Screenshot Guide

How to capture screenshots on Apple's Mac

Learn all the different ways of capturing screenshots on your Mac latop or computer.

Using in-built Mac functionality

Here we will learn to capture screenshots using the tools that exist on every Mac computer. You will be able to capture the whole screen, a window or just a part of the screen.

Capturing the entire visible screen

  1. Press the Shift, Command and 3 keys at the same time.
    How to capture entire screen
  2. (Optional) If there's a thumbnail in the corner of you screen, you may click it to edit the screenshot.
  3. The screenshot will be saved on your desktop.

Capturing a selected area of the screen

  1. Press the Shift, Command and 4 keys at the same time.
  2. Click on your screen and drag the Cross hair to select the area you wish to capture.
  3. Release your mouse or trackpad button. This will take the screenshot of the selected area.
  4. (Optional) If there's a thumbnail in the corner of you screen, you may click it to edit the screenshot.
  5. The screenshot will be saved on your desktop.

Capture a screenshot using the Screenshot app

On MacOS Mojave and greater, you can find the Screenshot app.

  1. Press the Shift, Command and 5 keys at the same time.
  2. Follow the official instructions from Apple to use the app.

Location of the screenshots

The screenshots will be saved on your desktop with the name Screen Shot [date] at [time].png.

You may adjust the default location in MacOS Mojave or greater from the Options menu of the Screenshot app.