Pro-Tip: Screenshotting

[Aldora]

Lighting can make a big difference in the atmosphere of picture. If you feel that the screenshot is too dark, or you find it a bit gloomy overall, try using the Sun Minion. It’s a minion that illuminates its immediate surroundings, but will disappear when you press the “Hide UI” key/button while it keeps illuminating its surroundings.

For example:

Without the Sun Minion:


With the Sun Minion:



Sometimes, by adding a little touch like having your character look at something else or towards the camera in a certain angle can give that little bit extra:

Set my character to the new idle position while having her sword and shield out, turned the camera behind her, have her look at the camera and then changed the position of the camera a bit so that she doesn’t look directly at the camera.


Used the same idea here.


Just like combining multiple things like poses and emotes:

Just using the “idle pose” with your weapon out.


Here i had my character face the NPC next to me (without selecting him, but using the “face camera” function) followed by the “surprised” facial expression.


Sat down at the other side of the bench, changes the idle position to where my character leans back and used /shuteyes.

[Radacci]

depends on what kind of SS you wanna take
but i see a lot of ppl taking vanity pictures, at night time, or in poorly lit rooms; wait for sunlight...
If you want to take a wet-looking selfie, you can go punch a water sprite, and have it splash you with water, so you don't need to wait for it to rain.

[dayspring83]

Is it sad I just found out about the Pause Break thing?

Nope, like I said, I accidentally found out about it. It freaked me out too because I didn't even know I fat-fingered another key. all of the sudden my character turned and looked at me. I had a Bill & Ted WHOAAAAAAA moment. Mind Blown...

[Aldora]

If you want to take a wet-looking selfie, you can go punch a water sprite, and have it splash you with water, so you don't need to wait for it to rain.

You can also use certain emotes like /disappoint and /grovel while standing in water (like fountains, lakes, rivers or even the sea). (^_~ )

[Mikita]

I often do these thing for screenshots:

• wait for the right light, time of day, weather
• try to show my character in the environment
• use various emotes or poses and try to find locations that match or enhance them
• try to get different angles... for example in battle, I may swing the camera low or to be behind the target for a different vantage point
• adjust the 3rd person camera height as appropriate for the image I want (when I have time)
• crop images so my character is not exactly in the center
• sometimes I adjust saturation or contrast afterwards, but try to do so subtly

A few images I recently posted...

[Seif]

Few questions!

I'm on ps4 can I do the "look at camera thing" in any way? Seems really cool.

I'm an artist and I love to take a lot of screenshots just like I like to take photos in real life =)
However I've found that often I want to take a shot on my mount but pressing the required buttons to make the hud disappear always dismisses the mount and by the time you fumble it back your "moment" has often passed.
Is there any way to get around this?

Can one for example macro the hud toggle instead?

[Sadana]

There is a way to put your character off center by creative use of targeting. It's been discussed over in ENTM threads, but I have yet to understand how it works. Hopefully someone else can chime in on this.

On the PS4, you use the keyboard's scroll lock key to drop the UI (I think it's L1 + click bottom left of touch pad on the controller). You will need to set up a keybind for "Face Camera". It's in the settings. I have mine set to the End key.

[Mikita]

There is a way to put your character off center by creative use of targeting. It's been discussed over in ENTM threads, but I have yet to understand how it works. Hopefully someone else can chime in on this.

If you select a target and lock on to it, then that object we be centered in the screen rather than your character. So by moving yourself or the camera around you can get yourself into various off-center positions.

I find this a bit challenging for screenshots though, since your body will always be facing the object you locked onto and you cannot swing the camera around as freely as you are normally able to. You can use the pause-break button to have your character turn his/her head to the side... bit it's still rather limited.

[Sadana]

If you select a target and lock on to it, then that object we be centered in the screen rather than your character. So by moving yourself or the camera around you can get yourself into various off-center positions.

I find this a bit challenging for screenshots though, since your body will always be facing the object you locked onto and you cannot swing the camera around as freely as you are normally able to. You can use the pause-break button to have your character turn his/her head to the side... bit it's still rather limited.

Ohhh, I see. Yeah, that was what caused me a lot of confusion. My back was always to the camera and never got a decent shot this way. :/ But I've seen some damn good screenies that used this and I couldn't figure it out. >< Maybe if I turn off that "keep camera distance" setting...

[Nexxus]

Without SweetFX:



With SweetFX:



More informations: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...weetfx_how_to/