If you want only a specific window or select an area, you can edit and crop the image. The above key combination – Command, Shift and 3 keys – captures the entire Mac screen.
For step by step instructions, refer how to change the default location of screenshots on the Mac. You can change this with a couple of commands executed through the terminal window. Double click to open it in Preview.įYI, on the Mac, the Desktop is default location to which the screenshots are saved. The screenshot image is quite large – about 1MB – on my MacBook Pro. Hold Command + Shift + 3 to get a screenshot which is immediately saved on the desktop as a png image named “Screen Shot YYYY-MM-DD at HH.MM.SS am/pm” (On Mac OS X Yosemite and El Capitan). There are three key-combinations for taking a screenshot on the Mac: Key-combination Keyboard shortcuts for screen capture on the Mac
