Screenshot Beautifier

Gradient backdrops, rounded corners, shadows and a browser frame for your screenshots.

Upload a screenshot and this page puts it on a coloured backdrop with rounded corners and a soft shadow, the look every product post uses. Pick a gradient, set the padding, round the corners, and add a browser frame with dots and a fake address bar if the shot is a web page. The output is a PNG at the size you set, ready to post. Nothing is uploaded, and the original file is never changed.

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Honest limits. A backdrop, rounded corners and a shadow make a screenshot easier to read in a feed, but they do not make a blurry or low-resolution shot sharp, and they cannot fix text that was already too small to read. If the shot is a web page, the browser frame is a decoration: the address bar text is typed by you and proves nothing about the site shown. Export at the original pixel size or larger padding only: shrinking a screenshot to fit a small canvas throws away detail you cannot get back.

Why beautified screenshots get read, and plain ones get skipped

A raw screenshot is a rectangle of small text jammed against the edge of a feed card, and the eye slides past it. Padding gives the shot breathing room, a backdrop gives it a boundary the feed background does not have, rounded corners soften the rectangle, and a soft shadow lifts it off the page. None of that changes the content. It changes whether anyone stops long enough to read the content, which is the whole job of a screenshot in a post, a tutorial, or a changelog.

The settings have sane limits on purpose. Padding of 80 pixels around a 1200 pixel wide shot leaves the shot at about 87% of the output width, which reads well without shrinking the text to nothing. A corner radius above half the shorter side of the shot is clamped to that half, because a larger radius would cut into the content. Shadow strength is a blur radius in pixels: 40 gives a soft lift, 0 gives a flat card, and above 120 the shadow starts to look like a fog. The browser frame adds a 48 pixel bar with three dots and the address text you type, which suits web pages and looks wrong on phone shots, so it is off by default.

Size maths, worked out

A 1280 by 720 screenshot with 80 pixels of padding becomes 1440 by 880 without a frame, and 1440 by 928 with the 48 pixel browser bar. The padding is added on all four sides, so width grows by twice the padding and height grows by twice the padding plus the bar. The output PNG keeps every pixel of the original shot: padding is added, never taken from the shot.

Pick a backdrop that does not fight the shot

A dark shot on a dark backdrop disappears at the edges, and a light shot on a white backdrop does the same. The gradient presets run dark to bright so the shot has contrast on at least one side, and the custom colours let you match a brand. If the shot itself is mostly white, pick a dark backdrop; if it is a dark-mode screen, pick a light one.

Frequently Asked Questions

It places your screenshot on a coloured backdrop with padding around it, rounds its corners, adds a soft shadow, and can add a browser frame with dots and an address bar. The shot itself is not edited: padding is added around it, never taken from it.
The original shot plus twice the padding on each side, plus 48 pixels of height if the browser frame is on. A 1280 by 720 shot with 80 pixels of padding becomes 1440 by 880, or 1440 by 928 with the frame.
No. Backdrops, corners and shadows change presentation, not resolution. A blurry or low-resolution shot stays blurry, and shrinking a shot to a small canvas throws away detail you cannot get back.
No. It is a decoration: three dots and address text you type yourself. It proves nothing about the site shown, and it suits web pages only, not phone screenshots.
Yes. Pick Custom backdrop and set the two colours. The gradient runs from the first colour at the top left to the second at the bottom right.
No. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing leaves your device, and the original file is never changed.

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