How to Capture Screenshots from Mac Window Without a Shadow

When you take a screenshot of a window on your Mac, it also captures the shadow of the window. It looks great, but it might not be ideal if you share a screenshot online or for work. Although the drop shadow adds a visually pleasing border, but more often than not, the effect makes it more difficult for screenshots to align properly in documents and webpages due to the shadow around them.

First, use the Command+Shift+4 keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot of a window.
The window will be chosen. Presently, hold the Option key when you press the Left Mouse catch to take the screen capture.
When you’re in your desktop you’ll see that there’s no shadow on the screenshot!

Use the Terminal command to disable shadows on all window screenshots

Open the Terminal app
You can do this by clicking on Cmd+Space to search for Spotlight. You can find it in the Launchpad, too.
paste in the following statement, after this click the Return/Enter key.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true

To save the preference, paste the following line and press the Return/Enter key.

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killall SystemUIServer

And this is it. Your window screenshots won’t have a shadow anymore!
If you want to reverse this change in the future, please use the following lines of code.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool false

killall SystemUIServer

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