Why has noone ever told me about windows snapshots!

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in macOS edited January 2014
Command + Shift+ 4



Then hit space bar...



Then click on anything you want!





WHY o why have I never seen or heard about this before?! It's not a big deal but it is pretty damn nice. I hold you all personally responsible.

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  • Reply 1 of 20
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    It's Brad's fault. We all wanted to tell you, but he insisted we keep you in the dark.
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  • Reply 2 of 20
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    You didn't get the memo?



    I just wish there was some cool-ass shortcut or key command to clear all these windows out of the way! I have about 12 open right now and it's a mess!



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  • Reply 3 of 20
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    I know the other guys will kill me but:



    If you place the cursor over the icon for a program or document and double clicking with a mouse it will start up
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  • Reply 4 of 20
    I didn't know that either. Cool!
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  • Reply 5 of 20
    Hasn't this feature been in since OS 9? I know I used to take snapshots of windows then. Maybe it was command + shift + caps lock + 4 then, but it was the same feat :-)



    Very useful feature indeed.
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  • Reply 6 of 20
    It stunk in OS 9 though, the box wasn't very flexible, it was like a static size that you could make bigger but it stayed in proportions.



    I am ALWAYS forgetting the command though, command+shift+4 command+shift+4 command+shift+4



    okay that ought to do it
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  • Reply 7 of 20
    My problem with this feature in OS X is that it creates like 10 MB .pdf files that are about 8000x6000 resolution....first of all, what the ****? and secondly how can I change that?
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  • Reply 8 of 20
    Duuur... it's been around for years. I think anyone that knew them probably just assumed most other people did too. And furthermore, it's all documented in the Mac Help:



    Quote:

    Shortcuts for taking pictures of the screen



    You can use keyboard shortcuts to take pictures of the screen in Mac OS X.
    • To take a picture of the whole screen, press Command-Shift-3.

    • To take a picture of part of the screen, press Command-Shift-4, then

    • drag to select the area you want in the picture.

    • To take a picture of a window, the menu bar, the Dock, or other area, press Command-Shift-4, then press the Space bar. Move the pointer over the area you want so that it's highlighted, then click. (If you decide you want to drag to select the area, press the Space bar again.)

    • If you press Command-Shift-4 and decide you don't want to take the screen shot, press the Escape key.

    • Screen shots are saved as PDF files on the desktop. If you want to put the screen shot in the Clipboard, rather than create a file, hold down the Control key when you press the other keys. You can then paste the picture into a document.

    You can also take pictures of the screen using the Grab application (in the Utilities folder).



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  • Reply 9 of 20
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    If someone starts telling him about the control-click. I am out of here.... GAH, MOTHER ****ING SHIT!



    Yeah, I thought it was widely known, I was surprised when the spacebar part came into effects (wasn't there in 9, or 10.1 i think) . I like it, but you don't always get what you are trying to get (or what you want) if you are snapshotting the dock, at least for me.
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  • Reply 10 of 20
    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ast3r3x

    WHY o why have I never seen or heard about this before?! It's not a big deal but it is pretty damn nice. I hold you all personally responsible.



    Except for the PDFs that it makes. SnapZ Pro or other utils will let you do jpg or gif.
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  • Reply 11 of 20
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by lundy

    Except for the PDFs that it makes. SnapZ Pro or other utils will let you do jpg or gif.



    well, you can always open it up in Preview. Or do what I did: use the AppleScript folder actions to make a drop-folder for you drop a PDF in and it turns it into a PNG (or whatever you would like)
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  • Reply 12 of 20
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    Yeah I figured it was Brad. I just know a fair amount of stuff like that and just never knew about that.
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  • Reply 13 of 20
    kanekane Posts: 392member
    So Brad is evil...



    The plot thickens...
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  • Reply 14 of 20
    No one told me how easy it is to back up my entire music collection to CDs using iTunes either. Choose data disc as the preferred burning mode, create a playlist with your entire library, click burn disc. Voila, muti-disc backup with a index file on each disc.
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  • Reply 15 of 20
    maccrazymaccrazy Posts: 2,658member
    It's been around since 8! I now cos i've been using it for years. (Did you know that if you click on the 'Apple Menu Bar' there are a list of options, including how to turn your computer off? One of them allows you to turn your computer off without having to pull the plug.)
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  • Reply 16 of 20
    cosmocosmo Posts: 662member
    An interesting thing about this feature is that if you use it combined with expose, you can take full size snaps of backgroudn windows without moving everything around.



    Use the keycomand and space bar thing to take a screen shot of just a window and then click on the one you want and it will take a full sized picture of it, not just the small expose resized window.
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  • Reply 17 of 20
    bungebunge Posts: 7,329member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ast3r3x

    WHY o why have I never seen or heard about this before?! It's not a big deal but it is pretty damn nice. I hold you all personally responsible.



    The info you're looking for is on a .gov website. That's why you never figured it out.
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  • Reply 18 of 20
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by bunge

    The info you're looking for is on a .gov website. That's why you never figured it out.



    I expected something like that from PS
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  • Reply 19 of 20
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Brad

    Duuur... it's been around for years. I think anyone that knew them probably just assumed most other people did too. And furthermore, it's all documented in the Mac Help:



    please, no excuses, it's your fault, that this guy happened to fail for years anyway



    ...er... did you say mac help ?
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  • Reply 20 of 20
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    Yes. Activate Finder. Under the Help menu you'll find Mac Help. You can also trigger it with Cmd-?.
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