Screen, Window and Selection Capture

Recent version of the Mac OS have included a utility for capturing screen elements. It is called Screenshot and can be found in the Utilities folder that is inside the Applications folder on your hard-drive.

Since I use it quite a bit I keep an alias of the app on the Dock:

Starting the app by clicking on it puts a small window onto your screen with several options:

The icons perform the following actions:

	Capture image of the entire screen
	Capture image of the selected window
	Capture image of the selected area
	Capture movie of the selected area
	Capture movie of the entire screen

Options provides a pop-up menu with the following options:

• Save to - allows user to set a destination for the image.
  • Desktop
  • Documents
  • Clipboard
  • Mail
  • Messages
  • Preview app
  • Other Location...
• Timer - delay before capture
  • None
  • 5 Seconds
  • 10 Seconds
• Options
  • Show Floating Thumbnail
  • Remember Last Selection
  • Show mouse pointer

The Capture button appears after you have made a selection for an image or a movie and, when clicked, performs the action.

Another application is the Free-ware application SnapNDrag that can be obtained at http://www.yellowmug.com/

Further information can be found at the Apple website here. This includes the old keyboard method for screen/window capture.

Screenshots can also be made with Preview and other applications.

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