screen capping

[webdesignlab]

Hi,

ok, this may well have been asked on numerous occasions,however i have looked and cant find a decent answer

how do you take a screen cap on a mac....? i need to send images to programmers etc to show which parts of sites i want them to work on etc, with my pc its easy, just press print screen and thats that, but on my mac hmmmmmmm

i have tried the command shift and 3 or 4 whatever it was and it made the noise of taking an image but it wouldnt paste int into photoshop

can someone tell me how to do this please, and/or possibly give me a link to some software tha i can use if thats the best solution?

thanks in advance
Steve

 

[edesignuk]

What you are doing is right, how ever it won't copy the screenie to the clipboard, it will call it Picture ##.pdf and put it on your desktop.

 

[webdesignlab]

What you are doing is right, how ever it won't copy the screenie to the clipboard, it will call it Picture ##.pdf and put it on your desktop.

lmao @ myself.....ok ok....so i just minimised my screen and sw a load of picture 2 picture 2 etc sitting there, feel like a complete idiot now, i guess maybe i should keep a cleaner desktop, lol

thanks very much for your help, much appreciated
steve

 

[edesignuk]

hehe, no problem fella, we've all been there (new to the Mac and it's workings that is)

 

[webdesignlab]

hehe, no problem fella, we've all been there (new to the Mac and it's workings that is)

yep hehehehehe, i love this mac, much much better than my noisy dirty pc, lol... why on earth did i wait so long to convert.....

just takes a little getting used to after many many years as a pc slave

ah well tis done now
thanks again

 

[realityisterror]

some hints:
shift + apple + 3 = full screen pic on desktop
shift + apple + 4 = draw a selection box around what you want to save and then put it on desktop (this would allow to to show one specific element so you don't need to go back and crop)
shift + apple + 4 then space = shows a camera and allows you to take a picture of just the window you have your cursor over. (this may be the easiest way for you to get the whole site)


these are of course saved as a pdf on the desktop as mac os x's graphics system is based on pdf's. those of you that don't have photoshop can open it with preview and then: file --> export. then choose your settings to save it as a jpg or whatever. using jpg options, you can even set a target size so you don't waste people's time with a huge shot...

hope this helps someone,
reality

 

[webdesignlab]

some hints:
shift + apple + 3 = full screen pic on desktop
shift + apple + 4 = draw a selection box around what you want to save and then put it on desktop (this would allow to to show one specific element so you don't need to go back and crop)
shift + apple + 4 then space = shows a camera and allows you to take a picture of just the window you have your cursor over. (this may be the easiest way for you to get the whole site)


these are of course saved as a pdf on the desktop as mac os x's graphics system is based on pdf's. those of you that don't have photoshop can open it with preview and then: file --> export. then choose your settings to save it as a jpg or whatever. using jpg options, you can even set a target size so you don't waste people's time with a huge shot...

hope this helps someone,
reality

thanks very much, i am sure that will come in useful for many noobs to the mac....myself included
much appreciated

Steve