How do I take a screen shot?

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How do I take a screen shot on Leoperd and then paste it into something? What do I paste it into?
 

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Command+Shift+3 takes a shot of the whole screen. It saves it to the desktop.

Command+Shift+4 brings up cross hairs and you can select what area you want captured, let go and it saves it to the desktop.

Command+Shift+4 and then the SpaceBar will allow you to select just one open window and take a screen shot of that.

By default the picture is a .PNG. You can click on it and open it in preview and convert it to what format you want. There are utilities like Onyx that besides optimizing OSX, will allow you to change both where the pic is saved and the file type. I have mine set as a .JPG. I keep them on the desktop and just drag and drop them where I want them.

Here is one I just took of your post in Safari using method 1.

Picture 1.jpg
 
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The following will change types..

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg && killall SystemUIServer

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png && killall SystemUIServer
 
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How do I take a screen shot on Leoperd and then paste it into something? What do I paste it into?

You search and read the existing threads. ;D
 

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