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If you're coming from a Windows PC to a Mac, you might be wondering how to take a screenshot without that Print Screen key on your keyboard. This is the default way to print screen on Mac running Windows. Pros: No need to install additional programs. Cons: It’s awkward to press so many keys at the same time. Utilize Screenshot Tools. Since you are running Windows OS, you can use third-party screenshot tools for Windows to screenshot on your Mac. Free Screenshot Capture is a wise choice.
After you take a screenshot, a thumbnail of the screenshot appears briefly in the lower-right corner of your screen. Take no action or swipe the thumbnail to the right and the screenshot is automaticallly saved.
Click the thumbnail to open the screenshot. You can then edit it using the markup tools in the toolbar, or click to share it. Drag the thumbnail to move the screenshot to another location, such as to a document, an email, a Finder window, or the Trash. Control-click the thumbnail for more options. For example, you can change the save location, open the screenshot in an app, or delete the screenshot without saving it. Click Options in the onscreen controls to change these settings:. Save to: Choose where your screenshots are automatically saved, such as Desktop, Documents, or Clipboard.
Timer: Choose when to take the screenshot: immediately, 5 seconds, or 10 seconds after you click to capture. Show Floating Thumbnail: Choose whether to show the. Remember Last Selection: Choose whether to default to the selections you made the last time you used this tool.
Show Mouse Pointer: Choose whether to show the mouse pointer in your screenshot. When saving your screenshot automatically, your Mac uses the name ”Screen Shot date at time.png”. To cancel taking a screenshot, press the Esc (Escape) key before clicking to capture.
To store the screenshot in the Clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop, you can press and hold the Control key while you click to capture. Or use the or to change the save location. You can open screenshots with Preview, Safari, and other apps that can edit or view images.
Preview also lets you export to a different format, such as JPEG, PDF, or TIFF. Some apps, such as DVD Player, might not let you take screenshots of their windows.
The screenshot controls in macOS Mojave are provided by the Screenshot app, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. This app replaces the Grab app from earlier versions of macOS.
As you must have noticed, there is no Print Screen button on a Mac Keyboard. This often comes as an annoying surprise to new Mac users coming from a long history of using Windows Computers. Hence, this article showing the steps to use the Print Screen Command on a Mac.
Take Screenshot Or Print Screen On Mac As mentioned above, there is no Print Screen Key on a Mac keyboard and the Print Screen Key won’t work on a Mac, even if you were to attach a Windows Keyboard to your Mac. However, it is certainly possible to Print Screen on a Mac and Mac users describe this act as “taking a screen shot” instead of using the term “Print Screen” as commonly used by Windows Computer users. Compared to the Print Screen function on a Windows Computer, Mac offers more functionality by allowing you to use different Key combinations to achieve different Print Screen results. For example, you can use Command + Shift + 3 key combination to take a screen shot of the whole screen on a Mac. In case you are using dual monitors, this key combination takes screen shots of both monitors and saves it on your desktop. Similarly, using Command + Shift + 4 key combination allows you to select a rectangular area anywhere on the screen of your Mac and save it as a screen shot. Take Screenshot of Entire Screen on Mac Follow the steps below to take the screen shot of the entire screen or the desktop of your Mac.
Press the Command + Shift + 3 keys on the keyboard of your Mac Note: In case you are using a Windows Keyboard, press Windows + Shift + 3 keys 2. Once you press the above keys, Mac will immediately save a picture of the entire screen as a (.png) file on the desktop of your Mac 3. The screen shot file will be automatically named in the format “Screen Shot year-month-day at time” – You can easily rename this file to anything that is more meaningful to you. Take Screenshot of Selected Area Of Screen on Mac Follow the steps below to take screen shot of any selected area on the screen of your Mac. Press the Command + Shift + 4 keys on the Keyboard of your Mac. Note: Press Windows + Shift + 4 Keys, in case you are using a Windows Keyboard on your Mac. 2. Once you press the above keys, you will see the Mouse Pointer changing to Crosshair mode. 3. Using the Mouse or trackpad, select an Area on your screen that you want to take the screenshot of and simply release the mouse key to save the selected area as a screenshot (See image below).
4. The screenshot will be automatically saved as (.png) file on the desktop of your Mac. Printscreen to Clipboard on Mac Coming from a Windows background, you might be looking for a way to Print Screen to Clipboard on a Mac, so that you can paste the Print Screen to Microsoft Word, Paint or other apps.
Just like the Print Screen Command on a Windows Computer, you can also save Screen Shots to the Clipboard on your Mac and paste the screen shot to any other app. Press Command + Control + Shift + 3 Keys to take a screen shot of the entire screen of your Mac. The Screen Shot will be saved to the Clipboard, allowing you to paste the screen shot to any other App on your Mac.
Note: Press Windows + Control + Shift + 3 Keys, in case you are using Windows Keyboard on your Mac. Press Command + Control + Shift + 4 Keys to take the screen shot of any selected rectangular area on the screen of your Mac. The screen shot will be saved to the Clipboard, allowing you to paste the screen shot to any App on your Mac. Note: Press Windows + Control + Shift + 4 Keys, in case you are using Windows Keyboard on your Mac.