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How to capture rectangular region with Ondesoft Capture for Mac?

How to use screen capture? It's easy! Here is a step-by-step tutorial for your reference.

1-1. Download and install screen capture for Mac,run it on your Mac.

1-2. Please make sure that the rectangular region that you want to capture is visible on your monitor.
1-3. Select rectangular region to capture by clicking or the tray icon

to select it.

Move the cursor to a point that approximately the location of the upper left corner of the region and drag the frame until the knob is at the exact point that you want to use as the lower right corner of the rectangular region. The knobs on the sides and corners can be used to adjust frame size. Screen magnifier can be used to magnify cursor’s location to help capture accurately.

capture rectangular region on mac


For some other operations, you can either right click the mouse and choose relevant buttons

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Or use the following keyboard shortcuts.
Command + E : hide or display supplementary hotkey instructions with screen magnifier.
Arrows :  Move frame to up, down, left and right.
Shift + Arrows : Adjust the frame size slightly to up, down, left and right
Alt + Arrows : Move frame sides to the edge of desktop.
Shift+Backspace : Cancel the selection option.
Esc : Exit frame region capturing.
Enter : finish capturing.

1-4. If the frame size is exactly what you want, then click “Snap” or 'Enter button' to complete capturing.

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1-5. After grabbing images, you can edit with some handy tools like drawing attention with arrows and colorful shapes, adding textual comments and etc. Pencil editor is also supported.

1-6. Then preview the modified screen shots, you can save it to the default path or the output file which you select.

Hotkeys

  • Capture rectangular: Alt+Command+R
  • Capture ellipse: Alt+Command+E
  • Capture arbitrary: Alt+Command+A
  • Capture selected Window: Alt+Command+W
  • Capture all windows: Alt+Command+L
  • Capture full screen: Alt+Command+S
  • Capture full screen with countdown timer: Alt+Command+T
  • Show full screen: Alt+Command+V
  • Esc: Exit capturing.
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