Inserting Captured UI Elements as Objects

You can capture a UI element in an application and insert the image as an object. This is a type of capture that records a fixed area of a window (e.g., menu bar, toolbar, editor, individual button, entire window), depending on where you move your mouse and click. As you move the mouse in an application, a red border surrounds each separate region.

Like other objects, this image resides in its own layer in the frame.

How to Insert a UI Element as an Object

  1. Open the frame.

  2. Select Home > Insert Screenshot > Captured UI Element.

    Mimic minimizes and a red border surrounds each UI element as you move your cursor over it.

  3. Click the UI element that you want to capture. The image is captured and inserted into the frame as an object.
  4. To move the image object, click it and drag it to a new location on the frame.
  5. Click Save the active file. to save your work.

Note A very useful tool when working with objects is a palette, which lets you store objects for future use. For example, if you are including callouts with some frames, chances are that you'll want to use the same look and feel for all of the callouts you create. Instead of creating new callouts from scratch each time or copying them from other frames, you can create an initial model callout and then add it to a palette. Then, when you're ready to use a callout in another frame, you can just drag your model callout from the palette to the frame (and make minor changes, such as the text, from there). See Palettes.