How to Capture the Screen or Window as an Image
Last updated
January 8, 2010
Built into Mac OS X are handy shortcuts for capturing the screen.
That ^ character indicates the “control” key, the up-arrow means the shift key, and the curly thing is the “command” key.
I use control-cmd-shift-4 90% of the time to capture a desired area; a cursor appears, click and drag to select the desired area, which is then placed on the clipboard as an image.
Keyboard shortcuts for capturing screen images
Grab
To neatly capture just one window, I generally use Grab, found in /Applications/Utilities.
The Grab application for capturing screen images
