Camouflage 1.20

Great, but everyone still knows (how many times do I have to tell you people?) that no self respecting Mac user clutters up their desktop with files and folders that shouldn't be there. You see, that's why they created these things called "folders." Folders exist so you can put things into them. This is called "organization."
Also, hot keys. Use hot keys.

"Desktop Curtain" from ManyTricks has been around for some time and elegantly does the same thing, and it's donationware to boot. http://www.manytricks.com/desktopcurtain/

Or there's always 'Spaces'; active, drag what you want to capture, select that space and take your best shot

Or you could add the quit item to the finder
defaults write com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem 1

And then apple Q and all the icons disappear...

Hi,

thanks for blogging about Camouflage!
Actually, the feature of using Camouflage for screenshots is just a side-effect of Camouflage's actual idea: It hides the icons away so that you can work with your desktop in a different way. You can still drop files on it, but as soon as you need to access the files on your desktop you'll just have to double-click on it and a finder window will pop up showing the desktop folder. If this window is set to always open in list view it is much easier and way faster to work with the desktop than in the normal way, at least if you have a lot of files there.

That's also the reason why Camouflage is a background application so that it doesn't get in your way.

Karsten

This program does not work for me. It sits in my Application folder dead in the water. When I click on it, it highlights, but nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?

G

I like Backdrop for this because it's a stand-alone application that I can launch and then quit when I'm done with the screenshots. That way you don't waste system resources the majority of the time when you're not using it. I also like to use the default Leopard desktop for screenshots instead of my actual desktop.

http://www.johnhaney.com/backdrop/

It just places an image (by default this will be your desktop picture) on top of your desktop, really. If you hit F11 you will see your original desktop with the icons.

Camouflage is cool, but I use Desktopple (http://foggynoggin.com/desktopple). The "Pro" version is well worth the $17, and they've got a free version, too. I paid for the Pro version for all the productivity extras.