Screenshot manager improvements

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

This just simple suggestion people like the previous version for some of the simple things it had until it got removed, but people do like the new added changes, but again some of the removed QoL would be nice to have back.

- Restore option to open folder to the screenshot, not sure why this option was even removed, as never know someone may want to store them locally somewhere else, or upload to another platform.

- Restore method to apply & setup caption to multiple screenshots.
In the previous screenshot manager, you can add a caption to each screenshot, then upload them all at once instead of doing each one at a time.

- Restore option to open multiple screenshots to have them side by side, or improve away to compare side by side as some people may take multiple screenshots of the same scene want to upload the best one.

- Restore display link option to screenshot when upload screenshot, in the previous version when you upload a screenshot you're given a link to view the screenshot, now there is no option to do this, and have to go to open the page to the screenshot to get the link for the screenshot.

[Ratconned]

That the steam screenshot manager needs to be criticised is a grim thing for steam and valve. It went from requiring 1 to 2 clicks per un-captioned screenshots to 4 to 5 (exact numbers). I used to have a lot of respect for steam's business model. Over the past two years, it has eroded with their constant bad action until it reached 0 with this change. Respect steam/valve? Haha.

[atreidesLC]

Please restore option to open the folder where the screenshots are, it's absurd to remove that.

[Touschka]

Originally posted by atreidesLC:

Please restore option to open the folder where the screenshots are, it's absurd to remove that.

I agree! If I hadn't found a post where someone mentioned that you have to right-click on a screenshot and choose "open screenshot location", I would still be floundering. The interface for screenshots was perfect before: with a preview of the one you've selected. Now they are all huge pictures and is very hard to navigate :(

[Kangaxx]

Yes. New manager is awful

[lastbreath]

Just bring back old screenshot manager and that's all. New UI is literally unusable. I used to edit my screenshots a lot and now I can't open them in Windows editor by simple double clicking. I have to open the folder, then to search for a screen and only then I can open it with editor. This is ridiculous!

[Ratconned]

Originally posted by lastbreath:

Just bring back old screenshot manager and that's all. New UI is literally unusable. I used to edit my screenshots a lot and now I can't open them in Windows editor by simple double clicking. I have to open the folder, then to search for a screen and only then I can open it with editor. This is ridiculous!

They probably won't, from the way they handled all the other things they "improved"

[Mailer]

I will also add that the new screenshot management system has caused some problems in the past with trying to remove screenshots that Steam doesn't think are present on the drive anymore, so they should probably look over the method of syncing present screenshots with what is actually there.
In general the screenshot manager has regressed, as did the built in player and server browser on Steam, so it would be nice to see some of these features restored.

[AstrAy]

Plus i also liked how the old manager rearranged the uploaded screenshots making it easier to find the ones that were yet to be uploaded..

[Ratconned]

Originally posted by AstrAy:

Plus i also liked how the old manager rearranged the uploaded screenshots making it easier to find the ones that were yet to be uploaded..

yes, very thoughtful

[Lar Dass]

HOW HAS IT GOTTEN EVEN WORSE???? NOW TO CAPTION YOUR SHOTS YOU HAVE TO DO IT AT ONE TIME AND UPLOAD IT THERE AND THEN WHAT IS THIS?

Valve needs to fire these people....

[mimar]

Give us an OPTION to use the PREVIOUS S/Shot Manager.

[Ratconned]

Originally posted by mimar:

Give us an OPTION to use the PREVIOUS S/Shot Manager.

People have asked for this for every bad change they made in the past few years. Not least of all the UI change. They didn't.

[Didz]

The new manager is next to useless compared to the old profile based screenshot manage. I've already suggested a Setting to opt-out, or opt-back to the in profile screenshot manager, or as least a button on the new feature to switch back to view in profile mode.

[AustrAlien2010]

It would most likely be easier to just let users make use of whatever screenshot-software they want, and let them upload those screenshots to Steam in the same way as artwork.

Why should they be made to use the clunky Steam software for it, if there are so many tools that do a much better job at it, and they could also make screenshots with?


The only good of Steam screenshots was that you could see which mods, addons, and players were used in the screenshots. But the Steam screenshot feature lost that functionality ages ago. And without that functionality, there's no point to using this feature anymore.


It's probably easier to upload screenshots as artwork. Then you do not have to struggle with a screenshot manager that doesn't even function offline.

[jas385]

The most ridiculous change for me is that you can no longer caption screenshots without uploading them - and worse, captions no longer appear on local screenshots that had them. The captions still exist in your Steam User Data folder in a file called "screenshots.vdf", which can be opened with any text editor.

So, what I've done is copied all my Steam screenshots elsewhere and copied the captions from that index back into the pictures using Windows' built-in photo viewer (which saves them to the jpg metadata, so they'll stay with the files if you ever move them).

I'd have gone ahead and uploaded the screenshots and put the captions back that way, but then it changes the displayed dates and times to when they were uploaded rather than when actually taken. That's really annoying since I use those screenshots to remember when I was at certain points in my games.