Note that it is the same combination as regular screen capture plus Control key. To copy the entire screen to clipboard press Command+Shift+Control+3. But what if I don’t want to save in the file? What if I want to save the screenshot in the clipboard and use it in another application later? So far, everything we were doing was saving the images to the files. Add Control key to copy screenshots to clipboard The icon changes from coordinates to a camera, not activate the window you want to capture, and click anywhere inside the window. Press Command+Shift+4 and release all keys. If you want just to capture the application window, you can do it instead of capturing the entire screen or dragging the mouse across. The screenshot will be saved, just like with entire screen capture. While you drag, you will see the height and width of the future screenshot. Then click on the screen and drag your mouse pointer to the bottom right corner. Move your cursor with mouse or trackpad to a top-left point of the screen you want to capture. To capture a part of the screen, press Command+Shift+4. Use Command+Shift+4 to print part of Mac screen Now, You can save to different locations, open in various applications, open the Finder’s file location, and do a markup. But if you right-click on the thumbnail before it disappears, there will be a context menu with a lot of different options. If you wait for several seconds, the thumbnail will change to a file, just like in old macOS versions. Starting with OS Mojave, a thumbnail of the screenshot will appear in the bottom right corner of your screen. The exact name depends on the time the screenshot was taken and the calendar settings of your Mac. The name of the file will be something like “Screen Shot yyyy-mm-dd at 4.35.02PM.png”. For Macs with operating system versions earlier than Mojave, the screenshot will be immediately saved in the default location. To take a screenshot of the entire screen, or in other words, to print screen on Mac press Command+Shift+3. If you are looking for a PrintScreen keyboard equivalent on Mac, then the next key combination does the job. Use Command+Shift+3 to print entire Mac screen To make it easier to use it I put major print screen key combinations for Mac in the table below: Key CombinationĪlso, I listed eight major ways to print screen on a Mac below. In both cases, the file will be saved on the Desktop.īut there is more to it. To capture a portion of the screen, press Command+Shift+4 and drag your mouse to select the part of the screen.

The easiest way to print the entire screen on Mac is by pressing Command+Shift+3 key simultaneously. We do it for various reasons, and I will review all the ways you can print your screen on a Mac.

One of the first things every computer user learns to do is taking screenshots.

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