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Under Steam > Settings > Ingame
You can also set a FPS counter.
But I cannot imagine anyone wanting to shift through and sort out the screenshots.
What would be more useful is a feature like PSN has that records that buffers the last ten or so seconds so if something amazing happened you can record it.
This is what I do, I have a gaming mouse with 10 or 12 buttons on it. 3 of them are under my thumb. One is set for mic, one is set for recording video and one is set for screenshots. I don't have to take my hands off the mouse or keyboard, or stop any of the action to take a screenshot.
This way you can take a shot of what ever you want, when ever you want without having to fill up your hard drive with lots of screenshots that you are going to delete after anyway because they don't show anything interesting. It also means you don't have to wade though hundreds or even thousands of screenshots every time you play a game just to find that one you liked.
I haven't used it yet myself but I believe both AMD and Nvidia have screen recording software in their drivers that when setup will do like cinedine mentioned. It will keep the last 10 or 20 seconds of game play as video and then you can press record to actually get it on video. This would allow you to record something then go take a screenshot later. If it works that way, again I haven't tried it because I don't think my system is powerful enough (10 year old system). AMD's system is called relive I think, not sure what Nvidia's is called though.
The best option here if you don't want to miss anything cool, is by using recording software.
Screenshots here, just aren't going to cut it.
Uhm, okay? The storage and sorting of the screenshots is my problem and my hard drive's problem.
I'm not asking to replace the current way of taking screenshots, just adding the option. Fraps, for example, has it, and I've used it in the past and didn't mind having to go through the screenshots of my journey in a game to find the ones I like. It lets me focus on the game and also save as much of my playthrough as possible without having to record videos, which take quite a lot of space.
I personally don't see it as a waste. I like to have a lot of screenshots of my playthroughs, even if a lot of them are just regular gameplay moments with nothing too exciting.
The mouse option is a good idea, but I find it's not worth it to replace my mouse that I'm already used to just for this. Plus, it doesn't fix the problem of having to remind myself to take screenshots.
Then use recording software so that you can record everything as you play.
Lets say you have this automatic screenshot that takes one every 30 seconds. Ok... you missed a good shot that happened sometime in the middle say around 15 seconds.
Ok so you set it now to take one every 15 seconds... but you missed another good shot that happened at 7 seconds...
Ok now you set it to take one every 7 seconds... but you missed a good shot that happened at around the 4 second mark....
Do you see where I am going with this? Soon you will be taking a screenshot every second.... at that point you are just creating a slide show video.
You might as well just use recording software, and if you see a moment you want to take a screenshot of, you can go back and take a screenshot of it that way.
Having automatic screenshot built into steam is pointless. They would be better served including decent video recording, editing and compression software into Steam but they are not that kind of company. There are many options out there already for good video recording, editing and compression software, you just need to track down stuff that you like, or try using the built in stuff for AMD and Nvidia.
Steam won't add an option that only some screenshot hoarders will use.
I am not talking about disc space. I am talking about people like you who try to document a playthrough via screenshots and have hundreds of the same screesn, upload them all to Steam and then complain they reached the cap.
Also a video will actually take LESS space than a screenshot every five seconds. And if you do some basic editing and cut out the menus and loading screens even more so.
Oh yeah ... as Steam is not able to distinguish between actually playing a game and sitting idle in a menu you will have lots and lots of screenshots of them. And hundreds more from the moments you went to take a piss.
A video will only take less space if you start downsampling it and lowering the resolution, it will never look as good as a regular compressed JPG. Plus, I don't want to have it turned on the entire game, just whenever there's an action scene or something and I want to have a bunch of screenshots of that.
"screenshot hoarders" apparently that's a thing now.
Okay, first off, I wouldn't just have the thing turned on the entire game, just in the moments when I can't go around pressing F12 to take pics of a cool action scene.
Second, I'd only upload a few to the Steam servers, if any.
Third, why would you even care what I do with my screenshots? I can leave them in my hard drive, or upload them to the servers, and complain about it (which I wouldn't do, and I doubt more than 3 people have done this), or do whatever the hell I want with them, it'd be my problem, not yours.
It isn't. There are many users who upload tens of thousands of SSs and even complain when they hit the ~18.6GB limit.
After playing you can replay this footage and take screenshots out of that. You can then decide to go the easy route and upload them as artworks associated to a game or you can use one of the hundrets of guides concerning uploading screenshots that are "no real screenshots"
You don't have to record the entire time, as was pointed out, some recording software will only record the last 10 to 30 seconds of your game play, and allow you to hit the record button which will record that and right up to the point you hit the stop record button.
As for the quality, some of the recording software allow you to record uncompressed video, it takes a lot of space, and yes its generally more than screenshots, but you can still take good quality screenshots from it. Some of them can take good compressed video, and you can still get good screenshots out of them.
Many screenshot software can save in different quality. FRAPS for example saves in the best JPG quality. Some allow you to save in various quality. FRAPS can even save as uncompressed BMPs which are HUGE.
Take the video, upload it to youtube, done. Now people can see the "action" you are talking about instead of a single frozen moment in time that doesn't actually show any action or a few screenshots in a row for that "action".
Again I use FRAPs as an example, its what I used for recording my videos and taking screenshots in game unless its something I specifically wanted on Steam. The videos I have were then put through Adobe Premiere and compressed. They were not downsampled, they were not lowered in resolution either. If I recorded in 1080p thats what I uploaded them as. As for quality, considering that they were recorded on an old not so great machine, most with a video card that could just handle the gaming let alone recording and gaming, then compressed into a much smaller video, and then uploaded and compressed by youtube, I think they look pretty good. The only ones that look better are the ones sitting on my storage drive that were not compressed by Youtube. I can take a good quality screenshot of them from the video and in game and I doubt you would ever know the difference as long as the screenshot was taken by the same software.
So you have options right now...
Get a foot USB peddle that you can remap for any key and use that to take screenshots if you don't want a new mouse.
Move your screenshot button to that its within reach of your hand thats using a the keyboard.
Get a new mouse with more buttons, personally I have no idea how any gamer plays with a mouse that doesn't have at least 8 or 9 buttons on it.
Record and take screenshots later.
Use a 3rd party software to take the screenshots automatically for you.
What I find funny is that you say you want it so that you don't forget to take screenshots yet you also say you won't have it on the whole time... well if you don't have it on the whole time it means you will remember turn it on just before you want to take screenshots, if you can remember to turn it on you can remember to take a screenshot that you think is important enough that you think you need auto software to do it.
But again with that auto software if its only taking screenshots ever X amount of time, what happens in between X, you miss the screenshot... unless you take it yourself... in which point kind of makes the automatic software pointless.
Shadownplay, thats the one I was thinking of.