Leopard’s new keyboard shortcuts for taking screenshots
Mac OS X has always supported keyboard commands for taking screenshots, including the ability to select a rectangular region by pressing Command-Shift-4. In Leopard, you can now modify how you select that rectangular region in a few new ways.
Once you’ve pressed Command-Shift-4 and you’re resizing the selection rectangular from the top-left corner, try these new modifier keys:
• Press Shift to grow along one axis only
• Press Option to grow from the center (rather than from the top-left corner).
• Press Spacebar to lock the rectangle’s size and drag it to a new position.
These modifier keys work in concert, too. Press Shift and Option in combination, for instance, to grow along one axis from the center. Here they are in action:
Read more about taking screenshots in Mac OS X.
(Thanks to Macworld for the tip.)
This is very cool. It seems like I’m always taking screen snapshots, and i can see these new modifiers really coming in handy.
Still my favorite is Cmd-Shift-4, then release the keys and hit the spacebar. The screenshot will auto-fit the window.
Cool!
Yes, very cool, but I wish I could “scroll down” to enlarge the image I’m trying to capture. Using an Acrobat reader, for instance, it “ticks down” line to line, say, when you’re trying to capture a newspaper column. Pretty time-consuming. Any thoughts? Thanks.