Taking a Screen Shot with the Mac

Posted on 2009/01/07 by Balazs

Everyone knows the Shift+PrtScr trick to take a screen shot with a PC.  I had to take a snapshot from RDP within and OS X session and I did not have a PC keyboard attached.  That led me to discover that the Mac is way more powerful than the PC for screen shots right out of the box.  Here is how:

  • To capture the entire screen, press Command+Shift+3.
  • To capture part of a screen, press Command+Shift+4.

More info is available here: Taking Screenshots with Screen Capture in Mac OS X Panther
Even though the article describes Panther, it seems to work on Leopard and Tiger as well.  On Leopard, the default format is png and not pdf as the article described.

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