Grab, the built-in Mac OS X service that captures screenshots, might be sufficient for most people. If you're looking to pair an upload service to it, you can just add the great and free Cloud App. Take a Screenshot of Your Entire Screen. Let’s start with those keyboard shortcuts.
Apple's keyboard shortcuts to capture a screenshot. Here's a quick reminder for you with the combinations that capture screen on macOS: ⌘ + Shift + 3 to take a screenshot of the whole screen. ⌘ + Shift + 4 to capture a selected area. ⌘ + Shift + 4 + press Space to take a quick screenshot of the active window. How to capture a portion of the screen Press and hold these three keys together: Shift, Command, and 4. Drag the crosshair to select the area of the screen to capture. To move the selection, press and hold Space bar while. To take the screenshot, release your mouse or trackpad button.
Whenever you take a screenshot on Mac using Command + Shift + 3 or Command + Shift + 4 keys, the screenshots end up getting saved on the desktop of your Mac. Keeping the desktop as the default Screenshot Location on Mac makes it easy for you to find the screenshot, in case you just took a.
We wrote before the method to take the screenshot on Mac through keyboard shortcut keys and today we are sharing an other method to take screenshot on Mac through terminal command.
Terminal allows to capture screenshot after a specific time interval and you can also save screenshot in some other file formats as JPG, TIFF etc otherwise by default Mac saves screenshot in PNG format.
Follow the method written below to take screenshot on Mac by using command on terminal.
See also:
How to capture screen shots on Mac with keyboard shortcut keys
How to Set a Folder to Save Screen Shots on Mac
How to Take Screen Shot Via Terminal On Mac
Step 1
Click on Finder
Step 2
Go to Applications > Utilities and then launch Terminal
Step 3
Type following command in Terminal
Screen Capture On Mac
screencapture -T 6 ~/Desktop/screenshot.jpg
where: T 6 = time interval in seconds, Desktop = location to save screenshot and screenshot.jpg = filename with extension
By default time interval is set to 5 seconds
Step 4
Screen Capture Mac Os Catalina
To know further details about screencapture command type the following command in terminal and hit Enter
Mac Os X Terminal
screencapture --help
Mac Os Screen Capture
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