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Release Notes

Every feature, fix and refinement shipped to Screenshot Framer — in reverse-chronological order. Each version links directly to its install on the Chrome Web Store.

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v1.6.0

Turn browser moments into polished motion: record 3, 5 or 10 seconds from the right-click menu, style the clip with the same frames and backgrounds as a screenshot, and export it as a looping GIF, WebM or MP4.

Recording & animated export

Added
  • Record GIF / Video. Right-click and pick 3, 5 or 10 seconds. Nothing is drawn on the page, so no overlay can land in the clip — the toolbar icon counts down instead, and Esc cancels at any point.
  • Framed recordings. A clip takes the same frame, background, corner radius, shadow and watermark as a still, and exports that way.
  • Video tab. Playback speed at 0.5×, 1×, 1.5× or 2×, plus scrollbar and cursor capture options. It appears only when a recording is loaded.
  • Playback bar. Play, pause and click-to-seek, sitting under the canvas so it never covers the frame and never reaches an export.
  • Animated export. Looping GIF, WebM (VP9 or VP8) and MP4 (H.264), up to 30 fps and 3840px wide.
  • Show or hide the scrollbar and cursor in your next recording. Both are applied before filming and removed afterwards, which is why they take effect from the next clip rather than the one already open.
Changed
  • Recordings capture at the tab's own device pixels, up to a 4K budget. A retina viewport now records at around 3024×1714 instead of being downscaled before the editor ever sees it.
  • Bitrate scales with the pixel rate on both capture and export, replacing Chrome's flat ~2.5 Mbps default.
  • Video exports render the clip at its capture resolution rather than the editor's layout size. The framed shot is only about 82% of the canvas, so the old behaviour put a 3024px capture on screen at 1188px.
  • The export frame rate is probed before encoding and steps down a 30 / 24 / 15 / 10 ladder if the machine cannot keep up, so a slow render no longer stretches the clip into slow motion.
  • The Download menu shows only the formats that fit the mode — animated for a recording, image for a still. Copy is hidden for recordings, because Chrome's clipboard accepts only PNG, SVG and text.
Fixed
  • MP4 export was pinned to H.264 Baseline level 3.0, which tops out at 720×576 by the spec — every larger export was mislabelled, and both CABAC and the 8×8 transform were given up, the two things that matter most for the hard edges in page text. It now negotiates High 5.2, then Main 5.1, then Baseline 3.0.
  • Exporting at 15 fps threw away every other frame of a 30 fps capture.
v1.5.1

A packaging and performance pass between the social-frames release and recording.

Packaging & polish

Changed
  • Extension files are packaged at the archive root, as the Chrome Web Store expects.
  • Faster editor navigation after a Capture Visible Tab.
  • The customization inspector uses page scrolling instead of an internal scroll container.
v1.5.0

A share-ready editor update: six original social layouts, a visual frame gallery, complete viewport capture, a local wallpaper library, direct control of every canvas edge and a full-height inspector.

Social frames & direct canvas control

Added
  • Visual frame gallery. Nine preview cards make every option visible before selection: frameless, macOS light and dark, Photo Feed, Micro Post, Professional Update, Story, Short Video and Carousel.
  • Six original social layouts. Platform-neutral post designs with editable display name, handle, caption, professional role and carousel count—familiar without copied branding or assets.
  • Direct four-edge canvas resizing. Drag the top, right, bottom or left edge to change the outer background while preserving the screenshot's rendered size. Keyboard controls and live dimension announcements are included.
  • Twenty-one local wallpapers. Abstract macOS-inspired color flows and Windows-inspired scenes join the existing gradients, patterns, Auto palette, uploads and image URLs.
Changed
  • Capture Visible Area now preserves the complete browser viewport instead of center-cropping it to 4:3 before the editor opens.
  • The wallpaper picker now expands to its natural full height instead of using an internal scrollbar.
  • The right customization inspector now fills the available viewport height while keeping tabs and export actions visible as the active controls scroll.
  • Manual canvas dimensions and exact content width persist across editor sessions and exports.
v1.4.0

A visual editor refresh with curated system-inspired gradients, ratio-locked capture shortcuts, tabbed controls and more polished share-ready defaults.

Beautiful by default

Added
  • Seventeen additional curated gradients. Color-faithful tributes to familiar macOS and Windows wallpaper palettes expanded the collection to 31 gradients.
  • Ratio-locked area capture. Hold Shift while dragging for 4:3 or Alt for 16:10 selections.
  • Tabbed controls. Background, Frame, Annotate and Style organize the editor while Copy, Share and Download stay within reach.
Changed
  • Share-ready defaults moved to a 4:3 canvas, 90% content size, softer corners and a layered shadow shared by preview and export.
  • Background choices were grouped into Gradients and Patterns with the Auto sampler, alongside a warmer light-mode presentation.
v1.3.0

A one-click toolbar menu, first-run onboarding, clearer capture errors and optional opt-in analytics — making Screenshot Framer easier to find and use. Fully backward compatible with v1.2.

Discoverability & onboarding

Added
  • One-click toolbar menu. Click the Screenshot Framer icon for a quick menu — Capture area, Capture full page, or Quote card from selected text — no right-click needed. The context menu still works exactly as before.
  • First-run welcome page. A short, friendly walkthrough on install: how to pin the extension and the three ways to capture, so new users aren't left guessing.
  • Clearer capture errors. Trying to grab a page that can't be captured — like chrome://, the Web Store or the PDF viewer — now shows a plain-language message instead of failing silently, with an icon badge as a fallback. Dragging too small a selection tells you to drag a larger area.
  • Review prompt. A one-time, easily dismissed nudge to leave a review after a couple of successful exports — never on your first.
  • Optional usage analytics — opt-in and off by default. If you choose to turn it on from the welcome screen, Screenshot Framer sends only anonymous event counts (e.g. a capture started, an export finished). Your screenshots, page content and URLs are never sent. You can turn it off again anytime.
Changed
  • Friendlier, more actionable wording on export, clipboard, print and CORS messages.
  • Privacy policy updated to describe the new opt-in analytics in full.
v1.2.0

Customize panel, quote-text framer, a full annotation toolkit, draw-to-redact for hiding sensitive info, and a 13-platform share menu — all backward compatible with v1.1.

Customize panel & the feature pack

Added
  • Customize panel. A floating sidebar puts every tuning control — annotation tools, radius, shadow, aspect ratio, watermark, edge rulers — in one place. Light and dark theming throughout.
  • macOS Safari Dark frame. A dark companion to the original Safari frame. Pick light or dark from the frame dropdown.
  • Quote-text framer. Right-click highlighted text and the selection becomes a typography-styled quote card with the source URL — perfect for Pinterest, Instagram, blogs and newsletters. Five fonts (Georgia, Playfair Display, Nunito, Caveat, Dancing Script), text color, background color, a Glass slider for partial wallpaper bleed-through, a None toggle for a full cutout, and an optional decorative quotation glyph.
  • Annotation toolbar. Ten drawing tools — rectangle, diamond, ellipse, arrow, line, pen / freehand, text, step counter, insert image, eraser — plus a color picker and Clear All. Keyboard-driven.
  • Draw-to-redact. Drag anywhere on the canvas to draw blur or solid blocks over sensitive info — emails, API keys, account numbers, anything you don't want shipping. Click a block to remove it.
  • Custom watermark. Your text, your opacity, four corner placements. Persists across exports so your work stays credited.
  • Custom aspect ratio. 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 1:1 and MacBook presets, plus a free-form input for any size you need.
  • Pattern backgrounds. Thirteen new pattern fills — dots, grid, diagonal and horizontal lines, stripes, diamonds, checkerboard, plus, triangles, chevron — joining the curated gradient set.
  • Auto background. A single click samples colors from your screenshot and generates a matching backdrop.
  • Color picker tool. Click anywhere on the canvas to extract a color; copies as HEX, RGB, HSL or OKLCH from a floating chip.
  • Edge rulers. Horizontal and vertical canvas rulers for pixel-precise alignment, toggleable from the panel.
  • PDF, SVG and Print export. Single-page PDF (no external service), SVG vector container for Figma and Illustrator, and a native print mode.
  • 4K, 8K and custom-width export. Joining the existing 1× and 2× Retina presets, with a separate JPG / WebP quality slider.
  • 13-platform share menu. Native compose flows for X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Reddit, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Telegram, WhatsApp, Instagram, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and Email. Image lands on your clipboard, the platform opens.
  • Drag-and-drop & clipboard paste on the result page to swap the framed image without re-capturing.
Changed
  • Result-page background and layout refresh — softer canvas tones, hairline borders, and consistent dark/light theming throughout the new customize panel.
  • Quote-cards, screenshots, pasted images and dropped files now share a single render pipeline.
  • "Copy with Quick Frame" right-click entry hidden by default while we evaluate the workflow.
v1.1.2

The first widely-shipped release on the Chrome Web Store — right-click to a framed screenshot in 30 seconds.

Initial public release

Added
  • Right-click area capture — drag-to-select any region on any website.
  • Right-click visible-tab capture for full-viewport snapshots.
  • macOS Safari frame with traffic lights, address bar and lock icon.
  • MacBook menu bar overlay for that authentic desktop look.
  • Gradient backgrounds with custom-image upload and image-URL paste.
  • Corner-radius and shadow sliders for live frame tuning.
  • Size slider to scale the framed image inside the canvas (30%–100%).
  • Custom URL field — type any address and it appears in the Safari bar with lock icon.
  • Copy to clipboard and 2× PNG download direct from the result page.
  • Light / dark editor theme independent of the exported image.

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