


These numbers represent the dimensions of the area that you’ve selected in pixels (width on top, height on bottom).Īt any time while you’re capturing, the process can be canceled by pressing the Escape key on your keyboard. After pressing, you’ll hear a camera shutter sound effect, and a thumbnail will pop up in the bottom-right corner of your screen.Īs you make your selection, you’ll notice numbers beside the cross-hair cursor. To capture your Mac’s entire screen, press Shift+Command+3 on your keyboard. The screenshot image can be opened in any standard image viewer or editor, such as Apple Preview or Adobe Photoshop. The image will be saved onto your Desktop by default (although the destination can be changed, as we’ll explain below). For example, press Ctrl+Shift+Command+3 to capture the entire screen to the clipboard.Īfter taking a screenshot, you’ll hear a camera shutter sound effect through your Mac’s speaker.

To capture a screenshot directly to the clipboard instead of an image file, add Ctrl to any of the shortcuts listed above.

Have a look at: Type without using the keyboard (On-Screen Keyboard)Īdditionally one can also use the various OS X side Screen Shot commands.Ĭommand+Shift+3 - Capture entire screen and save as a file.Ĭommand+Control+Shift+3 - Capture entire screen and copy to the clipboard.Ĭommand+Shift+4 - Capture dragged area and save as a file.Ĭommand+Control+Shift+4 - Capture dragged area and copy to the clipboard.Ĭommand+Shift+4 then Space bar - Capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and save as a file.Ĭommand+Control+Shift+4 then Space bar - Capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and copy to the clipboard.To use them, press one of the following three-key combinations simultaneously on your keyboard (and in one case, hit space just after the combination). One can also use the virtual keyboard in Windows. Somewhere along the way VMware Fusion added a Print Scrn Send Key command to the Virtual Machine menu. There are also lots of third party utilities that do that and more. When I first started using VMware Fusion, before v1 was released, on my MacBook Pro which doesn't have a Print Scrn key I wrote my own program that sat in the system tray by the clock on the Windows Taskbar to handle that function.
