How to screenshot on Mac

How to screenshot on Mac

OS X built-in screenshot combination key

Many beginners easily in the Mac app Store by a wide range of screenshots software to confuse, spent unnecessary money to do some basic operations, in fact, the OS X system has provided a screenshot of the key combination, we have also introduced a special article, the following review again:

Intercepts the entire image of the current screen: Command + Shift + 3

This key combination intercepts the entire image of the current screen and then names it as a "screenshot + date" number and automatically. The PNG format is saved to the desktop.

Command + Shift + 4

This combination can intercept an image of any area on the current screen, press the key combination to let go, and then the mouse automatically into a standard device, when you move the cursor (with the mouse click to drag or three fingers on the trackpad to drag at the same time) select the Intercept area, there will be a real-time change in the length of the pixel value, determine the release gesture (or mouse) to complete the screenshot, again, this operation is named "screenshot + Date", and automatically. The PNG format is saved to the desktop.

Command + Shift +4 + SPACEBAR

If you want to completely intercept an image of a window on the screen, you can press the key combination of Command + SHIFT + 4, and then press the SPACEBAR (or Command + SHIFT + 4 + SPACEBAR) and the cursor will automatically become a camera icon, where all areas are in a mask state. Move the cursor to the target window click to complete the screenshot, if you do not select any window, just put the cursor on the desktop, click will automatically intercept the entire background wallpaper image, note that the background wallpaper. Similarly, this action is named as the "screenshot + Date" number and automatically. The PNG format is saved to the desktop.

Advanced Play Method

If you add control key to any of the above combinations, the screenshot will automatically enter the system's clipboard record, and the desktop will not save the screenshot, at which point you can direct Command + V on Pixelmator, the picture-editing software.

Use the shortcut key Command + Shift + 4 and the mouse (or the trackpad), after you select the area that you want to capture, do not release the mouse, and then you have several options: – Press the SPACEBAR while holding the mouse button, and you can move the entire selected area by moving the mouse. – While holding down the mouse, press Shift, and you can change the length or height of the selected area by moving the mouse horizontally or vertically. – Press the OPTION key while holding down the mouse, and you can change the radius of the selected area by moving the mouse.

Another hint: When you press the screenshot after the combination button to stop the screenshot, as long as the ESC key can stop the screenshot, at this time will not save any picture files.

Screenshot of "grab" application built with OS X

An alternate player with a low frequency of appearances

Using the "Grab" program (Grab) in OS X Utilities (toolset) can also be done, when you start scratching, you will not pop any windows, but you can see at the top of the screen that someone has been waiting in the Menubar for a while, find the "capture" option, and you can see in the dropdown menu: "Select part", "Window", "screen", "screen timing" four kinds of screenshots, the role and the previous system key combinations, just a fourth "screen timing" screenshot.

Use the Grab Action general area selection screenshot

Timing screenshots in "grab"

Screenshots of the "preview" application built with OS X

The shortcomings of the "grab" program is also obvious, that is, do not support the customization of file types, screenshots of the picture can only be. The TIFF format is saved, and if you use "preview" you will have no problem. In the Menubar menu of the preview application, you can see a screenshot of the action group like the capture program in the file – take a screenshot, but there is less calculation of the screenshot.

Use TextEdit, Mail, and other system programs for screenshots

OS X's own Mail, TextEdit and other applications also built-in screenshot function, in fact, are called the same module, such as in TextEdit, select "Multi-message text" mode, right-click menu can directly select "Capture the selection from the screen" This screenshot function, and in the " Preferences-keyboard-shortcuts-Services menu You can also enrich the screenshot in the right-click menu, such as "capture full screen" and "Use timer capture screen" action.

TextEdit Menubar Select "Multi-message text" mode

Preferences-keyboard-shortcuts-Services

Use the terminal application to customize the screenshot

Turn off the undo changes feature in the preview program

Defaults write Com.apple.Preview Nsquitalwayskeepswindows-bool FALSE

Change screenshot file suffix format

Defaults write com.apple.screencapture type [type] && killall systemuiserver

Replace the type with the format of the picture you want, note: The format can only be represented by three-digit letters, such as PNG, JPG, and so on.

Change the screenshot save location

Defaults write com.apple.screencapture location [path] && killall systemuiserver

Use this command to modify the screenshot default save directory (the default is the desktop), such as the path modified to:/users/dann/documents/screenshots, so that the screenshot can be automatically saved to the document directory in the Screenshots folder, If your network cloud disk synchronization speed is good, you can also set the automatic save directory as a Dropbox synchronization directory.

If you are too lazy to enter a long directory path, you can also drag the directory window in the Finder directly into the terminal to automatically generate the directory path.

Remove window screenshots around the shadow

This is a question that many of my friends are asking me, and can be removed immediately using the following command:

Defaults write Com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow-bool true && killall systemuiserver

Restore to shaded window screenshots execute the following command:

Defaults write Com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow-bool false && killall Systemuiserver

Change the screenshot default file name naming rules

Defaults write com.apple.screencapture name [file name] && killall systemuiserver

If you don't like the "screenshot + Time" screenshot, you can define your own file name and replace file name.

Screenshot Third party software recommendation

Voila

Voila is a large screenshot management software produced by Global Delight (Boom), let's look at what this product can do: