Screenshot Beautifier

How to use the screenshot beautifier

1. Choose a screenshot, or drag it onto the page.
2. Adjust padding, corner radius and shadow, and pick a background.
3. Download the framed PNG.

About this tool

A raw screenshot pasted into a slide or a social post sits awkwardly: it has hard edges, no margin, and it fights whatever is behind it. Framing it on a background with a little padding and a shadow is what makes it read as an illustration rather than as a clipping.

Padding and corner radius here are percentages rather than pixels, which is the detail that makes the same settings work twice. A fixed 64-pixel border looks generous on a phone capture and mean on a wide desktop window; a percentage of the longer edge frames both the same way. The radius is taken from the shorter edge for the same reason.

The output is PNG, and that is not arbitrary. A screenshot is mostly flat colour and sharp text, which is the worst case for JPEG — it blurs precisely at the high-contrast edges that make text legible, and the file is not usually smaller for interface captures anyway.

Everything happens on a canvas in this tab. Screenshots are exactly the kind of image that should not be uploaded to a stranger's server: they routinely contain a browser tab strip, an email subject line, a client name or an unreleased feature.

Common uses

• Preparing an interface screenshot for a slide or a blog post.
• Making a product capture look deliberate on social media.
• Adding a consistent frame to a set of documentation images.

Frequently asked questions

Why is padding a percentage rather than a number of pixels?

So the same setting frames a small phone capture and a wide desktop window the same way. A fixed pixel border looks generous on one and cramped on the other.

Why does it export PNG rather than JPEG?

A screenshot is flat colour and sharp text, which is the worst case for JPEG — it blurs the high-contrast edges that make text readable, and rarely saves much space on interface captures.

Is my screenshot uploaded?

No. It is drawn on a canvas in this tab, which matters here because screenshots so often contain a tab strip, an email subject or an unreleased design.