You have now successfully learnt how to save a screenshot the entire screen, just a portion or the entire window using keyboard shortcuts to a file or to the clipboard. To capture a Portion of the Screen to clipboard simply press the Control Command, Shift and the number 4 simultaneously. In the table below,, and are keyboard shortcuts and shooting at the same time. To capture the Entire Screen to clipboard simply press the Control Command, Shift and the number 3 simultaneously.Ĭapture Portion of the Screen to Clipboard If you want to paste your screenshots into another application such as Photoshop, you can copy the screenshot to the clipboard instead of creating a screenshot file by adding the Control key to the keyboard shortcuts above. If you are using MacOS Mojave or later, you can change the default location of your screenshots from the Options menu in the Screenshot application. Open the Preview app, and from the File option in the menu bar, choose the New From Clipboard option. Alternatively, you can open the screenshot in Preview to edit it further. Hit the Enter key to send the screenshot. See the example below.īy default, the all captured screenshots will be saved to your desktop with the filename Screen Shot at in a PNG format. Select a conversation and use the Cmd+V keyboard shortcut to paste the image in the text box. If you want to just capture the entire window without adding any border or shadow to the image, simply hold down the Option key when you click the mouse. When you capture the screenshot, the Screenshot application will automatically add a border and shadow to the captured image. Once you are happy simply click your mouse to capture the screenshot. Now move your mouse pointer to the window you want to capture as a screenshot. The icon will now change from crosshair to a camera. To capture an entire window on your Mac press the Command, Shift, the number 4 simultaneously and then press Space.
Press Shift + Command + 4 or Shift + Command + 4.
#KEYBOARD SHORTCUT FOR MAC SCREENSHOT WINDOWS#
If PrtSc shares a key, you may need to press Fn + Windows key + PrtSc. Some Logitech keyboards have a Start key instead of a Windows Key. If you want to cancel the screenshot, simply press the ESC key. On Windows, press Windows key + PrtSc or Windows key + Alt + PrtScn if you want to capture only the active window. When you have captured the screenshot release the button on your mouse. Now drag the crosshair across the portion of the screen you want to capture.
This will make the crosshair icon appear. To capture a portion of the screen on your Mac press the Command, Shift and the number 4 simultaneously. If you use more than one display on your Mac, when you capture a screenshot of the entire screen it will automatically capture each display.