Tips: Capture

Here are some tips and tricks to boost your capturing skills with Sealshot.

Selection

• Scroll to resize your selection. In the unified overlay, hover and scroll the wheel to step the highlight back and forth through the regions under your pointer.

• ⌘-click to size the area before you take it. Hold ⌘ and click in the overlay and Sealshot draws a rectangle at your last capture’s size, with handles to resize it and an interior you can drag to reposition.

  ⌘ and drag instead if you want to start from a size you draw yourself. Either way nothing is captured until you press Return, so you can nudge the edges until the size pill reads exactly what you want.

• Esc cancels selection — the overlay, a delayed countdown, or a scrolling capture mid-stitch.

Catching things as snapshots

• Freeze the screen to catch menus. Delayed capture (⌘⇧D) freezes everything after a countdown, so open dropdowns and hover states survive long enough to capture.
• Pick your countdown. That delay is 3, 5, 10, or 15 seconds from the delay selector — not just the default 3. Ten is about right for a three-level menu.
• Grab every display at once. In the fullscreen picker (⌘⇧F), ⌘-click stitches all your monitors into one image.

Scroll Capture

• Auto scroll can switch to manual scroll when preferred. Scrolling capture (⌘⇧W) normally scrolls for you, given Accessibility permission — but it also has a manual mode where you scroll and press Return to finish.
• Keep sticky elements out of your selection. Sticky headers and navbars, cookie bars, floating “jump to bottom” or chat buttons: anything that holds still while the page scrolls under it disturbs the scroll capture. Keep them out of the area you select.

Live Capture

• Save all window content. A Live Capture (⌘⇧X) captures and saves every window’s full content as its own layer, even windows buried behind other windows.
• Auto arrange windows. Right-click and select Auto Arrange Images to spread the windows out so you can inspect them separately.

Two modes people forget

• ⌘⇧S for a one-off file. Save as… writes a capture straight to a folder you pick, without adding it to your library or touching the clipboard. Right for the screenshot you’ll never want again.
• Skip the editor entirely. Set the default destination to Clipboard in Settings → Capture and captures go straight to your clipboard to paste — no editor, no file.

Recording

• Pause from the keyboard. ⌘⇧P can pause and resume the recording.
• Turn the Record prompt off once you know your settings. The Ask before each recording toggle lives in the prompt itself.