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Clever screenshot app turns your desktop into Photoshop layers

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Re: Clever screenshot app turns your desktop into Photoshop layers

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post #2

This 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.

Re: Clever screenshot app turns your desktop into Photoshop layers

#8

This 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!

Re: Clever screenshot app turns your desktop into Photoshop layers

#10
post #3

It'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.
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