8 Ways to Take a Screenshot on a Mac Computer

8 Ways to Take a Screenshot on a Mac Computer. Screenshot or making an image recording of activity on the screen is one of the basic features of computer usage. This feature is usually used to show a part that you want to explain to other users or maybe a display that you can't save in the normal way. In this article the Reseapedia team will explain several ways to make screenshots on a Mac computer. See right away!

Screenshot on a Mac Computer

1. Take a Screenshot of the Entire Screen Surface

1. Press Shift + Command + 3
2. Search for screenshots on Desktop with the name Screen Shot followed by the date and time. The format is a .png image document.

2. Take a screenshot in the Options section

This feature works for those of you who want to make a screenshot of a particular part, not all the surface of the screen. Here's the guide:

1. Press the Shift + Command + 4. The arrow icon will turn to the crosshair or + line with a circle on the inside.
2. Press and hold left mouse click to start the screen selection section that will be made into a screenshot. After enough, please release and the screenshot results will appear on Desktop.

3. Screenshot of One Application Window

This tutorial applies to those of you who want to take screenshots with selection in the form of one application window, without the hassle of placing a screenshot window as in the previous tutorial. Not just more automatic, this feature even directly gives a shadow effect from the screenshot image that you made. Here's the guide:

1. Press the Shift + Command + 4. The arrow icon will turn to the crosshair sign. After that press the Space button to turn it into a camera image.
2. Place this camera icon in the application window or document that you want to make a screenshot.
3. Press left click on the mouse or trackpad to take screenshots of the screenshot and the results automatically appear on the Desktop.

4. Save the Screenshot on the Clipboard

If all of the above methods will make the screenshot document you appear on the Desktop, just use the screenshot mode but it is stored in the Clipboard. In this way you can directly paste the screenshot document into the required place such as an image editing application or maybe in the chat application. Here's the explanation:

1. Control + Shift + Command + 3 to screenshot the entire screen and save it on the clipboard. Use the cmd + v shortcut in the image editing application or chat application (iMessage for example) to paste the image you saved in the clipboard.
2. Control + Shift + Command + 5 for screenshots of selected parts on the screen that you do and save in the clipboard. Use the cmd + v shortcut to paste.

5. Screenshot with Timer

You can take screenshots with a timer or countdown time automatically. An example of using this feature is making a tutorial or web display that can only be recorded after you press a particular section. Here's the guide:

1. Open the Grab application from Application - Utilities - Grab.
2. On the menu bar select Caputre - Timed Screen or Command + Shift + Z shortcut.
3. Press the Start Timer button to count down when taking screenshots.
4. The results of the image will appear as a new photo window and not automatically stored on the Desktop, please save as needed.

6. Screenshot Touch Bar

For those of you MacBook Pro Touch Bar users and already using macOS Sierra 10.12.2, please refer to the following guide to take a screenshot of the Touch Bar screen:

1. Press shortcut Shift + Command + 6.
2. A screenshot document from the Touch Bar display can be found on the Desktop.

Use Third Party Applications

Not satisfied with some of the default ways from Apple to make screenshots? Please use the following third-party applications.

7. Screenshot with Droplr

Droplr is a document sharing service with complete and easy features. In addition to screenshots in the form of images, you can also make a video screen recording to record part or all of the screen activity as needed. Droplr also has an automatic document upload mode, complete and easily accessible shortcuts and annotation mode.

You can try Droplr service for free with a minimum amount of usage. If you are already comfortable using Droplr services, please update to Pro or Business mode with a monthly subscription system. You can read full information about Droplr on the following page.

8. Use the PSD Screenshot Application

As the name implies, Screenshot PSD is useful for making screenshots of Mac computer screens with the results of PSD image documents aka Photoshop. Not just using the PSD format, but the screenshot image that you get is also a number of image layers according to the appearance you are not.

Even when the team tries, the PSD screenshot can detect the application window that I open behind the main display. Suppose that another Safari tab or even the wallpaper I use.