How to take a screenshot on a MacBook Pro

How can I take a screenshot on my macbook pro?

Press the Shift, Command, and 3 keys to capture the whole screen.
Press the Shift, Command, and 4 keys to capture a draggable part of the screen, or follow it with the spacebar to capture a window.
Open the PNG on the desktop. Alternatively, combine either of the above with the Control key to put the screenshot onto the clipboard instead of the desktop.
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How do you take a screenshot on a Macbook pro?

How do you take a screenshot on a Macbook Pro?

Take a picture of the whole screen
Command (⌘)-Shift-3
Take a picture of part of the screen
Command (⌘)-Shift-4, and then drag the crosshair pointer to select the area. Continue to press the mouse button, release the keys, and then press Shift, Option, or the Space bar while you drag to resize the selection area. When you are ready to take a picture, release the mouse button.
To cancel, press Escape before you release the mouse button.
Take a picture of a window or the menu bar
Command (⌘)-Shift-4, press the Space bar, move the camera pointer over the area to highlight it, and then click.
To cancel, press Escape before you click.
Take a picture of a menu, including the title
Click the menu to display the menu commands, press Command (⌘)-Shift-4, and drag the crosshair pointer over the area.
To cancel, press Escape before you click.
Take a picture of the menu without its title
Click the menu to display the menu commands, press Command (⌘)-Shift-4, press the Space Bar, move the camera pointer over the menu to highlight it, and then click.
To cancel, press Escape before you click.

HT201361 Whenever I take a screenshot on my Macbook Pro, it always comes out bigger than the area I selected. How do I fix this??

I just got a Macbook Pro for Christmas, replacing my old 2008 one. On my old one, I was able to screen grab (shift+command+F4) specific area sizes (like 500x500 area) and the picture it would export would also be 500x500. On this new Mac, the areas I screen grab are exported larger than they are when I take them. For instance, I'd take a screen grab of a 500x500 picture I drew, upload it to an image sharing website, and it would appear nearly double that size.
I've tried altering my display to see if that helps, but they always are bigger than what I grab.
Any help would be great.

To anyone who may have this problem, I figured it out. Retina display makes it bigger than it actually is. To fix this, after each screenshot, open up the image in preview. There will be a little toolbox option, and within that a box with arrows in it. Set the dimensions to 50 rather than 100 and it should be good to go.

How do I take 300 dpi photos with my iPhone 4s? And how do I export them to my MacBook Pro at 300 dpi to use as I want to print photos.

How do I take 300 dpi photos with my iPhone 4s?
And how do I export them to my MacBook Pro at 300 dpi to use as I want to print photos.
I have been using the standard camera on the iPhone and require 300 dpi to create photo books as the photos are resized according the layout.
Your time and assistance in appreciated.
Thanks

Thanks Tonefox!
After looking at a few of the links I found a mathematical equation that assisted me.
Inches = Pixels/DPI
eg: 3 inches = 300 pixels/100 DPI
Using this equation and the fact that iPhone 4s takes photos that are 3264 x 2448 I was able to work out the largest print I could make with 300 DPI.
Width 3264 pix/ 300 DPI = 10.88 inches
Height 2448 pix/ 300 DPI = 8.16 inches
Therefore, the largest print (with 300DPI) I can make of these photos is 10.88 inches x 8.16 inches.
Which is great!
So is it critical for me to change the dpi in say photoshop or does it not matter as long as I don't go above the 10.88 inches x 8.16 inches?
From what I can gather the smaller I resize the photo the higher the DPI and the bigger I stretch the photo the lower the DPI?
Further clarification will be much appreciated. Thanks

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Take a look at this:
http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-prepare-your-mac-for-sale/
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How do I take a picture using my macbook pro?

How do I take a picture using my macbook pro?

What kind of picture? Screen Shot? Command-Shift 3
Using the Camera? Check out Photo Booth. It's in your applications folder.

How do i take a snapshot on my macbook pro

how do i take a snapshot on my macbook pro, anyone can help? thank you in advance, I am sure its very simple

You can use the shortcuts Austin listed, or you can use the Grab screen shot utility that came with your Mac, or you can use the File / Take Screen Shot commands in Apple Preview.

How to take a screenshot

A popular question that keeps coming back is how to take a screenshot.
How to do this can differ between models and firmware version but there are two different methods used in Xperia devices.
1.
Press and hold the on/off button. This will bring up the options window you see below. Tap Take screenshot to capture your screen.
This can be done while in any application or menu of the phone.
2.
Press and hold both on/off and volume down (-) key at the same time for about 2 seconds and the phone will take a screenshot of the present screen.
After you’ve taken a screenshot you’ll see this icon in the top left corner of your notification bar. (Goes for both method 1 and 2)
Drop down the notification bar and you will be able to instantly share your screenshot to any of your supported applications by pressing the share button.
All screenshots you’ve taken will be saved so you can view them later in the album application.
- Community Manager Sony Xperia Support Forum
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Command-Shift-3 for the entire screen
Command-Shift-4 for the selection you make( the cursor changes to cross hair)
Command-Shift-4 and then Spacebar will change cursor to camera and you are able to select windows, documents.
This can also be found in the online Help (in the Finder hit Command-? and search for "Shortcuts for taking pictures of the screen"
JJ
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How long does it take to back up my macbook pro?

How long does it take to back up my macbook pro?

How long TimeMachine will take is a function of: 1) how frequently you back up, 2) how much free space the backup drive has, and 3) how the drive is connected to the computer.
1) the longer you wait between backups increases the data that has to be backed up and it also increases the preparation time. Letting more than a couple days between backups elapse isn't a good idea to begin with - who wants to try and redo 3 days of work - but it also seems to take longer than three daily backups.
2) when your backup drive becomes too full, TimeMachine must 'look through' the oldest files and delete enough to make room for the newer files. This can take a very long time.
3) backing up over WiFi to a networked drive or TimeCapsule is the slowest backup method and when you have lots to back up it can take a very long time. If your connection speed isn't good it gets worse. For all the advantages that a TimeCapsule appears to have, this alone was enough to make me rethink the idea.
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How to take a screenshot on your Mobile or Tablet

How to take a screen shot on your Mobile or Computer.
We often ask you to send us a “Screenshot” when you are having an issue with your streaming service and are not sure on how to take a screenshot on their phone/tablet so I thought I would provide some simple insturctions
Android: If you’re Running Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) and above.
Get the app or screen that you want to capture ready to go.
Press and hold the “Power” button and the “Home” button at the same time (for phones with no “home” button, hold down the “Power” button and “Volume down” button)
You'll hear the camera shutter sound fire off, along with a short flashing animation, and that's how you know you're good to go.
You'll now be able to see the screenshot in the “Gallery” app. From here you can attach it to your sms, email or direct message and send to the desired recipient.
Apple IOS:
You can capture the screen on your iOS device using the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons.
Get the app or screen that you want to capture ready to go.
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button on the top or side of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, then immediately press and release the Home button.
You'll hear the camera shutter sound fire off, along with a short flashing animation, and that's how you know you're good to go.
You can find the screenshot in your "Photos" app.
Cheers - TommyR
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Open About this Mac under the Apple menu at the left side of the screen's menubar. The version of OS X will be displayed. You may locate other information about your computer as well.
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I know this doesn't help you much, but, I think you have to see if your Mac pro does audio out via HDMI. I don't even know if mine does via DVI. I think it may have to do with the adapter. Try going into Audio MIDI and setting the digital out to multichannel
and using the toslink cable for now. Lemme see...apparently DVI does not carry audio at all. Hm. apparently monoprice could be helpful? If I understand what you're saying correctly: you want to take DVI and multichannel audio via the Toslink and have it all go out over HDMI, right? Whooo..... amazon...looks like it's about $100http://www.amazon.com/Audio-SPDIF-Toslink-Converter-Adapter/dp/B0015YYOQQ
just a shot in the dark
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Icapper wrote:
I will end up getting something other than Logitech speakers, since I'm just weird like that.
Your not weird, your a audiophile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiophile
Good sound costs money. And with a 5.1 system your usually doing surround sound decoding for BlueRay movies etc. for home theater purposes.
The PC 5.1 surround sound systems require a audio card in a PC tower and mainly used for playing 3D games so that won't work for any Mac at all. So don't buy a PC 5.1 surround sound system for your Mac.
Harmon Kardon has the GoPlay, it's a portable stereo with awesome sound (not as good as their theater systems) and you can hook up a analog male/male stereo mini cable to it from the Mac.
$200 and it has a iPod dock and also takes like 8 batteries so it's portable.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002GHBTNC
There is also the Bose Wave clock/radio, you will need a stereo mini to RCA break out cable for that.
http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/shop_online/wave_systems/index.jsp
The GoPlay has much better sound than the Bose, I think the Bose are overpriced.

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How do I add memory to my MacBook Pro?

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The booklet that came with your MBP has instructions about how to insert/remove the RAM SODIMMs ... there is a plastic tab on each side of the SODIMMs that you push outward and the RAM will pop up slightly ... you can then gently pull it out. Note there is a slot cut in the pin edge of the SODIMMs ... remember it's orientation so you put the new RAM in the same way. It only goes in one way.
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Hello EpicEmma,
I just had this problem today!, but i have a SOLUTION ,
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