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The Screen Capture action captures a specified object or area of the screen to the system clipboard or a named clipboard.

Select the object or area to capture from the //Capture// pop-up:
  *all screens
  *main screen
  *screen with index
  *the front window
  *window with title
  *window with title containing
  *window with title matching
  *window with index
  *area

Select which clipboard to write to from the //to// pop-up.

Two options for the action are available from the gear icon in the top right corner of the action:
  *Include Shadows
  *Always Nominal Resolution

Nominal resolution means the images will be captured at 72dpi despite a possibly higher dpi used by the monitor (for example, if you have a retina monitor, without this option the screen capture would be at 144dpi).

Keyboard Maestro does NOT replicate OSX's interactive capture area functionality – e.g. <key>⌘</key><key>⇧</key><key>4</key>.

Unfortunately Apple has not provided an API for that.

Therefore to use it in a script you need to use an **Execute a Shell Script** action:

```
screencapture -ic
```
This will capture interactively to the clipboard.

Enter “man screencapture” in the Terminal.app for more information.