There may be as many ways to take a screenshot off your 16-inch MacBook Pro as there are reasons to take them, but Apple could make it a lot more obvious what's possible and how to do it.
- Follow these steps to re-enable screenshot hotkeys on your Mac: Click Apple Menu System Preferences.; Click Keyboard in the System Preferences window.If your list looks different, type Keyboard in the search pane in the top right of the System Preferences window.; Click the Shortcuts tab in the Keyboard window.; Click Screen Shots in the list on the left of the Shortcuts tab.
- Hold down the keys: Command + Shift + 4 Your cursor will turn into a small reticule with pixel coordinate numbers to the lower left. 2 Click and hold your mouse or trackpad and drag the cursor to select a rectangular area you wish to screenshot. You can press the Esc key to start over without taking the photo.
- If you have a Mac with a Touch Bar, you can take a screenshot of it by pressing Shift+Command+6. The image will be saved as a.png file on your desktop. The image will be saved as a.png file on.
- Screenshot the Mac's menu bar ― ⌘-Shift-4 and then Space bar. Now move the camera pointer to highlight the Mac's menu bar and click the mouse button. Screenshot a menu ― First click a menu to reveal its contents. Then hit ⌘-Shift-4, drag the crosshair pointer over a desired area and release the mouse button.
Whether it's just for speed as you want to capture a website page, or you need to show someone what's being shown on your display, taking a screenshot or grab of your MacBook Pro screen is handy. Apple doesn't exactly make it obvious how you do it, but the company does give you an almost ridiculous number of options once you start.
Two crucial things before you take a screenshot, though.
The most important caveat is that you must remember that you are not taking a shot of the screen, you are taking a shot of what the Mac is displaying. So if your display has gone, say, monochrome for some reason, and you take a screenshot, that shot will be in perfect color.
How Do U Screenshot On A Macbook Pro
Normally, it takes three fingers to activate the macOS keyboard shortcuts, but there's an easier way if you own a Touch Bar MacBook Pro. Once you add the Screenshot button to the Touch Bar, all.
You also can't take a screenshot of a Blu-ray or DVD player because of rights issues. It's the same thing with streaming services such as Netflix — you can take a shot, but it will be blank where the movie was
Other than that, you can take a grab of anything on your Mac's screen and choose between either doing it very quickly or with some customization.
How to take a screenshot on a MacBook pro, the quick way
How To Take Screenshot On Macbook Pro
- Hold down the Command key
- Hold down the Shift key
- Tap the number 3 key
A capture of your entire MacBook Pro screen is briefly displayed at the bottom right of your monitor, and then it is saved to your desktop.
In a giant majority of cases, this is probably all you want. And on the odd occasion that you only wanted to grab a particular portion of the screen, you can open that screenshot in an image editor and delete what you don't need.
That image editor could be your Mac's built-in one, too. When the screenshot is briefly displayed at the bottom right, or at any time when you select it and tap the Spacebar, you can edit the image.
Click on the icon of a marker pen and you get a reasonable set of editing tools that include markup ones and cropping.
How to take a screenshot of part of a MacBook Pro screen
You can, though, decide in advance that you are only going to take a screenshot of, say, one particular window, or one section of your screen. Best software to use for 3d printing.
- Hold down the Command key
- Hold down the Shift key
- Tap the number 4 key
Notice the difference here, you're using the number 4 key. When you do that, the Mac's cursor turns into a crosshair and you can drag over the area you want to grab.
When you let go of the mouse, or the trackpad, the shot is taken.
How to take a screenshot of a single window on a MacBook Pro screen
- Hold down the Command key
- Hold down the Shift key
- Tap the number 4 key
- Move the cursor over a window
- Tap the spacebar
- Click when you're ready
How to take a screenshot of a single window on a MacBook Pro screen on a timer
In that example, the shot only takes place when you click, and in all the others, it happens immediately. To give yourself a few seconds to, say, arrange a window or select a menu, you can use a timer.
Having seen the use of the number 3 and 4 keys, you may not be surprised to know that this one involves 5.
- Hold down the Command key
- Hold down the Shift key
- Tap the number 5 key
This time, all that happens is that you get a control strip on screen. It actually contains buttons to start off everything you've done so far with keystrokes, such as grabbing the whole screen or a portion.
Click on that and you get the choice of taking a shot immediately, in 5 seconds or in 10 seconds.
There are also options for where you save the screenshot, whether it gets displayed on screen, and so on. The same control strip even includes options to take video of the screen instead of a still image.
However, for speed and convenience, the keystrokes of Command, Shift and the number 3, 4 or 5, can't be beaten.
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© PREMIO STOCK/Shutterstock There are several ways to take a screenshot on Google Chrome. PREMIO STOCK/Shutterstock- You can take a screenshot in Google Chrome with one of your computer's built-in tools, or via Chrome's developer menu.
- To take a screenshot with Chrome's developer menu, open the Element Inspector and then type 'screenshot.'
- You can choose from among four kinds of screenshots, including one that captures an entire web page, even if you can't fit it all on your screen.
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You probably know several ways to capture screenshots on your computer, including using the Print Screen button and the Snipping Tool in Windows 10.
But if you use Google Chrome as your web browser and frequently need to take screenshots, you might want to use the relatively obscure – yet easy to use – screenshot tool that's built right into the browser. Few people know about it because it's considered a tool for developers, but in reality, anyone can use it.
Here's how to take a screenshot within Google Chrome, on your Mac or PC.
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How to screenshot on Google Chrome
1. Open Google Chrome and press Ctrl + Shift + I if you're on a PC, or Command + Option + I if you're on a Mac — that's the letter I, not the letter L. This will open a developer menu called the Element Inspector, which lets you see the HTML the current web page is made with.
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2. Next, press Ctrl + Shift P if you're on a PC, or Command + Shift P on a Mac. This will let you search through your list of developer tools.
© Dave Johnson/Business Insider After pressing the keyboard shortcuts, you should see the Element Inspector and the search menu. Dave Johnson/Business Insider3. Type 'screenshot.' Don't press Enter. You should see a set of four screenshot options.
Here's what each of the four screenshot options do:
- Capture area screenshot. This lets you select a specific part of the screen and save it as a screenshot. If you choose this option, after a moment, you'll be able to drag a box with the mouse anywhere within the Chrome window. Select the part of the page you want to capture and it'll be saved. Note that you can't use this tool to capture the Element Inspector itself — that never gets included in the screenshot.
- Capture full size screenshot. This option saves a picture of the entire web page, from top to bottom. It's a convenient way to grab an image of a long page that extends well beyond the bottom of the screen.
- Capture node screenshot. This is more of interest to developers – it lets you capture an image of just a specific HTML element selected in the Element Inspector.
- Capture screenshot. This is most like a standard screenshot. It saves an image of what's currently visible on your screen.
4. Using the arrow keys on your keyboard, scroll down to the one you want and press Enter. Your screenshot will be taken and automatically saved. You can find it in Chrome's download manager at the bottom of the window.
© Dave Johnson/Business Insider Choose the kind of screenshot you want to take. Dave Johnson/Business InsiderHow Do U Screenshot On A Macbook
The main difference between using the Print Screen key and this Chrome tool is that the Chrome screenshot tool doesn't include the borders of the Chrome browser window itself — only the content of the web page.