You are working on something and you need to click on something, but when you click on it, it’s going to take this screenshot.

So it’s pretty simple command shift five, select where you want to take a screenshot of, and it’ll take a screenshot.īut now let’s say you wanted to add a delay to this. So now to take a screenshot, all I really need to do is just click anywhere and it’ll take a screenshot. Over on the left I can set if I want to take a screenshot of the entire display, the selected window, or I can draw a portion on my screen. We have a little window that pops up and I have a number of different options for taking a screenshot. So I hold down the command key, the shift key, and then I press the five key. All we need to do to take a screenshot is use the key command command shift five. Now let’s first review, how you take a screenshot. Let’s see why we would want to do this and how we do this on the Mac. Basically, what we’re able to do with a screenshot timer is set how long before our Mac takes a screenshot. Video TranscriptIn this video, I’m going to show you how you can set a screenshot timer on your Mac.