Advanced screenshotting techniques and tips

This communicating over on WoW Ladies has me intellection that we belike requirement to do a place on something I don't conceive we've ever covered before: screenshotting. Sure, they're everywhere -- almost everybody sees heaps of screenshots every azygos day, and occasionally, you crapper modify intend some real-life plunder for attractive one. But I don't undergo that we've ever actually covered the execution of how to verify one. So let's do that now.

First and foremost, attractive a screenshot is commonly extremity to your "Print Screen" key -- whenever you're activity the game, just impact that key on your keyboard, and a screenshot (in JPG info -- it utilised to be saved in TGA, but Blizzard changed that a patch ago) module exhibit up in the /Screenshots folder exclusive the World of Warcraft installation on your hard drive. Of course, on a Mac keyboard, there is no Print Screen button, so I impact mine extremity to the "Home" fix instead -- you crapper rebind it to some you poverty in the options menu. And that's just the principle -- it gets more complicated from there.

First abstract you'll belike poverty to do is pretty the screenshot up by getting every of those untidy UI elements discover of the artefact -- you crapper do that by pressing Alt-Z before you verify the shot. If you poverty to zoom artefact backwards and intend a big wide shot, you crapper either change your camera indifference in the UI, or do a lowercase cipher tweak to make it modify wider. You crapper change your recording mode, too, if you poverty to intend the prizewinning graphics you can.

And finally, addons crapper support as well. Multishot module automatically verify screenshots for you at ripe moments -- leveling, politico kills, and so on. PhotoOp module do the aforementioned thing, and modify has a playscript API that module permit you playscript screenshots whenever you want. Deathsnap module impact the fix when you expire (in case you poverty to wager what killed you?), and FreezeFrame seems rattling engrossing -- it has every sorts of extra options to add to your images, including putting a walk at the bottom of which character you're on, and where you were when the effort was taken.

As for making your screenshots countenance better, you strength modify poverty to invoke to tralatitious picture composition tips for that one. But the addons and UI tips above should impact you doing as much screenshotting as you poverty in no time.

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