Taking a Screen Shot
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There are 3 ways to take a Screen Shot, that is taking a picture of all or part of what is visible on screen and they all use the keyboard, Key Commands.
1. Capturing the Entire Screen: hold down the keys Command+Shift and then while holding them hit 3.
A picture of the entire visible screen will be captured and saved to your Desktop and called Screen shot 2010-01-31 at 8.48.17 PM.png. See that the time and date that it was taken becomes part of it's name.
Note: In earlier versions of the Mac operating system called Leopard 10.5 rather than Snow Leopard 10.6 which we are dealing with here, it will be called Picture 1 and then Picture 2 as you take more. You can then easily rename them into something useful and file them away if required. See File Management under File Mangement and File Types.
2. Capturing part of the screen: hold down the keys Command+Shift and then while holding them hit 4. Your cursor will change into a cross-hair like the sights of a weapon! Click and drag across the area of the screen you want to capture and on release of the mouse button a Screen Shot will be saved to the Desktop of that area.
This is very handy when grabbing a part of a website or an image on a website that is a part of a Flash movie and can't be saved normally like a regular image from a website. Or is you have paused a YouTube movie and want a shot of the paused image...
3. Capturing an Open Window: hold down the keys Command+Shift and then while holding them hit 4 and then hit the Space bar. The cursor will change into a camera icon. Click the window you want to save and the whole window will be saved as a Screen Shot to the Desktop.
