Photoshop, of course...

 

[motulist]

or graphicconverter, the shareware alternative.

 

[gekko513]

Or Preview ... the bundled alternative. (At least it can do "Save As" and "make new from clipboard" in Tiger.)

 

[camomac]

you could also use "grab" in your applications/utilities folder.

i like that quite a bit, saves it as a .tiff

just a thought....

 

[slooksterPSV]

You can also use Onyx (I gotta run Onyx) and change to what it saves as.

 

[WildCowboy]

I'm running 10.3.9 and when I take a screenshot it saves it to the destop as a pdf??? Is there anyway to change this?

Doesn't the Terminal trick work in Panther? I seem to remember doing it.

Open Terminal and at the prompt, type:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png

(Or use your favorite file format if you don't like PNG.)

Log out of your account and back in, and it should work.

 

[motulist]

Somebody should try that terminal trick out and tell us if it works so that I don't have to be the guinea pig.

 

[trainguy77]

Somebody should try that terminal trick out and tell us if it works so that I don't have to be the guinea pig.

I checked does not seem to work. It still outputs pdf files.

 

[WildCowboy]

I checked does not seem to work. It still outputs pdf files.

Hmmm...I thought that worked in Panther. My bad.

 

[jeremy.king]

Hmmm...I thought that worked in Panther. My bad.

Edit: I'm retarded, I used a different defaults command in Jaguar and relied on Folder Actions in Panther...

 

[jeremy.king]

Somebody should try that terminal trick out and tell us if it works so that I don't have to be the guinea pig.

You can always change it back with

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf

Edit: An alternative is to use Folder Actions - http://creativebits.org/mac_os_x/folder_action_script_image_conversion