Question : Why is there not Printscreen button on apple keyboards?

[Heller]

and what would happen if you used a windows designed keyboard and hit the print screen button?

 

[aphex]

From: http://www.lockergnome.com/osx...ds-a-print-screen-key/

CMD + Shift + 3
This will take a screenshot of your entire screen.

CMD + Shift + 4
This will bring up a selection tool so you can make a rectangular screenshot of a certain area.

CMD + Shift + 4 + Space Bar
This will turn your cursor into a tiny camera. Use this camera to take a picture of the Dock, a menu, or a window and it will crop the background automatically for the resulting image.

Note: If you hold down the Control key during and of the above commands the image gets copied to your clipboard, ready to paste, rather than creating a PNG on your desktop.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: aphex
From: http://www.lockergnome.com/osx...ds-a-print-screen-key/

CMD + Shift + 3
This will take a screenshot of your entire screen.

CMD + Shift + 4
This will bring up a selection tool so you can make a rectangular screenshot of a certain area.

CMD + Shift + 4 + Space Bar
This will turn your cursor into a tiny camera. Use this camera to take a picture of the Dock, a menu, or a window and it will crop the background automatically for the resulting image.

Note: If you hold down the Control key during and of the above commands the image gets copied to your clipboard, ready to paste, rather than creating a PNG on your desktop.

Dude, I didn't know about Cmd+Shift+4+Space... that is very cool

 

[Tyranicus]

Alternatively, you can use the Grab app in your Utilities folder to capture a specific window or segment of the screen. Oddly enough, the key commands create a .PNG image, and Grab creates a .tiff for some inexplicable reason

 

[Kmax82]

Holy crap! I never knew about these.. this is awesome!

 

[umrigar]

you could also assign them to a single keystroke using the System Preferences.
Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard shortcuts

 

[RedWolf]

So what do you do to mimic the print screen key in bootcamp?

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

There's no reason for Apple Keyboard to have Print Screen because it has better screenshot options.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: aphex
From: http://www.lockergnome.com/osx...ds-a-print-screen-key/

CMD + Shift + 3
This will take a screenshot of your entire screen.

CMD + Shift + 4
This will bring up a selection tool so you can make a rectangular screenshot of a certain area.

CMD + Shift + 4 + Space Bar
This will turn your cursor into a tiny camera. Use this camera to take a picture of the Dock, a menu, or a window and it will crop the background automatically for the resulting image.

Note: If you hold down the Control key during and of the above commands the image gets copied to your clipboard, ready to paste, rather than creating a PNG on your desktop.

nice..

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: RedWolf
So what do you do to mimic the print screen key in bootcamp?

to get screenshots? heh.. pause/break too.. i'm used to doing windows+pause/break to bring up the computer properties.

but i digress, i bought a mac to use os x, heh.