I often need to make screenshots, and even occasionally movies of what’s going on on my Mac. The movies are especially handy for grabbing screenshots of things which are otherwise not easily captured.
While Apple’s built-in screenshot facility (Command Shift 3 or 4, with Control for capturing to the clipboard) is useful, it’s also rather basic. That’s why I’ve used Snapz Pro X for the last (how many?) years.
It’s so easy to use though that I’ve never got around to reading any Help files, so only today did I happen to discover the Preview function. It’s right there on the left of the wee settings window that appears, but for some reason it just never occurred to me to click on the button. Look at the screenshots on Ambrosia Software’s website and you can see it plain as day.
You can try out a bunch of different settings and the live preview shows exactly what you’ll get. Drop shadow, size reduction, quality reduction, fancy border — you can play to your heart’s content until you see exactly what you want to achieve.
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Not many people I have spoken to know that…
Cmd-Shift-4 and then pressing the space bar turns the cursor (mouse pointer) into a camera which takes a picture of any window, menu or icon with no extra pixels added in.
This is great when you’re trying to make a manual and *just* want a menu, window or icon.
I’m sure that Snapz Pro has oodles more to it but those three combinations have seen me right so far!
A side note – the space bar is the key combo in OSX (all versions?) but the same thing happens in OS 9 (and prior?) if Caps Lock is switched on *before* the Cmd-Shift-4 combo.
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