Is It possible to do screenshot with the Steam overlay off?

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[Zekiran]

In what game?

Do you have a paint program or a windows feature that can 'clip' and save data?

Use print screen, on your keyboard. IMMEDIATELY move from the game to the paint program, and paste the shot.

SOME games have their own independent screenshot or photo mode, so... look through their keybind options for that. Not all have one though, and some of them would save the images in a different folder than your steam userdata folders.

[S E X Y]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

In what game?

Do you have a paint program or a windows feature that can 'clip' and save data?

Use print screen, on your keyboard. IMMEDIATELY move from the game to the paint program, and paste the shot.

SOME games have their own independent screenshot or photo mode, so... look through their keybind options for that. Not all have one though, and some of them would save the images in a different folder than your steam userdata folders.

Screenshot with Steam,you know ...

[Splutty]

If you mean F12, then no, you can't do that if you don't have the Steam Overlay enabled.

Otherwise check the game's screenshot settings, or use ALT+PRTSCR to screenshot into your clipboard, which you can then paste into photoshop/gimp/lviewpro/MS Paint/Discord/whatever.

[S E X Y]

Originally posted by Splutty:

If you mean F12, then no, you can't do that if you don't have the Steam Overlay enabled.

Otherwise check the game's screenshot settings, or use ALT+PRTSCR to screenshot into your clipboard, which you can then paste into photoshop/gimp/lviewpro/MS Paint/Discord/whatever.

Does left 4 dead have that?

[Splutty]

ALT-PRTSCR should work with literally everything. It takes a 'screenshot' of your active window.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Splutty:

ALT-PRTSCR should work with literally everything. It takes a 'screenshot' of your active window.

Which again, you have to post into a program in order to actually SAVE. Otherwise, you're just spamming your system with useless clipboard stuff that vanishes the next time you click printscreen...

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Ｓ Ｅ Ｘ Ｙ:

Screenshot with Steam,you know ...

Your OP indicates without Steam overlay.

Without Steam overlay, their f12 obviously cannot exist. So... you have a choice. Use their overlay system and have it save in their file structure, or, as posted 3 times above, click printscreen or alt-printscreen and paste immediately into a paint program.

[Start_Running]

You can take screenshots in most games without the overlay. You just have to use the game's inbuilt screenshot feature. Just about every game has one, check the control keybinding or manual for the key.

[Satoru]

1) to use the steam screenshot feature the overlay must be enabled

2) you can use other screenshot programs, but they won’t be integrated into Steam

[shiroi_kiba]

screenshot with any app. lightshot, windows print, game bar etc. SteaScree to move the screeshots to steam folder

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Hit PRT SCR (above insert, delete, pageup/down on a normal keyboard) then open any graphic editing software (even MS Paint) and hit CTRL-V? I personally use a very lightweight graphic editing software named Irfanview for such purposes.

The main point of taking screenshots in Steam is that it automatically get integrated in Steam itself. It is easy to just share screenshots directly in Steam. If you save your screens outside of the client then you have to upload them as "artwork" if you wish to share them with the community.

[Steven]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.