The Mac offers an enormous number of different ways to create screenshots ofwhat you see on the screen. All of them involve pressing the Cmd and Shift keys.
Press Cmd-Shift-4 to turn your cursor into a tiny + symbol. Now drag diagonally across the screen to capture only a square chunk of it. When you release the mouse, you hear the camera-click sound, and a Picture 1 file appears on your hard drive. Add Caps Lock to the Cmd-Shift-4 keystroke to turn your cursor into a bullseye symbol. Now you can capture only one window or dialog box - after you click inside it. This trick saves you the trouble of cropping out unnecessary background details in your graphics program Add Control to either of those keystrokes if you want the resulting image to be copied onto your Clipboard, ready for pasting into (for example) Photoshop or AppleWorks, instead of creating a PICT file on your hard drive. You can even capture a menu using these keystrokes if you first open the menu by clicking its name (You can't capture a menu if you've dragged down it with the mouse button pressed.) Of course, if you're really serious about capturing screenshots, opt instead for a more powerful add-on program like Snapz Pro, which can capture virtually anything on the screen and save it into your choice of graphics format.
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