Nice OSX tip: creating an image with a desktop snapshot without scripting

[Colin Holgate]

On May 15, 2010, at 5:52 AM, Jim Sims wrote:

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> Command-SHIFT-4-Space Bar captures the window under the cursor.

That can be described better as: Command-Shift-4 gives you the usual caption selection to a file, and Control-Command-Shift-4 gives you the usual capture to clipboard, but if instead of dragging the mouse to make a selection, you press the space bar and then move the mouse over the various open windows, you can click to capture the one that is highlighted. It also grabs all of the window, not just the parts that are sticking out from under other windows.

With all of these screen grabs that are not immediate you can press the escape key to cancel the grabbing.