How to Screenshot on Macbook Pro

Taking a screenshot is always beneficial, and with MacBook pro, high-quality snap can be easily taken and shared. If you want to show someone something on your display or capture any website page, take a snap as it's handy.

But Apple does not make it so obvious how to take a snap. But there are many ways to do so given by the company.

In this article, we are going to discuss how to screenshot a MacBook Pro. So read the article till the end.

Without any further due. Let's begin.

How to take a screenshot on a MacBook Pro, the right and quick way?

• Hold down: Command key & Shift key

• And tap on the number 3 key

After this, your entire screen, which is captured, is shown on the monitor's bottom right side. Then it got saved on the desktop.

You can edit the image you screenshot both at the time when it displays on the bottom right corner or anytime by just selecting and tapping on Spacebar.

For editing tools, click on the marker pen icon. You will be able to see various tools of editing, including crop and markup, etc.

How to take a screenshot of part of a MacBook Pro screen?

It's in your hand to take a snap of any selective window or one section of the screen.

• Hold down: Command key & Shift key

• And tap the number 4

All steps are the same except the number 4 key. After doing so, your cursor will turn into a crosshair, and now you can drag it and select which you want to grab.

After letting go of the mouse, the snap is done.

How to take a snap of a single window on a MacBook Pro screen

For this, here are the significant steps which you need to follow:

• Hold down:Command key & Sift key

• Tap the number 4 key

• Move the cursor over a window.

• Tap on the Spacebar

•   Now click when you are set.

How to take a screenshot of a single window on a MacBook Pro screen on a timer?

It means a snap can only be taken when you click. In the other case, it happens instantly. You can use a timer to snap to be ready or select a particular area, arrange the window, etc.

In other ways, number 3 and 4 keys are used. Here we are going to make use of the number 5 key.

• Hold down: Command key & Shift key

• Tap the number 5 key

In this case, a control strip appears on the screen. This control strip contains start-off buttons, keystrokes like grabbing any portion of the complete screen. Also, you can take a video of the screen rather than an image.

Apart from it, Options control is also there.

Here you are provided options like taking a snap instantly, after 5 seconds or 10 seconds.

Command, Shift, Number 3, 4, and 5 keys are the most effective for speed and convenience.

Where to find screenshots

Screenshots are by default saved to the desktop with the naming, " screenshot [date] at [time].png." You can easily change the location of the snaps just by going to the options menu in the screenshot app or by dragging the thumbnail to the desired folder.

Change snapshot default to JPG

As we discussed above, the snap gets saved to the desktop by default but as PNG files. It tends to be larger files. To change it into smaller files or JPG, follow these quick steps:

• Open the terminal app

• Enter " defaults write com. apple. screencapture type JPG."

• And, press enter

Advanced Snapshots Options on Mac with third-party Apps

We recommend CleanShot X as it's the most powerful snapshot app for Mac. This app offers over 50 features to capture an amazing snap of your screen. But this application is not for free, and you need to get a subscription starting from $29 for a single mac, including an annual update.

Here is what is included in the app:

• Annotations

• Self-timer

• Capture complete screen, a particular section of the window

• Compatible with PixelSnap

• Custom snap backgrounds

• Freeze screen

• Excellent screen recording

• Custom branding and domain

• Tags

• Team management and much more.

Some other third-party options are also there:

• Snagit

• Monosnap

Conclusion

In this article, we have discussed four ways to screenshot your screen. It's possible to take a snap of a particular window or section or entire screen in a few steps discussed above. You can also take video instead of image capturing. And a timer option is also there. So we hope now you find it easy to capture full and high-quality snaps by using keystrokes like shift, command, or number keys.

macOS Monterey Available Now

macOS Monterey is the most recent release of macOS, i.e. the Apple's desktop OS for Macintosh computers. It is the successor of macOS Big Sur. The announcement occurred at WWDC 2021 on June 7, 2021, when released on October 25, 2021, officially.

It comes with excellent new features using which users are capable of connecting in new ways, working seamlessly across the Apple devices. The FaceTime facility comes with additional audio and video features. Continuity tools such as AirPlay, Mac allow the Apple devices to perform even better. The Universal Control feature allows users for working effortlessly across the Mac and iPad. People can get this available as a free software update on Macs along with Intel-based Macs and Apple silicon.

Attached with FaceTime in New Techniques:

Using FaceTime, you can find sound even more than natural. On the other hand, SharePlay helps users to get connected with their family & friends and enjoy their time. Using the spatial audio feature, the voice will seem like these are coming from the place where people are positioned on the display.

It comes with two additional microphone modes. These provide additional control to the users over how their voice sounds. There is a Voice Isolation feature using which you can delete background noise. Thus, you can make your voice crystal clear. The Wide Spectrum feature enables the noise to come in due to which you can hear all the noise. Besides, there is available a new feature in FaceTime named Portrait mode. You can get it available in apps such as Webex and Zoom. These take the help of the Neural Engine in the M1 chip for keeping them in focus when they blur the background.

On the flip side, SharePlay is actually a strong set of features that allow you to have shared experiences on a FaceTime call. You are capable of enjoying different types of music, TV shows, movies, etc with your family as well as friends in real-time. If you want, you are capable of sharing their entire display or you can share any particular application. It makes it easy for you to collaborate with friends or coworkers on a call. You can use SharePlay with applications such as Apple Music, Apple TV+, and other famous third-party services.

Universal Control and AirPlay:

The Universal Control features allow you to work with a single mouse and keyboard. You move these easily between Mac and iPad. It allows users to keep their mobile phones next to each other. You can move the cursor immediately from one device to another. You don't require any setup. With the help of the Mac keyboard, you are capable of typing text on your device. Besides, you can perform drag and drop also between the devices.

If you prefer, you can use Apple Pencil also to draw. Then, you can keep the illustrations on the Mac and enjoy powerful capabilities at once. Users are capable of playing, presenting, and sharing any details from iPhone or iPad right to a Mac.

You can take the help of AirPlay for sharing the recent movies and games, photos, as well as presentations directly to the Retina display of Mac.

Visual Lookup and Live Text: 

It features Live Text that is capable of detecting text in photos such as phone numbers, websites, addresses, etc. As a result, you are capable of copying and pasting, making a phone call, opening a website, etc.

On the other side, the Visual Look Up feature allows you to find and know about animals, art, landmarks, plants, etc. You can use each of these— Live Text and Visual Look Up across macOS.

Compatibility: 

macOS Monterey supports multiple versions of the Macs. These can be used for running macOS Big Sur. However, it is not compatible with a few older MacBook Air as well as iMac models from 2013 and 2014.

iMac - Late 2015 and later 

iMac Pro - 2017 and later 

MacBook Air - Early 2015 and later 

MacBook Pro - Early 2015 and later 

Mac Pro - Late 2013 and later 

Mac mini - Late 2014 and later 

MacBook - Early 2016 and later

We have given here a few names that supported the prior macOS Big Sur update:

2015 and later MacBook

2013 and later MacBook Air

 Late 2013 and later MacBook Pro

 2014 and later iMac

 2017 and later iMac Pro

 2014 and later Mac mini

2013 and later Mac Pro

Collaborate with Notes:

Taking assistance from the Notes in Monterey, you can have new methods to collaborate, make notes, stay always organized, etc. With the help of the Quick Note, you are capable of jotting down notes while in any app. Therefore, you can capture ideas as well as thoughts at any time.

If you want, you can include links from apps to a Quick Note. These are useful while you require a website in Safari or you wanna find a location in Maps.

Using New collaboration tools, you can include mentions and see updates to a shared note with the help of the new Activity view. When you are in Monterey, you can organize with Tags with ease. It is a quicker process for categorizing notes. Besides, this feature allows you to search the new Tag Browser.

Seamless Automation on Mac:

With the help of the Shortcuts on the Mac, you can easily get peak productivity with the apps you use most. It contains a rich gallery of pre-built shortcuts that is useful for automating everyday tasks. For example, you can open the frequently used apps, add a reminder to notify you when you go to the market. You can use shortcuts such as menu bar, Finder, Spotlight, Siri, etc. You can run these at any moment.

Availability: It comes with 50GB storage with one HomeKit Secure Video camera. This will cost $0.99 per month. When it comes to 200GB storage, it offers up to five HomeKit Secure Video cameras costing $2.99 per month. If you want 2TB, you can get multiple HomeKit Secure Video cameras at $9.99 per month.

Apple Maps: New Ways to Explore Major Cities in 3D

After the rollout of iOS 15, Apple comes with its biggest update on maps. Now you can explore different cities in 3D by using Apple Maps. Mainly you can experience 3D Cities in London, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco with rich details, better navigation experience, and immersive walking directions.

And many more cities to come in 3D to explore it. In this world, we all use maps to find any route or direction of any location easily. But after this update, Apple completely changed the way of navigation and provided a 3D view in some cities. You can use it for driving navigation and view in 3D that helps you to explore more beautifully.

Using this 3D map, you can see your neighborhoods, districts, marinas, buildings, new roads, landmarks like Coit Tower, the stadium in LA, Statue in NYC, etc. You'll feel like you're exploring these cities, and Apple is mainly focused on landmarks for easy navigation systems. In maps, only Apple can provide this beautiful experience and advanced features to explode cities in 3D. Even if you're seeing it for the first time, this map helps you feel like you have already visited by giving you a better experience.

Explore Cities with Highly detailed Apple Maps

It's a completely new way of experiencing maps because now users can view locations in 3D with detailed information. Users can see buildings, new roads, landmarks, and many things covered in this Map. When you use this map for the first time, you'll feel like you're viewing whole cities from your eyes because it's completely 3D. Currently, you can explore cities like London, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco for a 3D experience, but soon many more cities will be added.

Improve Navigation System for better Experience

After launching the 3D map view, it is mainly useful for navigation systems. Because now anyone can see the map more beautifully in each corner, buildings, landmarks, new roads, bus, taxi, bridge and busy roads, highways. That helps users to navigate more easily and find the best route.

Never Miss a stop with powerful traffic updates

Now Apple Maps comes with better improvements in transportation because now you can find the best route in one click. You'll get real-time updates on your map. With this feature, you can see the bus and train routes' real-time location, and you can easily plan your journey.

Immersive Walking directions

It's a very eye-catching and useful Feature. You can see its step-by-step walking guidance in reality. Users can pick the phone, scan that location, buildings, and then you'll get suggestions for where you need to go on your screen.

Discover Great places where Curated Guides

Even before 3D maps, we're using maps to find the best places and guidance. But after these new features of 3D maps enhanced the experience of viewing Great places with updated guides for you. Users can click on the guide button in maps to access. A New Interactive Globe

Apple Maps comes with a three-dimensional globe with new ways of looking at the World. You'll get another level of experience when you use this 3D globe to explore different locations.

Maps & Privacy

Apple is highly committed to keeping your personal information safe and secure. There's no sign-in required to use maps; you can access without any login details. So you can rely on security and use Maps without any worry because later, Apple comes with more advanced securities.

iPhone 13 Pro - Phone Specifications

iPhone 13 Pro will be available in the market from Friday, September 24, but people can order this from Friday, September 17. It will be available in four excellent finishes: graphite, gold, silver, and recent sierra blue.

It comes with the most significant advancement for its camera system, battery life, quick performance, etc. that set a new standard for iPhone. In its latest pro camera system, you can get more excellent pro photography capabilities than previous such as enhanced telephoto zoom, macro photography, Photographic Styles, Cinematic mode, ProRes and Dolby Vision video, etc. The model comes with a Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion that can deliver excellent graphics performance.

Iphone 13 Pro Features: 

Improved Cameras:

This pro version is equipped with new sensors and lenses in all three rear cameras to deliver a seamless work experience with iOS 15. Besides, the new image signal processor (ISP) in A15 Bionic is perfect for tone mapping and enhanced noise reduction. 

The model comes with a big sensor with 1.9 µm pixels in its all-new Wide camera so that people can capture even more detailed pictures. This sensor is helpful in lightning conditions when a quicker shutter speed is required.

A large ƒ/1.5 aperture along with this sensor makes this smartphone perfect in low-light situations. It can capture images up to 2.2x and nearly 1.5x while comparing with iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max. What makes the iPhone 13 Pro unique is its sensor-shift optical image stabilization feature that helps to smoothen pictures and stabilize videos.

Excellent Video Quality:

Now, you can record videos of people, pets, and objects with a depth effect having automatic focus-changing features using its cinematography and vital rack focus feature. iPhone 13 Pro allows each person to capture cinema-style moments, not only for professional filmmakers. 

The creative control feature enables you to adjust focus during & after capture, and you can manage the Bokeh level too available in the Photos app and iMovie for iOS.

This smartphone includes a ProRes, an improved video codec feature delivering higher color fidelity and less compression at the final delivery format in feature films, commercials, broadcasts.

Connectivity:

Nowadays, the world is moving towards 5G, but don't worry as the model delivers an excellent 5G experience by sharing people's way of connecting, sharing, as well as enjoying moments. It comes in a customized hardware design with more 5G bands that enable people to use it in more places on 5G to get improved performance and more extensive coverage.

Long Battery Life And Excellent Design:

The model will be available in a premium flat-edge design made of unique materials like a surgical-grade stainless steel band and many more. 

This exceptional design delivers an elegant finish and resists corrosion and abrasion. Plenty of layers of nanometer-scale metallic ceramics are used for making the model available in four different colors. These metallic ceramics deliver a durable finish to this iPhone 13 Pro.

A Ceramic Shield front cover offers protection, fantastic durability, and drop performance to this iPhone model. This model includes more viewing area on the display that provides exceptional technologies like Face ID. It is the best secure facial authentication in any mobile phone. There is a rear camera system coming with nice stainless steel trim. 

Designers made this iPhone model for delivering the best protection against spills from common liquids. This phone has an industry-leading IP68 rating making the model more innovative. There are more power-efficient components available on the inside of the iPhone 13 Pro smartphone. 

This apple phone comes with the most extended battery life that can last up to one and a half hours a day than the iPhone 12 Pro version. Compared to the iPhone 12 Pro Max version, it can last up to two and a half hours long.

Pricing and Availability:

• This latest version of the iPhone can be available in different storage options such as 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and all-new 1TB. 
• People living in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, the United States, etc. can only pre-order this latest model. 
• In Turkey, people can get it available from Friday, October 1. People staying in Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, and Thailand can start pre-ordering from October 8. 
• This model will be available for $41.62 (US) a month for two years or $999 (US) before trade-in. Users can get this in the Apple Store or from apple.com/store.

Apple Event: What Can You Expect on Tuesday?

Apple has announced its biggest event of the year on Sept. 14, Tuesday at 10:30 P.M sharp IST. Likewise, the previous year, considering the pandemic scenario, an online event will be streamed this year at Apple’s official site and some other platforms as well. According to expert predictions, you would see companies launching probably iPhone 13 series, Apple watch series 7, Apple AirPods new variants, or MacBook Pro Models. No one can confirm what’s exactly going to happen in Tuesday's event, but here are some leaks based on experts estimating what’s exactly going to happen in this launch event. Let’s have a look at all the estimated leaks: 

 Estimated Predictions in this Apple’s ‘California Streaming’ event according to experts: 

New variants of iPhone 13 models The new iPhone 13 model series consists of the maximum chances of launch in this event. It is also estimated that the iPhone 13 is not going to be very different from iPhone 12, though it would have a smaller notch. The reports also confirmed that the iPhone 13 would also come with the same lineup as iPhone 12 comes with - 13, 13 Mini, 13 Pro,13 Pro Max. However, there would be some great visible improvements also like 

• Camera Sensors are going to be more advanced 

• Camera sensor-shift stabilization feature might also be there. 

• Camera lenses are going to be wider. 

• Battery Life will also be increased by 18-20% 

• The best upgrade might be the 120Hz display rate. 

• It could have some advanced portrait cinematic features. 

• Display expansion 

• And much more Apple 

Watch Series 7

 A new variant of the Apple Watch series might also be launched at Tuesday’s event. And one thing is 100% confirmed that the time you'd see this time of the Apple watch would blow your mind. It has a touch of iPad Pro and iPhone 12, so this will be one of the stylish watches till today. It is not only going to have a significant improvement in its outer look but its battery life and processor speed will also be improved. 

Features like blood sugar monitoring and body temperature sensors are still circulating as a rumour, whether they are coming or not; it will be clear in Tuesday’s event only. 

 AirPods 3 

There has been no update in Apple AirPods for such a long time, and they need to update them now because even if it comes to Apple AirPods 2, they look so outdated now. So this can also be something that’s about to launch. There are no predictions in the market about the specs and features; still, there are chances that they could remove those silicone eartips and try something better. 

Other devices such as MacBook and iPad have lower chances to be launched in this event. But in the end, this is a curiosity of what will happen in this Tuesday’s event. 

How Can You Be a Part of this Apple Event? 

This event will take place on the 14th of September at 10:30 P.M. IST., and this is going to be streamed on Apple's official website, and YouTube as well so you can join wherever you want.