Screen Grabs!
Daniel Knox
Today's tip is a special request. It's something I use all the time and I'm sure a lot of you do, too. If you want to take a screen shot on your MacBook, there are multiple ways to do it. You can access Grab inside your utilities folder (or just search for Grab inside the finder). It offers a few options of things you can do.
But a couple simple shortcuts are built in to access the two main options.
1) Screenshot - If you want to capture exactly what your screen shows at that instant, hold down Command, Shift, and 3 (at the same time. If your sound is on you will hear a camera shutter and a picture of your screen will save to the desktop automatically.
2) Selected Screenshot (Snip) - If you only want to take a picture of a portion of the screen, hold down Command, Shift, and 4 at the same time. Your cursor will turn into a cross and you can click and drag the area you want to snip. It will take a picture and automatically save it to the desktop. This can be super useful for quickly cropping an online image, or document, or anything you need that you want to reuse in another application.
From the desktop, screenshots or snips can now be dragged into any document you are working on or into an email and a variety of other programs.
Let me know know if you have any other questions.
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