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Here is a key sequence I use very often. It takes a screenshot of a chosen window without the window's shadow. - First, type command + shift + 4 (the mouse poi
by susam 4y ago
Here is a key sequence I use very often. It takes a screenshot of a chosen window without the window's shadow.
- First, type command + shift + 4 (the mouse pointer turns into crosshair).
- Then type the space bar (the crosshair turns into a camera icon).
- Hover the mouse pointer (a camera icon now), to highlight the chosen window.
- Finally, hold the option key and click.
This sounds like a lot of steps but it becomes muscle memory pretty quickly.
- jarek83 4y agoNice one. I found that it only takes a separate window on the mac screen, but when I want to do it on additional display, it does not allow me to select a window - it highlights all the screen as a window.
- rootusrootus 4y agoMan, you guys are changing my life. LOL. I knew about cmd-shift-4 (and the ctrl version), but I never knew about hitting spacebar to make it do a window.
- baggiponte 4y agoyeah that's a neat trick. of course you can do that with cmd-shift-5 too
- hoten 4y agoFYI, Cmd + Shift + 5 encapsulates all the various options into one UI.
- yieldcrv 4y agoand adds screen recording functionality as a video
- sircastor 4y agoI’ve been using this to visually demonstrate features in pull requests. Combined with Gifski for gifs, it’s really nice.
- mikewhy 4y agoGitlab and GitHub both let you upload videos (and probably more). I still use ffmpeg to convert .mov to .mp4 to get a better file size. But either run circles around the quality and size of .gif
- zmmmmm 4y agodo they show them inline and play automatically? the thing I love about gifs is that they play automatically so as soon as you open the issue you are seeing the animation of what the problem is.
- mikewhy 4y agoThey are shown inline but they don't play automatically. But they do let the reviewer pause and rewind to see something they've missed, rather than sit there and wait to hopefully catch what they missed.
- rpmisms 4y agoI'm usually committing visual changes for reviewers without easy access to the environment, so I mark up the screenshots in my PRs. It's great
- behnamoh 4y agoI used to use Kap for that to convert video to gif afterwards, but this just gives me one less app to use! brew uninstall kap
- mcintyre1994 4y agoOh that’s cool! I always use QuickTime Player for that, something in the screenshot UI makes more sense
- davidwritesbugs 4y agoIf only it grabbed the audio too. Would have been a lifesaver. All the apps that do this (that I found) are cr*p or super pricey.
- yieldcrv 4y agoQuicktime Player has audio in the grab I feel like the screengrab ui also has it too
- alx__ 4y agoCmd + Shift + 5 will also give you access to some of options (as noted in the article) Then let you adjust the selection area in relaxed way I always make sure to enable "Remember Last Selection", which is great when you're taking repeated screenshots of the same area. Once you've created the selection area you'll get exact sizes every time.
- behnamoh 4y agoYeah but it's nice to just press keys instead of point and click with CMD-SHIFT-5 options.
- TurkTurkleton 4y agoAnd you can press space to toggle between taking a screenshot of an area or of an entire window.
- throw0101a 4y agoCmd+space, "screenshot".
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- yieldcrv 4y ago> - Hover the mouse pointer (a camera icon now), to highlight the chosen window. bruh, what, god tier shortcut here
- pishpash 4y agoWhat does holding option do?
- giantrobot 4y agoAdd in the control key in the shortcut above and the screenshot will go to the clipboard instead of a file. Useful for pasting a screenshot into something like Messages or Slack. Also there's no need to hold down Option when clicking. You can however hit Esc to cancel the screenshot action.
- usehackernews 4y agoI just tested it - Holding option seems to remove the gradient shadow of the application window in the screenshot. Not needed, but it’s better in my opinion.
- jagged-chisel 4y agoI didn't lose the shadow when doing this. There's a setting ... `defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow true` Have you ever run that? Presumably changing to false gets you the shadow again.
- behnamoh 4y agoDang, these little tricks are so useful! Combination of CTRL+OPTION works too.
- keyle 4y agoYou've just saved me years of my life. I can't believe I didn't know this.
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- clairity 4y agoafter copying to clipboard, you can also paste it into an empty preview window by hitting ctrl-N (with preview in the foreground). you can paste additional clippings from the clipboard as impromptu layers that you can drag around on top of the first image. in this way, folks (e.g., product managers) can quickly compose a mockup using components from a pre-existing UI without opening up photoshop/pixelmator/affinity.
- faitswulff 4y agoI just figured out that these generate really nice transparent borders, which they use to add shadows. They look great when you put them in, e.g., Notion docs.
- behnamoh 4y agoYou can change the Screenshots icon to something else too. Mine looks like this: https://i.postimg.cc/zX5f4fqN/1.png https://i.postimg.cc/zX5f4fqN/1.png Makes it easier to find visually.
- gouggoug 4y agoHow do you do that? I was trying to find the way to do that the other day but couldn't figure it out. Edit: Of course I was 1 google search away from the answer: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-icons-for-files-or-folders-on-mac-mchlp2313/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-icons-for-fi...
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- Hammershaft 4y agoI think Mac OS has the most inaccessible hidden hotkey shortcuts out of every OS I've used. Even essential functions like showing hidden files in a directory is uniquely done through an hidden shortcut in Mac OS.
- ledauphin 4y agoI have to look this one up every few months. just rare enough that it won't stay in long term memory.
- lawgimenez 4y agoThere should be a compilation of every hidden tricks and shortcuts.
- Smoosh 4y agoPerhaps this will help: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201236 https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201236 Of course, this can only cover Apple's own software and 3rd party software which adheres to Apple conventions.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoPerhaps, but the aforementioned screenshot shortcut I learned just like OP because I wanted to take a screenshot, and it's muscle memory for me as well. I even thought to myself before I clicked on the article "I'm pretty sure they are going to have CMD + Shift + 4 or CMD + Shift + 5 as the focal point of the article". I would call it "inaccessible" in terms of natural discovery, sure. But it is definitely not "inaccessible" in terms of ease of use and memory when you do know about it. I had to google "how to screenshot on mac" once in my life and I've used the keyboard shortcuts on a near daily basis for more than half a decade.
- MiddleEndian 4y agoSome of them are obscure but there's a big list of them somewhere in System Preferences and you can change them. You can also change keyboard shortcuts in your programs too. Definitely something I miss from Mac OS X.
- max23_ 4y agoWow thanks! Never knew about pressing the spacebar to toggle to window capture mode.
- jagged-chisel 4y agoWhat does the option key do in this case? I'm familiar with all the other steps, but the option key's purpose eludes me.
- Smoosh 4y agoIt captures the window without the drop shadow.
- zeroimpl 4y agoApparently it hides the shadows when you screenshot an individual window. Neat trick, although I think I'm going to apply the trick from the article, since I don't think I ever actually want the shadows.
- al_borland 4y agoI think the shadows look better when adding the screenshots into a document, but are a little much when sending a screenshot to someone via chat.
- youngtaff 4y agoI tend to prefer to add the shadow in the doc itself rather than have it as part of the image
- diffeomorphism 4y agoJust for comparison: https://userbase.kde.org/images.userbase/4/4c/Spectacledefaultscreen.png https://userbase.kde.org/images.userbase/4/4c/Spectacledefau... The default kde screenshot app just has simple dropdown menus for all that. Is command+$, space, option+click really better than PrtScr, click?
- neuronic 4y agoPlease show me the PrtScr key on a laptop 60% keyboard.
- diffeomorphism 4y agohttps://i0.wp.com/accatech.com/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-method.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 https://i0.wp.com/accatech.com/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot... It is the key with PrtScr written on it. Also, it is impressive by what a wide margin you missed the point.
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- bradknowles 4y agoYou know, I'm looking at all the tips and suggestions here, and my thoughts keep going back to SnagIt from TechSmith -- these problems seem to all just go away with SnagIt. Sure, it's cross platform, but I don't care about that. It works better for me on macOS than the native facilities, and provides much better post-screenshot editing. If I want to do video capture, the industry gold standard here is Camtasia, also from TechSmith. I know the standard provided functionality, and I just don't want to be bothered.