How to make screenshots on Mac

Screenshots may seem like something unimportant until you suddenly need to make one. That's when you look at your Mac, its screen, its keyboard and start looking. Where are they hidden? How are they made? Will you have to choose to take a camera and photograph the screen? Of course not. The process is very simple and has many very practical options. In .com we tell you how to make screenshots on Mac.

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The keyboard is your great ally to take screenshots. The basic capture, the classic one in which the whole screen as you see it will be saved as an image file, is done by pressing the key combination cmd (command) + shift + 3 .

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That's for the basic screen capture, but on Mac there are a couple of other options. One of them lets you crop exactly what part of the screen you want to capture (rarely do we need the whole screen): cmd + shift + 4 will convert the cursor into small scissors with which you can form a square or rectangle to select what you want to capture.

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There is still one more option: cmd + shift + 4 and, later, space bar, it will convert the cursor to a camera. When passing it through the screen you will see that it illuminates in blue the window on which you are. Effectively, this option is to capture a specific window. You only have to click on it to capture it.

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Mac saves all images on the Desktop in .png by default. There is a last option that changes this: in any of the captures with the three keys, if you press "Control" at the end the image will not be saved in the Desktop, but in the Clipboard. Thus, you can paste it anywhere else.