How to I do Print screen?

How to Print Screen to a file on the desktop in Mac OS X

The basic functionality of taking a screen capture of a window or desktop in Mac OS X takes an image and dumps it to a file on the Mac desktop. Each uses the pressing of Command and Shift keys concurrently as the basis for execution, followed by a number:

• Command+Shift+3: takes a screenshot of the full screen (or screens if multiple monitors), and save it as a file to the desktop
• Command+Shift+4: brings up a selection box so you can specify an area to take a screenshot of, then save it as a file to the desktop
• Command+Shift+4, then spacebar, then click a window: takes a screenshot of a window only and saves it as a file to the desktop

Hope this helps, Freely2

hi, i am brand new to apple.....i cannot get tghis to work, i want to paste a screen shot into an email...i do the above but then when i right click to paste...nothing happens

Hello & welcome! 🙂

You can also use Grab to get a screen shot & save it.

Can you drag the file to Mail's compose window?

In addition ... the screenshots are saved on desktop, open the screenshots do a cut & paste or file addon .. thats it Best regards wolfgang