{"id":381,"date":"2006-10-01T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/some-tips-for-grabbing-screenshots.htm"},"modified":"2007-03-09T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T10:44:45","slug":"some-tips-for-grabbing-screenshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/some-tips-for-grabbing-screenshots.htm","title":{"rendered":"Some tips for grabbing screenshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--115974131341939374-->Coming from a Windows background, I&#8217;m used to grabbing a copy of the entire screen using the <span style=\"font-family: courier new\">PrtSc<\/span> key or the current window with <span style=\"font-family: courier new\">Alt+PrtSc<\/span>.  When I first bought my Mac, I couldn&#8217;t work out how to do this without using the Grab application (which seems a little cumbersome for a simple screen shot) until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexcoles.com\/\">Alex<\/a> explained to me that, like so many things in OS X, there is some arcane keyboard shortcut that feels like it will induce a permanent strain on my fingers to do the job for me (I used to think the <span style=\"font-family: courier new\">Ctrl-Alt-Del<\/span> three finger salute was bad enough).  I keep forgetting the keystrokes, so I&#8217;m blogging them here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: courier new\">Command+Shift+3<\/span> &#8211; capture entire screen and save as a file<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: courier new\">Command+Control+Shift+3<\/span> &#8211; capture entire screen and copy to the clipboard<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: courier new\">Command+Shift+4<\/span> &#8211; capture dragged area and save as a file<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: courier new\">Command+Control+Shift+4<\/span> &#8211; capture dragged area and copy to the clipboard<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: courier new\">Command+Shift+4<\/span> then <span style=\"font-family: courier new\">Space<\/span> &#8211; capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and save as a file<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: courier new\">Command+Control+Shift+4<\/span> then <span style=\"font-family: courier new\">Space<\/span> &#8211; capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and copy to the clipboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more on this, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmedia.oreilly.com\/2006\/01\/01\/mac-os-x-screenshot-secrets.html\">O&#8217;Reilly description of OS X screenshot secrets<\/a>, which also links to a really useful hack to <a href=\"http:\/\/highschoolblows.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/take-screenshot-of-dvd-player-in-os-x.html\">take a screenshot from DVD Player in OS X<\/a> &#8211; simply type <span style=\"font-family: courier new\">screencapture -i ~\/Desktop\/dvd.png<\/span> in a terminal window, then hit <span style=\"font-family: courier new\">Space<\/span> and click on the DVD Player window to avoid the annoying restriction illustrated in the error message below.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/dvdscreengrab.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Error when attempt to screen grab from DVD Player\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from a Windows background, I&#8217;m used to grabbing a copy of the entire screen using the PrtSc key or the current window with Alt+PrtSc. When I first bought my Mac, I couldn&#8217;t work out how to do this without using the Grab application (which seems a little cumbersome for a simple screen shot) until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/some-tips-for-grabbing-screenshots.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some tips for grabbing screenshots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35,33],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-mac-os-x","tag-windows"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Some tips for grabbing screenshots - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/some-tips-for-grabbing-screenshots.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Some tips for grabbing screenshots - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Coming from a Windows background, I&#8217;m used to grabbing a copy of the entire screen using the PrtSc key or the current window with Alt+PrtSc. 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