

These are the methods of taking screenshots on mac. Update Nov 2018: added the new method to take screenshots for Mac OS 10.14 Mojave and later. By hitting the menu button one more time, you may capture a screenshot. Update Aug 2018: Mac full webpage screenshot added. In this update, we edited the window capture method on Mac. Update May 2018: this article was originally published in Mar 2016. Check out this tutorial to capture full web page screenshots on Mac using Firefox. Thus you can’t capture the entire web page using the shortcuts above. You will also be able to take a screen shot of the Dock, the entire menu bar, a single open menu, the desktop, or any open window following the same way.īrowser windows are always too small to display the whole web page without scrolling. Move the camera pointer over a window to highlight it and then click your mouse or trackpad to take a screenshot of a window on Mac. You can press Command-Shift-4 on your keyboard, the pointer changes to a crosshair, then hit the Space bar on your keyboard, the pointer changes to a camera. Move the crosshair pointer to where you want to start the screenshot and drag to select an area on your Mac screen, release your mouse to finish capturing screenshot on Mac and find the screenshot file in PNG format on your desktop. If you do not want to capture the whole screen on Mac, press the Command, Shift and 4 keys at the same time on your Mac keyboard, Mac OS X turns the cursor into a crosshair pointer you can use to select whatever part of your display. This will take a screen shot of your entire screen on Mac and save the screenshot to your desktop as a PNG file. The quickest way to capture your Mac screen is to hold down the Command, Shift and press 3 keys at the same time. Refer to this guide to record screen videos on Mac for more details.

Now you can press Command-Shift-5 on your keyboard and start capture screen as images or record screen videos from the onscreen control bar. Since Mac OS 10.14 Mojave, the new screen capture utility was added. Starting from the left, the first icon on the Screenshot toolbar is the Capture Entire Screen option. The new method to capture and record on Mac Note that if you want to save a frame of certain video on Mac, you can refer to this guide to take a snapshot of video on Mac. What you need is just to press the Mac screenshot keys combination and screenshots will be saved as. Mac OS X system has the power to save anything on your screen without any third party screen capture apps. Screenshot capturing let Mac users capture anything displayed on their screen and save as image files.
