Geek Posted May 23, 2011 Posted May 23, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/screenshot-no-shadow.jpg" alt="Screen shot without the window shadows in Mac OS X" title="screenshot-no-shadow" width="551" height="312" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16326" /></p> <p>Ever noticed that there’s a shadow on every screen shot of a window you take in Mac OS X? You can easily turn this off by using the command line:</p> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true</code></p> <p>You’ll then need to restart SystemUIServer by killing it:</p> <p><code>killall SystemUIServer</code></p> <p>Now take a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/06/09/screen-capture-in-mac-os-x/">screen capture</a> of an individual window using Command+Shift+4 and the screen shot will not include the window shadow.</p> <p>If you want to revert back and have shadows on individual window screen captures again, use:</p> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool false</code></p> <p>And again kill SystemUIServer for changes to take effect.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/screenshot-with-shadows.jpg" alt="Screenshot with window shadows in Mac OS X" title="screenshot-with-shadows" width="631" height="392" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16327" /></p> <p>Two other nice screen capture tweaks include <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/16/change-the-screenshot-capture-file-format/">changing the screenshot image file type</a> and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/26/change-the-screenshot-save-file-location-in-mac-os-x/">changing the save location of screenshot files</a> which helps you reduce desktop clutter.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RmEZtzvX_nW231W1v1A6uzTpvYs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RmEZtzvX_nW231W1v1A6uzTpvYs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RmEZtzvX_nW231W1v1A6uzTpvYs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RmEZtzvX_nW231W1v1A6uzTpvYs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=pgpUxuJ0HJU:vd5oTCuaqS8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=pgpUxuJ0HJU:vd5oTCuaqS8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=pgpUxuJ0HJU:vd5oTCuaqS8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=pgpUxuJ0HJU:vd5oTCuaqS8:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=pgpUxuJ0HJU:vd5oTCuaqS8:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=pgpUxuJ0HJU:vd5oTCuaqS8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=pgpUxuJ0HJU:vd5oTCuaqS8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/pgpUxuJ0HJU" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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