How to Take a Screenshot on a Mac – Full Screen or Selected Area

Hello friends, Today I will share two methods on how to take a screenshot on a Mac. Users can take full-screen image capture or even selected area to click the screen. You can use this method for capturing anything that appears on your Mac screen. I have shared direct commands and an app to screenshot on Mac.

You are making an assignment, and you need to add images to the assignment from your workbook. You can also screenshot the images and then use them into your articles. Mac provides several methods through which you can screenshot your desktop to utilize images according to your preference and usage.

How to take a screenshot on a Mac

This section will cover how you can take a screenshot on a Mac device. This section will take into the consideration of taking a whole screen screenshot, and the further section will help you learn how you can take selected area screenshots on a Mac device. Follow the steps that are given below to take a screenshot on a Mac device.

1. Open the screen of which you are taking the screenshot.
2. Now, you need to press these three keys at the same time while holding them. The three keys that are used are: “Shift”, “Command” and the “3” numerical key. In the same particular order in which it is written.
3. Now, you will have a “Thumbnail” at the corner of the screen. You can click on the “thumbnail” for further customization of the screenshot.

This section covered how you can take the whole screen screenshot on a Mac device.

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How to take a screenshot of a Specific area on Mac device – Cropped Image

This section will cover how you can take the screenshot of a window or a particular menu on a Mac device. It will also utilize a few key combinations to take the screenshot of a particular window or menu. Follow the steps that are given below to take a screenshot on a Mac device of a specific window.

1. Navigate and start the window that you want to take a screenshot off.
2. Press the keys in a certain order while holding them down. The keys that are used are “Shift”, “Command”, “4” and finally press the “Space” key. This will start the capturing mode.
3. Your mouse pointer will change into a capture mode i.e it will change into a “camera icon”.
4. Click on the window that you want to capture. If you do not want to capture the screenshot you can simply press the Escape key(Esc) on your keyboard.
5. To exclude the window’s or menu’s shadow, you can hold the “Option” key while you click on the window to take the screenshot.
6. Lastly, you will see the “Thumbnail” appear at the screen’s corner that you can use to customize the screenshot according to your preference.

This section covered how you can take a screenshot on a Mac device of a specific menu or window.

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How to take a screenshot on a Mac device using QuickTime Player

QuickTime player is mostly used for screen recording but very less know. That it can also be used to take a screenshot on Mac. Yes! you heard it right and I will share several ways to capture the image. The best part is you can even select the area and take a screenshot.

1. Press the keys command + Spacebar and write QuickTime Player.
2. Click on File then Screen Recording.
3. Now you have two options Capture Entire Screen, Capture Selected Window or Capture Selected Portion.

QuickTime Player provides these three different options like Entire screen says you can capture the whole window and Selected Window/Selected Portion you can capture the image.

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Conclusion

Users can use any of the methods to take a screenshot on a Mac. You can use any of both methods and they are best as you don’t require any third-party apps. In my personal opinion, the command method is very easy and you can use the screenshot and take a screenshot. But if you want to capture selected portion like even different Window then use QuickTime Player.