I like it, too, but the fellow for whom I was doing some screenshots a while ago hated it. What did I do? I matched my style to his paycheck.
The cloud effect that Stuart Burnfield reported sounds good, too.
I feel that it can sometimes be important to help the user locate the item in question, either by words or by pictures that present the context. Merely showing the item itself snipped from the background is perhaps less than useless. "Press the Ctrl [CTRL] Key." Like, yecch.
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