Screenshot Beautifier
Turn a raw screenshot into something worth posting.
Drop a screenshot here
Or just paste one — take a shot and press ⌘V. Nothing is uploaded.
Reading the image…
That didn't work.
Your screenshot is drawn in this browser tab and never uploaded.
Keyboard shortcuts
- / or ⌘K
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- Run this tool, from anywhere on the page
- ⌘S
- Download the result
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About the Pathine Screenshot Beautifier
Puts a screenshot on a background, rounds its corners and gives it a shadow, so it looks like something you meant to publish rather than something you grabbed. Drop one in and it is done — the settings are there if you want them, not homework before you get a result.
The trick is unglamorous. What separates a screenshot that looks considered from one that looks raw is space around it, a soft shadow so it sits above the page instead of on it, and corners that echo the window it came from. No filters, nothing added to the picture itself; the screenshot is untouched inside its frame.
It runs entirely in this tab, with no library of any kind behind it. That means it works with the wifi off, and it means a screenshot of your dashboard, your inbox or an internal tool is never sent anywhere — which matters, because those are precisely the screenshots people want to make presentable.
When you'd reach for it
Posting a product update
A bare screenshot in a launch post reads as a bug report. The same image with room around it and a shadow reads as a product shot, and takes about four seconds.
Slides and documents
Pick 16:9 and the screenshot is letterboxed to fill a slide without being stretched or cropped. Transparent background if your deck already has one of its own.
Social cards
1:1 for most feeds, 16:9 for link previews. The shape is matched by adding background, never by cutting into the screenshot — the part you were trying to show survives.
Documentation and support replies
Consistent padding and corners across every screenshot in a help article makes the article look maintained. The settings are remembered, so the tenth one matches the first.
How to make a screenshot look good
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Paste it
Take a screenshot and press ⌘V, or drop the file in. Pasting is quicker and skips saving it anywhere first.
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Pick a background
Six to choose from, including transparent. A plain gradient on purpose — the screenshot is the subject, and a busy backdrop competes with the thing you are showing.
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Adjust the space, corners and shadow
All three are percentages of your image, so the same setting looks right on a phone screenshot and a 5K one. Each change redraws from your original, so nothing degrades however much you fiddle.
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Download
A PNG, at up to 2400 pixels on the long edge — sharp on a retina display, small enough to post.
Common questions
Does this change my screenshot?
No. The screenshot is drawn into the frame at its own resolution and is never filtered, sharpened or recoloured. Everything you see is added around it. The one exception is sheer size: if the finished composition would be wider than 2400 pixels the whole thing is scaled down together, because beyond that the file gets large without looking better.
Can I get a transparent background?
Yes — the last swatch. You still get the rounded corners and the shadow, with nothing behind them, which is what you want when the screenshot is going onto a slide or a page that has its own colour. Downloads as a PNG so the transparency survives.
Will it crop my screenshot to fit a shape?
Never. Choosing 16:9 or 1:1 adds background to the short side rather than cutting into the image. Cropping would remove the part you were trying to show, which is the one thing a tool like this must not do.
Is my screenshot uploaded?
No, and this tool has no library behind it at all — it is drawing instructions your browser already has. Turn off your wifi after the page loads and it still works. Screenshots of internal dashboards and inboxes are exactly the ones people want to tidy up, and exactly the ones that should not be sent to somebody else's server.
Does it remember my settings?
Yes, in this browser. Ten screenshots for the same article should match each other without you setting three sliders ten times. Nothing about that leaves your device.
Can I use it for a photo rather than a screenshot?
It works on any image. It is tuned for screenshots — the corner rounding in particular is echoing a window — but a product photo on a gradient with a shadow looks perfectly good.