Composite capture

Capture your whole screen with every window as its own layer. Instead of one flat image, the editor opens with the desktop and each open window as separate pieces you can move, rearrange, or delete — handy for staging a clean screenshot of a cluttered screen.

Turning it on

Composite capture is an experimental feature. Enable it in Settings → General → 🧪 Enable experimental features (see Experimental Features).

Until you do, its shortcut does nothing and its menu item stays hidden.

How to use

1. Press the composite screen shortcut — ⌘⇧0 on macOS or Ctrl+Shift+0 on Windows (the default; change it in Settings → Shortcuts, where it appears once experimental features are on), or choose 🧪 Capture Composite Screen from the menu bar / tray menu
2. A brief processing overlay appears while each window is captured
3. The capture lands like any other — in the preview folder, or straight in the editor if Settings → Captures → After capture is set to Edit. Open it in the editor to work with the layers

What you get

• The screen under your mouse — like Screen Capture, it captures the screen your cursor is on, along with every visible window that overlaps it
• The desktop as the bottom layer — your wallpaper with no app windows on it (on macOS, the menu bar and Dock are part of this layer)
• One layer per window — each window becomes a media layer in its original position and stacking order, with a soft drop shadow baked in

Because the windows are separate layers, there’s nothing behind them: move a window away and you see the desktop layer (or transparency, if you move the desktop too).

Working with the layers

The window layers behave like any image you add with the Media tool:

• Select a window by clicking it — see Selecting
• Move, resize, and rotate it — see Moving & Resizing. Window layers keep their aspect ratio when resized; hold Shift to resize freely
• Restack with right-click → Bring to Front / Send to Back, or Flip Horizontal / Flip Vertical — see Canvas Navigation
• Delete windows you don’t want in the shot — select and press Delete

Annotate on top as usual. The starting arrangement isn’t an undo step — undo takes you back to it, not past it.

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See also: Screen Capture | Media