{"id":11102,"date":"2015-04-28T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T19:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11102"},"modified":"2015-04-28T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T19:23:04","slug":"how-to-eliminate-drop-shadows-in-screenshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/how-to-eliminate-drop-shadows-in-screenshots\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Eliminate Drop Shadows in Screenshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/15616\">Josh Centers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/15616\">\n<p>You probably know about the keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot of a portion of the screen: Command-Shift-4. [&#8230;] Less well known is the fact that if, instead of dragging out a rectangle, you press the Space bar, your cursor becomes a camera, and placing it over a window, dialog, or dropped-down menu highlights that object. Click the highlighted object and you get a screenshot of just that object, complete with drop shadow, on your Desktop.<\/p> \n<p>But what if you don&rsquo;t want the drop shadow? Easy. Instead of clicking the highlighted object, Option-click. That produces the same screenshot with no drop shadow.<\/p> \n<p>What if you <em>never<\/em> want a drop shadow on your screenshots (like us)? In that case, you need to fire up the Terminal app.<\/p> \n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also presents a Quartz Composition filter for adding borders to screenshots that don&rsquo;t have drop shadows.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Centers: You probably know about the keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot of a portion of the screen: Command-Shift-4. [&#8230;] Less well known is the fact that if, instead of dragging out a rectangle, you press the Space bar, your cursor becomes a camera, and placing it over a window, dialog, or dropped-down menu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1040,649,30,426,282],"class_list":["post-11102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-automator","tag-esoteric-preferences","tag-mac","tag-quartzcomposer","tag-screenshots"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11103,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102\/revisions\/11103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}