OSX quick tip – Screenshots

Added by 55disk on 19 July 2007

You probably already use the supplied app Grab for screenshots or numerous other free apps for this but did you know it’s Command-Shift-3 that actually gives you an entire screenshot. That will leave an image on your desktop as a PNG file, you can even hit Command-Shift-4, and get a little crosshair to select only a portion of your screen and do the same thing.

But if you need to get this straight into an image editing app, try this instead!

Hit Control-Command-Shift-3 (or 4)

This will copy the image to your clipboard, so you can simply paste it into your editing program of choice.