Want to know how to take screenshots with Steam and where to save them? We explain what you need to know..
It can always turn out to be useful to take a screenshot on Steam while playing. Be it to look for help online for a particularly tricky puzzle or to present a particularly great achievement. We'll show you how to take and process Steam screenshots.
Taking a picture of your game is very easy on Steam: Just press the [ F12 ] key on your keyboard while playing . If you have successfully taken a screenshot, you will hear a noise and a message from Steam will appear in the lower right corner: " [Game name] Screenshot saved ".
Warning: some games have assigned a different function to this key. If no screenshot is taken, the best thing to do is to take a look at the game controls to see if this button is otherwise assigned..
If you have taken a screenshot within a game, the screenshot uploader will appear when you close the game. Here you can decide what you want to do with the captured screenshot: You can have the image " Displayed on the hard drive " and then go to the folder in which the image file is saved. You can also add text to the picture and click " Upload " to display it on your Steam profile. You can discard bad screenshots with " Delete ".
Should you ever want to access your screenshots outside of Steam, you can get there via Explorer. Go to the Steam file location (usually " Hard Drive C: \ "> " Programs (x86) "> " Steam "). There you have to open the folder " userdata " and click on the folder with the number for your Steam account. Then follow the path " 760 "> " remote "> " [Game ID number] "> " Screenshots ". If necessary, you need to try a little bit with regards to the number..
