How To Upload Photos To Steam Screenshots

Have you ever played a game and found a really squeamish spot for a screenshot but suddenly you lot forgot to enable your steam overlay, or you are one of those people who just might desire to turn it off considering it could exist affecting the functioning of your game? Or yous but want to use your ain screenshot tool, and not Steam's own?

Another reason might be that you want to take a screenshot but edit it so upload it to your steam account which is non possible with the steam screenshot tool the by using the overlay the client offers.

Nosotros have noticed that there'southward not enough attending brought to this specific topic and it's pitiful that after all these years steam hasn't implemented an alternative yet, and so we decided to create a guide that will assistance you upload screenshots from any game that you want.

1. Observe the AppID of the game.

Keep in heed that this counts for games that do not support Steam Overlay, therefore information technology's impossible to accept Screenshots by using the overlay. If you already know how to find the Screenshots Folder or the game you want to upload custom screenshots for supports the Steam Overlay yous tin can skip this role and begin from the 2nd one.

The AppID is a series of numbers that is unique for each game, there are multiple ways to find it like using the Steam Database and search for the game'southward name, through the Steam Store or by making a Shortcut, you will come across some screenshots with all three examples.

For this example, we volition utilize Apex Legends.

This screenshot is from the Steam Database or SteamDB for brusk, every bit yous can see below the AppID tin can be found below the title of the game as well as in the URL

This ane is from the steam shop, equally you lot tin can see the AppID can again be found on the URL only it tin can too exist seen at the link preview on the lesser left of the screen, in order to make this one appear yous need to hover your mouse over the name of the game that is inside the red box.

Equally for the Shortcut all you have to practice is right click on it and go to properties from the drib downwardly carte du jour, after that you tin can easily observe the AppIDunder the Web Document tab in the URL department

two. Creating a screenshot binder.

First what you need to exercise is to notice your SteamID, it's very like shooting fish in a barrel to find it and in order to practice then but click on the Friendsat the peak left of your Steam Awarding, and soAdd a Friend and so y'all will see yourFriend Code.

Here'due south a screenshot then you can empathize better.
(The friend lawmaking in the screenshot is empty for obvious reasons but yous should encounter a few numbers in in that location.)

Next, what yous need to do is find the Screenshot Folders, one manner is to navigate through your PC to Steam'south Installation Path and another ane which is easier is to apply the Steam Application once over again.

The installation path will await similar this: "C:\Programme Files (x86)\Steam"

After that, you will see a folder named userdataonce you open up information technology you will observe a few folders with numbers, this is where your SteamID number or Friend Code is going to be, one of those folders will be named after information technology.

The path to your SteamID binder will wait something like this:" C:\Programme Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<your steam id>"

The folder that the screenshots are saved is named 760, so the path the folders for the screenshots of each game is will look like this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<your steam id>\760\remote"

In order to create your ain custom Screenshot Folderyou volition demand to have the AppID of the game and create a new binder which should wait something like this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<your steam id>\760\remote\1172470"

Then inside of this folder, you have to create another one named screenshots and inside that folder you lot have to create one last folder which is going to be named thumbnails, the paths will look something like this:

"C:\Programme Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<your steam id>\760\remote\1172470\screenshots"

"C:\Programme Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<your steam id>\760\remote\1172470\screenshots\thumbnails"

Here's an image and so you lot can understand meliorate.

The easiest way though is to just go to your Steam Applicationclick View on the superlative left, then Screenshots, and subsequently the Screenshot Uploader has opened up click on Testify on Deejay.

Here'south an epitome for better understanding.

Call back that this counts only for the specific game that you lot take selected from the drop down menu where it says Show.

3. Taking and naming your screenshots.

The almost common manner of taking a screenshot is by using the Printscreen push on your keyboard, open MSPaint, and then paste it in there with CTRL + V.

There are more methods and apps that do the same like GeForce Feel or ReLive.

Every screenshot taken with Steam will accept this format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_1.jpg

So later on y'all take your ain screenshot from the game you are playing, what you lot have to do is re-create and paste it in the screenshot folder that yous created and so make a indistinguishable and copy paste it once again into the thumbnail folder.

Sometimes when you take custom screenshots steam might not be able to read information technology and then inside the screenshot folder you should brand a copy of it and add together an extra line _vr at the end.

When you take a screenshot you have to rename it as it looks like in the picture below, the first 4 numbers are the year the screenshot was taken the next ii is the month the side by side ii is the twenty-four hour period and then the next ones are going to exist the hr with the first one being hours second minutes and 3rd seconds, so to go far more clear here is an caption.

2021 is the year, 04 is the month, 05 is the day, 23 the hours, 18 the minutes and 31 the seconds.

The flick that is named 20210405231831_1.jpg must accept the exact proper name in the thumbnail folder.

Hither's an case of how how the screenshot folder should look like.

And hither'due south an example of how the thumbnail folder should wait like.

Notice how the name of the screenshots and the thumbnails are exactly the aforementioned with the only deviation being the re-create of the screenshot that has the line _vr at the stop.

Also, the thumbnail'due south dimension is 200×112 only that shouldn't worry you likewise much considering you don't really need to resize it for it to work.

If you lot want to resize the thumbnail though, the easiest way you tin can do it with MSPaint but we don't recommend using information technology for that purpose because it's not that good, instead yous should try an online app like Pixlr or gratuitous software like Gimp.

Note: An easier way of naming the screenshot you lot took is by copying the name of another screenshot from some other game and only alter ane number, we recommend changing the time instead of the date which is easier to manage.

4. Uploading your screenshot.

If you did everything correctly, once you open the Screenshot Uploader you will see the name of the game (in example yous had to follow the showtime pace) on the drop down list, and so you will only have the screenshot of the game set to be uploaded.

Using an application to upload custom screenshots.

If y'all are a user that wants to upload many screenshots and does not want to get through this deadening process each time, so you can employ SteaScree which is made by the steam community to help people upload their screenshots much easier, information technology fifty-fifty automatically finds the game and user id.