Being able to take screenshots is useful for many reasons, but no matter how practical your reasons, your shots can still be clean and aesthetically pleasing.
If you're a Mac OS X Leopard or Tiger user, you probably know to take screenshots with Shift + Command + 4, which gives you a little cross hair icon to select the area to take a screenshot of. Take that further and press that combo, and then hit the space bar. Instead of a cross hair icon, you'll get a little camera icon.
This enables you to take a perfect shot of one single application (even if it's buried under layers of windows). The resulting screenshot, like the one pictured here, gives you perfect edges, that cool shadow effect, and zero messiness.
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Angie Gooderham
James Darby
This works on Tiger as well.
1loopy beat me too it - works on Tiger too.
2I like how using that method, you can take a picture of the dock as well. Nifty.
3oooh cool. That's so much easier! What a great tip
4Easy! Awesome.
5when you take the shot where the computer store the picture? i have leopard?
6It goes to the desk top DDIBUONO.
7i never even knew about this!! i feel so enlightened!
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