How to print screen on a Mac

What in the world of Windows "Print Screen" button on a Mac keyboard, which you will probably be known as the "print screen" and noticed that the screenshots or screenshots in Mac OS X is available, this is both because it is simply unnecessary and simplify the keyboard. On the Mac, instead of a "Print Screen" button, hitting the right of the screen to capture the action you should take, depending on the combination of several keyboard shortcuts to perform a specific action. Screen printing options as there are individual differences in the river at the end of this, it is easier and more powerful.

Mac OS X, the desktop How to print a file on the screen

Mac OS X, a window or the desktop taken to a screen based on the function of the desktop, the entire image is a snapshot of all open windows and applications running takes and Mac desktop in a single file dump, each with a number or other key to continue essentially the same time pressing the keyboard shortcut Command-shift use:

Command + Shift +3: Full screen (or screens if multiple monitors) takes a screenshot and save it to a file on the desktop

Command Shift-4: a selection box on the desktop so you can then save to a file, you can specify an area to take a screen appears

Take a screenshot of a window on the desktop and saves it to a file: Command + Shift +4, then, spacebar and then click a window

This approach to 'print' on the screen and paste it into another application and then manually save it eliminates the unnecessary operation of the screen, a single file on the desktop screen. If you do not want to save the file on the desktop, then you can paste it into other windows, such as what is happening in the world, it is copied to the clipboard instead.

How to print from a Mac screen capture

Saving the captured image to the clipboard directly into the Windows Print Screen function works in much of the world. If you want to do the equivalent of the Mac print screen and paste it into another application or document that you can save the image to clipboard, instead of this you should use the commands:

Command + Control + +3 Shift: Take a screenshot of the entire screen, and save directly to the capture of other places adhesion

Command + Control + Shift +4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of your selection using the rectangular box drawing, and saves it to the clipboard for pasting into other areas.

Command + Control + Shift +4, then space, then click a window: move the cursor around the screen to take a photo referenced in a window, and save the capture to the clipboard for pasting

In May, some older keyboards, the Apple logo  system is a key to this model, but they are with him on the new Mac keyboards simply 'command' remember that. Command key is next to the space bar. Print Screen key here is what appears to be equivalent to the standard Apple keyboard, red all the keys to be pressed at the same time:

One last thing to note here include several screens; If you are using multiple screens to make screenshots of the entire screen with copy printout of all screens. This system is a rectangular box drawn, rather than the full screen or a specific window choose not to apply for a shot.

This article originally newcomers to the Mac platform, specifically aimed at those who are migrating from Windows world. It? "Why Print Screen button on the Mac" is not uncommon to hear people ask, but the answer to the Mac so far from simply pushing a button on a keyboard is simply that offers powerful options. Windows PC world, the 'Print Screen' shall be born, even though it technically mislabeled applies to Mac OS, but the word is not too surprising to many people is to switch to a new Mac.

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