SnagIt takes up very little space on your Mac desktop, and the file size is less than 400 MB. Images can be altered in a variety of ways, including shadings, borders, and perspective of the screenshot. Find the file on your desktop, or press command + control + shift + 3 to save to your clipboard. So as I was in the middle of writing another post tonight I needed to snap a quick screenshot and I ended up getting a nice little tip from icelander in mac on (using Colloquy btw, which I need to blog about as well). Even if you haven’t saved something, it’ll be waiting in your clipboard, so you decide what to do with it later. Take a screenshot using your Macs touch pad.

For this, open Grab and set what size youd like your screenshot to be.

This whole feature is really nice because I don’t have to worry about finding somewhere to paste it like I do on windows (although the shortcut key there is more logical – Alt + PrintScreen), it just appears as a ready to use PNG on my desktop.Īny other key combinations for capturing screens that I missed? Update: I hadn't noticed but Paul also suggested this. Press command + control + shift + 4 to take a screenshot of part of your screen, saved to your clipboard. Anyway, it turns out if you press Shift + Command + 4 and then hit Space, your cursor turns to a camera icon and you can grab just the contents of one window. I knew that I could take a screenshot of the whole screen with Shift + Command + 3 and that I could grab a lasso with Shift + Command + 4 but I didn’t know how to just grab the contents of one window. So as I was in the middle of writing another post tonight I needed to snap a quick screenshot and I ended up getting a nice little tip from icelander in #mac on (using Colloquy btw, which I need to blog about as well).

Snag a screenshot to clipboard mac