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<h1 class="title"><a href="/blog/2012/12/20/howto-os-x-screenshots-without-shadows/">HowTo: OS X screenshots without shadows</a></h1>
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Published on December 20, 2012
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>After some research I've found multiple ways to get rid of that shadows</p>
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<h2 id="1-the-default-setting">1) The default setting</h2><p>Since the terminal command allows you to deactivate the shadow I assumed that
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there could be some <code>defaults</code> option for the same purpose. And it is!</p>
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<p>With this two commands you can use the normal keybinds to do <em>shadowless</em>
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screenshots:</p>
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<div class="hll"><pre><span></span>defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true killall SystemUIServer`
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<p>To revert to the original status:</p>
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<div class="hll"><pre><span></span>defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool false killall SystemUIServer
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<h2 id="2-the-grab-utility">2) The Grab utility</h2><p>Open the Grab.app: <code>Applications > Utilities > Grab</code>, and under the <code>Capture</code>
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menu you will find the <code>Window</code> option.</p>
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<p>You can also use the <code>SHIFT</code>+<code>CMD</code>+<code>W</code> keybind -while Grab.app is focused-.</p>
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<h2 id="3-the-terminal-way">3) The terminal way</h2><p>OS X provides us with the <code>screencapture</code> 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:</p>
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<div class="hll"><pre><span></span>screencapture -i -o filename.png
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<p>A more complete one that saves the screenshot on the desktop with the datetime
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as filename:</p>
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<div class="hll"><pre><span></span>screencapture -i -o ~/Desktop/screenshot_`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`.png
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Hope this helps!</p>
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