Hi Mom, when you want to show me something on your screen, the easiest way is to take a screen shot. In this video I show you how to take screen shots of:
- your whole screen,
- a selected region of your screen,
- a selected window.
I also show you a handy way to quickly preview your screen shots (actually it works for any file) and how to easily attach your screen shots to an email so you can send them to me.
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Hi Steve,
got your website from Tim Carter and the screen shots advice is fantastic – I never knew that the facility was available – brilliant! Many thanks from Australia.
Hi Keith,
Glad you found that useful. You just reminded me that I’d been planning on making a follow-on video to this one. There are even more built-in ways to take a screen shot!
[Maybe I can drag Tim down to Australia one of these days. I haven't been since (about to date myself) 1987. I'd love to go back.]
Steve = I’m learning SO much from you. I just took 3 screen shots and I can’t
figure out the difference between #1 and #3 (with camera). They both do the
full screen, don’t they? I love the four corners. Sue
Hi Sue,
No, they shouldn’t be doing the same thing. Command+Shift+3 takes a screen shot of the full screen. Command+Shift+4 and then a Spacebar (which brings up the camera cursor) takes a screen shot of whichever window you click on. If you click on a window that is filling your screen it might look almost like a full screen, except it won’t include the menu on top and the Dock.
Let me know if you can’t make it work that way.
Thank you so much for all your helpful advice, I look forward to your emails….kind of like having access to my own son (who also helps me everytime he comes over to visit!). But since he is a very busy guy, this is the next best thing. LOVE the new things I learn, and LOVE my Mac!