# A "Show preview" checkbox when capturing screenshots
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-show-preview-checkbox-when-capturing-screenshots/9964
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [July 1, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-show-preview-checkbox-when-capturing-screenshots/9964 "2022-07-01T19:13:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@LeeAlacoque](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/LeeAlacoque)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-show-preview-checkbox-when-capturing-screenshots/9964/1 "2022-07-01T19:13:57Z")
This is mainly for raytracing renders. After initially adjusting your settings, it does a full render which takes a decent amount of time. Then once you go through the capture screenshot procedure, it seems to render over again several times even if you haven’t changed anything. I assume this is to show exactly what screenshot you’re going to get, but with raytracing on it’s extremely tedious. I think a solution would just be to have a “Show preview” checkbox that’s off by default. If you want to update the render, you can turn it on. This would prevent unnecessarily rendering the same thing multiple times.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-show-preview-checkbox-when-capturing-screenshots/9964/2 "2022-07-04T09:19:19Z")
That is an interesting idea @LeeAlacoque !
FYI @timothee.chabat @Dave_DeMarle
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### Author:  [@timothee.chabat](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/timothee.chabat)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2022, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-show-preview-checkbox-when-capturing-screenshots/9964/3 "2022-07-06T08:36:38Z")
I totally agree. Maybe putting the render mode to “interactive” would be enough ? Or maybe forcing the number of samples per pixel to a low numbers.