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> cmd+shift+4 pops up a crosshair to take a screenshot of a region.

If you hit space at after invoking the crosshairs then you can take full window screenshots. This mode is nice for marketing material as it also captures the drop shadow and rounded corners rendered properly as a transparent png.

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Also if you hold `ctrl` down as well, the screenshot goes directly to your pasteboard for quick pasting and won't save a junk file on your desktop.

I've actually reversed these mappings since I rarely need to save a file (pretty much only if I want to annotate the screenshot). And Alfred's clipboard history is an awesome companion.

How do you reverse those mappings for taking screenshots?

System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Screenshots

And hold ⌘ while doing that to select a "sub-window" such as an alert. Do note that doing this while in Dark mode will capture the blended color from your desktop picture, so it's not quite optimal for sticking on top of a macOS desktop template, but it's nice for making quick mockups.

cmd+shift+5 pops up a screenshot and record tool for screen, window or selectable area. Also lets you send to file, clipboard, mail, etc.

After cmd-shift-4 and space, a simple copies the window with its shadow. Some modified allows to copy just the window. But I forgot which modifier.

Hold down Option while clicking the window to exclude the drop shadow from the screenshot.

As a vastly more general rule, hold down Option while clicking anything on a Mac to get the alternate/advanced form of the click action (e.g., try Option-clicking the various status icons on the right end of the menu bar).

>> Hold down Option while clicking the window to exclude the drop shadow from the screenshot.

You just taught an exclusively-MacOS user of 15+ years a new trick! Thank you! :) I often marvel at how fantastic this OS truly is.

Is there a way to make it NOT make that camera shutter sound when you do the screenshot ?

In System Preferences, under Sound, select the tab Sound Effects. There is a checkbox to play user interface sound effects.

Came here to share the cmd+shift+4 space trick and learned 3 new tricks instead! I love this community.

cmd+shift+5 brings up a capture UI with options for both screenshots, region screenshots, and video capture for both

Also try cmd+shift+5

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