{"id":3700,"date":"2018-03-01T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/?page_id=3700"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:32:18","slug":"screen-capturing-your-mac-computer-screen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/developing-a-multimedia-project\/production\/screen-capturing-your-mac-computer-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen Capturing your Mac Computer Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may need to take a screen capture (or screenshot or grab; different terms, same idea) of your Apple&#8217;s desktop or laptop&#8217;s screen. <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201361\" target=\"_blank\">Apple has a screenshot page that lists this info<\/a>. Here&#8217;s\u00a0 the two most basic and commonly-used commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Copy your entire screen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Shift-Command-3<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Screenshot of a portion of your screen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Shift-Command-4<\/strong>; click and drag the crosshairs to isolate the content.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">&nbsp;Note: If you're wanting to record your screen rather than take a screen capture, visit the \"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/developing-a-multimedia-project\/production\/to-record-a-video-of-your-mac-screen\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3702\">Recording a Video of Your Mac Screen Using QuickTime\" help page<\/a>.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Screen Capture and Screen Recording Quick Tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If screen recording or screen capturing any part of your screen, clean up your desktop to have your viewer have less distractions, which will help them focus on your content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Temporarily put all your desktop items into one folder, ideally in a location away from the desktop.<\/li><li>Temporarily make the desktop background image a solid color.<\/li><li>Hide your dock.<\/li><li>Choose full screen&nbsp;(if it&#8217;s available) with the application that you&#8217;re going to screencapture.<\/li><li>If you&#8217;re recording a browser, close out any tabs that you won&#8217;t be using for your screencast or screen capture, and hide any bookmarks.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may need to take a screen capture (or screenshot or grab; different terms, same idea) of your Apple&#8217;s desktop or laptop&#8217;s screen. Apple has a screenshot page that lists this info. Here&#8217;s\u00a0 the two most basic and commonly-used commands. Copy your entire screen Shift-Command-3 Screenshot of a portion of your screen Shift-Command-4; click and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/developing-a-multimedia-project\/production\/screen-capturing-your-mac-computer-screen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Screen Capturing your Mac Computer Screen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4996,"parent":3488,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[111,54,112],"class_list":["post-3700","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-instructional-technology","tag-multimedia","tag-screen-capture","tag-video-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4485,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3700\/revisions\/4485"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}