They too could be edited out, but if we wanted to border the dialog as well, it would have a rectangular border rather than one that followed the rounded corners. It actually looks a little better thanks to the contrast between the grayed-out preference pane and the bright dialog, but extracting that dialog out would leave ugly little gray chunks in the top corners. However, in macOS 11 Big Sur, rounded rectangles reign supreme. That wasn’t too hard in Mojave or 10.15 Catalina because they were rectangular.
There’s no benefit in showing the Software Update preference pane behind the dialog, so we’ve been cropping such screenshots to focus only on the dialogs and bordering them separately. At other times, it’s just unnecessary or even awkward.įor instance, look at the dialog that appears when you click the Advanced button in the Software Update preference pane below from macOS 10.14 Mojave (it looks odd because it was captured without the drop shadow that’s necessary to set it off from the Advanced dialog). When the context of the overall window is informative, getting both is fine. The built-in macOS screenshot capability can see the window, but it can’t grab the attached dialog as an independent interface element.
You will hear a camera shutter click, and an image of your current screen will be saved to your desktop in PNG format. In macOS, to take a screenshot (including any menus you may have selected), press Command-Shift-3. Similarly, you can paste this image into any other program that handles images (for example, Microsoft Word or Excel). At this point, you can print the image, alter it, or save it. To move the captured image into Paint, go to the Edit menu and select Paste.
Select Accessories, and then choose Paint. To load Paint, click the Start button, and select Programs or All To manipulate the image you just captured, use the Paint program that comes with Windows.
In both of these cases, the image is captured to the Windows Clipboard.