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Hey what's up? I'm Luke, and today I'm going to show you how I take screenshots. It's the common functionality in Mac that's already pre-programmed in there, but I'm going to show you a couple shortcuts and ways that I edit the default settings to make taking screenshots a bit faster. So let's get started. Okay, so first of all I'm going to do shift command 5, and I'm going to go to options, and I'm going to deselect 'Show Floating Thumbnail.' Now, normally if it is selected, and I do shift command, 4 it'll show the thumbnail. But if I need that file, like let's say I go to slack, it's not on the desktop yet, until I move the thumbnail away. If you just saw it come up, so I don't really like that delay, so I go ahead and take that off. So I'm going to do options, Show Floating Thumbnail, and deselect that. Okay, so let's go through them, so shift command 3 will take a screenshot of your entire desktop. I have two monitors, so it'll take I have my laptop, and my monitor, so it'll take screenshots of both.

Okay, shift command 4 will create a screenshot from a selected area. Boom. Pretty cool. Now my friend Mandy Owen, and colleague, or previous colleague, she taught me this. Shift control command four. Okay, so it's the same thing as shift command 4, but instead of creating a file, it puts it on the pasteboard, and I use this all the time, because, let's say I'm in the Productivity Shop slack channel, I could just push paste, and then now the file that I just took a screenshot of will paste. Now shift control command 4 is quite a keyboard shortcut, and requires two hands. So what I do is I use BetterTouchTool to remap a better key sequence to that keyboard shortcut. I'll show you how to do that right now. I don't know I've been doing this lately, but it's a thing we're going with it. Okay so I'm going to open up BetterTouchTool, boom, I'm going to go to all apps, and you can see my key sequence here, and we're going to start from the beginning. So I'm going to disable it, I'm going to go to the plus sign here, I'm going to do a new, I'm going to make sure I'm in key sequences. So let's start over, key sequence, plus sign, and then what I'm going to do is, I'm going to do these two keys right here, ctrl shift. Here let me give you a little, a little view, hand modeling! So what I'll do is, I'll use these two keys, control and shift, so I can use my pinky and the previous finger, boom. And then I'll activate that keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot, using the selection, and paste it from the pasteboard. Okay so I'll do key sequence, I'll do control shift, I'll do save, and set this modifier keys. You don't have to deselect 'Delete Typed Characters' after recognition. I'll go to click here, and Select Action, click no action there, and then send keyboard shortcut. So it's ctrl shift command 4. I'll go ahead to the BetterTouchTool menu and restart BetterTouchTool, and then I'm going to try it out right now. So let's say it was in https://www.designspiration.com/, which is another site that I really like. I want to send this to my friend, I'm going to do control shift, and the crosshairs come up. I'm gonna go ahead and select it, and then go to slack, and I just do command v, boom, it pasted. It comes in handy a lot for sending messages, text messages, and slack messages, but anyway if you have any questions feel free to email me at hello@theproductivityshop.co, or you can join the Productivity Shop slack channel at prodshop.co/slack. Thanks so much for watching! See you later!