Screenshot with transparent background
Ivan | Thu, 2005-09-08 18:01
If you need to take a nice and clean screenshot of a window or especially a Dashboard widget press Apple-Shift-4 and than Space. The cursor will change to a cute little photography apparatus and you will be able to point to out which window or widget you'd like to take a snapshot of. You will get a png file on your desktop. Note the semi transparent shadows and glows that you get around the widgets when you drag the png into Photoshop.
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Thanks!!
ivan,
awesome find. this tip is great but i'll use this maybe 2 or 3 times and forget the command sequence.
Question is - How do you folks keep track of some of these gems? Yes, my brain is one option but right now it's filled to capacity with dumber brain cells.
mrj
To be honest I have to look up tips on cb sometimes. I remember that there was an easy way to do a certain thing, but can't remember how. So, I search for it on google:
keyword1 keyword2 site:creativebits.org. Usually google gives me better search results than the built in search function of cb.When I do this, I get a PDF file on the desktop, not PNG.
Yes, sorry. It is a pdf in Panther. Png in Tiger.
That is a great tip. Thanks for posting it.
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Brilliant tip!
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Wow, I did not know this - awesome tip.
Ivan, you are the king of tips and shortcut!
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nice :-)
- Liam
Hit control while you're doing it to copy to clipboard so you can paste straight into Photoshop.Very handy for mockup work.
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You can also move the camera over almost anything on your screen...Forexample move the camera over a folder on the desktop, an icon in the dock, even the menu bar up top.
Cool!
Wow! That's probably the easiest way to steal an icon. The only downsize is that you must have the icon in it's biggest size in your dock for optimal effect.
That is too cool! Way to go Apple for actually building this feature into the OS. Thanks Ivan.
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I was going to say that if you could add SPACE to the Apple-Shift-4 combo, it'd be really cool if you could add it to the Apple-Ctrl-Shift-4 combo to copy to the clipboard. It worked! ...but Afterglow already commented. Drats. :)
You could use gmail to keep track of that stuff. This one's going into my gmail repository.