Magpie 1.1: a loupe, and screenshots that look presentable

Two additions to the annotation editor in Magpie 1.1, aimed at the two things people do with a screenshot after they take it: point at something, and make it look like it was meant to be shared.

The magnifier is a real annotation tool now. Drop a loupe onto a capture to blow up the detail you're talking about, with per-ring move and resize handles and a single arrow connector running from the lens back to the part of the image it came from. It's the fastest way to show somebody a two-pixel misalignment without making them squint or asking them to zoom.

Backdrop gives an annotated capture padding, a background, rounded corners and a shadow. A raw screenshot pasted into a doc or a tweet always looks like a raw screenshot. This is the difference between that and something that looks composed, and it's four controls rather than a trip through an image editor.

Rectangles and ellipses gained fill styles and rounded corners of their own, and recording picked up a format panel with a quick-look preview so you can see what you're about to export before you export it.

Two smaller things that take the friction out of annotating. Freehand and highlighter strokes smooth themselves when you release, so a shaky circle drawn with a trackpad comes out looking deliberate. And every annotation tool remembers its own style, so setting your arrow to thick red doesn't leave your highlighter thick and red the next time you reach for it.

Magpie is $9.99 one time for 3 Macs, with a 14-day full trial and screenshots free forever after that. Grab it from the Magpie page or with Homebrew: brew install --cask skulkworks/tap/magpie. Full details are in the changelog.