# Draw on the screen while you record

Press ⌥⇧D during a take to circle, point at, box or highlight things. Drawings fade 3 seconds after you stop, unless you keep them.

Where to find it in the Mac app: During a take › The bar › Draw

Where to find it in the Chrome extension: During a take › The bar on the page › Draw

1. During a take, press **Draw** on the bar, or press `⌥⇧D`. The pointer becomes a pen and a tray of tools appears.
2. Pick a tool and a colour, then draw.
3. Press `Esc`, or **Draw** again, to go back to working normally.

## Tools

- **Pen**: Press `P` to pick it.
- **Highlighter**: Press `H` to pick it.
- **Arrow**: Press `A` to pick it.
- **Rectangle**: Press `R` to pick it.
- **Ellipse**: Press `O` to pick it.

- **Colours:** red, amber, yellow, teal, blue, white and black. Press `1` to `7` to pick one.
- **Line weight:** Thin, Regular, Bold. Press `[` and `]` to change it.
- **Undo** takes back the last mark, and **Clear** removes them all.
- **Keep drawings** stops them fading. Otherwise every drawing fades 3 seconds after your last mark.

## What happens to the drawings

**In the Mac app:**

The Mac app files your drawings separately from the picture. In the editor you can show or hide all of them, or leave out a single drawing, under **Cursor › Drawings** in Pro.

Turn on **Zoom to drawings** and each drawing gets a close-up, like a click. See [Drawings in the editor](https://pointercam.com/help/drawings).

**In the Chrome extension:**

In Chrome the drawing is part of the recorded page, so it is in the picture. The editor lists each drawing under **Cursor › Drawings** in Pro, and pressing one jumps to it.

> **Note:** While you draw, your key presses and scrolls go to the pen, not to the page, so nothing is typed by accident.

## Read next

- [Drawings in the editor](https://pointercam.com/help/drawings)
- [Pause, stop or discard a take](https://pointercam.com/help/recording-controls)
- [Record your screen on a Mac](https://pointercam.com/help/record-on-mac)
- [Record a browser tab](https://pointercam.com/help/record-a-tab)

Source: https://pointercam.com/help/draw-on-screen