How To Do Print Screen In Mac OS X
If you have just started to use Mac OS X you may not be familiar with the commands as it is totally different from Windows PC. One of the button that is not available on Mac is the Print Screen button, which users can capture the whole screen with just a single click. So here’s how it’s done:
How To Do Print Screen In Mac OS X
1. To capture the entire desktop screen, press Command + Shift + 3 (Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 3)
2. To copy the entire desktop screen, press Command + Control + Shift + 3 (Apple key ⌘ + Ctrl + Shift + 3). The entire screen shot will be sent to your clipboard.
3. To capture a portion of the desktop screen, press Command +Shift + 4 (Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 4). A cross-hair cursor will appear and now you can click and drag to capture the selected area . Once you release the mouse button, the selected screen shot will be saved as a picture file on your desktop.
4. To capture a specific application window, press Command + Shift + 4 (Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 4), the mouse cursor will change to symbol + . Now press the Spacebar. The cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the screen. Move the cursor over the window where you want to capture, click the mouse button and the screen shot will be saved as a PNG file on your desktop.
It ain’t that hard to do print screen in Mac OS X , isn’t it? 
It’s absolutely terrible! Who buys these pieces of trash? I’m returning this junk tomorrow, and I can’t believe I was scammed into this!! Give me back Windows 7!!!!!
this pussy cant afford a mac hahaha
Honestly, it’s little things like this that make Macs so un-user-friendly. where is the simple “print screen” button. I’ve been using macs for years, I own 2 of them, I also own 1 windows 7 PC. I enjoy my macs reliability, but as far as simplicity goes, they just don’t work straight out of the box… you gotta Download so much third party software like VLC and Perian tool kits just to play the most standard of movie formats, the fact that they don’t allow you to write/delete files from NTFS format HDD directly from USB is appalling! Considering that where you plug the HDD through your network router, you CAN write/delete from them… Apple need to stop trying to conform the PC industry and start thinking about the actually users of the product…. I’m not windows biased, I’m just stating the facts. Windows have flaws too.
Thanks! Just what I needed and a thousand times more precise than a windows print screen! No need to crop in an office document and faff about!
Thanks! it helped me a great deal.
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