And spacebar makes click
In my incessant searches for the faster way to do everything, I came across a trick that I had not known in all my years of mastering OS X. Everybody needs a screen shot from time to time right? There are several ways to get one; you can use the Grab.app found in /Applications/Utilitites, or you can use shift-command-3 (full screen), or you can use shift-command-4 (selection by cross-hairs). I don’t like Grab.app. It is cumbersome to dig up and use and it doesn’t save automatically, making the whole process far too long and involved. Shift-command-3 is quick to implement, but trying to work with two dozen 23 inch, full screen grabs in photoshop running through rosetta just to crop down to a single window… even my Mac Pro with 4 GB of ram feels the push. Then there is shift-command-4; quick to invoke but a bit of a pain to line up cross-hairs accurately when you’re in a hurry.
Up until a few days ago, I had not knows of the forth option available to Mac OS X users which is simply this; shift-command-4, then press and release the spacebar. Your cross-hairs are replaced by a camera icon. The icon selects whatever window you are hovering over (turns it blue) and by clicking the mouse on that blue window you take just a window shot that is immediately saved to your desktop. It makes whipping through a pile of window shots quick, easy and painless.
[tags]Mac OS X, screen shot, shift command, grab application[/tags]
August 13th, 2007 at 9:38 am
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