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== About images in RayWiki ==

Alright, well, I wasn't sure to ask this here or at [[Help:Image]], but with most of the images here at RayWiki, if the image wasn't taken from PC, you can't tell if it's the image that someone took from their TV screen or not. And if the image indeed wasn't taken from PC, then how can people make their images look so great and smooth and everything like if you didn't actually take it from your TV screen (so it doesn't appear like you did). How do you do that? I'm only asking because I wanna help contribute to the Hungarian version of the Rayman M article by adding an image from the PS2 version. --[[File:Magician_hat_Origins.png|25px]][[User:Aaron|Aaron]] 22:17, 23 March 2019 (CET)

:(First, sorry for jumping in and answering Hunch's talk page, but as someone who's been in this situation before I have something to add) There are basically three options you have to take screenshots from a console:

:* Emulator - this is the most common method. Make sure you don't have any scaling options on or run the game in a different resolution than the original.

:* Native screenshot feature - modern consoles, such as PS4, Switch etc., have native screenshot features. Most of the time they give a high quality screenshot (although sometimes it gets compressed).

:* Video output - some TV's support video output from which you may be able to use some device to get a screenshot. The quality might not be so great doing this, although that depends on how it's done and which connection is being used.

:And definitely do not take the image from a camera pointed at your TV. No matter how good it'll end up it will be far from ideal due to lightning and reflections. Usually emulation is the best option in these situations. --[[File:Carrot signature.png|75px|link=User:Carrot-master]] 09:29, 24 March 2019 (CET)

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 == About images in RayWiki ==
 Alright, well, I wasn't sure to ask this here or at [[Help:Image]], but with most of the images here at RayWiki, if the image wasn't taken from PC, you can't tell if it's the image that someone took from their TV screen or not. And if the image indeed wasn't taken from PC, then how can people make their images look so great and smooth and everything like if you didn't actually take it from your TV screen (so it doesn't appear like you did). How do you do that? I'm only asking because I wanna help contribute to the Hungarian version of the Rayman M article by adding an image from the PS2 version. --[[File:Magician_hat_Origins.png|25px]][[User:Aaron|Aaron]] 22:17, 23 March 2019 (CET)
+:(First, sorry for jumping in and answering Hunch's talk page, but as someone who's been in this situation before I have something to add) There are basically three options you have to take screenshots from a console:
+:* Emulator - this is the most common method. Make sure you don't have any scaling options on or run the game in a different resolution than the original.
+:* Native screenshot feature - modern consoles, such as PS4, Switch etc., have native screenshot features. Most of the time they give a high quality screenshot (although sometimes it gets compressed).
+:* Video output - some TV's support video output from which you may be able to use some device to get a screenshot. The quality might not be so great doing this, although that depends on how it's done and which connection is being used.
+:And definitely do not take the image from a camera pointed at your TV. No matter how good it'll end up it will be far from ideal due to lightning and reflections. Usually emulation is the best option in these situations. --[[File:Carrot signature.png|75px|link=User:Carrot-master]] 09:29, 24 March 2019 (CET)