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title: HowTo: OS X screenshots without shadows
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The beautiful shadows that OS X brings to screenshots are good in some ways or
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depending the purpose of the screenshot itself. But for other things are a
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pain in the ass.
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After some research I've found multiple ways to get rid of that shadows
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## 1) The default setting
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Since the terminal command allows you to deactivate the shadow I assumed that
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there could be some `defaults` option for the same purpose. And it is!
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With this two commands you can use the normal keybinds to do _shadowless_
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screenshots:
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`defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true killall SystemUIServer`
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To revert to the original status:
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defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool false killall SystemUIServer
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```
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## 2) The Grab utility
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Open the Grab.app: `Applications > Utilities > Grab`, and under the `Capture`
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menu you will find the `Window` option.
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You can also use the `SHIFT`+`CMD`+`W` keybind -while Grab.app is focused-.
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## 3) The terminal way
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OS X provides us with the `screencapture` command, so we can hack around and
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build our own scripts. A simple one that allows interactive capture without
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shadow:
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```
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screencapture -i -o filename.png
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```
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A more complete one that saves the screenshot on the desktop with the datetime
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as filename:
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```
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screencapture -i -o ~/Desktop/screenshot_`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`.png
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```
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These are some ways I found. You can play around and make your own bash or
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Automator scripts and improve it to your needs.
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Hope this helps!
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pub_date: 2012-12-20
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