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Post #1674207

2026-04-21 13:02 UTC

Just learnt that when you take a window screenshot in MacOS (the ol' Cmd + Shift + 4 then spacebar), if you hold option down before selecting the window, it takes it without the shadow.

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  • @jonhicks@mastodon.social TIL! CleanShot'er here - I like its arrows.

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  • @gedeonm@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 13:16

    @jonhicks@mastodon.social Wow talk about undiscoverable… thanks though!

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  • @meNeither@mstdn.social 2026-04-21 13:36

    @jonhicks@mastodon.social And if you hold down `control` while clicking with the mouse or pressing Enter, the screenshot goes straight to the clipboard. 🙂

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  • @stegrainer@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 13:42

    @jonhicks@mastodon.social not sure if you use Acorn on Mac, but I learned a couple months back that you can also take layered screenshots with it: https://stegrainer.com/journal/2026/how-to-capture-layered-screenshots

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  • @freddy@computerclub.social 2026-04-21 17:52

    @jonhicks@mastodon.social The Option key is always the interesting one ^^

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  • @aboutgrau@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 18:19

    @jonhicks@mastodon.social i recently discovered this as well, so much so that i even wrote a whole blog post about it 😅 http://cogmodo.com/takeascreenshotwithoutshadow

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  • @sindarina@ngmx.com 2026-04-21 21:01

    @jonhicks@mastodon.social You can also make this permanent, by the way. I have it turned off by default.

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  • @glyph@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 21:09

    @jonhicks@mastodon.social if you're looking for fun macOS screenshot tricks, check out Flying Meat's "Acorn" image editor. With Acorn running, command-shift-7 and it will take a screenshot of all attached displays into separate images, with every app in a separate layer group, with every window in a separate layer. You can take a screenshot and then reposition or even reorder apps after the fact.

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