How to View World of Warcraft Screenshots

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WoW or World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG that was first released by Blizzard in the fall of 2004. Originally, screenshots taken in-game were saved in the high-quality uncompressed TGA format. With version 2.1.0, Blizzard changed the default format from TGA to JPEG, which is a lower quality compressed image format. You can change the format back to TGA if you desire, and the process for taking and viewing screenshots is simple once you understand what you are doing.

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    \Program Files\World of Warcraft\Screenshots.
    • Double-click on My Computer on your desktop, or click on the Start button and select My Computer.
    • Double-click on the C:\ drive.
    • Double-click on the Program Files directory.
    • Double-click on the World of Warcraft directory.
    • Double-click on the Screenshots directory.
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    \Users\%username%\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Screenshots.
    • Double-click on Computer on your desktop, or push the Start button on your taskbar and select Computer.
    • Double-click on the C:\ drive.
    • Drill down through the Users, %username%, AppData, Local, VirtualStore, ProgramFiles and World of Warcraft folders by double-clicking consecutively on each.
    • Double-click on the Screenshots directory.
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    You can also right-click on the screenshot and choose “Open With…” and select the appropriate program.
    • If your screenshots are in TGA format, you may receive an error message stating that TGA is an unknown file type. This means that you do not have an image editing program installed that supports viewing TGA files. You can download a free image viewer to view TGA files by performing a search engine query on the following terms: “image viewer tga”.
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    I seems like I don't have the screenshots folder as it doesn't show up in my WoW folder. What can I do?
    Tangerine Boi
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    Press Win + Print Scrn. It should show up in screenshots or in Quick Access.
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      • Zoom to first person if you want to keep your avatar out of the picture. You can do this with the mouse wheel, or by pressing the key that you have bound to the Zoom In function.
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      • If you don’t want the WoW user HUD interfering with your scenic screenshot, you can press ALT-Z to temporarily remove it. ALT-Z also brings it back.
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      • Set the image quality with the following command: “/console screenshotQuality 10”, with 1 being the lowest quality and 10 being the highest.
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