Knowing how to take a screenshot is an essential skill if you want to save what's on your Mac screen at a particular moment, whether it's tickets to an event, an email you just received, or just a photo of your desktop.
If you have any model of Mac, you have three ways to take a screenshot with keyboard shortcuts, and if you have a MacBook with a trackpad, a fourth method is available to you. Here we'll show you the various keyboard shortcuts you need to know to take a screenshot on your Mac. We'll also tell you what you can do with those screenshots once you've taken them. Apple provides a good number of options to easily save, delete, and open the screenshot for later use:
