Pro-Tip: Screenshotting

[Kiara1]

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Maybe you can help me out, I had never heard of it until I saw this thread so I downloaded it to try it out.
for some reason it doesn't save the screenshots for me
It says the screenshots will be saved in the same location the files are but I just can't get it to work

Help please?


Edit:
I upload a lot of pictures to instagram and it's great to edit your picture just a little but can still make it look so nice

[dayspring83]

This thread is wonderful so far...thanks everyone!

does anyone have tips for taking pictures while your character is singing? i keep missing the exact moment I want because the client wont let you repeatedly mash the print screen button.

[Keydah]

Maybe you can help me out, I had never heard of it until I saw this thread so I downloaded it to try it out.
for some reason it doesn't save the screenshots for me
It says the screenshots will be saved in the same location the files are but I just can't get it to work

Help please?

I don't use SweetFX or FFXIV's screenshot taking tools - I use Fraps. But when I hit Print Screen on accident, it saves a picture to my D:\Games\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\game folder, where I put SweetFX. Are they going there? I have 29 (mistake) pictures sitting there in that folder, named "ffxiv.exe_DX9_20150129_234542.bmp" or whatnot.

This thread is wonderful so far...thanks everyone!

does anyone have tips for taking pictures while your character is singing? i keep missing the exact moment I want because the client wont let you repeatedly mash the print screen button.

I'm very bad at that too. I use Fraps, so it lets me take pictures far more often, but not always often enough. I, personally, just record it if I don't want to miss a specific thing then play it in VLC and take the screenshots from there because then you can replay it from the same angle as many times as you like or go back and forth half a second or whatever you need to do. It's a bit complicated, but it's better than playing the song forty times and missing the right second each time.

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A few splitscreen pics of No SweetFX vs my SweetFX
(meant to post them in my first post then fell asleep waiting for daytime...)

[NozomiKei]

Holy crap sweetfx looks amazing! I want to use it now but I'm gonna wait until after I'm kicked out of ENTM if I get in.

A note on the lock on thingy discussed in the ENTM thread: To lock on to things on pc select them then type /lockon. I haven't tried this yet but perhaps a way to get around the flaw you guys mentioned in using /lockon would be to go into your settings and disable automatically facing your target? If you do that remember to re-enable it so you don't go into titan ex as a blackmage and freak out when it won't let you attack. Using /lockon will allow you to place your character offcenter.

[Altena]

The Wind-up Sun is a great tool (as mentioned).

It can also be used to create a "lock on target" wherever you want - Especially considering that when you hide your UI, the sun becomes invisible.

So a nice tip.. Run to the "centre" of the image you want, call the minion, take a few steps back, lock on, then adjust your camera.

[desufin]

Another tool for taking good environmental "selfies" is simply have someone else take it. Regardless of what you may try with own camera adjustments and target locking, some form of pictures you'll just never be able to take better than another player will so it helps having friends in that regard.

[Sayori]

A few splitscreen pics of No SweetFX vs my SweetFX
(meant to post them in my first post then fell asleep waiting for daytime...)





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Mind sharing your sweetfx settings?

[Keydah]

Mind sharing your sweetfx settings?

[Here]'s a pastebin link to my settings.

[Chiramu]

SweetFX looks like it just increases saturation. You could play around in Photoshop to achieve a similar result from the looks of it.

[Keydah]

SweetFX looks like it just increases saturation. You could play around in Photoshop to achieve a similar result from the looks of it.

You could. SweetFX is just post-processing. It does sharpening, bloom, saturation, HDR, vibrance, FX/SMAA, etc. It does a lot of what you could do in Photoshop, it just does it in-game while you play - which makes a huge difference if you're graphically inclined. FFXIV has very dull colors. :P But as this is a thread about screenshots, not game playing, yes, you can achieve all of that (and likely more) in Photoshop, with no hit to your FPS.