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Originally Posted by Russic
When I first heard that to take a screen shot on a mac you had to use command+shift+4 I was annoyed. That is a pretty complicated hotkey combination. Only after forcing myself to use it a few weeks I came to appreciate how much more versatile and useful it is than just copying the full page to your clipboard, because it gives you a crosshair to outline what you want a picture of and then dumps the photo on your desktop.
There's a ton of stuff like that where you think to yourself "is that really better?". There's many things on a Mac that I liken to learning to count on two hands instead of one. For a kid to start counting on both hands takes a little getting used to, but once they get over the hump it makes things easier.
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run the application "grab" and and you'll get a nice gui and a number of options (timed, selection, full page, etc)
and really, saving it to the desktop makes a lot more sense then clipboard, paste to paint, save. plus making a selection saves you from embarrassing moments where you copy your entire screen including pr0n and crop it in powerpoint, then email it. only to find out that the pr0n is still there waiting for somebody to 'uncrop'.