How To Take Screenshots With HDR Enabled

Do you like using HDR with Steam games, but your screenshots look washed-out? This guide is here to fix this issue!

INTRODUCTION

Do your screenshots look washed-out with HDR enabled?
Here is a comparison between a Steam screenshot and a screenshot made using this guide.

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TUTORIAL

Recommended Method

1. Enable HDR in OBS (use a Game Capture source): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hei0r0RvE94&t=262s
   
2. OBS settings -> Video -> (Scaled) Output Resolution & Base (Canvas) Resolution: set to your prefered screenshot resolution, probably your monitor's resolution
   
3. OBS settings -> Hotkeys -> Screenshot (Output): set your favorite hotkey, don't use F12
   
4. Close Steam (completely)
   
5. Download and open SteaScree[steascree.download]
   
6. Select your game ID and user ID, add your OBS screenshots to the queue, then click on "Copy screenshots to game directory" and lastly click on "Prepare screenshots for uploading..."
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. Open Steam and upload your Screenshots

Alternative Method (if SteaScree isn't working for you)

1. Enable HDR in OBS (use a Game Capture source): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hei0r0RvE94&t=262s
   
2. OBS settings -> Video -> (Scaled) Output Resolution & Base (Canvas) Resolution: set to your prefered screenshot resolution, probably your monitor's resolution
   
3. OBS settings -> Hotkeys -> Screenshot (Output): set your favorite hotkey, don't use F12
   
4. Convert your screenshots to JPEG: https://png2jpg.com
   
5. Put the JPEG files in the Steam screenshots folder (can be opened via Steam screenshot viewer)
   
6. Use "Bulk Rename Utility" for the JPEGs with the following settings: replace “-” with “”, remove first 11, remove from 9 to 9, suffix “_1”
   
7. Restart Steam
   
8. Upload your Screenshots

NOTES

• The Windows Game Bar is NOT working correctly for Elden Ring HDR screenshots! Both, the HDR and SDR versions, look way too bright and oversaturated.
  
• You have to keep OBS running in the background, while the Game Capture source is enabled and visible (like if you would stream or record the game)
  
• As far as I know, Steam doesn't support jpeg files with HDR metadata, so this HDR to SDR conversion is the closest you may get to true HDR on Steam screenshots.
  
• The thumbnail folder can be ignored if you're manually moving files.

[P4WNDZ0RZ]

The problem with Gamebar screenshots is that the game actually turns off HDR for a split second as it takes the screenshot.... It's extremely infuriating. It would probably work in Windowed Borderless, if HDR worked in WIndowed Borderless. Thing is defocusing Elden Ring in any way turns off it's HDR and Gamebar capture brings up some kind of overlay for a split second when taking a screenshot and it captures exactly that moment.

Also this method, not working well at all, raised black levels, clipped highlights and compressed colours on top, it's basically doing every worst thing you can do to a HDR screenshot to take away from it's accuracy...

[Sparhawk]

Hi, this did not solve my problem. Screenshots still come out as if saturation been turned down.

[Skynet]

Thumbnails can easily be created by copying created screenshiots into respective folder and cropping them to 200x112 resolution before the upload. And then restarting Steam.

[Preks]

Hi, is a game capture really needed for this?