Knowing how to take a screenshot is an essential skill if you want to capture what's currently on your Mac, whether it's an event ticket, an email you just received, or just a snapshot of your desktop.
If you own a Mac of any kind, there are three ways you can take a screenshot using keyboard shortcuts—and a fourth if you own a MacBook with the Touch Bar. Below we'll show you the various keyboard shortcuts you need to take screenshots on your Mac. Let's take a look together!
Command-Shift-3
This keyboard shortcut captures a screenshot of the entire screen.
Shift-Command-4
Use this keyboard combination to turn the cursor into a crosshair that you can drag to select a portion of the screen to capture. Release the mouse button or trackpad to shoot.
After pressing Shift-Command-4, you have many other options:
Press and release the space bar: The crosshair turns into a small camera icon that you can move over any open window. Click on the desired window to take a screenshot of it. The screenshot captured by this method has a white border around the window with a little shadow.
Press and hold the spacebar (after dragging to highlight an area but before releasing the mouse button or trackpad): This locks the shape and size of the selection, but lets you reposition it on the screen. This is handy if your initial selection is off by a few pixels; just hold down the spacebar to reposition it, then release the mouse button to take a screenshot.
Hold down the Shift key (after dragging to highlight the area but before releasing the mouse button or trackpad): This locks each side of the selection area made with the crosshairs, saving the bottom edge and letting you go up or down Move the mouse down to the bottom edge of the position.
Without releasing the mouse button, release the Shift key and press it again to reposition the right edge of the selection. You can toggle between moving the bottom edge and the right edge by holding down the mouse button or touchpad and pressing the Shift key.
Shift-Command-5
Introduced in MacOS Mojave (2018), this combination invokes a small panel with screen capture options at the bottom of your monitor. There are three screenshot buttons that allow you to capture the entire screen, a window, or your screen selection.
Likewise, two video recording buttons allow you to record the entire screen or part of it. On the left is the X button, which closes the screenshot panel, but you can also just press Escape to exit.
On the right is an option button. It allows you to choose where to save your screenshots - Desktop, Documents, Clipboard, Mail, Messages, Preview or other, and set a 5 or 10 second delay so you can line up items that might disappear while you're using the screenshot tool .
By default, the "Show Floating Thumbnails" option is enabled, which places a small preview thumbnail of the screenshot just captured in the bottom right corner of the screen, similar to the iOS screenshot process. Unlike your iPhone, you can turn off this preview thumbnail on your Mac. Finally, you can choose to display the mouse pointer in the screenshot or video.
If the screenshot panel is blocking your view, you can grab its left edge and drag it to a new location on the screen.
Touch Bar MacBook Bonus: Command-Shift-6
If you have a 16-inch MacBook Pro or other model with a Touch Bar, did you know you can take a screenshot of what's currently displayed on the Touch Bar? Just press Command-Shift-6 to take a very wide and narrow screenshot of your Touch Bar.
Annotate with ease
If you accept floating thumbnails, then you'll have quick access to markup tools to annotate your screenshots. You can slide the floating thumbnail away, or let it slide away on its own, and it will save to where you last saved your screenshot. Click on the floating thumbnail and it will open in the Marker View preview window with all the markup tools you get in the preview.
You can right-click a floating thumbnail to do the following:
Save screenshots to desktop, documents folder or clipboard
Open it in Mail, Messages, Preview or Photos
Show in Finder
delete
Open in the above marker preview window
close (and save)
Longtime Mac screenshotters may be slow to adopt the new Command-Shift-5 shortcut, but I find myself using it more to annotate screenshots without having to open Preview and quickly delete I know right away I screwed up screenshot.
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