Feb 21
When taking screen shot by pressing Apple+Shift+4 you can highlight a window or icon by pressing spacebar. If this is done right a camera will appear. Handy for pictures of screens of icons.
* james says… this is a neat trick that also works in Tiger!
February 21st, 2008 at 7:42 am
Ok – this is apparently really neat – but where do I find the screenshot that I just took?
Ne.
February 21st, 2008 at 7:45 am
You will find it on your Desktop like all other screenshots
February 21st, 2008 at 7:49 am
that’s sweet. thanks!
February 21st, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Nice… It will be very helpful while making screenshots of particular window. Awesome!!
February 21st, 2008 at 3:19 pm
you can also press Apple Key +Shift + Crtl 4 to select screenshot , then juz paste the screen shoot any where you want it …. using Ctrl V
February 21st, 2008 at 10:22 pm
The camera icon not only selects open windows, but if you hold it over the dock, you can get a nice clean picture of the dock without your desktop picture. The same works with the menu bar. You can also use this in the Dashboard to take screen shots of open widgets.
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:44 am
PDA131, I didn’t know that, that’s cool!
February 24th, 2008 at 7:01 am
This is like one of the oldest shortcuts in the book. In OS 7 you used Command+Shift+1 (and 2) to quickly unmount and eject a CDROM. Command+Shit+3 and 4 has always done this trick. Nice to see more ppl using it though!
Keep on!
February 26th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Oh my! Is the author of LeopardTricks.com a newbie on macs or what? That is not a *trick*, it is a feature that is well documented in the Help of the System (does anybody bother to check that? you should). And it has been there for a loong time.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Awesome. I hated having to open Grab.app every time i wanted a clean shot of just a single window.