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{ 2008 07 18 }

How to remove the shadow from Mac screenshots

Mac users may have noticed that whenever you take a screenshot of a window on Leopard, the shadow that surrounds the window is also included. If you don’t want screen captures to include the shadow, you can set Leopard not to include it.

  1. Open the Terminal application.
  2. Type the following command, and press Enter:
    defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true && killall SystemUIServer

You can set it back to normal with the following command:
defaults delete com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow && killall SystemUIServer

Posted by Chris Ilias on Friday, July 18, 2008, at 1:58 am. Filed under Mozilla, Personal. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Staś Małolepszy | July 18, 2008 at 6:06 am | Permalink

    Thanks, this is helpful.

  2. Ted Mielczarek | July 18, 2008 at 8:35 am | Permalink

    I actually like the shadow. I don’t know why, but it makes screenshots look a little nicer to me.

  3. Dennis - Payday Loans | January 19, 2009 at 4:44 pm | Permalink

    Thanks a lot. I’ve been looking for this solution for a long time.

  4. Heiko Behrens | July 6, 2009 at 7:33 pm | Permalink

    Thank you. I was looking for this to produce screenshots of an print article.

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