I'm trying to get a screen shot

I trying to get a screen shot using the commandshift4, but after I do that I just get like a checkerboard pattern, when I check the picture. How can I fix it?

That is what it dose but after that I go and check the picture and I see it puts it on the desktop, but I do not get the picture that I took I just get the checkerboard image
This is what I get when I do the screenshot on my mac
http://s168.photobucket.com/albums/u169/bigelarkin/?action=view&current=Screensh ot2010-01-06at104937PM.png&newest=1
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