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Take a Snap of Screen Saver
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Anytime you are trying to capture a screensaver, you will fail miserably as the screen saver will automatically go off when you try to press any key.
But, there is an easy way to take a snap of screen saver.
Take a Snap
- Open Apple - System Preferences…
- Go inside Desktop & Screen Saver
- Choose your screen saver
- Hold down Command-Shift and press Test button
- Hit 3 to snap the screen saver
- You can do it many times, before you decide to exit by releasing either Command or Shift key
Sticky Keys
If I were you, I wouldn't tire down two of my fingers to keep holding Command-Shift all the time during capturing snaps of my screen saver. I will use Sticky Keys instead.
Using Sticky Keys, you only need to press a modifier key two times and that particular key will stay pressed until you press the key again for the third time.
To activate Sticky Keys:
- Open Apple - System Preferences…
- Go inside Universal Access
- Choose Keyboard section
- Turn on Sticky Keys (you can also press Shift-Shift-Shift-Shift-Shift to Sticky Keys)
Now, I hope you can have nice snapshots of your screen saver.
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Categories:
Screen Savers,
Tips and Tricks
Tags:
ScreenCapture,
Screensaver,
screensaver
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1 Comments
T0mm1
I took another workaround .. i downloaded wallsaver (widget) - with this widget your current screensaver is displayed as wallpaper .. and then you can easiely (how do i write this correctly?) do snapshots from your screensaver. But you way is much easier .. thanks!
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