HT201361: How to take a screenshot on your Mac
Learn about How to take a screenshot on your Mac
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Sep 16, 2015 1:09 PM in response to kubaby VikingOSX,Pressing shift-command-4 always changes the pointer to a cross-hair — unless you are doing this in a screen-sharing session. Under those circumstances, a normal pointer remains on the screen-shared window, and the cross-hair pointer is actually on the source machine display, where you will have to complete the capture.
Items 2 and 3 need to be reversed — the undragged cross-hair must be hovering over what you want to capture — before pressing the Spacebar. Once the object is highlighted, it can finally be captured with a left-button, or trackpad click.
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Sep 19, 2015 11:00 AM in response to kubaby Hiroto,★HelpfulHello
You're right. The correction should be something like this:
1. Press Command (⌘)-Shift-4. You'll see that your cursor changes to a crosshair pointer.
2. Press the Space bar. You'll see that your cursor changes to a camera pointer.
3. Move the camera pointer over the window to highlight it.
4. Click your mouse or trackpad. Or to cancel, press Escape (esc) before you click.
5. Find the screenshot as a .png file on your desktop.
But I doubt starting a discussion thread here is effective. Instead you may choose "No" in "Helpful?" link at the end of the article:
https://support.apple.com/HT201361
which will show a text field where you can input your feedback, and provide the correction there.
Regards,
H
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Sep 19, 2015 10:59 AM in response to VikingOSXby kuba,VikingOSX wrote:
Items 2 and 3 need to be reversed — the undragged cross-hair must be hovering over what you want to capture — before pressing the Spacebar. Once the object is highlighted, it can finally be captured with a left-button, or trackpad click.
You don't have to do it this way. You can press the spacebar and then move over the window you want to capture.
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Sep 19, 2015 11:00 AM in response to Hirotoby kuba,Hiroto wrote:
But I doubt starting a discussion thread here is effective. Instead you may choose "No" in "Helpful?" link at the end of the article:
https://support.apple.com/HT201361
which will show a text field where you can input your feedback, and provide the correction there.
I just did this. Thanks for the tip.
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Sep 19, 2015 9:23 PM in response to kubaby t quinn,Hi kuba,
I generally use the crosshairs to capture only a part of my screen or window.
cmd-shift-4 then click and drag. capture happens on release.
Wayne did a nice user tip here How to Post a screenshot to the Apple Discussion Forums
quinn
