How to Screenshot on a Mac Computer

You’re welcome to techletor, it’s our pleasure teaching you the technological things you need to know, just like the Normal cell phones we use, we’re already conversant on how how to tame screenshot with them, but on the Mac computer, the way of taking screenshot is quite different from while doing that using your smart phones. 

May be you own a Mac Computer and looking for how you can be able to take screenshots with it, you’re at the right place at the right time. Today I will be teaching us how one can possibly take a screenshot using the Mac computer with ease. But before we continue I will like to explain to us the types of screenshot we do on the Mac Computer.

I wonder if you’ve heard about the full and selected window screenshots. The full screenshot captures everything on your screen, while the selected window screenshot captures only the active window. The selected portion screenshot allows you  to select a specific area of your screen capture.

How to Screenshot on a Mac Computer 

There is a robust screen capture tool called Gemoo snap 

that enables you to capture full screen, selected wi Dow and selected portion. You can as well share screenshots and extract text from them. You also select and upload images needed to the cloud manually. 

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Gemoo Snap is compatible with both wi does and Mac systems, it also has the following features. 

1. It captures images such as webpages, documents and videos.

2. It clipboard screenshot feature that helps users to save screenshot to their clipboard for easy dissemination through email.

3. It has another feature called the OCR feature, this feature enables users to extract text from their screenshots and save it as a different file. To those that may wish to extract text from  documents or images this is very helpful for them.

4. For documents that are too lengthy, the software offers scrolling capture, which helps users to take screenshot of the whole page.

5. It has a full page capture feature that helps users to take screenshot of whole web pages, even the parts that are not visible on their screen.

6. Users can capture screenshots and provide feedback to their colleagues using the screenshot and feedback feature.

7. One can crop and as well add text to their screenshots, with the aid of the screenshot and beautify feature which makes it easy to highlight important information for tutorials or instructional equipment.

Below is is how to take screenshots on your Mac Computer:

1. First and foremost, download and install Gemoo Snap on your Mac Computer, launch Gemoo Snap, input your login infos to sign in the Gemoo Snap.

2. Choose a screenshot mode that you need. Click and drag your mouse to customize the desirable region, then release it to take a successful screenshot.

Steps to Take a Full-screen Screenshot on Mac

You may wish a full-screen screenshot for various reasons like capturing and error message. Below is how you can conveniently do that. 

1. Locate the keyboard keys you will use in taking the screenshot. In a Mac, the keys are Command + Shift + 3. It will automatically capture the entire screen and save the screenshot to your desktop.

2. Once you locate the keyboard keys make sure you press them simultaneously, afterwards you will hear a camera shutter sound, showing that the screenshot has been taken. You can locate it by going to desktop and search the file name ‘screenshot’ [date] at [time].png, that is the date and time you too the screenshot, you may as well choose to rename it afterwards for easier access. 

3. You can use the preview app on your Mac to edit the screenshot if you wish to, to be able to do this, simply double click on the screenshot file to open it in preview. There you can crop or annotate the screenshot to your preference.

4. As soon as you are done editing the screenshot you can save it by taping on the ‘file menu’ and selecting ‘save’, and you can as well choose your preferred location to save the file and give it a name.

Capturing a Selected Window on a Mac 

Capturing a selected Window on Mac can be used to create tutorials, sharing screenshots or documenting software problems. The easiest way to capture a selected Window on a Mac is by using a keyboard shortcut, below is how you can do that:

1. Open the window you intend to capture 

2. Press Command + Shift + 4 on your keyboard, then your cursor turns into a crosshair. Afterwards, click and drag the crosshair over on the window you want to capture. 

3. Now leave the mouse button to take the screenshot.

So go ahead and give it a try, you will get to know how important this feature is. Thanks for reading, don’t forget to share this article on social media and to to friends and family, if you have any contribution, use the con section.