Screenshots on macOS
Keyboard shortcuts
You can capture the entire screen, a window, or just a portion of the screen.
⌘ + ⇧ + 3
Capture the whole screen.⌘ + ⇧ + 4
Capture a selection.⌘ + ⇧ + 4 + Space
Capture a window.⌘ + ⇧ + 5
Capture the whole screen, a selection or a window.
See more information in Take a screenshot on your Mac.
Command line
Command line tool that capture an image of the whole, or part of the screen.
screencapture -ioW ~/Desktop/screenshot.png
-i
Capture screen interactively, by selection or window.-W
Start interaction in window selection mode.-o
In window capture mode, do not capture the shadow of the window.
More information in screencapture manual page.
Change default settings of screen capture
defaults write com.apple.screencapture name "Screenshot"
Disable shadow in screenshots:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true
Save screenshots to the ~/Downloads
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location -string "${HOME}/Downloads"
Save screenshots in PNG format (other options: BMP, GIF, JPG, PDF, TIFF)
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type -string "png"
Disable datetime in screenshots filename
defaults write com.apple.screencapture include-date -bool false
To apply the changes, you need to restart the SystemUIServer:
killall SystemUIServer