Re: Matching profile of image with a QuickTime movie frame?
Re: Matching profile of image with a QuickTime movie frame?
- Subject: Re: Matching profile of image with a QuickTime movie frame?
- From: Tom Moon <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 13:24:51 -0800
On Jan 2, 2010, at 12:02 PM, email@hidden wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:04:16 -0800
> From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Matching profile of image with a QuickTime movie frame?
> To: ColorSync Users Mailing List <email@hidden>
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> In a message dated 1/1/10 8:31 AM, Dan Wood wrote:
>
>> I have tested the screenshot mechanism, using the command-shift-4 and then
>> spacebar technique. It actually does the right thing, but what you end up
>> with is a screenshot of the entire window frame and the shadow around the
>> window too. That's why I pointed out that if I would have to crop the image
>> to the right size, because what I want is the contents of the movie frame, not
>> what the movie looks like in a window.
>
>
> Yes, I hadn't mentioned the spacebar technique, because since Mac OS 10.5.x
> it has been changed to include the shadow around the window -- the
> usefulness of which escapes me, since one is forced to recrop in the
> overwhelming majority of cases, adding what I consider an unwelcome
> complication.
>
> I find that very frustrating. It would have been much better to offer the
> capture of the shadow along with the window as an added OPTION (perhaps
> Command-Shift-5), instead of forcing this change on all users.
>
> There may still be a way to capture a window without the surrounding shadow,
> as was the case before 10.5.x, but so far I've been unable to find out how
> that would be done in the newer OS using the Command-Shift-[?] technique.
>
> Good news is that if you use the Grab utility (which comes with the OS, and
> is found in the Utilities folder), it does indeed capture a window WITHOUT
> the shadow. But of course it's not as quick and convenient as the other way
> was before 10.5.x.
>
> Thank you, Apple, for forcing on us a change that makes no rational sense.
> And a happy new year!
>
> Marco
The drop shadow can be disabled from the Terminal as shown here,
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080629181121863
or simply stated:
To remove drop shadow, type in terminal,
first: defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true
second: killall SystemUIServer
It should be gone.
To add the drop shadow back, type in terminal,
first: defaults delete com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow
second: killall SystemUIServer
I just tried it on Snow Leopard and it works.
Tom _______________________________________________
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