Hold the Control key when invoking any screenshot command (Control + Command + 4, for example) to copy the screenshot to your clipboard instead of saving it to your Desktop. This command will capture everything in your touchbar, saving the screenshot as a thin strip. Shift + Command + 6: This one’s exclusively for those of you lucky enough to have a MacBook Pro model with the touchbar just above the keyboard. It will capture the entire screen from the menu bar across the top of your screen to the dock at the bottom. Shift + Command + 3: If you don’t want to just capture a specific window, but the entire screen, then this is the command you need. You can click and drag this whole panel around anywhere on your screen for convenience. This is extremely handy if you need to line up some things on your screen first, which can take a few seconds. Over on the right side, this panel lets you choose where to save your screenshots, and also set up a delay timer of 5-10 seconds.

Shift + Command + 5: As of macOS Mojave, this keyboard shortcut will bring up a panel across the bottom of your screen showing several different screenshot options including one to capture the entire screen, a highlighted area, or a specific window.

Let go of the Space bar and the left mouse button to take the screenshot. You can toggle between the right and bottom edges as much as you like using the Shift key.Fix highlighted screenshot area: To fix the size of your highlighted screenshot area and move the square around the screen, press and hold the Space bar once you’ve highlighted an area to move the area around on the screen. This will lock in the left, right and top edges of your highlighted area, letting you exclusively adjust the bottom edge.Let go of the Shift key while still holding the left mouse button to toggle the edge you’re adjusting to the right edge. You then just click the desired window you want to take a screenshot of.Adjust individual edges of selected area: After selecting the area you want to screenshot by dragging with the left mouse button, keep holding the button while holding the Shift key. This will make the cursor highlight whatever window it’s hovering over. Release the button to take the screenshot.Īlternatively, after hitting Shift + Command + 4, you can do any of the following: The cursor becomes a crosshair that can be used to select a portion of the screen by holding down the left mouse button then dragging over the part of your screen you want to save.

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