OSX for Dummies: How to make screenshots

I can’t believe I’m doing this (but it’s driving me crazy)…

So I’ve read (millions of times), heard (thousands of times) and seen (I don’t even want to think about it) how people keep using the standard shortcut to take screenshots on a Mac. I can’t really remember how long I did it that way but it sure as hell wasn’t long enough to remember the shortcut. Appearently it’s CMD + SHIFT + 4 for a screenshot (I had to Google this).

What I’ll be showing here is how you can remap this action to one (1) keystroke using standard built-in OSX magic.

1. Open System Preferences
   
2. Go to ‘Keyboard & Mouse’
   
3. Hit the ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ tab
   
4. Scroll down the the ‘Screen Shots’ group
   
5. I think you’ll be able to handle yourself from here…

I would suggest a screenshot program but apparently the developers in some companies aren’t that bright either…
For example: There’s that TinyGrab thing, which is really making its name ever since Snow Leopard hit the stores and f#cked up GrabUp. They have their own keyboard shortcut and you WOULD think they’d make it easy for you…but they don’t.

I can see how the OSX shortcut is the same as the original ’short’cut… But what the hell were they thinking for Windows users? Windows users have a ‘Print Screen’ button on their keyboard! What’s wrong with that!? It’s right there! USE IT! (Seriously, it’s stuff like this, that makes me facepalm)(or turn your neighbor into an Oxford-cloth psycho who stalks from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers)

Anyway: I hope you can remap that insane shortcut to something easier (either for your brain or for your fingers) on your Mac and go on and enjoy your new screenshot-button!

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