Taking Screenshots 📷
One of the main goals of this application, is creating high quality screenshots such as the one above. All the images in the screenshots gallery 🌟 were generated using the following commands, which will be explained in this section:
capture
(cp
)capture_fit
(cpf
)capture_hq
(chq
)capture_format
(cf
)
The commands in parenthesis are aliases.
GPU Mode ⚡
Screenshots can take A LOT of time to complete. GPU Mode can lower the computation duration from 20 hours
to 20 seconds
. Consequently it is greatly recommended to make sure GPU Mode is enabled before starting a screenshot. To learn more about GPU Mode, you may read the GPU Mode section.
capture (cp)
This command is used to create a screenshot of the canvas. This is how it can be used:
without arguments
: in this case, the default dimensions of 1920 by 1080 pixels will be used.[width] [height]
: the specified height and width will be used.
If the screenshot aspect ratio is not the same as the canvas, the height will be preserved.
capture_fit (cf)
This command will take a screenshot of your canvas while maintaining the same aspect ratio. This is how it can be used:
without arguments
: this will take a screenshot with a default width of 1920 pixels. The height will be adjusted to that the aspect ration is preserved.height/width [size]
: this will take a screenshot with the specified height/width. The other dimention will be automatically adjusted.
For example, cf width 1000
will take a screenshot with a width of 1000px and preserve the aspect ration of the canvas.
capture_hq (chq)
This command takes a very high quality screenshot (7680x4320). It is just an alias for capture 7680 4320
.
capture_format (cf)
This command is used to change the image format used to save screenshots to the filesystem. This is how it can be used:
without arguments
: this will display the available file formats.[file extension]
: this will select the specified file format.
For example, cf png
will select the PNG
format to save screenshots.