Screen Shots

Screenshots often come in handy—for instance, when you need a quick snapshot of something you’re working on or when you want to send a picture of an error message to IT. Mac OS X includes some good built-in tools for taking screenshots—Shift-Command-3 will take a picture of the whole screen, and Shift-Command-4 will let you drag a region to capture (or press the space bar to use the camera icon to take pictures of windows).

But using these tools, means you often do the “screenshot two-step.” First, you take the picture. Then you switch to the Finder, hunt for the saved file on your desktop, and open it to make sure you captured what you intended.

If you are comfortable and handy with AppleScript, there are ways to have your screen shopts appear immediately. Go to this link for the info:

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2006/02/openshot/index.php