How to print screen on Mac

If you are a new user to Mac OS some of the challenges you face is that a few things that you normally do with your windows keyboard might not be possible on the mac because the keyboard are a bit different.

For instant What is known as “Print Screen” in the Windows world is called screen captures or screenshots in Mac OS X. You’ve probably noticed there is no ‘Print Screen’ button on a Mac keyboard, this is to both simply the keyboard and also because it’s unnecessary.

1. The simple “print screen button” capture:

• Press the Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 3 all at the same time
• You will find a capture of the screen on your desktop named ‘Picture _’

2. Capturing a selected portion of your screen:

• Press the Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 4 all at the same time
• You will see the cursor change to +
• Drag a box around the section you want to copy and release the mouse
• You will find a capture of the screen on your desktop again entitled ‘Picture _’

3 . Capturing from a selected application window:

• Press the Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 4 all at the same time
• You will see the cursor change to +
• Press the spacebar
• The cursor will change to a camera. Simply click on the window you want to be captured.
• Again the capture of the screen will be on your desktop labelled ‘Picture _’

• Command+Control+Shift+3: take a screenshot of the entire screen (screens if multiple monitors), and saves it to the clipboard for pasting elsewhere
• Command+Control+Shift+4, then select an area: takes a screenshot of selection and saves it to the clipboard for pasting elsewhere
• Command+Control+Shift+4, then space, then click a window: takes a screenshot of a window and saves it to the clipboard for pasting

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