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How to Take Screenshots in Mac OS X
Mar 13, 2025
Two quick and easy ways to take screenshots in Mac OS X.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how to take screenshots in Mac OS 10 now
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there are two pretty easy ways you can
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do this the first one is with grab which
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is a program built into Mac OS 10 it
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comes on every Mac so to find the
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program all you're going to need to do
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is open a new finder window and from
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there you're going to need to navigate
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to your applications folder and once
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you're inside your applications folder
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find and open the utilities folder now
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this is where you'll find grab so you
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can just scroll down until you find grab
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and then you can open that
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up so this application is fairly simple
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all you need to do to take a screenshot
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is go to the capture menu and select
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which type of screenshot you would like
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uh first we're going to do screen and
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Screen takes a screenshot of your entire
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screen so all you have to do is Click
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anywhere on your desktop and you hear a
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camera shutter noise and you'll have a
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screenshot so just like that and you can
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see here I have a screenshot of my
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entire desktop which I can save or
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discard I'm not going to save it and we
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can also do a screenshot of a selection
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right by going into the capture menu
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again and all you have to do is drag
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wherever you want on your desktop the
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selection you want so I'm just going to
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start right here and kind of Select this
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half of the finder window just like
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that and just click and drag and you'll
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have your screen shot and you can save
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that of course just like you would with
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anything else and we can also come up
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here and do timed screen which will
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after 10 seconds take the screenshot and
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all you have to do is Click timer and
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you'll see right here this little
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hourglass or stopwatch kind of going
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through the seconds until it takes the
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screenshot and the last option in grab
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it is to capture just a certain window
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so all you have to do is click choose
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window and then we can click on whatever
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window we want to take a screenshot of
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in this case the finder window so you
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can click on that and just like that you
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have a screenshot of your finder
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window now let's say you don't want to
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use grab there's a another easy way and
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this is with keyboard shortcuts now all
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you have to do to take a screenshot of
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your entire screen with your keyboard
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shortcuts is to hold down command and
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while you're holding down command also
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hold down shift and then press three
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you'll hear the shutter noise again and
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then on your desktop you'll see your
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screenshot and here's my main desktop
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and here's my secondary monitor desktop
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and you can see both of those there and
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they both automatically save to your
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desktop so you always know where to find
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them and the other thing you can also do
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is hold down command and hold down shift
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and then press four and your mouse
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cursor turns into these crosshairs where
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you can drag and select just like you
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would and grab whatever thing you want
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so like that and then you'll see your
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screenshot once again right on the
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desktop so those are two easy ways to
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take screenshots in Mac OS 10 and I hope
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you found this video useful thank you
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