Bernskiold Media

Layers is perhaps the first application that I’ve ever come across that’ll let you take screenshots as layered Photoshop files, but it really is superb. More times than I can could have I wanted to take a screenshot of a window with only some icons in my menu bar in the shot, or without all those windows covering up the background. Well, guess what, instead of closing all of these things down, you can now use Layers to get there.

Layers is a nifty little application that will capture a screenshot complete with all the layers and make it a Photoshop file for simple editing in Photoshop. Not only does it capture all the windows, menu bar items and the dock on their own layers, but it actually organizes these, and groups it into layers groups, cool right?

You aren’t short of settings either, the powerful inspector (as seen above) can be used to style your windows in the screenshot. Turn on and off the shadows, transparency, borders and so on as you wish for your screenshots.

What I hope to see though in it is the ability to do some quick modifications in the application itself, so I don’t need to capture my large photoshop file. I ran a test and ended up with a 10+ megabyte Photoshop file. I’d rather be able to make some quick adjustments in the application and then save my finished composite out as a jpeg/png file.

Generally, it is a great application that’s really useful if you take many screenshots. I use it a lot in my workflow now and being able to capture layered screenshots is a really cool and useful thing. I’d definitely say it is worth the cost of $19.95.

• Website: www.layersapp.com
• Price: $19.95