Screenshot Plus — a handy widget for your dashboard
Screenshot Plus is a very handy widget when it comes to taking screenshots of single windows or widgets.
I read about this widget again and again but couldn’t believe that it’s useful. I didn’t think it could do more than I can do with shortcuts like [Cmd] + [Shift] + [3] (captures a fullscreen image of what you’re doing) or [Cmd] + [Shift] + [4] (activates a selection tool to capture only the area you’d like).
Until I first tried it, of course. Screenshot Plus does fullscreen grabs and it has a feature called grab a picture. Nothing new, eh? But wait, there’s more: This widget can do timed fullscreen grabs as well, but the killer features for me are grab a window and grab a widget.
These two last features not only take screenshots of either a window or a widget, the great thing about it is that there is no background in the later image file, for example outside of rounded corners it’s transparent. Pretty nice!
And there are even more nifty features: If you make screenshots using the shortcuts above you do not have any GUI, cannot preview the screenshot and it’s only saved into a predefined format onto your desktop. Screenshot Plus let’s you choose between multiple options:
- Save files to the clipboard
- Save files to the harddrive (specify the destination)
- Import captures to iPhoto (you can change this one to have the picture opened with whatever application you’d like)
- Display a preview or save it directly
- Format images using TIFF, JPG, BMP, PDF, GIF, PNG and so on…
If you’re running Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) I highly recommend to do the following:
Download Screenshot Plus from Apple’s widget collection.
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The CMD + Shift + 4 tool can do capture windows and widgets, too!
Just place your cursor over a window or widget and press Space.
Then the window/widget gets a blue overlay and you can take a screenshot from it by clicking!
Ahh, niceand the background is transparent as wellĶ Didn’t know that one.
Thanks for the hint! This will certainly reduce the use of Screenshot Plus, though I’ll keep it in my Dashboardfor now. I don’t know how long it’ll stay there, now that I can capture windows and widgets that easy and fast without it.
Hi.
Good design, who make it?
Hi,
I installed a theme called “Fauna” and customized it a little bit — I’m still working on my “own” design.
Julian
Great widget, Apple-style-cool
But actually it seems to be a little slow. What Mac do you use? I have a G4 and it’s real slow ..
I’m on a MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.16 GHz, 2 GB of RAM.
But since it’s possible to take just the same screenshots by pressing [Command] + [Shift] + [4] and in case you want to capture a single window or widget tapping spacebar afterwards, I removed this widget from my system because I don’t need it.