Hotkeys Mac OS X

Heres a summary of all the keyboard shortcuts you can use to capture your screen in Mac OS X.

The screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop with the filename starting with Picture followed by a number, example Picture 1, Picture 2, and so on.

The screen shot will be placed on your clipboard for you to paste into another program like PowerPoint, Word, Photoshop, etc.

A cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture.

When you release the mouse button, the screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop following the same naming convention as explained on the first tip above.

When you release the mouse button, you can paste the screen shot to another application.

The cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the screen.

As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted.

The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it.

The cursor will change to a camera, which you can move around the screen.

When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture, just click the mouse button and you can paste the screen shot into another application.

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Hotkeys For Mac