Jan 6 2008
Screen capture beyond Shift-Command-3 and Shift-Command-4
There have been a few changes made to the way Mac OS X captures the screen under Leopard. The same old Shift-Command-3 and Shift-Command-4 commands still work, but a few more tricks have been added to its repertoire.
You may know that adding Control to the key command sends the resulting screenshot to the clipboard instead of the desktop, but did you know that, after you’ve invoked Shift-Command-4, you can use other keys to refine your screen selection?
Once you’ve hit Shift-Command-4 or Shift-Ctrl-Command-4, you are free to release those keys and click and drag your selection of the screen. You’ll notice that the crosshairs now show the coordinates of their on the screen in pixels. When you click and start to drag, those number change to show the dimensions of the selection, also in pixels.
Once you’ve started to click and drag the selection, you can use the Spacebar to move your selection around on the screen without changing its dimensions (if you hit the Spacebar before you click and drag, the cursor changes to a camera icon and you are able to take screenshots of individual windows by clicking on them).
Holding down the Shift key allows you to constrain the height of the selection allowing you to refine its width or vice versa. It just depends on which dimension you change immediately after you press the Shift key.
Holding down the Option key causes the selection to expand from its center. This is handy if you want a certain detail to be in the center of the screenshot; just hit Shift-Command-4, hold down the Option key and the click and drag from the point that you want to be the center of your screenshot.
One last key command, and it’s not new, if you make a mistake in your selection somehow and down want the screenshot to be taken at all, hit the Esc key to back out of it.
Happy snapping.
[ Via Macworld ]Note:
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