If you’d like to only take a picture of a selected area of the screen, then pressing shift, command, and 4 all at the same time will turn your cursor into a crosshair, which you can use in order to select a specific area of your screen to capture. The possible options are to capture screenshot of the entire screen, a window, or a selection of your screen. Pressing command, shift, and 5 simultaneously will have a small panel pop up that will give you 3 different screen capture options. If you want to take a screenshot of your whole screen, then press the command button, the shift button, and 5 all at the same time, like seen below. On Mac, you have a few options when it comes to taking a screenshot, depending if you want to capture the entire screen, or if there is only a specific area you want to capture. If instead of taking a screenshot you want to capture only the active window, then you can do this by pressing the Alt and PrtScn buttons simultaneously, and then paste the captured shot into your software like above. So, open Word or whichever software you’re using, and either click Ctrl and v to paste the image, or right click your mouse and select paste. In order for you to see the new screenshot you just took, you need to launch Word, Paint, or some type of image editing software to view, potentially edit, and save the image.

It may be on the top of the keyboard, like in the image below, or it may be on the bottom of the keyboard like in the picture below that-there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to the printscreen button’s placement.īy pressing this button, you will automatically copy an image of the entire screen to your computer’s clipboard, even if that may not seem apparent to you. This button will likely be on the right side of the keyboard, but not always, depending on what computer model or keyboard you’re using. Taking a screenshot of the entire screen on a Windows computer is actually really easy, as the keyboard of the laptop-or the keyboard you’re using with your Windows computer-should have a button that will read either “PrtSc” or “Print Screen”.

In this blog we’ll cover how to take a screenshot on Windows computers, Macbook pros, and everything in between! Well, luckily times have changed, and taking a screenshot has never been easier. Remember the times you had to call someone to tell them the hilarious thing that someone else sent you over MSN messenger?

Apple mac screenshot window