The Show Floating Thumbnail option takes a little more explaining.
You can click the rightmost button on the palette to reveal an additional menu of options for controlling other variables, like where you want your captures to be saved ( Desktop, Documents, Clipboard, and so on) and whether to include a 5 or 10-second delay before the capture takes place, giving you time to get your screen in order.Īs you'd expect, unchecking the Show Mouse Pointer option ensures the mouse cursor doesn't appear in your capture. When you take a screen recording, a button will appear in the menu bar for you to click when you're ready to end the recording. If you're capturing a selected portion of the screen, use the mouse cursor crosshairs to select the area you want to capture.
Simply click your mouse button to take the capture. If you choose to capture a window, hover your mouse cursor over it: The window will be highlighted and your cursor will change to a camera. These actions were previously only accessible in the macOS Grab utility. Meanwhile, on the right of the palette's first divider are two buttons to begin a screen recording – taking in the whole screen or just a portion of the action. Taking a screenshot is as easy as hitting Shift-Command-3 to capture the whole screen, or Shift-Command-4 to capture a portion of the screen using the mouse cursor as a crosshair selection tool (a tap of the spacebar also turns it into a camera for capturing windows). Note that the keyboard shortcuts for these actions still function as before in macOS. The three buttons to the left of the first menu divider provide you with options to take a screenshot of the entire screen, a selected window, or a selected portion of the screen. Let's take a closer look at what's on offer. You can access it by hitting Command-Shift-5. In macOS Mojave, Apple has introduced a screen capture interface that unifies the screenshot and screen recording features on Mac, making accessing them easier from one place.Ī new floating palette brings the traditional Mac screen capture functions together under a single menu.
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