Introduction
After many years, Wei Jin discovered the entrance to the Peach Blossom Spring, only to find that the tranquil village with intertwined paths and distant dogs and chickens was no longer there. After six months, we meet again. Fellow cultivators, how have you been? A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality has stopped updating.
Since the release of the initial Longshot video, I’ve received a lot of feedback. Based on those suggestions, I’ve worked diligently over the past months to develop new features like pinned image annotations, customizable toolbars, and screenshot history recall. I’d like to give special thanks to stevenxfile, o给o, and 宇多源, some of the enthusiastic users on Bilibili. Below, I’ll introduce each of these new features.
New Features Overview
1. Pinned Image Annotations
This was the most requested feature. Now, after pinning a screenshot with Longshot, you can press the spacebar to bring up the annotation toolbar. You can annotate pinned images with rectangles, arrows, mosaics, highlights, steps, and fluorescent markers.
You can also open images from Finder as pinned images for annotation. After editing, you can copy the annotated image directly to the clipboard for use or export it to disk. Additionally, Command + Plus/Minus shortcuts have been added to adjust pinned image transparency, allowing better blending with desktop backgrounds.
2. Customizable Toolbar
The Longshot annotation toolbar contains many tools—shapes, arrows, mosaics, highlights, steps, measurements, color pickers, text, and more, over 15 in total. This makes the toolbar quite lengthy. Since not all features are used frequently by every user, some might not be used at all. Thus, customizable toolbars came into play. After all, simplicity and efficiency are our goals.
Starting today, you can go to Longshot’s Preferences > Screenshot > Toolbar tab to customize which annotation features are displayed and their order according to your habits and usage frequency.
3. Enhanced Screenshot Output Features
First, you can now customize the naming format for saved screenshots. It can be set to use combinations of dates, months, or years, or even auto-incrementing numbers. Second, an auto-save feature has been added. By enabling it in Preferences, you can designate a folder where all screenshots will be automatically saved.
4. Other Interesting Additions
First, you can now use the mouse scroll wheel or two-finger gestures on a touchpad to adjust the thickness and size of rectangles, arrows, lines, and text—very convenient. Second, the comma and period keys allow you to recall screenshot history. You’ll never have to worry about missing a screenshot again, and if you use multiple screens, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find that history recall works across screens.
Additionally, dark and light modes have been added, so your screenshots can be eye-catching when needed and eye-friendly when necessary. A built-in language switch now allows you to toggle between English and Chinese without restarting Longshot. Furthermore, support for URL Scheme API has been added. With these APIs, Longshot can integrate with other applications. For example, uPic uses the URL Scheme API to upload screenshots directly to image hosts and generate URLs for use.
Finally, screenshot performance has been optimized, especially in multi-screen setups. Longshot now handles them effortlessly. Of course, we’ve also fixed numerous bugs, significantly improving stability.
Conclusion
In the end, the seasons change, and the peach blossoms continue to bloom. The once lively village with intertwined paths and distant sounds of life is now a quiet peach grove. That’s all for this video. I wish you all the best. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell. Until we meet again, I hope A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality will have resumed.