My fiancée has been using a Mac for close to a year now, and it’s a pretty nifty machine, I’ve gotta say. However, things are fairly different to what she, and I, are used to. One thing she does fairly often, is take screenshots, which she had a bit of trouble with until we figured out how.
The problem, of course, is that Mac OS, unlike Windows, does not have a dedicated key on the keyboard for taking screenshots. Instead, they use hotkeys. The hotkeys and their effects are as follows:
| Hot-key | Result |
| Cmd-Shift-3 | Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop |
| Cmd-Shift-4, then select an area | Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop |
| Cmd-Shift-4, then space, then click a window | Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop |
| Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-3 | Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard |
| Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-4, then select an area | Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard |
| Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-4, then space, then click a window | Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard |
Personally, I like the attitude that it should be handled with hot-keys, rather than with a dedicated key on the keyboard; it removes a bit of clutter from the keyboard, without sacrificing the function.
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