I am frequently taking screenshots of what I am doing on screen. It’s useful to know all the options you have in order to make this quick and simple. In this video, I’ll go over the different ways in which you can take some basic screen shots on your Mac, and look a few advanced techniques as well.
Keyboard Shortcuts Used:
- Cmd + Shift + 3: Capture Whole Screen
- Cmd + Shift + 4: Capture a Selected Area
- Cmd + Shift + 4, then Spacebar: Capture Window
Terminal Commands Used:
screencapture -C -T 5 ~/Desktop/ss.pngdefaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/Screenshots/
killall SystemUIServer