Often forgot screenshot method...

4g63t · May 17, 2007

What does holding the control button do?
tried but see no visible effect

dtravis7 · May 17, 2007

4g63t said:
What does holding the control button do?
tried but see no visible effect

Control-Shift-Command-3 takes a ScreenShot the WINDOWS way and saves it to the Copy buffer just like Windows does. No picture appears on the desktop. You open an editor and paste it in like opening Paint in Windows.

Hope that helps.

pirrip · Jun 11, 2007

Png's

When I use APP Shift 4 it saves the shot as a png to my desktop. What are these, are they any easier to transmit than jpegs.

Settha · Aug 26, 2007

Hmm, These will probably come in handy one day

.

Thanks for posting!

iLindzo · Nov 3, 2007

Using Cmd + Shft + 4, then Spacebar is one of my favorites! I use it for almost every pic I take.

Netty4mac · Nov 3, 2007

iLindzo said:
Using Cmd + Shft + 4, then Spacebar is one of my favorites! I use it for almost every pic I take.

Cool, I didn't know that one.

milessthomas · Nov 3, 2007

I just FAQ'd it.

brianwmay · Apr 13, 2008

Refresh

Now I KNOW why I like this Mac!

Since somebody asked . . .

MacBoy1995 · Apr 19, 2008

When I do that, what do you do next to copy to say... Neo Office (when I click paste it doesn't come up

)

UPDATE: Found out that shots got onto desktop

Dysfunction · Jun 28, 2008

I think I missed it in this thread, if you do a ctrl-cmd-shift instead of just a cmd-shift it dumps the screenshot to the clipboard.

Bilobrkster · Sep 11, 2008

Hi. Need help

How can I change the destination where the screenshots are being saved form the Desktop to a folder on the Desktop? I don want to make screenshots and then drag them, I want them to be directly saved to a specific folder..

Tex-Twil · Nov 10, 2008

Bilobrkster said:
Hi. Need help

How can I change the destination where the screenshots are being saved form the Desktop to a folder on the Desktop? I don want to make screenshots and then drag them, I want them to be directly saved to a specific folder..

I want to do the same

Tex-Twil · Nov 10, 2008

I've just found this:

Code:
You can change the destination for they keyboard activated "screenshots" (eg. ⇧⌘3) by opening "/Applications" > "Utilities" > "Terminal.app" and entering the command below. Everything is case sensitive:

Code:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Full/path/to/Folder

edit: but it doesn't work for me.

rocketman766 · Nov 10, 2008

Brain overload!!!!!!!!!! new to mac, so much info....think I will just hire someone to remember it all for me... thanks for all the great info here...

Tex-Twil · Nov 11, 2008

btw, the ThinkerTool allows you, among others, to change the screenshot destination/image fornat via a GUI.

IcemanYVR · Dec 22, 2008

Great... Long time Mac user, I've just always used the "Grab" utility. I love the crosshair solution. Thanksx

earltash · Jan 8, 2009

SnapNDrag.
SnapNDrag for Mac OS X - Screen Capture Made Easy (and Free!)
Works greaat fer me......
:Shouting:

Talkingstone · Mar 28, 2009

I discovered this awhile ago after downloading a few different screen capture programs. It is simple and works. No need for fancy stuff.

kathmat · Mar 31, 2009

Often forgot screenshot method

Nice... but I got the entire screen and I usually only want a small portion, so I like the command/shift/4 option better.

bsprowl · Jun 1, 2009

Forgive me this is my second day on a Mac ... So Command+Shift+4 then hit the spacebar to get a camera, move the camera over the window (or whatever) and click the mouse button. Did that. But where did the picture go.

I can't locate it. I closed everything that was open on the desktop, sort of expecting it to be there, but it wasn't.

I used Finder to open Pictures and documents but it wasn't in either of those.

Any suggestions?

Thanks