TAILIEUCHUNG - Screen-Capture Keystrokes

. Screen-Capture Keystrokes If you're reading a chapter about printing and graphics, you may someday be interested in creating screenshots | . Screen-Capture Keystrokes If you re reading a chapter about printing and graphics you may someday be interested in creating screenshots printable illustrations of the Mac screen. Screenshots are a staple of articles tutorials and books about the Mac including this one . Mac OS X has a secret built-in feature that lets you make them and includes some very cool convenience features. Here s how to capture various regions of the screen. . The Whole Screen Press Shift- -3 to create a picture file on your desktop in PNG format that depicts the entire screen image. A satisfying camera-shutter sound tells you that you were successful. The file is called Picture . Each time you press Shift- -3 you get another file called Picture 2 Picture 3 and so on. You can open these files into Preview or any other graphics program in readiness for editing printing or exporting in a different format. Tip It doesn t have to be Shift- -3. You can change this keystroke or any of these screenshot keystrokes to anything you like. Open System Preferences Keyboard Mouse Keyboard Shortcuts. Expand the Screen Shots list. Click the keystroke you want to change and then press the new key combo you prefer. . One Section of the Screen You can capture just a rectangular region of the screen by pressing Shift- -4. Your cursor turns into a crosshair with two tiny digital readouts the horizontal and vertical coordinates of your cursor on the screen at this moment. The numbers are pixels as measured from the upper-left corner of the screen which has coordinates 0 0. Now drag diagonally across the screen to capture only a rectangular chunk of it. When you drag and release the mouse you hear the camera-click sound and the Picture l file appears on your desktop as usual containing only the rectangle that you enclosed. In Leopard in fact this feature has been goosed up quite a bit. Once you ve begun dragging diagonally while the mouse is still down you can press any of these keys for

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