How To Take A Screenshot On A Mac How to take a screenshot on your Mac or PC is not a question that popped up very often a few years back, because most people either didn't know what it was, didn't know that such a thing was possible, or couldn't be bothered to learn how.

1. How To Take A Screenshot On A Mac
How to take a screenshot on your Mac or PC is not a question that popped up
very often a few years back, because most people either didn't know what it
was, didn't know that such a thing was possible, or couldn't be bothered to
learn how.
Like many people, until lately, I was content to look at websites that displayed
such graphics, be impressed or interested by what I saw, wonder how they did it
.......but content to assume that such skill should be chalked up to 'graphic
designer secret kung fu'. (A hidden art known only to the best and brightest).
Obviously, that's not the case.
Taking screenshots is a very simple task available to anyone with a modern
computer. (Mere mortals need not despair).
I would have to research to see if there are simple step-by-step processes to
do the same thing on PCs, as I'm not sure such applications come bundled
with them, as they are on Macs.
To take screenshots on my PC or laptop, I use a free application called Jing
(from http://www.jingproject.com). It's handy interface is a small, golden
ball that offers the options to capture a specified, box area of the screen
drawn out by the user. Or capture video. You can also insert text captions and

2. arrows.
Very handy.
On a modern Mac, it's even simpler, as there's nothing to download. It's all
Pre-bundled, and requires several '3 key commands' (as I like to refer to them),
depending on the particular type of screenshot you are trying to accomplish on a
Mac - 'full' or 'selected' area screenshots.
For a full area screenshot, you will be capturing an image of the entire Mac
screen. Here are those three keys...press and hold 'command', 'shift', and '3'.
You will see a 'picture1' icon pop up on your desktop.
For a selected area screenshot, you will be able to specify the exact area of
capture with a selection tool (or you can refer to it as 'cross hair curser',
as I do). The three keys that you press and hold are 'command', 'shift', and '4'.
This brings up the curser. Next, imagine a box in the dimensions that you want
(preferably with a border of a few centimeters around the area you want to capture).
Place the curser at one corner of that box, press and drag diagonally to the
opposite corner, then release.
You will then see a 'picture1' icon appear on the screen for this method as well.
In either case, you can see these images open in your favorite default graphics
application by double clicking on them to see if you got the results that you were

3. hoping for. (It's worked flawlessly for me every time I've tried taking screenshots).
A simple way to remember the difference between the two sets of commands is
the number '3' looks like a backward capital letter 'E' (for 'Entire' Mac
screen). The number '4' reminds you of the '4' corners of the square/rectangular
selection tool.
Finally, if you would like to 'video screen capture' on a Mac, (and better yet,
do it for free), read on. Here's the step-by-step......
1) Go to your applications folder and open it. 2) Open Quicktime. 3) Go to 'File',
and click on 'New Screen Recording'. 4 ) Near the bottom of your screen you will
see a small grey box appear. 5) Press the record button when you are ready. 6) A
dialog box will then pop up with a button 'start recording'. 7) Once you do, the
recording has begun. 8) If you look at the top right-hand side of the screen, you
will see a 'Stop Recording' button which you can press to stop your recording.
8) To locate your new recorded video capture, go into Quicktime again, and click
on 'file', then 'Open Recent'.
Have a look at the following link: http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/captureme/
Keep in mind, what you have read above just scratches the surface. Different
versions of Mac Os give screenshots with different formatting. And there are
quite a few other shortcuts that give you more options for your screenshots.
(Just Google to find your specific solution).

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