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Screenshots capture the dim overlay, making them dark [Mac]

Open aforamini opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

Firstly, really good application, life saver!

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

With brightness turned down, any screenshot you take captures the dim overlay too. e.g. If I take a screenshot, then paste it into a document, the image is dim compared to the white of the document.

Suggestion: Perhaps the action of taking a screenshot could momentarily disable the dim overlay so the picture is unaffected

🎯 Expected Behaviour

Screenshots should be accurate to the original image, without capturing the dim overlay

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

  1. Reduce brightness e.g. 20%
  2. Take a screenshot (e.g. Cmd + shift + 3)
  3. Take a look at the screenshot and you'll see it as dim

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version 4.0.4 Installation Type Setup Operating System Mac Catalina 10.15

aforamini avatar Jun 03 '20 14:06 aforamini

Yeah this is a true painpoint. Any suggestions?

mayeaux avatar Aug 09 '21 14:08 mayeaux

Super high priority for me. I have to choose between staring at a screen that's too bright or having super dark screenshots.

mayeaux avatar Nov 17 '21 13:11 mayeaux

Hey, I've since found that QuickShade is another application which doesn't have this problem. It's only downside is that you can only turn down the brightness of both screens (but then can increase the primary screens brightness via the native controls). hope this helps

aforamini avatar Nov 17 '21 15:11 aforamini

Cool thanks for the tip!

mayeaux avatar Jan 31 '22 00:01 mayeaux