Terminal Tip: 6 easy ways to capture your screen

Can I capture a window with a clean shadow? I mean, only the transparent shadow itself, but NOT the background content under the shadow. This way when I post this image on a web page with any background color, the shadow always matches nicely.

james, justin - key commands aren't useful in scripting, and this command also allows you to select the output format.

Hmm, the png it created couldn't be opened by Preview or Photoshop, and it didn't like the -tjpeg option. Maybe a Jaguar thing? (Yes, I'm still using Jaguar...)

It's odd, I've been having trouble getting a screen capture lately using everything from Grab to Snap 'n Drag - everything comes out garbled and there are often features mashed in like parts of windows that aren't even open. I was kind of hoping this would be an alternative that would work, but alas no.

ditto on the keyboard shortcuts, why even bother with anything else...you can't really simplify it much more.

I use a very useful widget called Screenshot Plus. It's great.

You can do the same thing using keyboard shortcuts.

Cmd + Shift + 3 = Take screenshot of whole screen
Cmd + Shift + 4 = Draw an area to capture
Cmd + Shift + 4, then space = Capture a window.

Tim: The command line better lends itself to automation.

Why not just use "Grab?" It's already designed to do this and there are no command lines necessary. I've never understood why people want to do things the more complicated/nerdy way.

Used option #5 to set up the screen and SnapzPro to shoot the screen shot shooting.

So how did you capture THAT screen shot?