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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.
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   *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.

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