In the earlier days of Windows, you had to use the less-than-intuitive method of pressing the Print Screen key and pasting into a graphics program if you wanted to add markup and save a screenshot. Then Microsoft included a utility called the snipping tool in Windows Vista and later Windows versions to make capturing screenshots much easier.
Just like Snipping Tool for Windows, Grab has several screen-capture modes, and it also supports keyboard shortcuts. Best of all, there’s no need to look for Snipping Tool download for Mac links as Grab comes included with all recent versions of macOS. The CloudApp Snipping Tool is available for Mac, iOS and Chrome. Downloading is quick and easy. Access the app from GetCloudApp above, from the Apple Store for Mac and iOS, or from the Chrome Webstore to add the extension to Chrome.
Of course, there are many free screen capture tools for all versions of Windows if your needs are more complex than taking a simple shot of your screen now and then. But if you don't want to or have to go to that trouble, here's how to capture a screenshot with the snipping tool.
These instructions apply to Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7.
Here's How to Use the Windows Snipping Tool Drag Box
Jul 04, 2013 To snip a picture on a Mac using your keyboard is quite simple, you hold the 'Command, Shift and 4' together and then select what you want to do a.
Select the Start Menu or press the Windows Key and type 'snipping' into the search box.
Select the Snipping Tool in the search results. The snipping tool window will appear on your screen.
You can move it to an edge of the screen so it's not in your way, but it will also disappear when you start dragging a selection area.
The snipping tool assumes you want to create a new clipping as soon as you open it. Your screen will dim and you can click and drag your cursor to select an area to copy. The selected area will be darker as you drag and a red border will surround it if you've never changed the snipping tool options.
When you release the mouse button, the captured area will open in the snipping tool window when you release the mouse button. Select the New button if you want to try again.
Press the second button to save the screenshot as an image file when you're happy with your clipping.
Tips
- If your screenshot contains a limited number of colors and you want to retain crisp lines and keep the file size small, save it as a GIF file.
- If your screenshot contains many colors and you want to retain crisp lines and full quality, save it as a PNG file.
- If your screenshot contains many colors and you want to make the file size small, save as a JPEG file.
- You can use the pen and highlighter tools in the snipping tool toolbar to add markup to your screenshot before saving it. The eraser tool removes marks made with the pen and highlighter tools.
- You can email a screenshot without saving it first by using the 'Send To' button on the snipping tool toolbar.
- Select the Options menu to change the way the snipping tool operates. You can change the color of the selection outline by selecting a new ink color, or turn the outline off entirely by unchecking the box for 'Show selection ink after snips are captured.'
Is there something like the Windows Snipping Tool for OSX?
For those, who don't know about the tool, it's an easy to use software to take snapshot of any portion of screen, and is really useful in various situations.
gentmatt
Atul GoyalAtul Goyal8 Answers
There is now a blog entry about Taking Screenshots in a Snap.
It's built into Mac OS.
- ⌘+⇧+3 captures the whole screen
- ⌘+⇧+4 captures a custom rectangle (click and drag over the screen region you want to capture)
- ⌘+⇧+4 then space captures a specific window (move the mouse cursor over the desired window, then click)
Press esc to cancel.
Screenshots are saved onto your Desktop and timestamped.
Holding control in addition to any of the sequences above causes the image to be copied instead of saved to the desktop.
By default the image format is png. However, you can change the format by typing in the Terminal:
Where image_format is one of jpg, tiff, pdf, png, bmp or pict (among others). If you omit the second line, you will need to log out and in again for the change to take effect.
The settings for the shortcuts in the system preferences are located at:
System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → Screen Shots
The MacOS X application that enables screenshots is called Grab. It is located at /Applications/Utilities/Grab.app
If you don't want to remember the shortcut keys, you can also use the built-in Preview app.
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Just launch Preview, then from the menu, select File, Take Screen Shot, then choose
- From Selection - you will get a crosshair to drag
- From Window - you will get to choose which window to grab
- From Entire Screen - it will give a countdown first, so that you can get back to whatever app you want to take a picture of
It will then display the screenshot in Preview, and you can save, copy, paste, crop, etc. from there.
Macworld magazine's senior editor Dan Frakes just posted a very good short video tutorial (with show transcript) about the screenshot features of Mac OS X. This includes how to use the Grab app from the Utilities folder. The video is at: http://www.macworld.com/article/164123/2011/12/mac_os_x_screenshot_secrets.html.
His show description:'Mac OS X makes it easy to take screenshots—images of your screen or objects on it. But even veteran Mac users are often unaware of the many options available for getting the perfect screenshot. Here's a quick look at these underused options.'
If you also need editing capabilities (e.g. like Windows Paint or however it's called these days), Skitch is a good add-on (and it's free).
nohillside♦Snipping Tool On A Mac
nohillsideEasycrop, or start with the insanely great (and free) SnapNDrag, from Yellow Mug — http://www.yellowmug.com/
You may like Snip, I used it for a while and I found it fantastic. You can download it from Mac App Store for free
Of course, the most convenient way to snapshot on Mac is by pressing keyboard shortcuts, however, this traditional method lacks additional features like making annotations, uploading images online for sharing, etc. For this purposes, you can make use of professional Mac screenshot tools that features the same function as Snipping Tool.
Grab - A built-in screenshot tool on Mac that enables you to capture anything you see on screen.
Skitch - Easy tool that allows for capturing, annotating and sharing screenshots / images.
Jing - An effective screen capturing program that works for recording screen and taking screenshot.
grg♦Keyboard Maestro can drive Preview to behave exactly like snipping tool
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F13 (in the same place as PrintScreen on Windows)
Open Preview.app
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Select menu File/Take Screen Shot/From Selection
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