Screenshot Beautifier

About the Screenshot Beautifier converter

A raw screenshot pasted into a changelog, a release note or a post looks like a raw screenshot. The same picture given room to breathe, rounded corners, a soft shadow and a window bar reads as something made on purpose.

Paste with the keyboard, adjust a few sliders, and copy the result straight back to the clipboard or download it as a PNG. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is watermarked.

Paste, do not upload

Taking a screenshot puts it on your clipboard, so pasting is how most people would rather move it around. Press the paste keys anywhere on the page and it appears — no file dialog, no drag, no save-then-find-it-again. Dropping a file and choosing one both work as well.

When you are done, the result can go straight back to the clipboard, ready to paste into a pull request, a chat message or a document. For most uses the file never has to exist at all.

Why proportions matter more than pixels

Padding here is set as a proportion of the screenshot rather than a number of pixels. That sounds like a detail and is the whole reason it looks right: a fixed 40 pixel margin swallows a small screenshot and disappears entirely around a 4K one. As a fraction, a tiny picture and an enormous one come out looking like they were made by the same hand.

Corner radius works the same way, scaled to the frame rather than fixed, so the curve stays in proportion at any size.

Choosing a shape — square, sixteen by nine, or the size social cards want — grows the background around your picture rather than cropping it. Nothing is ever cut off to fit a frame.

The window bar

A bar across the top, with or without the three round buttons, turns a cropped region into something that reads as a window rather than a fragment — a browser mockup without any of the work a mockup usually implies. It is drawn as part of the same rounded card as the screenshot, so the corners cut through both together instead of leaving a seam.

The optional title is worth using when the screenshot alone does not say where you are — a file name, a page name, or the command that produced it.

Backgrounds

There are flat colours, linear gradients and mesh backgrounds — the soft overlapping blobs of colour that give a picture depth without competing with it. Transparent is there too, for dropping the framed screenshot onto a background of your own.

The shadow is cast once by the whole card rather than by each part of it. Letting the bar and the screenshot cast separate shadows is what makes home-made versions look muddy along the join.

It stays on your machine

Everything happens in your browser. The screenshot is read into a canvas on your own device and the PNG is produced there, so nothing is sent anywhere at any point.

That matters more here than for most tools. Screenshots are taken in a hurry and routinely catch a tab title, an email address, a customer name or an internal URL along the edge — things nobody would deliberately upload to a stranger's server in order to add a drop shadow.

Frequently asked questions