Tips for screenshots on macOS

screenshots.md

• ⇧⌘3: whole-screen screenshot saved to desktop (if multiple monitors, one per monitor)
• ⌃⇧⌘3: whole-screen screenshot (if multiple monitors, main monitor only)
• ⇧⌘4: start partial screen selection
  • drag and release: selected area saved to desktop
  • hold ⌃ and drag and release: selected area saved to clipboard
  • tap space bar: toggle one-window selection; use to take perfectly framed captures of one window
  • start dragging, and while still dragging:
    • hold space bar: dragging changes origin, rather than size; use to adjust when you started the capture at the wrong origin
    • hold ⇧: dragging size changes locked to only one dimension
    • hold ⌥: origin moves as size changes, so that size changes don't affect the capture's center; use to capture an area centered on a point
    • tap ⎋ (escape): cancel the capture
• ⇧⌘5: show "screenshot bar" which includes UI with more settings and tools like video screen capture
• ⇧⌘6: aforementioned basically-useless screenshot of touch bar