Screen Grab on new iMacs?

[vanpauldesign]

Im having problems executing a successful screen grab on my iMac.

Ive always used Shift+Cloverleaf+4 to select a portion of the screen and then get a snapshot, and that still seems to work because im hearing the photosnap sound.

The problem occurs when i go to paste this captured selection, nothing happens. I cant paste it in photoshop, email, or anywhere for that matter.

Has anyone else experienced this problem on the new iMacs?

 

[BlueRevolution]

Command+shift+4 takes a screenshot to a file, not to the clipboard. Take a look on your desktop.

 

[Consultant]

Cloverleaf is called Command.

Screenshots in OSX are saved to file on our desktop.
(Saving screenshots to file are great for those who need to make many different screenshots.)

 

[vanpauldesign]

Command+shift+4 takes a screenshot to a file, not to the clipboard. Take a look on your desktop.

thanks! it was there!

Now I know that you have to do CONTROL- COMMAND-SHIFT and 4 at the same time in order to save the selection to the clipboard instead of the desktop.

 

[BlueRevolution]

You can remap most keyboard shortcuts under the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane. I have area screenshot set to F19 and full screen to F18.