Capturing screens
Capture a window, an iOS Simulator device, a whole display or an area you drag out, at full Retina resolution, with secrets blurred before anything is saved.
A good store screenshot starts with a sharp capture of the real app. DemoTake captures at the display's native resolution (2× on a Retina Mac, the device's own pixels for a simulator), so the renderer never has to enlarge a blurry image.
Capture from the Screenshots section
Open Screenshots in the sidebar and click Capture, or use the Capture tile at the end of a set's captures strip.
Click Capture (or choose Capture › Window…) and pick an app window or a booted iOS Simulator device. A window that's covered by other windows is captured as if it were in front. Minimized windows can't be captured.
Choose Capture › Full Screen or press ⌥⇧⌘3. DemoTake leaves its own windows out.
Choose Capture › Selection or press ⌥⇧⌘4, then drag out an area. The size shows while you drag; press Esc to cancel.
The menu bar icon has Capture Screenshot of Screen and Capture Screenshot of Selection… too, so you can capture while another app is in front. Captures go into the set you have open, or into a set named "Screenshots".
Capturing needs the Screen Recording permission, the same one recording uses. iOS Simulator devices are captured straight from the device in DemoTake Agent and don't need it.
Re-capture a screen
Capturing a shot with a name that's already in the set replaces that shot's image and keeps its headline, subheadline and hidden regions. This is how you refresh a screenshot after a UI change without retyping anything. Agents do it by passing the same shot name; specs do it on every run.
Secret Guard and hidden regions
Before a capture is written to disk, Secret Guard reads its text and blurs anything that looks secret: email addresses, tokens and API keys, card numbers, one-time codes. The shot's details show how many regions were blurred.
To hide something else, such as a customer name, drag a rectangle on the capture in the shot's details. The region is hidden in every output of that shot. Clear… removes them, after asking. To work on small text, click the capture (or the expand button in its corner, or Review Blurs…) to open the shot large. There you can zoom in up to 800% (pinch, ⌘-scroll or the zoom buttons) and keep editing at any zoom: turn off a blur Secret Guard got wrong (DemoTake asks before turning all of them off), fix its size, drag to hide an area, or click a line of text to hide it. Scroll or hold Space and drag to move around, and hold O to peek at the original. See Keyboard shortcuts.
DemoTake keeps the unblurred original of each capture on your Mac, inside the set, so blurs can be turned off or moved later. It's never exported, shared or synced. Discard… next to the note in the shot's details deletes it; the blurs then become part of the capture for good.
| What | When it's applied | Can you undo it? |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Guard blur | When the capture is saved | Re-capture with it off (agents: redact: false) |
| Hidden regions | When screenshots are rendered | Yes: Clear, or remove them in the spec |
Hidden regions are stored relative to the capture (0 to 1), so they stay in place when the same screen is re-captured at another size.