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title: "How to take screenshot on mac?"  
description: "How to take screenshot on mac?"  
author: "Tarun Gautam"  
published: 2017-12-13  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31646/how-to-take-screenshot-on-mac  
category: "q&a categories"  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to take screenshot on mac?

How to take screenshot on [mac](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12464/what-is-mac-o-s)?

## Answers

### Answer by akriti kashyap

## My Apple Computer!

![How to take screenshot on mac?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/313b4619-5193-4a3f-ac0a-386aab0378c6/images/3596c509-c1fa-40d1-bc26-c538133285b4.png)\

Capturing over your **MAC**. Well, there are two ways you can do that…

**Entire Screen Snap:** **\**

- Keep a hold over the button Shift-Command-3
- Then grab a screenshot saved as a .png file on your desktop

**\****A Portion Snap:****\**

- Keep a hold over the button Shift-Command-4
- Place the crosshair over the portion you need to take a snap-off, drag to make the required area for the snap by using Shift-Space and drag…to select

![How to take screenshot on mac?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/313b4619-5193-4a3f-ac0a-386aab0378c6/images/6f540902-a480-41d4-9b6c-272d98ea02d2.png)

- Release the mouse after you have selected the required area.
- Find the saved file on your desktop as .png

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*Hope, this would help you with your query...*\
**Cheers!**


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