Windows "snipping tool" first made its appearance in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. It was also in Vista.
Command-Shift-4 can only do one thing; capture a rectangular region that one selects by dragging the cursor.
Command-Shift-3 captures the entire screen.
After Command-Shift-4, if one taps the spacebar, the cursor becomes a camera. If one move the camera to any portion of any window, clicking will capture that window, even if the window is almost completely covered. It also allows one to capture menus or other "actions".
Since I write a lot of tutorials, the latter is important to me.
For those that have trouble remembering keyboard shortcuts, MAC OSX includes a Grab utility with those functions and a "Timed" capture that captures the screen 10 seconds after the capture button is clicked. That allows one to activate portions of the screen for the capture. For example, that would allow me to include the cursor in the above picture.
One would have to go to third-party software to get a free-forum capture for MAC OSX.
It is my experience, almost anything I want to do on one platform, I can do on another - sometimes easier, sometimes less so. For much of my work, I find the keyboard shortcuts quicker.
Tom
Dutch_12078 wrote:Altern wrote:
Yawn, humph ...Its Command/Shift/4 on a Mac.
Been that-a-way for years, grasshopper....:C
Does Command/Shift/4 let you select between a full-screen, window, rectangular, or free-form capture? The Windows Snipping Tool does...
Command-Shift-4 can only do one thing; capture a rectangular region that one selects by dragging the cursor.
Command-Shift-3 captures the entire screen.
After Command-Shift-4, if one taps the spacebar, the cursor becomes a camera. If one move the camera to any portion of any window, clicking will capture that window, even if the window is almost completely covered. It also allows one to capture menus or other "actions".
Since I write a lot of tutorials, the latter is important to me.
For those that have trouble remembering keyboard shortcuts, MAC OSX includes a Grab utility with those functions and a "Timed" capture that captures the screen 10 seconds after the capture button is clicked. That allows one to activate portions of the screen for the capture. For example, that would allow me to include the cursor in the above picture.
One would have to go to third-party software to get a free-forum capture for MAC OSX.
It is my experience, almost anything I want to do on one platform, I can do on another - sometimes easier, sometimes less so. For much of my work, I find the keyboard shortcuts quicker.
Tom
Photo capture took 3 secs to upload/post using bit.ly/photo-upload
One of my favorite apps is Faststone Capture. It's portable, so requires no install. And has much more extensive editing capabilities than the Snipping Tool. In fact, you can just drag-n-drop an image file on top of Faststone Capture, and it will open in its editor.
The last freeware version was v5.3 back in 2007, but works with Windows 7/8. It's still available for download here. The download file has been checked on VirusTotal.com and comes up clean.
