I have been using Mac Book Pro for last few months and I am in love with my Mac Book Pro. Today I noticed that there’s no print screen key in my Mac Book Pro and I Googled it and found that there are some short cut keys to capture the whole screen or some portion of the screen.

Capturing Full Screen in Mac OS

Follow the following steps to accomplish this simple task in your Mac Book Pro or any Mac OSX powered machine.

• Open the screen that you want to capture or print screen
• Press Apple Key ⌘ + Shift + 3 and release all at once
• You’re done with capturing the whole screen, look for a file on your desktop with a name starting with Screen shot followed by date and time of capture

Capturing Portion of Screen in Mac OS

Follow the instruction given below to capture some portion of screen

• Open your desired screen you want to capture
• Hold Apple Key + Shift Key + 4 and release all keys
• Move your mouse and look at the mouse cursor, it looks similar to plus sign (+)
• Click and Drag your mouse to select the portion and click again to complete the selection
• You are done, You capture has been saved on your screen with a new name followed by  new date and time

Capturing any Application’s Opened Window in Mac OS

Instructions to capture application’s window are given below

• Open the desired application window which you want to capture
• Press and hold Apple key + Shift Key + 4 and release them
• Notice the mouse cursor changed to plus sign (+)
• Press space bar once and notice the mouse cursor changed to camera
• Cick on the application window you want to capture
• Done, check the capture image on your desktop

Other Options using Grab

If you want to use some other options to capture your screen including scheduled capture, you can use the built in capturing utility Grab in your Mac Osx. Just type grab in search box given in top right corner of your mac.

Happy Macing with your Mac!

[Via TechieCorner]