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I am trying to take a screenshot of a window in Windows 10 using Alt + Prt Screen and want to retain the shadow. I found this post, How to take a shadowless screenshot on Windows 10?, but I want to do the opposite.

Is there a way to take a screenshot of the active window using a keyboard command that will include the shadow?

See the drop shadow on this image as an example. (I created this by taking a full Prt Screen and cropping in Photoshop).

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    Any screenshot utility should capture exactly what you see on the screen. – fixer1234 Jan 05 '16 at 21:12
  • Sorry, I am looking for a keyboard shortcut that will just capture the active window with the shadow. Question updated. – MrPeanut Jan 05 '16 at 21:16
  • What do you mean by shadow? Are you talking about the border around it? The answer to that is already in the question you provided in the link. – DrZoo Jan 05 '16 at 21:18
  • Does alt+prtscreen work? I have shadows off. – Some Dude Jan 05 '16 at 21:18
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    The question you linked to was raised because Alt-PrtScrn captures the shadow and that author was looking for a way to avoid it. Just don't do the solution to that question. – fixer1234 Jan 05 '16 at 21:20
  • @DrZoo Added a link to an image. Tim Alt + Prt Screen saves the image _without_the shadow. fixer1234 Alt + Prt Screen does not seem to capture the shadow (see the last comments). I think it was an older build of Windows 10. – MrPeanut Jan 05 '16 at 21:23
  • It does not capture the shadow on my W10 pc either, v10.0.10586 – Moab Jan 05 '16 at 21:28
  • You seem to claim using Alt+PrnScr excludes the shadow, yet in your example pic (that you say to captured with Alt-PrnScr) shows the shadow.. Did you mean "Shift+PrnScr" in the last sentence? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Jan 05 '16 at 22:08
  • Sorry, I meant the screenshot was taken with just Print Screen. Updated. – MrPeanut Jan 06 '16 at 14:29
  • Did you ever find a good solution for this? I have the same problem @Windows10User – Erik Berkun-Drevnig Oct 04 '16 at 17:04
  • @ErikBerkun-Drevnig No I did not. – MrPeanut Oct 20 '16 at 15:07

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There is a program called Shotty that works: http://shotty.devs-on.net/en/Overview.aspx

Simply focus the window you want to take a screenshot of (no need to minimize any other windows) and press CTRL + PRT SCRN (the default hotkey using ALT instead failed to register for me because it is already being used by another program, I think just Windows 10). An image editor will open with your screenshot, including drop shadows. Click Save. (Copy to clipboard will not preserve transparency.)

  • You should edit your answer with a bit more information on how to use this screen capturing software in order to have windows shadows captured. – Alex Ljamin Oct 28 '16 at 23:50
  • Shotty doesn't work on hidpi screens at least as of version 2.0.2. – mrm Apr 03 '17 at 21:10
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alt+print retains the shadow by default.

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