

Let go of the cursor and Mac will automatically take a screenshot of that selected area.

Alternatively, hold down the shift key to lock in the sides of the selection area while being able to position the selection window from one side only. You can reposition the selection window by holding down the spacebar key. A crosshair cursor will appear, allowing you to drag and select the portion of your Mac screen you want to grab. Want to take a screenshot of a specific area of your screen instead? Hit the command, shift, and number 4 keys simultaneously. Your Mac will capture a shot of your entire screen and save it to your desktop. If you need to take a screenshot of your entire screen, simply hit the command, shift, and number 3 keys simultaneously. Here’s a simple guide for getting the job done.

And the good news is, Apple makes it relatively easy to get that screengrab, with plenty of straightforward options. If Greenshot really is as configurable as that menu suggests then I would expect anyone to be able to map a hot-key combo that would suite them.Whether you want to save your receipts or share a bizarre targeted ad with the group text, there are a handful of reasons you might need to take a screenshot of your Mac desktop. Maybe this only works for me because my customer's laptop has a double "insert/prt sc" right next to it's F12 directly above the it's delete key and that just happens to map to my F13. Thanks to the peeps that were discussing the function keys! This would have been way cooler if I could have easily recorded it in video.
#Greenshot for mac free full#
This full screen cap invoked from the Mac thru RDP via the Mac Option/Alt key + F13 keyĪnd finally a couple of Mac full screen caps (emailed to PC again) showing the Mac's whole screen with the Greenshot cross hairs waiting for me to select a screen section on the PC as I finished writing this. The Greenshot this is free open source, powerful and super light weight software for screen capture and annotations with the downloaded size of 1.70 megabytes. The application allows you to capture screenshots in no time and edit them in a special. It appears that Greenshot hot-key combo's are configurable but all those key combo's work for me because my F13 invokes the PC's 'Prt-scrn' key Greenshot is a lightweight yet very convenient screenshot program. After I installed Greenshot and went to do a screen cap I thought "oh ! Because I don't have a 'print-screen' key and that's what lead me here. I downloaded Greenshot a couple days ago, so I've used it exactly 3 times so far and those 3 screen caps are uploaded here. Print Screen Section From Greenshot showing me writing this on the PC invoked from the Mac's F13 thru RDP I was unaware of Greenshot until a few days ago The PC belongs to my customer so I don't want to buy Snag-it for it. I needed this because I do A LOT of screen caps for work and the "snipping tool" sucks rocks. Greenshot's defaults are set to use the PC's print-screen key. Attached is the cmd-shift-4 screen cap of the RDP session showing "Greenshot" just after it was invoked thru the RDP session via F13 from the Mac's wireless keyboard (I emailed the Mac screen cap to the work PC). It offers full screenshot, capture of region and window and supports multiple image formats. I just found this forum cause I needed to do this and I just happened to try F13 after something I read here inspired me to do so. Greenshot is a free, light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows, optimized for productivity.
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I have an old bluetooth Model A1016 that looks just like the above keyboard sans cord and F13 invokes printscreen thru my RDP session on the Windows7 PC I'm controlling via my old Macbook Air 11
