Explain something visually
Some things are faster to show than to write. A bug, a confusing control, the cell that’s wrong in someone’s spreadsheet — one annotated screenshot replaces three paragraphs. This workflow gets the picture into the ticket or the chat with the thing you mean already marked.
The steps
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Capture — exactly the thing. Press ⌘⇧C and hover — the unified overlay highlights the pane or window under the cursor, and scrolling steps the selection outward to the next region, or back inward. For anything that disappears on click — a menu, a tooltip — use delayed capture (⌘⇧D); the screen freezes so the menu survives.
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Refine — mark what matters. An arrow for the thing you mean; numbered badges for 1 → 2 → 3 when order matters, auto-incrementing as you click. Crop away everything that isn’t the point — the Outline color keeps marks visible on any background.
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Deliver — send it. ⌘S writes a flattened PNG with your annotations baked in, or copy straight to the clipboard and paste into the ticket or the chat thread.
Combine with
Section titled “Combine with”Protect & share when the shot holds real secrets rather than incidental ones · Demonstrate when the problem only makes sense in motion.
Examples
Section titled “Examples”Bug repro for a ticket · Support reply with a screenshot · Design feedback on a mockup