![]() Here’s what that dialog looks like after being captured (left) and after I’ve bordered it (right) with Retrobatch, my new favorite way to border Big Sur screenshots. ![]() macOS highlights it, as you can see in the action shot below, and clicking the mouse captures just that dialog (Option-click to capture without the drop shadow, as always). ![]() ![]() The solution-I cannot believe that I didn’t know this existed for all these years!-is to hold down the Command key in Step 3 above and then mouse over the dialog you want. They too could be edited out, but if we wanted to border the dialog as well, it would have a rectangular border rather than one that followed the rounded corners. It actually looks a little better thanks to the contrast between the grayed-out preference pane and the bright dialog, but extracting that dialog out would leave ugly little gray chunks in the top corners. However, in macOS 11 Big Sur, rounded rectangles reign supreme. That wasn’t too hard in Mojave or 10.15 Catalina because they were rectangular. There’s no benefit in showing the Software Update preference pane behind the dialog, so we’ve been cropping such screenshots to focus only on the dialogs and bordering them separately. At other times, it’s just unnecessary or even awkward.įor instance, look at the dialog that appears when you click the Advanced button in the Software Update preference pane below from macOS 10.14 Mojave (it looks odd because it was captured without the drop shadow that’s necessary to set it off from the Advanced dialog). When the context of the overall window is informative, getting both is fine. The built-in macOS screenshot capability can see the window, but it can’t grab the attached dialog as an independent interface element.
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