Screen shots in Macs - a really useful guide

I'll be coming back to this one for sure, an excellent clear guide to various ways to take screen shots, relevant to OS X 10.10 Yosemite backwards.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2476025/mac-os-x/os-x--taking-better-screenshots-on-a-mac.html

The main screen grabs are these, but do look at the full article, it's so informative.

⌘+⇧+3: Capture entire screen and save as a file.

⌘+Ctrl+⇧+3: Capture entire screen and copy to the clipboard.

⌘+⇧+4: Capture dragged area and save as a file.

⌘+ctrl+⇧+4: Capture dragged area and copy to the clipboard.

⌘+⇧+4 then Space: Capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and save as a file.

⌘+Ctrl+⇧+4 then Space: Capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and copy to the clipboard.

If you've captured a screen to the clipboard, open Preview and then do cmd-n. Preview will open your screenshot image. Further  new screenshot images will open in new Preview windows.

If you'd like to change the default image file format for screenshots, here's how:

http://bit.ly/1OAUmyX