How do I take a screen shot?
How do I take a screen shot? Using lion
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
How do I take a screen shot? Using lion
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Two things you can do.
1. to capture the whole screen do Cm+Shift+3
2 to draw a box which than automatically captures only the portion you select, Cmd+Shift+4
This gives you a cross hair icon, click + drag to draw the screen shot area.
Command-Shift-3 to take a screen shot of the entire screen.
Command-Shift-4 provides a cursor with which you can select a specific part of the screen.
This might not work with all windows, like when using Parallels, but that is just a sidenote.
For a complete summary: Finder->Help->Help Center and enter "Screenshot"
There are many ways to do it. If you ever forget the keyboard shortcuts and are in a hurry, then you simply can activate Preview and from the "File"-menu select
File -> Take Screenshot -> From selection / Window /Entire Screen
Your Screenshot will open in Preview as a new image that you can save or modify.
If you need to take a screenshot of windows or panels that will disappear if you switch to the Finder or Preview to take the screen shot, you can use the "Grab" utility, from "Applications"->"Utilities"->"Grab"
Grab can take timed screen shots: From "Grab" start a timer, that will give you ten seconds to arrange your Desktop with all panels, drop down menus, or pop up menus from within the Application you are recording. That should even work with windows on the Parallels Desktop.
I am not sure however if "Grab" came with Lion or is still on my System as a left over from previous Systems.
I don't have Grab, so it is most likely a left over from your previous system
Thank you, good to know.
Léonie
RandomThings13 wrote:
I don't have Grab, so it is most likely a left over from your previous system
Did you look in Applications->Utility?
Jup,
I am on 10.7.2 and it seems to be integrated into the standard screenshot application now (maybe it is called Grab on English systems, in which case I haven't said anything 😉 )
It's supposed to be there, it's installed with Lion:
These features are also listed under "Services" in the system pulldown menu.
So if I'm on Safari, I select Safari from the menu bar and then Services.
My favorite one, which wasn't given here yet, is window capture.
To just take a picture of the window you are on, hit shft+cmd+4 and then spacebar. This will make your cursor a camera and will highlight the window it is over. when you click the mouse, it'll take a picture of the window it is highlighting.
Ok, Maybe I'm stupid, but when i use cmd shift 4 and draw the window I hear the picture sound but can't find the picture . . . pasting does not work (the previous item copied gets pasted). Where is the image?
It is not automatically placed on your desktop?
Ok . . . if not stupid then not observant . . . they are on the desktop (which I try to keep completely clear of items). Oh well
ashtangiman wrote:
Ok, Maybe I'm stupid, but when i use cmd shift 4 and draw the window I hear the picture sound but can't find the picture . . . pasting does not work (the previous item copied gets pasted). Where is the image?
If the screenshot is not placed on your desktop, then perhaps you are accidentally pressing Command-Control-Shift-4
Adding Control to the key combo will place the resulting screenshot on the Clipboard rather than create an image file and place it on the desktop.
How do I take a screen shot?