PrintScreen In Your Mac

Mac users can easily take a “print screen”, which means saving a copy of what’s on your Mac’s screen at the moment. This copy will be saved as an image on your desktop. It’s a great way of sharing what exactly you’re seeing on your Mac’s screen.

Print Screen of Entire Screen

To take a print screen of the entire screen, press command-shift-3. If the audio is turned up, you will here a camera sound effect. After a second or two, the print screen will be saved on your Mac’s desktop as a PNG file (a popular image format).

Print screen of Mac desktop

Print Screen of Selection

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Changing the desktop or wallpaper of your Mac.

It’s very easy to change the desktop image — or “wallpaper” — of your Mac. Choose one of the beautiful backgrounds that come with every Mac, or use one of your own photos as a background.

To get started, go to the Apple menu in the top left corner of your Mac’s screen. From the menu, choose “System Preferences”. A new window appears with lots of different icons. Click the one that says “Desktop and Screen Saver”.

System Preferences with Desktop and Screensaver circled

A new window appears. It has two “tabs”. Make sure that the one called “Desktop” is selected.Continue reading