1. Screen Capture Mac Os 10.6
2. Split Screen Mac Os

When you take a screenshot on your Mac – using the Shift-Command-3 shortcut to capture the whole screen, or Shift-Command-4 to capture a portion of it – the image files are saved straight to your. QuickTime Player. You may or may not know that Mac’s built-in QuickTime Player can do screen. What Is a Screenshot? The term 'Screenshot' also known as a snapshot or screen capture, or print.

In Mac OS X, to take a screenshot (including any menus youmay have selected), pressCommand-Shift-3. You will hear a camerashutter click, and an image of your current screen will be saved toyour desktop in PNG format. In Mac OS X 10.6 and later, itwill be named with the date and time that you take the screen shot.In Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier, it will be named Picture N,where N is a number (e.g., Picture 1,Picture 2, etc.).

To take a screenshot of only a portion of the screen:

1. Press Command-Shift-4. Your mouse pointer willchange into crosshairs.

   Note: If you want to cancel at any point in thisprocess, press Esc.

2. Move your mouse to the upper-left corner of the area you want tocapture. Hold down the mouse button, drag the mouse to thelower-right corner of the area you want to capture, and then releasethe mouse button.

You can also take screenshots of individual windows, menus, and icons:

Screen Capture Mac Os 10.6

1. If you want to take a screenshot of a menu, select it. If you wantto take a screenshot of a window, click it to bring it into focus.
2. Press Command-Shift-4, and then press the Spacebar.Your mouse pointer will change into a camera.

   Note: If you want to cancel at any point in thisprocess, press Esc.

3. Click the window, menu, or icon you want to capture.

Note: Whether capturing an image of the screen, aportion of the screen, a menu, an icon, or a window, if you also holdthe Ctrl key down along with other keys, it will save theimage to the Clipboard rather than a file.

Grab

You can use Grab, which is normally installed in/Applications/Utilities, to take screenshots of all orparts of your screen. It has a timed function that lets you include apull-down menu or change which application will be active in thescreenshot. You may also change the appearance of the mouse pointer orremove it from the screenshot altogether. Grab saves your images asTIFF files, which you can display in Preview or modify in agraphics editor, such as Adobe Photoshop.

Snapz Pro

Split Screen Mac Os

For more advanced screen capture features, including video capture,see SnapzPro X, available as shareware from Ambrosia Software.