An image or video taken by a computer to record the visible items displayed on the monitor, television, or another visual output device. Usually, screen capture is a software process where the image is captured as it is intended to be drawn but can also include traditional recording using a camera ...
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How do I take a picture of the login screen?
I've seen quite a number of login screen screenshots. I've tried Cmd + Shift + 3, but to no avail. How do I take a picture of the login screen or the boot screen of OS X?
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How does one make screen captures?
How to do beautiful print screens, with shadows on the border, like this image:?
Is the shadows automatic? A Mac tool? or do I need to manipulate the image in other programs like Adobe Photoshop?
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How do I take a screenshot on my Mac?
What's the easiest way to take a screenshot of my Mac?
I've used Grab.app, but it's a bit annoying just to get a quick screenshot. Is there a faster way?
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Alternative to Windows Snipping Tool for Mac OSX
Is there something like the Windows Snipping Tool for OSX?
For those, who don't know about the tool, it's an easy to use software to take snapshot of any portion of screen, and is really useful in ...
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How do I take a screenshot without the shadow behind it?
If I take a screenshot with Shift ⇧ + Command ⌘ + 4 + Space, then I get one of the two images:
Either way the saved image is surrounded by the shadow halo. I could then edit it out by hand (using ...
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How to do a screen capture from iPad 3?
I need to record me using an iPad while I am drawing on it (with Penultimate). I usually use ScreenFlow to record onscreen actions on my desktop Mac, so I need a way to display iPad on my Mac. Is ...
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How do I change the location of screenshot in OS X Lion?
The old method that works for Leopard/Snow Leopard doesn't work any more on Lion:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/kamus/Pictures/snap
Has something changed or does anyone ...
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There is an app that can do screenshots in MacOSX Lion, what's the name?
There is an app that can do screenshots in MacOSX Lion, what's the name?
It comes from the OS, not a 3rd party app.
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What app is this screenshot from? Is it only a mockup?
This screenshot was posted by somebody in my Twitter feed on the day Steve Jobs died. It was the author's tribute to him. He received many @replies asking what app this was, but nobody received a ...
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Screen video capture application
I am Looking for a program that let's me capture screen videos on Mac OS X.
I am requesting it for these two use cases:
Capture of a webcam. It should allow capturing only the webcam App window.
...
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How do I take an iPad screenshot that includes a picture of the iPad border around it?
I know how to take a normal screenshot with my iPad, but I'm looking to see how people on the internet are able to show content on the iPad in a picture that has the physical border of an iPad.
Do ...
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How I can save a screenshot of an iPhone application?
I want to take a screenshot of an iPhone application to share.
I have an iPhone 4.
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How can I take a larger screenshot on my iPhone?
I would like to take a screenshot of an entire web page in Mobile Safari, not just the part that's visible on the screen. I'm running iOS 5 on an iPhone 4, but I'm pretty sure this functionality isn't ...
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Easy way to take a screen shot that's NOT color corrected?
My displays are color calibrated every other month or so with a hardware calibration tool. When I take a screen shot of a profile aware app, such as photoshop or lightroom or some web browsers, I ...
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How do I change the location of screen captures on 10.5?
As a developer, I take a lot of screen captures. I often take a lot to share with StackExchange members on chat. The problem is my desktop is so cluttered with screen captures that they're now ...
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iPhone 4 (and 4s) won't take a screen shot. What should I do?
After owning an iPad for a couple of years, last week I purchased my first iPhone. I've been well aware of the feature where you press the power button + Home key, and iOS will take a screenshot of ...
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What screen capture tools can copy the image path to the clipboard after a snap?
Can anyone recommend a screen capture tool that can:
save a capture as a file, and...
copy the path to that file to the clipboard?
The first part is easy, but I can't find a utility that does the ...
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OS X: Is there an open source screen recorder?
I need a screen recorder. However, I try to avoid using closed-source software whenever possible except from major vendors like Apple and Skype.
I am wondering, is there an open source screen ...
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How can I get `defaults write com.apple.screencapture` to change screen capture location in Mountain Lion
I used to be able to set the key location under com.apple.screencapture to change the save location for the system-wide screen capture facility.
This doesn't work for me anymore -- screenshots save ...
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How can I capture a screenshot of an entire webpage in iPhone's Safari browser?
How to capture screenshot of entire webpage in iPhone's Safari browser like I can take in my Desktop with Help of Firefox Addon called Fireshot?
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Is there any way to upload screenshots directly to FTP or image hosting and give me the url?
Is there any application for screenshots that could upload directly to FTP or any image hosting site and just give me the URL?
I come from the Windows world, where I got used to FastStone Capture, ...
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Save screenshot with my own name
When I save a screenshot I want to be able to specify any name I want (and maybe destination directory). Sharpshooter for mac does this, but it's a ridiculous $15. Cheaper alternatives?
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How can I make a screenshot (printscreen) on my Macbook Pro using Windows 7?
How can I make a screenshot on Macbook pro using Windows 7?
The keyboard does not include a special key for this function.
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Is there an easier keyboard shortcut for taking a screenshot on OSX 10.5?
I'm running OSX 10.5 and was wondering if there is an easier way to make screenshots which save to clipboard?
I know I can use:
CMD+CTRL+SHIFT+4
However this is hard on the fingers.
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How can I combine multiple screenshots in Skitch?
With Skitch, I often find myself wanting to take screenshots of different parts of the screen, annotating them, and combining them into one image. I could use a separate program for this last step, ...
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Fixed region screen capture on Mac OS X?
I use both Windows and Mac OS X on my work/home computers, and on Windows I love SnagIt, because it allows me to capture fixed regions of the screen: I select a resolution (for example, 500x400), and ...
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Display pressed shortcuts as an overlay on the screen
On this great Ruby on Rails screencast, every time a shortcut combination is pressed it shows up on top of the screen, and it shows up so often that I find it hard to believe it was placed by hand ...
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Changing the default screenshot filename
Is there a way to change the default screenshot filename prefix (the Cmd-Shift-4 type screenshot) to something other than the default? The default name looks like this:
Screen Shot 2011-08-30 at ...
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Resizing a window to a specific size, for screen recording?
I want to record an application window for a demo/tutorial, and I'd like the video to be a particular resolution.
Is there a trick/tool already installed in Lion that allows me to take a window and ...
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How can I change the resolution on my Mac to 720p (1280x720)?
I'm looking to record some screencasts, and 720p (1280x720) seems to be the best choice for the resolution. It's supported by video sites like YouTube and Vimeo as one of the standard "HD" ...
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How can I make crisper screen shots on MBP Retina?
So we all know that the Retina has a double density screen. As such, when I take screen shots they are 144ppi instead of 72ppi. These are great when I am looking at them in Photoshop, but if I paste ...
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Using screencapture when remotely logged in to a headless mac via ssh
I'm trying to use screencapture from the terminal, when logged in over ssh, to a mac that has no screen attached. I can screen share to the machine, so I'd like to capture the same display.
However ...
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Tool to quickly hide/blur/redact text in as screenshot?
I've captured a screenshot and I want to share it (on stackoverflow actually :), but I need to blur/hide out a couple words in the screenshot. Is a there tool to quickly do this?
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How can I create iPhone screenshots without the lock button?
Is there any way to create a screenshot of an iPhone without using the combination home+lock button? Is there an app for jailbroken phones? Something else?
I do not have a Mac; only Windows.
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Is there any way to get rid of the sound made when a screenshot is created?
Obviously other than muting the computer. I just want to create a screenshot without having that "camera sound" come out.
Is there a way to disable this sound?
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Random shutter sound
Every once in a while I hear a loud sound from my Mac. It sounds like either a camera shutter or a keychain lock/unlock. It all started a couple of weeks ago.
I fear something is snapping shots of my ...
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What methods are there for making a screencast from an iPad 2 or 3 with iOS 5?
I need to find a way to output, or possibly make an internal recording of, a screencast of everything on the iPad screen, so that I can record demonstrations of an app my company is developing.
Of ...
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Screencapture Terminal command and then return to Shell script
I'm trying to run a shell script wherein I run the screencapture command, do a couple of modifications like file renaming, moving to Dropbox, shortening the url etc and then growling the url.
Problem ...
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How do I hide Quicktime Player's controls when the video is paused?
I'm trying to take a screen shot (using Grab) of a quicktime video that is paused. The problem is that the video controls don't disappear, and thus are shown in the resulting shot as seen below:
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Seeking ambient screen recorder
I am a work-from-home developer that gets paid by the hour.
I am seeking an app that runs in the background and records my screen(s) and uploads it (every 20 seconds or so) through FTP to my ...
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What's a good iOS app for quickly posting screenshots on the web?
Something analogous to photobucket for the desktop - whose iPhone app is a bit useless to me because it doesn't enable importing from the camera roll. I'm looking for something that easily allows me ...
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How to record the screen of an OpenGL application without stuttering?
I'm currently recording videos of my screen using QuckTime Player and a MacBook Pro 13" (mid-2010) in a resolution of 640x480. The application I'm recording is called Synthesia (it is a game like ...
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Screencapture with zooming
In Snow Leopard when I used a screencapture program (⇧⌃⌘4) on the screen area that was zoomed in (by using ⌃ + mouse wheel) the resulting screen shot has the same zoom factor. Super useful when I ...
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Feasible font size on the Retina MacBook Pro
I'm interested in the amount of text that can be fit into for example code editor windows such that it is still comfortably readable to someone with good vision (i.e. not needing glasses or using ...
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iOS Screen recording
I'm wondering if there is an Apple policy against screen sharing? My basic use case is similar to the mirroring feature from iPad to Apple TV, except I'm seeking to mirror the device onto a Mac (as ...
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How to capture a screen shot of all spaces
Regularly I use more than 4 spaces in my Macbook Pro ( lion/10.7.1 ).
Can I get a screenshot of all spaces at one time ?
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How do I use screencapture for capturing floating windows?
I am trying to automate the periodic capture of a floating window. Specifically, of the floating 'Current Call' window which is used by Skype when the main window is off-screen.
By googling, I found ...
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Why would Preview save just my annotations?
I was using Preview to annotate a screenshot for a question on Apple.StackExchange.com and I saved it. For some reason, it only saved my annotation. I must've spaced out and accidentally pressed ...
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Is there any free screencasting software?
I am searching for an OK and free screencasting app to finally start LP-ing.
The app doesn't have to record sound because I can do that sort of stuff with Audacity. Recently tried out "Copernicus", a ...
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Are there any “App Store quality” apps for creating animated GIFs from a series of image files?
I searched the App Store for "animated GIF" but the only returned app was one to convert a movie file into an animated GIF. I need to go the other way: I have a series of screenshots taken of an app ...
