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24. Capturing Screenshots and Video

Wallace Wang

(1)San Diego, California, USA

In the business world, many people give presentations using programs like Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple’s Keynote. Usually such presentations consist of text and graphics, but sometimes you might need to capture images from your screen. Such images can be static (known as a screenshot) or video, such as showing the steps for using a particular program.

Capturing images from the screen used to require buying specialized software, but OS X includes several ways to capture screenshots and video. By capturing images directly from the screen, you can show people your computer display ...

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