Screen Shot Strangeness

[nickyr]

I've only recently come across a strange occurrence when using shift command 3 to take a screenshot.

When I do, I'm getting two images - one of the screen I see with whatever app / window is open, and a second one of just may desktop wallpaper.

I can't recall this happening before and wonder if anyone else is experiencing something similar?

thanks, Nick

 

[nickyr]

apologies but I think I've worked it out. It seems to be taking an image of my monitor's screen and my MBP's screen. A bit bizarre maybe but seemingly solved!

 

[ferrarr]

Do you have 2 monitors? That, or maybe you have multiple Spaces (desktops) enabled?

Work in multiple spaces on Mac

On your Mac, if the desktop becomes cluttered with open app windows, use Spaces to organize the windows into additional desktops.

support.apple.com

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Shift+CMD+3 takes a screenshot of your entire screen. So you get one screenshot for every screen you have available. I usually use Shift+CMD+4 to grab a portion that I want and sometime Shift+CMD+4+Space for a specific window.

Entire screen seldom is useful I find..

 

[IWT]

Entire screen seldom is useful I find.

Absolutely agree. I can't think when I last used anything but Cmd + Shift + 4.

BTW, if you use that combination and realise that somehow you've messed up the screenshot or want to abort it, Right Click and it's gone.

Ian

 

[Rod]

I haven't used anything but Cmd + Shift + 5 for ages. I pick the option I want, it reopens with the last option used, that's usually a portion view but I appreciate the other options and occasionally even use the video options.

 

[MacBiter]

I haven't used anything but Cmd + Shift + 5 for ages. I pick the option I want, it reopens with the last option used, that's usually a portion view but I appreciate the other options and occasionally even use the video options.

Yes, I either use Cmd-Shift-4, or Cmd-Shift-5 which is the key combination that launches Snapz ProX from where I can do a lot of visual capturing including video.