Upload external screenshot to my library/forum discussion

[jonbrave]

Is it possible to get a screenshot I have taken externally (i.e. via Windows Shift+Windows+S) into my library, so that I can post it into a discussion and it will show "in-line", not as an external link? At the best of times I find Steam screenshot taking/uploading unbelievably complex, and, yes, I have read the "Help" Steam offers for this and Googled.

I do not have any screenshots of the game taken from Steam (partly because the game uses F12 and I can't be bothered to figure how to change that, but mostly because I only want to show a tiny area not the whole screen), so I don't know where its "screenshot folder" should be on my disk. I see screenshots from another game have gone into somewhere like "D:\Steam\userdata\143980999\760\remote\1276070\screenshots". I would be "happy" (in some sense, at least content) to create an external file of the screenshot and place it in the right directory so that I could then use Steam "upload screenshot". Is this doable?!

[Pierce Dalton]

Just upload it as artwork.

[jonbrave]

Thank you, I did that, and at least got it to work! Still don't know where it stores it etc. And after years of using Steam I still find it incredibly confusing to figure how their interface to screenshots & uploading works, and I see from the web I am not alone! But thanks for your suggestion this time.

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by jonbrave:

Thank you, I did that, and at least got it to work! Still don't know where it stores it etc. And after years of using Steam I still find it incredibly confusing to figure how their interface to screenshots & uploading works, and I see from the web I am not alone! But thanks for your suggestion this time.

Each game has a separate folder for its screenshots, but if you haven't taken any screenshot from that game yet, I guess the folder doesn't exist. So in order to do what you want, you gotta take at least one screenshot of the game through Steam, then locate that folder. Then you gotta rename the file you want to upload with the name of the screenshot taken through Steam, and replace it.

It may sound complex but it really isn't.

[jonbrave]

Yeah, that's the problem. Since F12 is eaten by game it's not so easy. I tried game's Properties hoping to find that I could change screenshot key for that game but I don't see anything there for that, am I overlooking something?

> It may sound complex but it really isn't.

Please don;t say that! ;-) It is the most complex screenshot uploading system of any forum I have ever tried to use, and the web confirms I am not alone in this! Why you cannot drag an image into the discussion in 2024 is quite beyond me!

[Pierce Dalton]

I'm pretty sure there should be a setting in Steam to change the screenshot key... yup, here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVWtSoSuQXY

[jonbrave]

That is a setting for all games. I was expecting/hoping for something per game. I am used to the default F12 working for every single other game I have, I would not want to alter that.

Nonetheless, I did change the global setting. And it confirms I have changed it. Tried Shift+Ctrl+F12. Exited game, re-entered. Still confirms that is the screenshot key. Pressed it and... nothing happens. No screenshot, neither in game nor when I exit game. Tried Ctrl+Z --- no difference, no screenshot. Yes, maybe it's because it's an old game, I don't know. All I can see is that it gets the key presses, Steam does not get them/activate the screenshot. Giving up, again... :( But thanks for your help, not your fault!

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

i wanted a quick way to access taking a screenshot...

i always use 0 on keyboard number pad
- never had a game that interfered with... and its quick..

[jonbrave]

Just to you know: changed it KeyPad+0. Steam confirms this is screenshot shortcut for game. In game, press KeyPad+0. Nothing happens. Exit game. Still no screenshot and it says no screenshots.

Game is an old game just released on Steam, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. So there you are. I will try asking in its forum whether anyone has succeeded getting it to screebshot in Steam.

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by jonbrave:

Just to you know: changed it KeyPad+0. Steam confirms this is screenshot shortcut for game. In game, press KeyPad+0. Nothing happens. Exit game. Still no screenshot and it says no screenshots.

Game is an old game just released on Steam, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. So there you are. I will try asking in its forum whether anyone has succeeded getting it to screebshot in Steam.

Whatever key you're using for the shortcut, sometimes Steam screenshots simply don't work (don't ask me why, I have no idea). That applies to any game.

[jonbrave]

LOL!

Well I have posted in the game's forum at https://steamcommunity.com/app/2204130/discussions/0/4291439538010195480/, so will see if anyone responds and it works/does not work for them.

If you read the topic title and earlier posts above here in this thread, you'll see I didn't really want to take a Steam screenshot anyway. I was trying to post a Windows Shift+Win+S snip, but that's really difficult on Steam. Per advice above I did manage it via "Artwork", but it's tremendously difficult to get an in-line image into a post one makes in game discussion forums here.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

Originally posted by jonbrave:

Just to you know: changed it KeyPad+0. Steam confirms this is screenshot shortcut for game. In game, press KeyPad+0. Nothing happens. Exit game. Still no screenshot and it says no screenshots.

Game is an old game just released on Steam, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. So there you are. I will try asking in its forum whether anyone has succeeded getting it to screebshot in Steam.

its very odd...

i have only had to change this twice... first time i started steam
and when i got a new computer and re installed steam again...
and its always worked as far as i know... keypad 0 (no +)

you dont have a lot of usb stuff plugged in...
thats the only thing that has caused a issue in the past
which was related to a lot of ghost usb devices appearing
in windows 7... win 11 not so much a problem plus
i dont unplug and plug usb stuff in that much these days..