Mousing over any of the buttons will trigger a tooltip to remind you what each button does. The next three buttons allow you to take screenshots and Capture the Entire Screen, the second button from the left allows you to Capture a Selected Window, and the dashed rectangle button allows you to Capture Selected Portions of your Mac screen. Starting from the left-hand side, clicking on the cross within the circle will close the Mac snipping tool and return you to your desktop. Apple has also provided a number of useful settings to customize your workflow even further if needed. Here you can carry out a variety of screen capture options such as screenshots, capture a selection of your screen area, as well as record videos of your screen for tutorials and instructional videos. Using the Mac shortcut: Shift, Command, 5 on your MacBook or iMac running the macOS Mojave operating system or later, allows you to access the Mac Snipping tool control panel (pictured below), that will popup at the bottom of your screen. The main control panel of the snipping tool on Mac can be accessed using the shortcut: Shift, Command, 5, but you can also use : Shift, Command, and 3 to take a quick screenshot of the whole Mac screen or use the shortcut: Shift, Command, and 4 to capture just a selection of your Mac screen. Shortcuts for using the snipping tool on Mac If you are searching for an alternative to the handy Windows Snipping screen capture tool used to capture screenshots or sections of your screen as an image, you will be pleased to know that Apple has its own alternative to the Windows snipping tool for macOS which is just as easy-to-use with shortcuts on Mac. If you have moved from a PC running the Windows operating system to an Apple iMac or Macbook running Apple’s macOS, you may be struggling to find Mac alternatives to a number of handy Windows applications and features, such as the Windows Snipping Tool.

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