How To Take A Screen Shot

How To Take A Screen Shot (a.k.a. Screen Capture)

On your Mac:

There are four key combinations to capture your screen, each combination performs a slightly different function.  To capture the screen, or part of it, press and hold all keys in the given key combination.  If capturing a portion of your screen, once you press the key combination, you'll notice the cursor becomes a set of cross hairs.  Click and drag the cross hairs to highlight your selection.  (⌘ is the Command key on your keyboard, ⇧ is the Shift key on your keyboard, ^ is the Control key on your keyboard)

Capture the entire screen, and save the capture to an image file on your Desktop:  ⌘ ⇧ 3

Capture the entire screen to the clipboard (you can paste the screen capture into any document, email, et cetera):  ⌘ ⇧ ^ 3

Capture the selected portion of the screen, and save the capture to an image file on your Desktop:  ⌘ ⇧ 4

Capture the selected portion of the screen to the clipboard (you can paste the screen capture into any document, email, et cetera):  ⌘ ⇧ ^ 4

On your iPad:

At the same time, press both the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button, and quickly release both buttons.  Your screen will flash, indicating the image has been captured.

If running a current version of iOS, you will see the screen shrink into an icon in the bottom-left corner of your screen.  You can tap that icon to mark-up, edit, and share the screen capture.

Screen captures are also saved to the All Photos and Screenshots albums in your Photos app on your iPad.