Help:Taking Screenshots

Screenshots are a vital part of the Wiki, due to it covering a game. So there needs to be some tips when it comes to taking screenshots for use on articles.

Taking the screenshot

Thanks to updates with Steam, players can now take screenshots within a game and upload them either during or after play onto their Steam Cloud area. These can be made open to anyone to view, or restrict to friends only. They are also saved onto your local drive.

Windows Users

When in-game, players can press the Screenshot key to take the screen capture. By default this is F12, however if you have changed the button and are not sure what it now is, go into Steam's settings and look under the "In-game" tab you can then change the key if needed.

In Windows, Steam saves Portal 1 screenshots to \Steam\userdata\37546679\760\remote\400\screenshots. Steam saves Portal 2 screenshots to \Steam\userdata\37546679\760\remote\620\screenshots.

Steam saves screenshots as a .jpg image file, this can be easily uploaded onto the wiki, or trimmed down within a image editor to focus on one object.

Mac

By pressing Shift+Cmd+3 at the same time. OSX will automatically take a full screen screenshot. Any images taken via this method will appear on the Desktop.