How to Capture Screenshots in Snow Leopard

When I first started on the Mac, I always had to look up how to take screenshots as I could never remember the keyboard shortcuts.

Command-Shift-3   will take a screenshot of your entire screen at that moment

Command-Shift-4   will bring up a cross-hair icon showing the screen co-ordinates.  When you click the mouse, that sets the top left corner and when you release the mouse that sets the bottom right corner.

Command-Shift-4, followed by the Space Bar, then clicking a Window   will take a screenshot of the selected window.

All screenshots are saved as .png files on your desktop.

If you combine the Control with the above (e.g. Command-Control-Shift-3), the screenshot will be placed on your clipboard rather than captured as a file on your desktop.

The commands work the same in Tiger and Leopard.