So by default screenshots are saved to the desktop. We can see we have the thumbnail and after a few seconds, that thumbnail is going to be saved to my desktop. We can see that the icon changed into a camera. So now all I need to do to take a screenshot of my entire display is just click anywhere and my display.
So I have this option here, the first option, Capturing Entire Display. I want a screenshot of the entire display. We’re just going to go with a simple screenshot. We have a little modal window that pops up from here. So I hold down the command key on the keyboard, shift, key and the five key. You just use the key command, shift, five.
Let’s go ahead and review how you take a screenshot and see how this works by default to take a screenshot. Now, as I mentioned in the introduction, when you take a screenshot on the Mac, as saves it to the desktop, we can see that I have a couple of screenshots here. By default, they’re saved to the desktop folder on your Mac, but maybe you want to save them to a specific folder, such as the screenshots folder. Video TranscriptIn this video, I’m going to show you how you can set where your screenshots are saved to on the Mac.
