Manual Screenshot Mac
If you've upgraded to macOS Mojave, you can use Shift-Command (⌘)-5 to take all types of screenshots, or make video recordings of your screen. Other keyboard shortcuts, such as Shift-Command-3 and Shift-Command-4, continue to work in all versions of macOS.
Capture the entire screen
In macOS Mojave:
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. Worry not though, as there are a variety of. How to take a screenshot on a Mac How to take a screenshot on an iPhone There are a number of different ways to do so in Windows and which method you prefer will be entirely down to your preferences.
- Press Shift-Command-5 on your keyboard to see the onscreen capture controls:
- Click Capture Entire Screen in the onscreen controls. Your pointer changes to a camera .
- Click anywhere on any screen to capture the screen of that display, or click Capture in the onscreen controls to capture the screen of every display.
- A thumbnail of the screenshot briefly appears in the corner of your screen. You can then find the screenshot on your desktop.
In all versions of macOS:
- Press Shift-Command-3 to capture the screen of every display.
- Find the screenshot on your desktop.
Capture a window
In macOS Mojave:
- Press Shift-Command-5 to see the onscreen capture controls.
- Click Capture Selected Window in the onscreen controls. Your pointer changes to a camera .
- Click a window to capture that window.
To exclude the window's shadow from the screenshot, press and hold the Option (⌥) key while you click. - A thumbnail of the screenshot briefly appears in the corner of your screen. You can interact with the thumbnail to edit the screenshot, move it, or take other actions. Or wait for the screenshot to appear on your desktop.
In all versions of macOS:
And if you press the spacebar, the page will scroll one page (the number of lines visible in your Terminal window). You can tell that there’s more to come by the: (colon) visible at the bottom of the window.Try it on your Mac: Open Terminal, type man ls, then press Return.
- Press Shift-Command-4.
- Press the Space bar. The pointer changes to a camera .
- Click a window to capture that window.
To exclude the window's shadow from the screenshot, press and hold the Option (⌥) key while you click. - Find the screenshot on your desktop.
Capture a selected portion of the screen
In macOS Mojave:
- Press Shift-Command-5 to see the onscreen capture controls.
- Click Capture Selected Portion in the onscreen controls.
- Drag to select an area of the screen to capture. To move the entire selection, drag from within the selection.
- Click Capture in the onscreen controls.
- A thumbnail of the screenshot briefly appears in the corner of your screen. You can interact with the thumbnail to edit the screenshot, move it, or take other actions. Or wait for the screenshot to appear on your desktop.
In all versions of macOS:
- Press Shift-Command-4.
- Drag to select the area of the screen to capture. To move the entire selection, press and hold Space bar while dragging.
- After you release your mouse or trackpad button, find the screenshot on your desktop.
Capture a menu
In macOS Mojave:
- Click the menu to reveal its contents.
- Capture the menu by following the steps to capture the entire screen or capture a window (the menu is treated like a window) or capture a portion of the screen that includes the menu.
In all versions of macOS:
- Click the menu to reveal its contents.
- Press Shift-Command-4.
- Drag to select the area of the menu to capture, then release your mouse or trackpad button to capture that area.
- Or press Space bar to change the pointer to a camera , then click the menu to capture it.
- Find the screenshot on your desktop.
Capture the Touch Bar
If you have a Mac with a Touch Bar and macOS Sierra 10.12.2 or later, press Shift-Command-6 to capture what is currently displayed on the Touch Bar. Then find the screenshot on your desktop.
You can also customize the Control Strip region of your Touch Bar to include a Screenshot button.
Use the screenshot thumbnail
When you take a screenshotin macOS Mojave, 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: The screenshot is automatically saved to your chosen save location, which by default is the desktop.
- Control-click the thumbnail to choose more actions, such as change the default save location, open the screenshot in an app, or delete the screenshot without saving it.
- Drag the thumbnail to move the screenshot to another location, such as to a document, an email, a Finder window, or the Trash.
- Click the thumbnail to open the screenshot. You can then use the markup tools in the toolbar to crop, rotate, annotate, and take other editing actions. Or click the share button to share the screenshot.
Clicking the thumbnail opens it in editing view. Hover your pointer over each button in the toolbar to see its function.
If you don't want the thumbnail to appear, click Options in the onscreen controls, then use the ”Show Floating Thumbnail” option to change the setting.
Learn more
- By default, screenshots are saved with 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, press and hold the Control key while you click to capture. You can then paste the screenshot into a document, message, or other location. Using Universal Clipboard, you can even paste it on another Apple device.
- You can open screenshots with Preview, Safari, or other apps that can edit or view images. Preview can export to a different format, such as JPEG, PDF, or TIFF.
- 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.
- Some apps, such as DVD Player, might not let you take screenshots of their windows.
Screenshots
Description
SnapNDrag Pro is screen capture made ridiculously easy. Here is an app you didn't know you need until you try it.
-- WHO IS IT FOR?
As the old saying goes, 'A screenshot is worth a thousand words.'
There are myriad reasons to take a screenshot: note-taking, tech support, comparison shopping, on-screen reference etc.
SnapNDrag is the perfect screenshot tool for students, teachers, designers, developers, support … just about anyone who uses a computer, really.
Why use SnapNDrag over OS X's built-in Grab? Because SnapNDrag does much more than just *take* screenshots. Please read on.
-- SHOOT ● ORGANIZE ● ANNOTATE ● SHARE
SnapNDrag makes taking screenshots super easy. Click, select and the screenshot is added to your library.
SnapNDrag maintains a library of all the screenshots you have ever taken. Think of it as iPhoto for screenshots. You can organize by Folders. You can batch rename items. You can type into the search field and get live updates in the browser. SnapNDrag maintains its own Trash so you undo a delete if you need to.
If a screenshot is worth a thousand words then an annotated screenshot is worth a million. Simply double click to open an item for editing in Preview. Use Preview's edit tools to add text, draw arrows or circles. When you hit Save in Preview, SnapNDrag instantly picks up the changes and updates the browser. Since what you're editing is a *copy*, you can easily revert to the original.
When it comes time to share, SnapNDrag provides many ways to do that. Use the Share button to send via Mail, Messages, AirDrop, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr. Or drag a screenshot from the browser and drop it into the Mail or Message you're composing -- in fact, you can drag it to pretty much any app where it makes sense. And if you're old school, copy-and-paste works too.
-- POWERFUL YET SIMPLE
Don't let SnapNDrag's simplicity fool you. When you dig deeper, you will find lots of options to satisfy the power user. For example, you can activate functions using global hot keys. You can also run SnapNDrag as a background app (no Dock icon).
-- CUSTOMER REVIEWS
US & Canada:
“Long story short, SnapNDrag has not only replaced old faithful but has become invaluable to me”.
“It's quick, easy, and doesn't require an instruction [manual] to use it.”
“I love that I can now create folders to hold multiple images related to a project, or for boilerplate images that I use over and over. Great app!”
“I am a heavy screenshot user making teaching materials, and SnapNDrag Pro is favorite and default screenshot app.”
“… it’s worth 10x the modest price.”
Europe:
“I must use it 100 times a day to grab little screen snippets.”
“[for my purpose,] I do not know any App that would be more flexible and satisfying to use than SnapNDrag Pro.”
“Indispensable. Extrêmement pratique pour joindre un renseignement à un courriel.”
“Best Screenshot App ever. Extrem übersichtlich und alle funktionen die man braucht. Das alles mit Drag & Drop funktioniert ist einfach und super.”
“Senza tanti fronzoli fa tutto quello che serve, la uso spesso ed è veramente utile, funziona perfettamente!”
“The best tool for the job. As sublime as it is simple … loving it.”
“Very nifty and practical Clean and easy to use … I use it almost every day in my work.”
Asia & Australia:
“Perfect !! … It's easy to use, no fuss, straightforward. One of my most used app on my mac. Highly recommended!”
“A brilliant tool for an arts educator … So simple, so quick, so good.”
“好用的小程式。各方面都蠻方便的”
What’s New
Fixed a bug that can cause app to crash on macOS 10.14 Mojave
The best
I've used many screenshot organizers, but this one is the best I've tried, and certainly the most bang for the buck. One nice feature is that SnapNDrag makes it easy to move your library from computer to computer or change it's location. The only thing that's missing is an option to automatically send the screenshots to a specific sub-folder assigned to screenshots from the specific application. I suppose they didn't add this because screenshots can be taken of app windows that are not in the frontmost active application; however, most screenshots are taken of the active application's windows, so that would reduce the amount of manual sorting. Only white-listed apps with would need to be auto-sorted and the rest could be assigned to the 'unfiled' folder for manual sorting. I take thousands of screenshots and 99% are within the active front application, so that would save me very much time.
A great product, there's no comparable competitor.
Manually Screenshot Pc
I've heard that the next macOS will contain it's own screen capture mechanism. If so, I wouldn't bet on it being as competent and easy to use as SnapNDrag, which I've used for many years now. This iteration is the best: easy to use, easy to categorize and store pics, easy to embed in other media, easy to send with mail, etc., etc.
One of the other reviewers here worried about being able to literally snap and drag the item into a text or form. Yes, you can. It just requires that the receiving document being able to accommodate a PNG graphic. (That's SnD's default.) If not, simply use a pull-down menu to specify saving an image in another format, either as a JPEG in one of three qualities or TIFF or GIF.
Seems good, not useful for me though
My use case is pretty simple. I take a lot of screenshots that I need to rapidly send and drag into other applications, etc. I was looking for an app that I can quickly access my screenshots instead of opening up a folder and searching for it. I wish there was a way to access the screenshots quicker, much like screenshots on iOS 11.
The second item which I’m not sure was a problem with my system or a bug, but I had changed my screenshot location to a custom folder, then changed it back to desktop, and still the “import screenshots from desktop” option didn’t seem to work. Nothing would get imported with the normals screenshot tool.
Feel free to contact me if I misused the app and I will happily change my rating. Otherwise it seems like a good app for what it has implemented.
Information
OS X 10.11 or later, 64-bit processor
Manual Screenshot Mac Pro
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.