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Enable darker-than-dark dimming for internal and external screens.
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Screenshots capture the dim overlay, making them dark [Mac] #57

Open aforamini opened 4 years ago

aforamini commented 4 years ago

Firstly, really good application, life saver!

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

With brightness turned down, any screenshot you take captures the dim overlay too. e.g. If I take a screenshot, then paste it into a document, the image is dim compared to the white of the document.

Suggestion: Perhaps the action of taking a screenshot could momentarily disable the dim overlay so the picture is unaffected

🎯 Expected Behaviour

Screenshots should be accurate to the original image, without capturing the dim overlay

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

  1. Reduce brightness e.g. 20%
  2. Take a screenshot (e.g. Cmd + shift + 3)
  3. Take a look at the screenshot and you'll see it as dim

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version 4.0.4 Installation Type Setup Operating System Mac Catalina 10.15

mayeaux commented 3 years ago

Yeah this is a true painpoint. Any suggestions?

mayeaux commented 2 years ago

Super high priority for me. I have to choose between staring at a screen that's too bright or having super dark screenshots.

aforamini commented 2 years ago

Hey, I've since found that QuickShade is another application which doesn't have this problem. It's only downside is that you can only turn down the brightness of both screens (but then can increase the primary screens brightness via the native controls). hope this helps

mayeaux commented 2 years ago

Cool thanks for the tip!