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Dress up a screenshot
A raw screenshot dropped into a slide or a blog post looks like a raw screenshot. Padding, a background and a soft shadow make it read as a deliberate illustration instead.
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Why padding does most of the work
The reason a bare screenshot looks wrong on a page is that its edges collide with the surrounding content. Whitespace around it gives the eye somewhere to rest and signals that the image is a figure rather than part of the layout. Everything else here is decoration on top of that one fix.
Rounded corners and a shadow imply a floating window, which reads well against a coloured background and badly against white. If you choose the off white background, turn the shadow down or off.
Save as PNG. A screenshot is full of hard edges and flat colour, exactly the content JPEG handles worst, and the transparent option needs PNG anyway.
Common questions
Can I add a fake browser window frame?
Not currently. Rounded corners and a shadow give most of that impression without pretending to be a browser you may not have used.
The output is much bigger than my screenshot.
It is, because padding is added around the original at full size. Nothing has been scaled up. Resize afterwards if you need specific dimensions.
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