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Clover: do you edit your screenshots per chance or are you just a really good screenshotter/photographer?  My graphics are set to Maximum but I don't think they ever come out as crisp and saturated.

 

The closest you can get to changing in game look is using SweetFX. I would explain it but I'm not that great at it so I would just Google it.

 

EDIT

My contribution to the thread. There are before and afters in my Imgur album in my signature if anyone is interested in seeing the differences.

 

 

 

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Here's what my SweetFX settings does:

 

 

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Without for reference:

 

 

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Clover: do you edit your screenshots per chance or are you just a really good screenshotter/photographer?  My graphics are set to Maximum but I don't think they ever come out as crisp and saturated.

 

The closest you can get to changing in game look is using SweetFX. I would explain it but I'm not that great at it so I would just Google it.

 

EDIT

My contribution to the thread. There are before and afters in my Imgur album in my signature if anyone is interested in seeing the differences.

 

 

 

AKkK63t.png

FI8GDkQ.png

kIfwy5K.png

 

 

 

 

Here's what my SweetFX settings does:

 

 

5CNTNwj.png

 

 

 

Without for reference:

 

 

O7hnuiw.png

 

 

 

Based on what I've seen in these and others that use Sweet FX, I think the lighting looks better and more natural without it. Same with the Photoshop filter. Love these screenshots, though!

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Based on what I've seen in these and others that use Sweet FX, I think the lighting looks better and more natural without it. Same with the Photoshop filter. Love these screenshots, though!

 

The settings for SweetFX are completely customizable, that's the great thing about it. I choose settings that were warmer though so lights are a bit more red. The biggest reason I use it is for the sharpen option, whenever I turn it off everything looks blurry and I can't stand it. Not that I'm trying to sell it to you or anything!

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Haha, Merri and K'mih would get along. I love seeing characters' charisma reflected in screenshots, very nice job!

 

Rinette: I used SweetFX in the past, until my comp died and I had to reinstall FFXIV. If I have to choose... I guess I've come to prefer vanilla FFXIV since it's softer, but SweetFX did really wonderful things at some maps.

 

Oh! I've heard that FFXIV's graphics will improve with the DX11 version @_@

I can't wait to see the changes, if any. This kind of update always makes me very excited.

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I'd really like to learn Clover and Merri's method of screenshotting and rendering these photos. Does SweetFX actually make a lot of difference by enhancing it's shadings and coloring?

 

Mine are actually taken with the in-game engine. No tweaks inside or outside of the game except for simple cropping. Just good luck with the lighting, I guess! :>

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Edgar, I saw you at the event, but your character was busy talking to someone else, so I was afraid to approach *shot* (not like Clover actually approaches people, but...)

 

I want to thank the people who organized this event. It was a lot of fun! I took an obscene amount of screens, here are some of them.

 

Clover's friend Xydane Vale was the person who invited her.

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And then... it rained.

 

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I hope to post more screens tomorrow! I got to see many awesome and interesting bishounen characters; it was a very nice experience for me.

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Edgar, I saw you at the event, but your character was busy talking to someone else, so I was afraid to approach *shot* (not like Clover actually approaches people, but...)

 

 

Do something remotely interesting or look lonely enough, Ed will do the approaching.

 

In other news.

 

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THIS BED.

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