A plain screenshot on a backdrop, with padding, rounded corners, a soft shadow and an optional window or phone frame.
For the app demo in a thumbnail, the tweet screenshot in a Short, or the before and after in a tutorial. Pick an output size such as 1280 x 720 or 1080 x 1920 and the screenshot is fitted inside it, never stretched or cropped. Everything is drawn on your device.
Choose a file, paste it from the clipboard, or capture a window on the screenshot page and press Beautify it. The preview appears straight away.
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Pick the size and the look
Choose an output size, a backdrop, and a browser or phone frame if you want one. Padding, corner radius and shadow change the preview as you drag.
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Download or keep editing
Download a PNG at exactly the size you picked, or open it in the editor to add a title, arrows or your face on top.
Why a bare screenshot looks unfinished
A raw screenshot has hard square edges, and its own background usually matches whatever surrounds it: a white app on a white post, a dark game menu on a dark feed. The eye cannot find where it starts. Three small changes fix that. Padding gives it room, a backdrop in a contrasting colour separates it from the page, and a shadow lifts it so it reads as an object rather than a hole in the layout. Rounded corners make it look like a deliberate card instead of a cut.
The frames do one more job. A browser window frame says "this is a website" before anyone reads a word, and a phone frame says "this is an app". Both are drawn here from plain shapes, so they work at any size and carry no one's device artwork.
Choosing an output size
Size
Use it for
What happens to the screenshot
Fit to image
Docs, blog posts, a slide
Kept at its own pixel size; the canvas grows by the padding and the frame.
1280 x 720
A YouTube thumbnail or a 16:9 slide
Scaled to fit inside the padded area, centred, with the backdrop filling the rest.
1080 x 1920
Shorts, Reels, TikTok and Stories
A wide screenshot sits across the middle with backdrop above and below. A phone screenshot in the phone frame fills most of it.
1080 x 1080, 1080 x 1350
Feed posts
Fitted the same way, so text in the screenshot stays as large as the shape allows.
Gradient is the safe default. Pick one that contrasts with the screenshot: a warm gradient behind a cool blue app, a dark one behind a white document.
Blurred copy uses the screenshot itself, heavily blurred and darkened slightly, so the colours always match. It is the best choice for game captures and anything busy.
Solid colour takes any colour you pick, which is how you match a channel's brand colour exactly.
Transparent leaves the backdrop empty, so the PNG has a real alpha channel and the framed screenshot sits on whatever you place it over in the editor.
Before you post a screenshot
Screenshots carry more than people notice: names in a chat, an email address in a corner, a notification, the URL of a private document. Check the edges before you share it. If something needs hiding, Blur Background lets you paint blur over just that part, then bring the result back here.
Screenshot Beautifier Questions
Is my screenshot uploaded?
No. The image is decoded by your browser and drawn on a canvas on this page; the PNG is encoded there too. Nothing is transmitted, and the line under the hero counts the bytes of request body sent while you work, so you can check it.
Will the screenshot be stretched or cropped to fit 1280 x 720 or 1080 x 1920?
Neither. It is scaled to fit inside the size you pick, minus the padding and the frame, keeping its own shape, and centred. The backdrop fills the space around it. The download is always exactly the size on the button.
Is the result sharp enough for a thumbnail?
It is drawn from your original at full resolution and saved as a lossless PNG. When the output is smaller than the screenshot, it is scaled down with the browser's high-quality smoothing; when Fit to image is chosen, the screenshot is kept pixel for pixel. Small text in a big screenshot can still be hard to read at thumbnail size, so crop to the part that matters first.
What do the corner radius and shadow numbers mean?
They are pixels on a 1080-pixel short side, scaled with the output, so a radius of 16 keeps the same proportion on a 1080 x 1920 Short as on a 1280 x 720 thumbnail. On a 1080 x 1080 square, 16 means exactly 16 pixels. Padding is a percentage of the shorter side: of the output for a fixed size, and of the framed screenshot for Fit to image.
Are the browser and phone frames real device images?
No. They are plain shapes drawn on the canvas: a title bar with three dots and an address field, or a rounded body with even bezels and a small camera pill. They are not copied from any manufacturer, so they are safe to use anywhere, and they scale to any size without blurring.
Can I paste a screenshot instead of saving it first?
Yes. Copy the screenshot, then press Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac) anywhere on this page, or use the Paste from clipboard button where the browser allows it. You can also capture a window on the screenshot page and press Beautify it, which brings it here with no file at all.
What are the limits?
Images up to 50 MB, in any format your browser can open (PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF and others; for HEIC use HEIC to JPG first). Output sizes are Fit to image, 1280 x 720, 1920 x 1080, 1080 x 1080, 1080 x 1350, 1080 x 1920 and 1200 x 630. Fit to image keeps the screenshot at its own size unless the result would pass 16,777,216 pixels, the canvas limit some browsers enforce, and then it is scaled down to fit. Padding goes from 0 to 30%, corner radius from 0 to 60 and shadow from 0 to 100. There are six gradients, a blurred copy, any solid colour and transparent. The download is always a PNG. There is no daily limit.
Is there a watermark?
No. Nothing is drawn on your image except what you choose. The file name starts with ThumbCrafted-, and that is the only mark.
Continue crafting
Keep going: the framed screenshot carries over with no re-upload.