This is actually brilliant. Is wrapping a web rendering engine and exporting the web page as a PSD file the next step?
I agree - not a lot of utility in this (for me at least), but I'd pay $100 for something that did this for webpages.
Clever screenshot app turns your desktop into Photoshop layers
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Re: Clever screenshot app turns your desktop into Photoshop layers
#12It's pretty cool, but I'm not sold on it being $15 of cool.
If it saves someone only an hour of their time, then surely it would be worth the $15 price tag?
Re: Clever screenshot app turns your desktop into Photoshop layers
#13It's pretty cool, but I'm not sold on it being $15 of cool.
If it saves someone only an hour of their time, then surely it would be worth the $15 price tag?
Hmm, I suppose that's a pretty good point. I would have a hard time justifying the purchase unless I were in a position where I regularly took screenshots of my desktop and needed to move windows around as separate layers on a regular basis.
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#14It's pretty cool, but I'm not sold on it being $15 of cool.
I'm not sure why the parent is downmodded - it seems to me that $15 is indeed a relatively high price tag for something that seems like a single feature of a graphics program, albeit a useful feature.
People who take a lot of screenshots are willing to pay for convenience. SnapzPro has sold a ton of licenses at $69 for example. I just sent this app to my dad, he writes computer books and screenshots can be the bane of his existence--if it saves him time he'd pay 5x the price.
Update: He just wrote back, "I can't believe it's only $15!"
Re: Clever screenshot app turns your desktop into Photoshop layers
#15This is cool and all, but what's the utility? You can already isolate individual windows and arbitrary screen regions with the built-in OS X screenshot grabber.
Agreed. While I can see that it's a clever thing and nicely done, I can't think of anyone who routinely needs to screenshot all (or at least multiple) windows at once but separately. Someone who saves a ton of time using this, please tell us what you're using it for!
I just sent it to someone who publishes Photoshop tutorials for a magazine--lots of shots involve multiple windows and the layout people love to be able to play around with that sort of stuff.
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#17very clever.
Now give me an example of this being useful?
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#19This is cool and all, but what's the utility? You can already isolate individual windows and arbitrary screen regions with the built-in OS X screenshot grabber.
You have a webpage open in firefox, safari, IE (via parallels). You grab all three in one go and reposition them on top of each other to get pixel accurate offsets?
Re: Clever screenshot app turns your desktop into Photoshop layers
#20This is actually brilliant. Is wrapping a web rendering engine and exporting the web page as a PSD file the next step?
I'm thinking it would be the easiest to do this via DOM manipulation. Sequentially set visibility: hidden to all elements except one, take screenshot, continue on to the next one. Not the most elegant solution, but it's quick and you don't need to understand WebKit or Gecko's source.
That would be seriously cool. Imagine one-click then rearranging a site on the fly.