Screen Capture In OS X

Making a screen capture in OS X is easy.  Here is how you do it.

 

There are two ways you can do this. The first method takes a screen capture of your entire screen. You do this by pressing shift-command-3. You should hear a camera shutter sound and an image file will show up on your desktop.

 

 

 

 

The second method allows you to select which area of the screen to capture via cross hairs.

For this, you will need to press shift-command-4.

 

 

 

When you do this, your cursor will turn into cross hairs that you can click and drag to make your selection. You will also see numbers to the side of the cross hairs that tell you how many pixels wide and high your image will be. You will also hear the camera shutter sound using this method.