How to Print Screen Keyboard Shortcut on Mac OS X Lion

 

You just broke the highest score in your favorite game and want to keep a screenshot of it to share it with your friends. You have done it in a PC, but you using a MAC now. How do you do it?

Unlike Windows PC, MAC doesn't have a dedicated Print Screen key on its keyboard which makes it hard for new MAC users to perform screen capture. This article comprehensively details every possible free method to use the Print Screen Feature in MAC. These methods include using keyboard shortcuts and bundled Apple utilities.

1. To capture entire screen:

              Shift+Command+3

2. To get a screen shot of just a selected area:

              Shift+Command+4

3. To copy to the clipboard so you can paste into a document:

              Control+Shift+Command+3(or 4)