{"id":109715,"date":"2016-11-07T08:54:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T06:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=109715"},"modified":"2016-11-07T08:55:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T06:55:38","slug":"how-to-take-beautiful-pc-screenshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/109715-how-to-take-beautiful-pc-screenshots","title":{"rendered":"How to take beautiful PC screenshots"},"content":{"rendered":"

While most PC gamers have taken screenshots before, it’s usually to record valuable information we may need to remember later, such as a secret message or game crash.<\/p>\n

Occasionally, we may take a quick screenshot of a funny moment or save a replay of an awesome play, but most gamers don’t fire up a game for the sole purpose of taking screenshots.<\/p>\n

Well, a few dedicated artists do, and they capture absolutely beautiful images.<\/p>\n

Video game photography is a hidden art which works similarly to regular photography, although the screenshotter has a variety of graphics options and camera angles at their disposal, which allows for unique images.<\/p>\n

Below are some basics to help you take amazing video game screenshots:<\/p>\n

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Screenshot Techniques<\/h3>\n

Quality is one of the mosty important aspects of taking good screenshots, as a 720p image is not going to look nearly as good as a 4K picture.<\/p>\n

If you wish to increase the resolution of your screenshots, use either Nvidia’s Dynamic Super Resolution<\/strong><\/a> AMD’s Virtual Super Resolution<\/a><\/strong> features respectively.<\/p>\n

The next important step to consider is your choice of capture software, and there are a variety of options available.<\/p>\n

Luckily, any software that captures in a lossless .PNG format will work, including GeForce Experience and MSI Afterburner.<\/p>\n

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Software and Effects<\/h3>\n

While some screenshot artists don’t use any effects whatsoever in order to retain the in-game atmosphere, you may want to add effects to brighten up your images.<\/p>\n

Any photo editor software such as Photoshop can be used to change the tone of your screenshots and hide any artifacts or aliasing.<\/p>\n

Whether you use editing software or not, the realistic graphics of today’s PC games mean that the art of taking screenshots is very similar to conventional photography, albeit inside a 3D graphics engine.<\/p>\n

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Artwork<\/h3>\n

Check out some examples of professional screenshots below, courtesy of Duncan Harris’<\/a> Dead End Thrills<\/a><\/strong> blog.<\/p>\n

All images are captured in-game with no after-effects applied (Click to view full-size images).<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"witcher-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"skyrim-screenshot-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"skyrim-screenshot-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"secret-world\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"fallout-4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"eve-online\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"batman-arkham-knight\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"skyrim-screenshot-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now read:\u00a0The best free software for learning to make video games<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take a look inside the hidden art of video game photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":109721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[18559,1534,893,15309],"class_list":["post-109715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-pc","tag-capture","tag-how-to","tag-screenshots","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}