How do you organize your screenshots?

Probably households. I don't organize mine - I usually just dump them on my desktop. It's a hot mess lol

I organize them by save and generation.

I empty my screenshots folder between playing each family and store them on an external SSD in separate folders with their family names.

@Duvelina I only have one save XD But I play like 45 households... By generation you mean like general generation for all households or one household/generation ?

I don't and it's a mess. I just kind of take them out of the screenshots folder every so often and move them to another internal harddrive or another folder.

Ideally, I would organize mine by month, and then edited/posted and unedited/not posted. I took over 500 screenshots in December (I played 11 days this month). If I had different households, I would do it by households.

"Yautjagirl;c-17760287" wrote:
@Duvelina I only have one save XD But I play like 45 households... By generation you mean like general generation for all households or one household/generation ?

No, I play a legacy save so I save screenshots per generation there, otherwise I just put it all in one folder. I don't play rotationally so far, but otherwise I'd do it per save and household subfolders.

I usually don't use the in-game camera. I use print screen, then edit and save. Per save, then subfolder for household.

Every now and then I delete as many screenshots as I can. I often take a bunch of the same motive, and there is no good reason I'd need them all in the future. Sometimes I take pictures to use on my blog etc, and those illustrations get saved elsewhere on my computer so I then delete the original files unless they are valuable group portraits etc.

Then, once a year I move the screenshots folder away from the game, it frees up hard drive space which helps on game performance. It also means I get a limited bunch of screenshots to work my way through, and it gets less overwhelming than to deal with all screens ever taken.

The "annual folder" I will then spread on misc folder, mostly based on households. Goal is to delete most, so I mainly keep typical portraits that it might be nice looking back on later - they are mostly portraits taken with camera or painted in game.

I already have my online Residents Registry where I save thumbs of each and every resident (C+T+YA+E), so I save only portraits with a certain value, such as those with a typical Photographer Studio setting, a tad more formal. I play nobility including a few dukedoms and baronies, so I mostly save formal portraits for those upper crust Houses. In addition I have a folder for Politicians and Celebrities. My long term archive doesn't include many pictures from regular households' everyday life. I think I have a folder for wedding pictures ;)

In addition to this, I run a series of short videos on my Youtube channel. Each video is simply a series of screenshots - and once the video is produced it feels easier to let go of the pictures. If I need one of them in the future, which I doubt, I can always look at the video and even take a (lower quality) screen dump.

Video series is here. The first 20 vids are themed, but after that they will be quite random.

I just love taking variety of pictures, some to capture more casual and fun moments, others are more storydriven as I post them on my simblr and share them with my friends over instagram stories. I take pictures with reshade, so they are not stored in screenshots, but rather in my TS4 folder I made on my desktop for easy access, where I store everything from screens to mods list, sims spreadsheets, currently unused cc, additional sim programs, etc.

1. I don't
2. I cry

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the photography thing be really messing my folder up and then i just leave it be until it makes absolute 0 sense