How To Take a Timed Screen Shot on OS X 10.9 Mavericks

You can take time delayed screenshots in Mac OS X by using the Grab utility or the Terminal.

 

We covered already how to do screen shot in OS X, now here is HowTo time delay creating screen shot.

You can find Grab and Terminal in Utilities folder or find it with Spotlight.

• Timed Screen Shots with Grab

Run Grab: Go on “Capture” menu and select “Timed Screen” or use Command+Shift+Z to bring up the timed capture alert dialog.

When you’re ready, click on “Start Timer” and you’ll have 10 seconds to stage your screenshot before Grab snaps the entire screen. Grab window won’t be visible in screen shot.

In the Grab’s “Preferences” you can select to show the desired pointer type

• Time Delayed Screen Shots via Terminal

You can also take time delayed screen shots from the Terminal using the screencapture command:

screencapture -T 10 iHashHowTo.jpg

You can adjust the time to anything in seconds, that example is for a 10 second delay. The filename follows, which will be created in your users home directory unless you specify otherwise.

More Screen Shot commands for Terminal