Better Together
1. Press Shift-Command-4.
2 . You will notice that your pointer turned into a little crosshair.
3 . Left click and drag over the area you copied
4 . Release
5. Right click on your snipped image Usually shown in bottom right corner) and choose what you want to do with it: Save it to file, Send it with email, Save to clip board to paste in another document etc;
Easy Peasy!
Love my Mac 🙂