Click a tool to use to select what you want to capture or record or use the Touch Bar. For a portion of the screen, drag the frame to reposition it or drag its edges to adjust the size of the area you want to capture or record.
For example, you can choose to set a timed delay or show the mouse pointer or clicks, and specify where to save the file. For recordings: Click Record. To stop recording, click the Stop Recording button in the menu bar. When the Show Floating Thumbnail option is set, you can do any of the following while the thumbnail is briefly displayed in the bottom-right corner of the screen:.
Click the thumbnail to open a window where you can mark up the screenshot or trim the recording , or share it. If you click Options, a menu gives you a number of options for your screenshot or screen recording. None of the above options can shoot a lengthy web page that spans several screens; they only take screenshots of what you can see. If you do want a screenshot of an entire web page, you can use the Awesome Screenshot extension in Safari for that.
By default, when you take screenshots on a Mac, they are saved on your Desktop. Some people are fine with saving them there; others find that it makes too much clutter. If you use screenshots often, you might want to create a Screenshots folder somewhere and change the location where screenshots are stored. If you want to save your screenshots to a custom folder, click Other Location and choose a folder, or click New Folder to create one. In my example above, I save my screenshots to a folder named Screenshots, in my Documents folder.
All future screenshots will be saved to that location, not just those that you initiate using this screenshot tool. Unless you change the floating thumbnail option mentioned above, your Mac shows your screenshot in a thumbnail in the bottom right corner of your display for a few seconds.
There are lots of tools at the top of this window: see this Apple support document for more details. If you take screenshots this way, be mindful of two things. You can take a full-screen screenshot on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch by pressing a couple of buttons. If you do nothing, or if you swipe left to remove it, the screenshot gets saved to the Photos app.
To move the selection, press and hold Space bar while dragging. To cancel taking the screenshot, press the Esc Escape key. To take the screenshot, release your mouse or trackpad button.
How to capture a window or menu Open the window or menu that you want to capture. Press and hold these keys together: Shift, Command, 4, and Space bar. The pointer changes to a camera icon. Click the window or menu to capture it.
Stick around, too, because we also walk you through how to work with those screenshots once you've taken them. Apple gives you a fair number of options to easily save, delete and open the screenshot for markup, tools that I've come to appreciate and regularly use. And if you're looking for other tips, here are five ways to make your loud Mac's fan less noisy and how to get back into your locked Mac if you forgot your password. Use this keyboard combo to turn your cursor into a crosshair, which you can drag to select a portion of your screen to capture.
Release the mouse button or trackpad to take the shot. Press and release the space bar : The crosshair turns into a little camera icon, which you can move over any open window. Click on your desired window to take a screenshot of it. A screenshot captured by this method features a white border around the window with a bit of a drop shadow. Press and hold the space bar after dragging to highlight an area but before releasing the mouse button or trackpad : This locks in the shape and size of the selection area but lets you reposition it on the screen.
It's very handy if your initial selection area is off by a few pixels; just hold down the space bar to reposition it before releasing the mouse button to snap a screenshot.
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