How to Do A Screenshot On an Apple Computer

If you own an Apple computer, it can be useful to know how to take a screenshot of the monitor. Anything that you can see on your monitor can be recorded. You can capture a screenshot using a keyboard shortcut.


Instructions

1. Locate something on your computer that you want to "capture" or take a screenshot of. It can be a document, a website, an email -- anything that you can see on the monitor.

2. Press the "Command," "Shift' and "4" keys simultaneously to turn on a special cursor.

3. Click and drag the cursor to highlight the area you want to capture. When you let go of your mouse click, the computer takes a snapshot of the highlighted area.

4. Look on your desktop for a file named "Screen Shot" with a date and time. Open it with Preview or any other image viewing application.

5. Press the "Command," "Shift" and "3" keys simultaneously to make a screenshot of the entire screen.


Tips & Warnings

• The screenshots are saved as PDFs if you are using OS X 10.2 or later. Earlier versions of the system software save the screenshots as TIFF files.

• Remember, screenshots of copyrighted images are still copyrighted images. Don't be too trigger happy and start placing copyrighted images that you've captured onto your website, as this is still illegal.

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