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Removing drop-shadows from screen captures in OSX 10.5

I take a lot of screen captures, and can’t say I’m a big fan of the huge drop-shadow area that 10.5 adds by default when capturing windows with the camera tool (Command + Shift + 4, then space bar). Thankfully you can disable this, which I’ve done on my work machine but have yet to do at home on my laptop.

There are two methods –- one permanent, and one on a case-by-case basis -– both of which are outlined here. I like the permanent option, which involves opening up Terminal and running the command:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true

You will need to log out and log back in to see the changes take effect. If you want to revert back to the default later, you can run the following command:

defaults delete com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow