How to take screenshots with drop-shadows in OS X

by Ross McKillop on July 14, 2008

Mac

This is a brief one, and most of you will know about it already. If you use Apple Key + Shift + 4 to take screenshots, hold down the Space bar at the end of that combination. Your cursor will change from the crosshairs to a “camera” - which you can use to take a screenshot of an application window. And those screenshots will have a nice drop-shadow - something that the screenshot software I use (InstantShot!) does not include.

screenshot without drop-shadow

screenshot with drop-shadow

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