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The best way to take screenshots in game

synthozoicsynthozoic Posts: 61 Arc User
edited April 2014 in Costumes and Concepts
I'm on a Steam account playing Champions and I was wondering what's the best way to take nice clear screenshots of characters in game?

I do this with F12 and PRTSCR and the result is pretty muddy. What am I doing wrong here? Any tips?
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  • bluhmanbluhman Posts: 2,410 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Rebind sysrq to just be Screenshot.

    /bind sysrq Screenshot

    By default, the sysrq(aka PrtScn) key is bound to take a JPG screenshot - which is a lossy image format. Steam's screenshot system is the same way. However, just using /Screenshot takes the picture in a TGA format, generating a larger image with no compression.

    The only issue from there is getting a program to open the image. Usually, the best thing to use is Irfanview for basic viewing and re-saving as a more accessible format.
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  • solardynamosolardynamo Posts: 139 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I use this myself...

    /bind sysrq renderscale 2 $$ screenshot_jpg $$ renderscale 1

    Changes it to a higher render, takes a screenshot and then changes it back.
    inS6EEjxY0bBVXuqyVWD1NidpgxpduJXW5_YMzhL0zc?size=1280x960&size_mode=2
  • synthozoicsynthozoic Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    bluhman wrote: »
    Rebind sysrq to just be Screenshot.

    /bind sysrq Screenshot

    By default, the sysrq(aka PrtScn) key is bound to take a JPG screenshot - which is a lossy image format. Steam's screenshot system is the same way. However, just using /Screenshot takes the picture in a TGA format, generating a larger image with no compression.

    Luckily I have GIMP on my system and am experienced with using it. So TGA shouldn't be a problem for me to edit and convert to other formats. Thanks for the tip!

    solardynamo wrote: »
    I use this myself...

    /bind sysrq renderscale 2 $$ screenshot_jpg $$ renderscale 1

    Changes it to a higher render, takes a screenshot and then changes it back.

    Good tip!

    /bind sysrq renderscale 2 $$ screenshot_tga $$ renderscale 1

    Is the above kosher syntax to tell the application to save the shot as TGA?
  • bluhmanbluhman Posts: 2,410 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Just screenshot works. By default, prtscn's bound to do screenshot_jpg, so the TGA version, in terms of macros, is actually the default!
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  • solardynamosolardynamo Posts: 139 Arc User
    edited April 2014

    /bind sysrq renderscale 2 $$ screenshot_jpg $$ renderscale 1

    /bind sysrq renderscale 2 $$ screenshot $$ renderscale 1

    As bluhman above said...here's the jpg version and the tga versions of the code.

    I have tested the jpg (renderscale 2) versus the tga (normal render) and in photoshop they are identical FYI. Not sure on tga (render 2) for quality though.
    inS6EEjxY0bBVXuqyVWD1NidpgxpduJXW5_YMzhL0zc?size=1280x960&size_mode=2
  • synthozoicsynthozoic Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    bluhman wrote: »
    Just screenshot works. By default, prtscn's bound to do screenshot_jpg, so the TGA version, in terms of macros, is actually the default!
    solardynamo wrote: »
    As bluhman above said...here's the jpg version and the tga versions of the code.

    Thanks to you both for clearing this up for me. The difference in shots is definitely noticable.
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