four ways to take screenshots on a Mac.

Use the clickable sections

to keep track of what steps you're on

during this tutorial.

Every method for taking a screenshot on a Mac

uses the shift, command, and number keys.

To open this menu,

press shift, command, and the number five.

A small bar will appear at the bottom of the screen

below a highlighted box area.

The three icons on the left

will let you take a screenshot of the entire screen,

a specific window, or a highlighted section.

The "Capture" button on the far right

will take the screenshot.

There's also a menu labeled "Options."

This menu lets you choose where to save the screenshot,

how much time you want between pressing capture

and starting the screenshot.

In this menu, the option "Show Floating Thumbnail"

is turned on by default.

While this is on, after you take a screenshot,

a tiny thumbnail of it will appear

at the bottom right corner of the screen.

The screenshot won't be saved by your computer

until the thumbnail disappears after a few seconds.

However, you can click this thumbnail before it disappears

to open the screenshot in a new window.

In this window, you can draw or type on it,

crop it, share it, or delete it.

For a quick screenshot

without going through the menu, you can use

the shift, command, and number four shortcut.

Once you press this command,

your mouse cursor will turn into a crosshair.

You can then click and drag it across the screen

to create a highlighted box.

As soon as you let go of the mouse,

your Mac will screenshot everything within the box.

If you drag the crosshair to create a highlighted box

and then press and hold the space bar,

it'll lock the box so that it can't change size.

You can then drag the box anywhere on the screen.

Just release the space bar to take a screenshot.

If you drag to create a highlighted box

and then press and hold the shift key,

you can adjust either the height or width of the box.

Just move your mouse up or down to adjust the height

and left or right to adjust the width.

Let go of the mouse to take the screenshot.

Pressing shift, command, and number three

will immediately take a screenshot of your entire screen.

If you're using multiple monitors,

it'll take and save screenshots of every monitor.

Unless you enable it in the screenshot menu,

this won't capture your mouse cursor.

If you have the floating thumbnail option on,

taking screenshots in quick succession

will capture the floating thumbnail in the corner as well.

Not all Mac computers have the long,

thin touch bar built in the keyboard.

But if your MacBook does have one

and there is something on your touch bar

that you'd like to show others,

you can screenshot it by pressing

shift, command, and the number six.

This will immediately capture everything on your touch bar.

This command has no function for Macs without the touch bar.