Clean up Shadows in Leopard Screenshots.
Continuing with our screen capture theme: If you’ve used this window grab technique over time, you may have noticed a significant change in Leopard. Apple now includes the window’s shadow in your resulting screen capture (in previous versions of Mac OS X, only the window itself was captured). Including the shadow isn’t necessarily a bad […]
Take a Quick Screenshot of One Window.
Here’s a trick I rely on all the time. The keyboard shortcut to take a screen capture of a specific, isolated, window in Mac OS X:
Command+Shift+4, then tap the Spacebar.
Most designers know the Command-Shift-4 shortcut which gives you a small crosshair you can use to crop in on a specific part of your window. Tapping the Spacebar afterwards switches to a camera icon that takes a cropped picture of any window you click on.
