Ways to learn as how to take print screen on Mac

What is termed as the “Print screen” in windows world is termed as screen captures or even the screen shot in Mac operating system X. If you are a Mac user, then you must have noticed that there is no option or button of Print screen or Print scr in the keyboard of Mac, as given in laptops of other brand. On Mac, instead of hitting the button of “Print screen”, you need to hit on some different combinations of keyboard shortcuts for performing specific action, based on complete action of screen capture, that you want to take. This is termed as both powerful and easier, given there are the unique options for performing the variations of screen print.

How to take print screen on Mac?

To know how to take print screen to file on desktop in Mac OS X as,

·         Command + Shift 3: take screenshot of full screen and save them as file to desktop

·         Command + Shift 4: bring up selection box so that you can specify area for taking screenshot of, then further save it as file to desktop.

·         Command+ Shift+4, then afterwards space bar and click a window: take a screenshot of a window and then save it as a file to the desktop.

You can easily take a screenshot on Mac by pressing Command+ Shift 3. As this approach “prints” screen effectively to desktop as unique file which includes a screen capture. It removes all step of having paste screen shot into other application or saving them mutually. If you don’t save file to desktop, you can get it copied to clipboard, which gets pasted anywhere else, as happens in world of Windows.

How to “print screen” to Clipboard on Mac

Saving captured picture directly to clipboard functions is lot more as print screen which is featured in windows world. if you want to do Mac equivalent of the Print Scr, storing image in clipboard so that one can paste the same in other document or app, these all are commands that you can use,

·         Command + Control + Shift + 3: Take screenshot of whole screen and then save them directly to clipboard for pasting it elsewhere.

Command + Control + Shift +4 and select area: take screenshot of selection by making use of rectangular drawing boxes and then save it to clipboard to paste it anywhere else. Learn easily how to take print screen on Mac.