Take A Picture Of Your Screen In Preview On Mac - Apple Support

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Preview User Guide

• Welcome
• Get started
• Open PDFs and images
• View PDFs or images
  • View PDFs and images
  • Find text in PDFs
  • Interact with text in a photo
  • Bookmark PDF pages
  • View information about PDFs and images
  • Import images from a camera
  • See where a photo was taken
  • Display a PDF as a slideshow
  • View an animated GIF’s frames
• Edit PDFs
  • Fill out and sign PDF forms
  • Select and copy text in a PDF
  • Highlight, underline, and strike out text
  • Add notes and speech bubbles to a PDF
  • Annotate a PDF
  • Combine PDFs
  • Add, delete, or move PDF pages
  • Crop or rotate a PDF
  • Add effects to a PDF
• Edit images
  • Crop, resize, or rotate an image
  • Convert image file types
  • Remove a background or extract an image
  • Annotate an image
  • See what an image looks like on another device
  • Apply a color profile to an image
• Share PDFs or images
• Manage PDFs or images
  • Save PDFs and images
  • Revert changes to PDFs and images
  • Copy PDFs and images
  • Lock PDFs and images
  • Export PDFs and images
  • Password-protect a PDF
  • Reduce the size of a PDF
• Print PDFs and images
• Troubleshooting
  • If you can’t select or copy text in a PDF
  • If images or PDFs aren’t the correct size
  • If Go to Page shows the wrong page of a PDF
• Change Preview settings
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Copyright and trademarks

You can use Preview to take a picture of all or part of your screen.

Open Preview for me

1. Go to the Preview app on your Mac.

2. Open the PDF or image you want to capture in a picture.

3. Do any of the following:

   • Entire screen: Choose File > Take Screenshot > From Entire Screen.

   • Part of the screen: Choose File > Take Screenshot > From Selection. Move the pointer to a corner of the area you want to capture, drag across the area, then release.

   • Single window: Choose File > Take Screenshot > From Window. Click the window you want to capture.

The picture opens in Preview, named “Untitled.” You can annotate it by clicking and using the tools in the Markup toolbar.

Note: You can also take pictures of the screen using the Screenshot app. See Take screenshots or screen recordings.

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