How to upload screenshots from my disk?

[Meiying 美莹]

Im making a unique profile, you can see, and how to upload steam screenshots that i got from internet? Who will help will get 3 coupons.

[Tev]

What you upload should be your own creations.

[Meiying 美莹]

Originally posted by Teutep:

What you upload should be your own creations.

I know thats mine, i uploaded them on one forum and want to upload here, what to do?

[Tev]

The easy route is to upload them as artwork here:
http://steamcommunity.com/my/images/ -> Top right: [Upload artwork]

Otherwise I'd add a non-Steam -game, name it the game you're wanting to upload the screenshots for. Take a screenshot in the non-Steam -game. Click [View > Screenshots], and select the non-Steam -game -> [Show on disk]

Turn the images you've downloaded into .jpg format (i.e. by saving them as JPEG with Paint) and name them after the modification date (can be found under its file properties)

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_x.jpg

For example, October 29th, 2016 - 13:46:30 (1:46:30 PM) would be

20161029134630_1.jpg

Then place that in both the screenshots and its thumbnails -subfolder.

Restart Steam and see if it picks them up in the manager.

[Meiying 美莹]

Originally posted by Teutep:

The easy route is to upload them as artwork here:
http://steamcommunity.com/my/images/ -> Top right: [Upload artwork]

Otherwise I'd add a non-Steam -game, name it the game you're wanting to upload the screenshots for. Take a screenshot in the non-Steam -game. Click [View > Screenshots], and select the non-Steam -game -> [Show on disk]

Turn the images you've downloaded into .jpg format (i.e. by saving them as JPEG with Paint) and name them after the modification date (can be found under its file properties)

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_x.jpg

For example, October 29th, 2016 - 13:46:30 (1:46:30 PM) would be

20161029134630_1.jpg

Then place that in both the screenshots and its thumbnails -subfolder.

Restart Steam and see if it picks them up in the manager.

I'll try thx

[Tev]

This is another way (the uploaded content doesn't necessarily have to be a .gif -file):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=693118839

Personally I usually just end up making my own screenshot entries under the screenshots.vdf -file. While it's more work, it's a sure way it will work.

This by adding the files in the folder, opening up the screenshots.vdf with WordPad. Adding the entry manually in there. Pretty straightforward, only things you really need to know is that you can copy hscreenshot from another screenshot entry and you can get the "UNIX Timestamp" for the creation line by using websites like: http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm

[Meiying 美莹]

Originally posted by Teutep:

The easy route is to upload them as artwork here:
http://steamcommunity.com/my/images/ -> Top right: [Upload artwork]

This is another way to upload screenshots:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=693118839

Otherwise I'd add a non-Steam -game, name it the game you're wanting to upload the screenshots for. Take a screenshot in the non-Steam -game. Click [View > Screenshots], and select the non-Steam -game -> [Show on disk]

Turn the images you've downloaded into .jpg format (i.e. by saving them as JPEG with Paint) and name them after the modification date (can be found under its file properties)

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_x.jpg

For example, October 29th, 2016 - 13:46:30 (1:46:30 PM) would be

20161029134630_1.jpg

Then place that in both the screenshots and its thumbnails -subfolder.

Restart Steam and see if it picks them up in the manager.

what is -subfolder?

[Tev]

It's a folder within a folder.

Just means "screenshots\thumbnails\"

(I seriously wish people didn't quote me before I edit stuff in or out.)

[Meiying 美莹]

Originally posted by Teutep:

It's a folder within a folder.

Just means "screenshots\thumbnails\"

(I seriously wish people didn't quote me before I edit stuff in or out.)

It says 'There was an error uploading screenshot. Steam Cloud may be temporary unavailable'

[Tev]

Originally posted by Hoilx:

Originally posted by Teutep:

It's a folder within a folder.

Just means "screenshots\thumbnails\"

(I seriously wish people didn't quote me before I edit stuff in or out.)

It says 'There was an error uploading screenshot. Steam Cloud may be temporary unavailable'

This is something I forgot to mention (since it wasn't always the case), but could you make a copy of the said screenshot and add _vr to its filename?

Like,

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_x_vr.jpg

This only needs to be in the screenshot -folder.

Alternative to this is to remove the content under the said screenshot's vrfilename -entry in the screenshot.vdf -file. Which practically delivers the same result.

[Meiying 美莹]

Originally posted by Teutep:

Originally posted by Hoilx:

It says 'There was an error uploading screenshot. Steam Cloud may be temporary unavailable'

This is something I forgot to mention (since it wasn't always the case), but could you make a copy of the said screenshot and add _vr to its filename?

Like,

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_x_vr.jpg

This only needs to be in the screenshot -folder.

Alternative to this is to remove the content under the said screenshot's vrfilename -entry in the screenshot.vdf -file. Which practically delivers the same result.

Still not working =(

[Tev]

Well, I literally just had to do it myself to ensure I was up-to-date with the VR -tag and I managed to upload this just fine.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=789226113

So, let's pretend your x screenshot was taken in Team Fortress 2 but you only have it on your disk. Let's pretend its modification date (under its file properties) is October 21st, 2016 - 14:27:30 (completely random, it's an example.)

Your screenshots should be located like this,

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\5836463\760\remote\440\screenshots\20161021142730_1.jpg

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\5836463\760\remote\440\screenshots\20161021142730_1_vr.jpg

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\5836463\760\remote\440\screenshots\thumbnails\20161021142730_1.jpg

Then you'd restart Steam and you should be able to upload them.

[overkill17]

Originally posted by Tev:

Well, I literally just had to do it myself to ensure I was up-to-date with the VR -tag and I managed to upload this just fine.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=789226113

So, let's pretend your x screenshot was taken in Team Fortress 2 but you only have it on your disk. Let's pretend its modification date (under its file properties) is October 21st, 2016 - 14:27:30 (completely random, it's an example.)

Your screenshots should be located like this,

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\5836463\760\remote\440\screenshots\20161021142730_1.jpg

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\5836463\760\remote\440\screenshots\20161021142730_1_vr.jpg

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\5836463\760\remote\440\screenshots\thumbnails\20161021142730_1.jpg

Then you'd restart Steam and you should be able to upload them.

Thanks indeed, Tev. Even after all these years, your solution still worked for me. I did encounter the problem faced by the other poster but following your updated solution helped me successfully upload a screenshot online.