If you ever find yourself in need of a screen capture, both Windows and Max OSX have the built-in capability to do it for you. No, you do NOT need to buy some extra-special software just to take a picture of what’s on your screen. Here’s how you do it.
Windows:
Find the PrintScreen key on your keyboard.
PrintScreen - will capture the entire desktop
Alt-PrintScreen - will capture the current application’s window
Use Control-V to paste the captured images in your image editor of choice.
MAC OSX
Find the Command key on your keyboard. (That’s the weird-looking apple squiggly-thing key)
Command+Shift+3 - will capture the entire screen
Command+Shift+4 - will turn the cursor into a crosshairs, allowing you to draw a rectangle around whatever you want to capture.
On my Mac, the copied images are automatically put on the desktop as PNG files. If you’d rather have the images end up on the clipboard, hold down the SHIFT key while using either of the above keystrokes. After capturing, a simple Command+V will paste the captured image.
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