Command+Control+Shift+4+Space Bar: Wrap your fingers around this super combo and you can click any active window to save it to the clipboard for later.
The screenshot is saved to the clipboard.
Command+Control+Shift+4: As above, but this time you can click and drag to select the area you want to capture.
You can then paste the screenshot into other apps.
Command+Control+Shift+3: Takes a screenshot of your entire screen, and saves it to the clipboard.
Command+Shift+4+Space Bar: Click an active window to capture a screenshot of an application window and save it to the desktop.
The resulting screenshot is saved to the desktop.
Command+Shift+4: Select the area to capture by clicking and dragging to select the area you need. Hi Rick, I am using a command F2 shortcut to grab screen images of an intranet site, once complete the screenshot opens in Snagit editor and since the update. Solution Snagit 13 and Later Select Start > TechSmith > Snagit to open the Capture Window.
Command+Shift+3: Takes a full-screen screenshot and saves it to the desktop.
Not everyone is a fan of keyboard shortcuts, but once you learn the ones you need, you will quickly commit them to memory.Įach combination gives you slightly different options, so here is a quick summary of what each one does when you are taking a screenshot on your Mac. Whether you are using Mac OS Mojave or not, there are additional keyboard shortcuts you can use to take a screenshot on your computer.