How do you take a screenshot of just the dock and its apps?

[alex-dlc]

You used to be able to do this in Leopard by doing cmd+shift+4 and then pressing space, and then clicking on the dock

now if you try this, you can either take a pic of just the dock, or just the apps on the dock, not both.

just dock:

just apps:

whats going on?

 

[w0lf]

Yup same thing happens if I try to screenshot my dock. Only does this with the 3D dock though, using the 2D dock takes a proper screenshot.

 

[alex-dlc]

this sucks! why do they break something so simple

 

[benwiggy]

What happens if you take a screenshot of the whole screen and then crop the bit you want in your favourite image editor?

 

[justperry]

Command-Shift-4, then move the mouse to the starting point to make the screenshot Hold the mouse button and drag it to the point you want to stop, not that hard.

 

[w0lf]

Command-Shift-4, then move the mouse to the starting point to make the screenshot Hold the mouse button and drag it to the point you want to stop, not that hard.

Look at what you post before you post it... The dock background didn't show up in your attachment either.

OP obviously knows how to take a screen shot, he's just wondering why taking a screen shot of the dock no longer works properly (it only snaps the apps or the dock background but not both).

 

[Drew017]

The icons are rendered separately from the dock background now (as of ML). You will have to combine the images in an image editor in order to get the whole dock.

 

[alex-dlc]

Command-Shift-4, then move the mouse to the starting point to make the screenshot Hold the mouse button and drag it to the point you want to stop, not that hard.

i dont want it to have the background

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The icons are rendered separately from the dock background now (as of ML). You will have to combine the images in an image editor in order to get the whole dock.

the picture you attached is how it used to look when you took a single screenshot of the dock in leopard. Thats what i want to do in mountain lion, i don't want to have to merge two images, and i don't want to crop it with the background behind it

 

[justperry]

Look at what you post before you post it... The dock background didn't show up in your attachment either.

OP obviously knows how to take a screen shot, he's just wondering why taking a screen shot of the dock no longer works properly (it only snaps the apps or the dock background but not both).

Because my Dock background is transparent, that's why, if you comment on a post then look well and you could know.