How do you organize your screenshots?
I play rotationally, and I love to take pictures of my sims, so I have tons of various photos. Right now I have all of my photos in one folder, but it is getting tedious to go through it each time I w...
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I take a lot of screenshots. I play a bazillion households in one big save so I have a few ways I divide them.
First, I have a folder with subfolders for each household. If the household is big, I might use more subfolders for each Sim. I try to sort and delete when I move pics from the screenshots folder to the proper household folder, because if I leave them all in it gets out of control.
I have a separate folder for all of my CAS shots. I take a lot of these, sometimes for posting, often times just because I like to have pics of all of the outfits I've chosen or various angles of their features. I make a fair share of fantastical "creatures" and odd Sims so I like to have some good shots of them.
Next, I have a "Special Collections" folder. Here is where I put my memorable gameplay stories. These collections can include Sims from various households getting together to have adventures or random events. I title the subfolders with something that will tell me what the happenstance was, like "Bella's Vampire Abduction" so I know exactly what's in it.
Then I have a folder called, "Edited Pics for Posting", where I keep subfolders of pics I've cropped, adjusted lighting, or collaged, etc and those are final edits that I put online. I even keep a subfolder for Avatar pics.
So, yeah, I have a lot of folders but it really helps me to be organized with my screenshots. I can do a household dump after playing and just throw pics into their household folder for sorting later, if I just want to keep my screenshot folder clean to free up the game. Videos, however, are another story. I keep those separate and don't have a system yet.
First, I have a folder with subfolders for each household. If the household is big, I might use more subfolders for each Sim. I try to sort and delete when I move pics from the screenshots folder to the proper household folder, because if I leave them all in it gets out of control.
I have a separate folder for all of my CAS shots. I take a lot of these, sometimes for posting, often times just because I like to have pics of all of the outfits I've chosen or various angles of their features. I make a fair share of fantastical "creatures" and odd Sims so I like to have some good shots of them.
Next, I have a "Special Collections" folder. Here is where I put my memorable gameplay stories. These collections can include Sims from various households getting together to have adventures or random events. I title the subfolders with something that will tell me what the happenstance was, like "Bella's Vampire Abduction" so I know exactly what's in it.
Then I have a folder called, "Edited Pics for Posting", where I keep subfolders of pics I've cropped, adjusted lighting, or collaged, etc and those are final edits that I put online. I even keep a subfolder for Avatar pics.
So, yeah, I have a lot of folders but it really helps me to be organized with my screenshots. I can do a household dump after playing and just throw pics into their household folder for sorting later, if I just want to keep my screenshot folder clean to free up the game. Videos, however, are another story. I keep those separate and don't have a system yet.
