Questions About How To Take A Screenshot On A Mac

Thomas asks…

How do i take a screenshot of a video playing on my mac?

Mac OSX 10.
I know how to take mac screenshots but it says action is unavailable when i try.
It's my football teams highlight video i have on a dvd.

admin answers:

You can take a screen shot video, open up Quicktime, then go to file and new screen recording, from there you should be able to figure it out.
Hope it helps :)

Charles asks…

How to take screenshot in Windows with a Mac Keyboard?

I have a MacBook Pro, but I have also installed Windows Vista in it. I use Windows on my mac, but how do I take screenshots with my Mac keyboard? The screenshot buttons don't work in Windows as in Mac, and there isn't a 'screenshot' key on my keyboard.

Can anyone help?

admin answers:

There could be an easier way but the only way I was able to do it was to use the on screen keyboard which gave me access to the Print Screen key.

Http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/accessibility/oskturnonuse.mspx

David asks…

how to take screenshot on minecraft (mac) single player?

I want to take a picture of my minecraft

admin answers:

Download Fraps, It can record and take screenshots.

Http://www.fraps.com/download.php

Maria asks…

How can a take a screenshot on a mac without a mac keyboard?

I really want to take a screenshot on my mac computer, but I don't have the mac keyboard so I don't have a command button. How can I do it?

admin answers:

Look in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. If you have a fairly new Mac, there should be a program called Grab. It will allow you to capture an entire screen or a portion you select using the mouse.

Sandra asks…

How do I set it so when I take a screenshot on a Mac it will save to my desktop?

Whenever i take a screenshot on my Mac it only saves to my clipboard but will not save as a file on my desktop. How can i make it so it will go straight to my desktop?

admin answers:

It depends on what you're using to take the screenshot. There's actually a great little screenshot program that comes with your Mac called "Grab." It's in the "Applications / Utilities" folder. You can take a screenshot of your whole screen, just a window, or select a specific area with a box. When you snap the screenshot, the picture of what you just took pops up, and you can do "File / Save as" and save the screenshot wherever you want, including to your desktop.

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Questions About How To Take A Screenshot On A Mac And Save It

David asks…

How to post a screenshot in word on Mac, or copy and paste it to make it fit?

I had to take a screenshot of my exam results, i did this by pressing command-shift-3, the screenshot posted on the desktop. I have to save this in a microsoft word doc now.
I am able to copy and paste the results into word but only half of the results show up. I've tried to format it so it is vertical and it still cut half the results off. Anyone know how I can take a screenshot and be able to save it in microsoft word?

admin answers:

Go to menu Insert>Picture>From File.
Browse to where your screenshot is saved, select and OK.
It will be placed as a picture with corner handles which you can scale to fit your document size as you would with any other picture.

Sandy asks…

On a Mac, how do I get grab to take a "video" shot?

I know how to take a selection, window and screenshot. But i am having issues with taking a timed shot.

I am trying to "video" the opening sequence to a website that is blocked at my school. I set-up the timed shot....but it doesn't do anything.....and it auto saves the file as a .tiff

If grab doesn't let you do this....are there any programs that do?

any help would be appreciated!

admin answers:

There's no built-in way.

Download Snapz Pro X from http://www.ambrosiasw.com

it's a great utility, a must-own for mac users

Laura asks…

How can I get Photoshop CS to stop watering down colours when saving JPEGs?

Every time I'm working on something in Photoshop, the colours look perfect until I save the file and then take a look at it elsewhere, such as Firefox. This happens no matter how high-quality I make it (the file sizes that come out are honestly ridiculous) and I haven't found any settings so far that do anything to correct this.

Pre-CS Photoshop never once did this to me without me specifically degrading the image quality, and this has gotten so annoying that I don't even bother using Photoshop's 'Save', I just screenshot it and crop the image out.

(Mac OS X Tiger, CS1.)

admin answers:

You're working in Adobe RGB, not sRGB. It's a different colorspace. A color space tells the operating system how to convert to convert the numeric values in the JPEG file to colors on your screen. Different color profiles have different mappings.

Broswers don't look at color profiles, that's why your images look muddy. Before saving, you'll want to convert (not assign) to profile/sRGB.

George asks…

How to change neighborhood menu picture on Sims 2?

I know this question has been asked before, but I am having trouble changing the picture of my neighborhood in Sims 2 appear in the start up menu. I tried following the directions given before:

Take a screenshot
Change to 300 x 225 pixels and save as .png
Save to My Documents>EA Games>Sims 2>Neighborhoods>(My neighborhood's file).

ps. I have a Mac. Not sure if this might affect things. I highly doubt it would, but I just thought I would mention it.

I thought I did everything right, but the picture is not coming up when I open the menu. Suggestions? Thank you in advance for your help! :)

admin answers:

"ps. I have a Mac. Not sure if this might affect things. I highly doubt it would, but I just thought I would mention it. "
^ There's your problem. Install Linux over that and it should work fine.

Robert asks…

Picture to Photoshop?

so i took this picture on my mac and i decided i wanted to edit it to turn it into a JPEG file. its saved on my computer and i cant find out how to put the picture on PS, its saved as a Screenshot photo
i have CS4

admin answers:

Open a Finder window and locate the screenshot file, right click on it and go to Open With. Default will likely be Preview, but Photoshop will be a bit further down in the list.

If you used Photo Booth to take the initial picture, you can bypass the screenshot stage for a better result: click on the image you want to edit in the filmstrip, go to File>Reveal in Finder and from there right click on the file and go to Open With.

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