How do I make a screenshot and edit it on my Mac?

You can press the command+3 or command+4 lets on your keyboard to get a screen shot. Command+4 will let you create a rectangle around the area you want to screenshot.

The screenshot should either open in a small thumbnail in the bottom left corner you can click on, or in Preview, either way, you can click on the Markup icon and use the tools there to edit it, add text, shapes etc... then save it , and upload it to the forum.

click here ➜ Take a screenshot on Mac - Apple Support

then here ➜ Annotate an image in Preview on Mac - Apple Support

Just to add another one I didn't see mentioned:

Shift+Command+4, followed by pressing the space bar.

Instead of the OS waiting for you to marque an area, the cursor turns into a camera icon. Hover it over any object on the screen and it will take a screen shot of that.

Richard.Taylor wrote:

Phil0124 wrote: …You can press the command+3 or command+4 lets

Oops-- it's shift-command-3, etc. that works. Clearly jarmier290 figured that out from the link.

I always use option-shift-command-4 to give my fingers a better workout, and to copy the selection to the clipboard rather than making a new file. Then, with a picture on the clipboard, Preview has "New from Clipboard." (This isn't advice, it's just what I do…) I do this all the time, so my fingers just do that littler exercise automatically without me actually remembering how I did it.

Tis true. shift+command+(3,4 or 5). Sorry

Glad Jarmier figured it out.

jarmier290 wrote:

ah yes, this works .. thanks!

You're welcome. Glad I could help.

Phil0124 wrote: …You can press the command+3 or command+4 lets

Oops-- it's shift-command-3, etc. that works. Clearly jarmier290 figured that out from the link.

I always use option-shift-command-4 to give my fingers a better workout, and to copy the selection to the clipboard rather than making a new file. Then, with a picture on the clipboard, Preview has "New from Clipboard." (This isn't advice, it's just what I do…) I do this all the time, so my fingers just do that littler exercise automatically without me actually remembering how I did it.

Kurt Lang wrote: …Shift+Command+4, followed by pressing the space bar.

Instead of the OS waiting for you to marque an area, the cursor turns into a camera icon. Hover it over any object on the screen and it will take a screen shot of that.

I hadn't used that, thanks. It seems to make a shot of the window.

Phil0124's link that he shared originally includes this.

You can simplify the keystrokes needed for either of the screenshots in the System ➙ Screenshots settings pane;

As shown I use Option+tilde, easier and quicker than the three key combo.

Surely you mean: System Settings ➜ Keyboard ➜ Keyboard Shortcuts ➜ ScreenShots.

Oh, duh! Didn't read the links, which would of course mention that.

I hadn't used that, thanks. It seems to make a shot of the window.

Yeah, I didn't explain that well. It's not "any" object, it's any windowed object. You can take a screen shot of the Dock, an open Finder window, any windowed item in an app such as an image open in Photoshop, or a Word document, etc.

Kurt Lang wrote: …Oh, duh! Didn't read the links, which would of course mention that..

Yeah-- somewhere there's a list of all the possible screenshot commands, nicely laid out. But the link has them hidden inside of paragraphs.

Yep. But I can never remember exactly where it is so I just put in screenshot in the search field and click on Keyboard Shortcuts and then on Screenshots to get there.