adriwi Posted January 1, 2024 Share Posted January 1, 2024 (edited) I'm making this post because I have a passion for photography and have been pursuing it in-game for a while now. However, I've found that using Menyoo feels too complex for me. I'm sure there are others like me out there—people who want to capture fantastic pictures but aren't keen on installing Menyoo, custom clothing, or poses. This post is for those who share the same feeling! There's a wide variety of animations available, perfect for pictures or enhancing immersion, like holding a beer while seated or smoking inside a car. With numerous animations to mix and match, I hope this post saves you some time—and maybe even saves me some time too! ^.^ The list is still quite small, but I'll continue updating this list for both male and female characters! Right now, I only have animations to share. However, I plan on posting more animations along with some guides and tricks that I've learned during this time. Animations that involve holding an item are interchangeable. Example, if an animation involves using a phone, you can swap it with an animation that uses a camera or a cigarette. In-Game or Menyoo? Spoiler As someone who's engaged in photography and videography IRL, I think I can help you figure out which one suits you better based on your preferences, and I'll most likely be right (there are always exceptions 🙂). First of all... What are the differences? In short terms? The roleplay and limitations. In-Game photography feels like being an actual photographer. You've got the weather, the time, the resources, and the locations you have in the game. Sometimes the people you take pictures of are experienced and know what to do, while others are nervous and unsure (Yes, I can feel your nervousness based on how often you apologize for not finding an animation that you like 😉, and believe me, I don't care at all – take all the time you need). On the other side, Menyoo photography is all about freedom. You can take your time, and there's more variety since you can install custom maps, custom clothing, custom poses... I think you get it. Having the ability to manipulate the time, weather, and everything around you to take the perfect picture is something that feels great, even if you have to learn how to do it properly. Of course, you won't feel pressure. There's no time constraints, no model waiting for you to hurry – it's just you and your ideas. So... which one do I choose? You've got three options: A: If what I enjoy the most is interacting with people, and photography is a great way of connecting with the person I'm taking pictures of. My goal is to have great interactions, roleplay what I enjoy, and have a good time with people while experiencing photography that feels like reality, including pressure, time limits, searching for specific times and locations to take pictures, and ideas. Then choose In-Game Photography. B: If I like to have freedom, take my time, want photography without pressure, and to feel peaceful – a space where I can do whatever I want and portray my ideas, experiment, and basically, take any picture I want the way I like it without the pressure of a time limit or another person being there. Then choose Menyoo Photography. C If I like both. The experience of taking pictures is great, I like feeling like I'm a photographer, choosing locations, enjoying the roleplay and what it takes, but I'd rather have a lot of time and no pressure to take the pictures. Then, why not do both? Nobody's stopping you from roleplaying taking the pictures and then actually doing them in Menyoo. You'll get the best of both worlds! How do I start with In-Game Photography? Spoiler It's a common mistake to think that you need people to start. Most of the time, people will think, "I wanna take pictures, but I know no people, so I need people to find me so they can hire me, but I don't have people to take pictures of, so they can see my work and hire me..." and the loop goes on. Personally, I started months ago taking pictures at random car meets. Most of the time, when people see you with a camera in a public event such as car meets or charity events, they'll either assume that you are part of some news group or ask if you are taking pictures. If you do, most of them will ask where they can see them and follow you! I've also taken pictures in places such as casinos, bars, clubs. You just get in with the camera, and at some point, someone related to the place is gonna ask, or you can approach them directly, tell them that you are taking pictures for free, and they'll be good with it most of the time. And if they like your work? You just won a customer. You can also start taking pictures of yourself or random people. Believe me, a lot of people like taking pictures of their characters, so you'll make friends and customers as well! Then, once you have a small portfolio, you can probably ask to join a group, faction, company... There's a lot, and if your work is good, they might even be trying to hire you already. When I started, I got some offers from different groups and had to choose. At first, it feels scary, but soon enough you'll realize how supportive people are with photography, videography, and content in general. Personal advice? Try a little bit of everything, then decide what you actually want OOC'ly. The best part of being a photographer In-Game is the roleplay. You can be involved in News roleplay, this being dangerous situations, or more chill situations... you can be involved in interviews, just venue pictures, portrait, racing... Find your passion, you are here to enjoy it after all! CUSTOM ANIMS Hell Yeah, custom anims are now sync'ed, thanks to the beloved developers. This means, you can now use custom anims and combine anims, and other players will be able to see it! Anyways, the list goes here 😛 Female Poses! Spoiler /customanim femalenewpose4 stoplastframe duopose34 upperbody /customanim femalepose6 stoplastframe duopose31 upperbody /customanim duopose31 stoplastframe femalepeacefingers upperbody /customanim leaningcrossedarms stoplastframe malesitground2 upperbody /customanim duopose3 stoplastframe duopose4 upperbody /customanim duopose18 stoplastframe valetstand upperbody /customanim duopose18 stoplastframe duopose34 upperbody /customanim counterleanbar stoplastframe thinkinggroundsit1 upperbody /customanim fsitchair7 stoplastframe headonshoulders upperbody /customanim femalenewpose4 stoplastframe duopose34 upperbody /customanim femalepose6 stoplastframe duopose34 upperbody /customanim femalenewpose4 stoplastframe duopose31 upperbody /customanim duopose34 stoplastframe duopose11 upperbody /customanim duopose34 stoplastframe duopose30 upperbody /customanim duopose31 stoplastframe femalesmokingpose1 upperbody /customanim fsitchair5 stoplastframe duopose20 upperbody /customanim femalepeacefingers stoplastframe duopose21 upperbody /customanim femalecampose4 stoplastframe duopose21 upperbody /customanim femalecampose4 stoplastframe y2kpose upperbody /customanim femalefloorcrossing2 stoplastframe thinkingcrouch2 upperbody /customanim femalecarleanpose stoplastframe duopose4 upperbody /customanim thinkinggroundsit2 stoplastframe shyegirl1 upperbody /customanim femalepeacefingers stoplastframe thinkinggroundsit5 upperbody /customanim femalepeacefingers stoplastframe femalenewpose14 upperbody /anim thinkingcrouch2 /customanim 63 stoplastframe idle34 upperbody Some examples with these new anims 🙂 Duo Poses! Spoiler /anim duopose1 /anim duopose2 /anim duopose3 /anim duopose4 /anim duopose7 /anim duopose8 /anim duopose11 /anim duopose12 /anim duopose13 /anim duopose14 /anim duopose15 /anim duopose16 /anim duopose17 /anim duopose18 /anim duopose19 /anim duopose20 /anim duopose21 /anim duopose22 /anim duopose23 /anim duopose24 /anim duopose25 /anim duopose26 /anim duopose29 /anim duopose30 /anim duopose31 /anim duopose32 /anim duopose33 /anim duopose34 Female Selfie! Spoiler /customanim thinkinggroundsit5 stoplastframe selfie5 upperbody /customanim femalefloorcrossing1 stoplastframe selfie7 upperbody /customanim thinkingcrouch2 stoplastframe selfie6 upperbody /customanim thinkingcrouch1 stoplastframe selfie6 upperbody /customanim femalefloorcrossing3 stoplastframe selfie6 upperbody /customanim malewallleaning stoplastframe selfie4 upperbody /customanim duopose31 stoplastframe selfie6 upperbody /customanim femalefloorcrossing1 stoplastframe selfie3 upperbody /customanim shyegirl1 stoplastframe selfie2 upperbody /customanim nohearpose stoplastframe selfie3 upperbody /customanim femalepeacefingers stoplastframe selfie3 upperbody /customanim rightbenchlean stoplastframe selfie7 upperbody /customanim duopose25 stoplastframe selfie3 upperbody /customanim duopose18 stoplastframe selfie7 upperbody Guns Section Spoiler /customanim aim2 stoplastframe selfie6 upperbody /customanim aim3 stoplastframe selfie6 upperbody /customanim duopose1 stoplastframe selfie6 upperbody /customanim duopose7 stoplastframe selfie5 upperbody /customanim duopose7 stoplastframe selfie6 upperbody /customanim duopose18 stoplastframe selfie5 upperbody /customanim thinkingcrouch2 stoplastframe selfie5 upperbody /customanim thinkinggroundsit4 stoplastframe selfie5 upperbody /customanim shyegirl1 stoplastframe selfie5 upperbody /customanim nosaypose stoplastframe selfie5 upperbody /customanim femalecarleanpose stoplastframe selfie5 upperbody Male Selfie! Spoiler No, I do not have a male model yet😞 /customanim maleleanchill stoplastframe selfie3 upperbody /customanim tracksuitsquat stoplastframe selfie7 upperbody /customanim malesitground2 stoplastframe selfie4 upperbody /customanim malesit4 stoplastframe selfie7 upperbody /customanim malesit7 stoplastframe selfie7 upperbody Poses Male Pose! Spoiler (No, I do not have a male model but you get the look 😉 /customanim malewallleaning stoplastframe duopose21 upperbody /customanim maleleanpockets stoplastframe duopose21 upperbody /customanim idlehandsinpockets2 stoplastframe maleleanpockets upperbody (I promise your pockets are lower than my high waist jeans ;-;) /customanim duopose3 stoplastframe doittoempose upperbody /customanim malesit3 stoplastframe malesitground2 upperbody Examples of my InGame Photography Spoiler -- Equipment It might seem like you don't need much, and it is true. The in-game editor gives you a lot of room to play with, but you can improve it even more. Flashlight: Just carry it. It costs nothing, and 90% of the time, your picture will look way better by just lighting up the person or object that you want to photograph. For me, there is someone who roleplays as a photography assistant. He roleplays it by placing lights and helping while carrying the flashlight among other stuff, such as prepared outfits and already knowing poses. But if you have nobody, I recommend you equip the flashlight, then use: /anim idle48 and /anim tactical5. This way, you'll be able to light people or objects by yourself and use the /editor. (Remember to roleplay that you place the lights and hold the camera for a more immersive experience). Camera: You are a photographer; you gotta carry a camera. Even if you are not and you just want to take some pictures of yourself or some friends, carry it. The amount of zoom that it gives is more than enough reason to carry it. I usually take pictures of cars with the /camera, including being in one and taking pictures in movement (rolling shots, yes, you can use /camera in a vehicle and you will move with the vehicle, you cannot do that using /editor). Other: This is not physically an item, but I really recommend having it—outfits! Having pre-made outfits helps a lot. Believe me, a lot. Going from wearing random clothes to wearing a specific outfit created for a specific environment can be the difference between a decent picture and your best picture. Tutorials I'll be posting some guides on how I do stuff here (I am not a professional, so if you know about photoshop / lightroom, you can probably make it look even better! Feel free to give advice as well, I will add them to the guides with credits if you do! Take better pictures (In general ^.^") Spoiler If you want to improve your pictures, the first thing you gotta do is zoom in. Why? Here's an example: These are a portrait photographed with a 20 mm focal length, a portrait photographed with a 235 mm focal length, and a 85mm focal lenght. As you can see, the first picture has that fisheye effect, while the other ones looks way better, this also works using the /editor. Most cases, you wanna be as far away as you can from the subject, and then zoom in. What now? Aspect Ratio You'll be using 16:9 and 9:16 most of the times, still, I'll leave this here in case you wanna know what do they mean. 16:9 and 9:16 works best for most people, and 9:16 works best for facebrowser, and social media in general (Phone aspect ratio ^.^) How do you take these pics? Well, if you play in a 1920x1080 monitor, all you gotta do is take the screenshot, that's 16:9, but, what about 9:16? Luckily all you gotta do is rotate the camera with the /editor so it looks sideways, take the screenshot, and then just right click it and select turn left or right, depending on what you need. (Please, if you do this, turn every picture to thee same side so later on, you can select all and turn left or right every single one at the same time. Also, the closer the person or object is, the blurrier the background will become, which adds a lot when we are taking portrait pictures. I recommend to not take just one picture, take as many as you can, in fact, you can use the editor, put the speed as low as you can, and turn it sideways as you take the pictures, so you have different angles (always take multiple pictures, you never know which one will work or not, and somehow, believe me, you'll manage to get the person blinking as you take the picture and fuck it up, I've done it too many times) Mirror Selfie! Spoiler This one is fairly simple, choose the anim you want to use and take a picture like this, and another picture of the mirror! (or the object you wanna use as one) Most mirrors do not reflect, or it doesn't look good at all, but it doesn't matter! Now we'll open our editing program, I use Photoshop. Make a selection of the mirror, I used the Pen Tool, and remove it! Now, place the selfie you took, remember that it must be under the mirror layer In this case, I will leave it like this, because I'm planning on resize it later. Now, It looks fairly good, but you can make it look better by unfocusing stuff! I will unfocus the bag now, so you can see how it looks. You need to select it with the Pen Tool as well, but instead of removing the selection, you will CTRL+J it so photoshop will copy and paste the selection into a new layer (you need to select the mirror layer, otherwise you will copy the picture you just took) This is how it looks without the mirror image. Now, we can select the full background picture, go to filters, and add gaussian blur Here is the result, now, you can play with some other filters, you can also add a phone camera PNG to the phone (Because the InGame phone does not have a camera) and add whatever you want! Resizing it will make it look like this: (It is not full resolution, just a screenshot from photoshop) From there, angles, poses, mirrors... Everything's up to you! Here's the result of one of my selfie pictures from today. Easy Selfie Phone Photoshop Spoiler Let's say you've just taken this picture: You like the selfie pose, but you need... The phone!?!? It's okay, it is very simple to add one! First of all, you need to google a PNG phone case. I happened to find and like this one... Next step, you open your selfie image in Photoshop, and also drop the phone case on the image. You should have this mess... Pretty... CTRL + T to adjust the phone size and location, so you match it with the hand Now that you have the phone there, you will lower the opacity of the phone layer to 15-20% and apply a layer mask. To do that, simply look to the right menus, you'll find your layers, and click this icon: Now, your phone should have a layer mask, which is a white square next to the layer, like this: Make sure to select the layer, and the brush tool. From now on, if you paint black, you'll erase the phone image, and if you paint white, you'll get the phone back. From here, you need to paint the fingers of your character with black. If you happen to paint too much, simply go back to white, and re-paint it. You can switch between colors with X. Once you finish, you should have something like this: Make sure to detail it as much as possible, so it looks good 🙂 With a bit of color adjusting, it should look perfect! As a tip, if you want a flash effect for your phone, make sure to combine the layers once you finish (select the phone and the picture, right click, combine layers) Go to your tabs, aaaall the way up, filters, render, and select lens flare. You'll see this menu. From here, you just gotta click on where you'd like the flash effect, adjust the brightness, and the lens type you'd like (Yes, mine is in Spanish :c) AI Editing (Photoshop) Spoiler Here I will teach you how to increase quality with AI, and still have a picture that belongs to GTA V 🙂 First of all, the first step is of course, taking the photo. I will use this one as example: The first step is to open photoshop, and this website: https://www.krea.ai/apps/image/enhancer It is a free website. It has a daily limit, but you can do +10 images daily, so it is great. Just drag & drop the image to krea website, and you should see this: You're gonna click "Upscaling" on the right, under your image. These are the settings I use often. More strength means AI will modify the image more in terms of colors, text..., more resemblance means it will try to not change the looks that much in terms of shapes. Make sure that match color is checked. Now you just click "Enhance" and wait until it's done. The result: As you can see, it doesn't really look like GTA anymore. We're gonna drag and drop this into photoshop. As usual, original image goes at the bottom, AI image goes up, and you want to create a layer mask, just like this: Now, with the mask selected (The black square), it goes this way: If you paint with white, you'll bring the AI image, if you paint with black, you'll delete the AI image. As you can see, the image on the left has more quality, and less imperfections, but you can still tell it's GTA. This is exactly what I've used from the image. Of course, it's up to you if you want to use more, or less AI. Some people like only re-touching the borders, other people like changing the clothes entirely... As an extra tip, once you're done, select both layers and right click, then combine layers. That way you'll have just one, then go up to Filters, Liquify. Sometimes it doesn't work well, but MOST of the times, it does! You'll have an interface on your right, which will automatically detect the face. There's are different things you can modify such as eye, nose... and what I use in almost every photo... Smile! It's a bar, so you just move it left or right until you like it! Instant Polaroid Pictures Spoiler First of all, you wanna open photoshop and create a new document, It should be a preset called A4 already there, but if not, just use the 2480 x 3508 Make sure that the background is transparent by either removing the background or hiding it. Now, you wanna add a PNG Polaroid Frame, I'll leave this one so you can download it: Feel free to use any frame such as Polaroid or Instax, colors.... Make the frame as big as you can, so it fits the A4 Size. Just like this: Now, it's time to take the picture! feel free to take a pic of anything or anyone you want! I highly recommend you to use SHIFT + Print Screen. That key combination will put the screenshot in Images / Screenshots, and also your clipboard, which means, you can now go to photoshop and CTRL + V to paste the image and forget about looking for it and dragging it Now, you'll need to use CTRL + T and move it so it fits the picture, remember that the screenshot must be under the Polaroid frame layer just like this: Right now, It looks like this: The image is bigger than the frame, it doesn't matter! We'll just delete what's outside the frame. After that, feel free to add some filters, such as black and white, Polaroid Filters, etc... Remember to apply them to the screenshot only. Now, we can export it, with transparent background and upload it to Imgur! Then, we'll create a note and attach the image to it. If you wanna add something to the Polaroid Frame, such as your signature, I recommend using this web and saving one: https://signaturely.com/online-signature/ You can get results like this: People really appreciate when you give items like this 🙂 Edited Wednesday at 10:32 AM by adriwi 48 8 10 Link to comment
ywonnie Posted January 2, 2024 Share Posted January 2, 2024 I love you and this guide so much! Tried some of the anims myself in game and I really love it. I really hope you update this guide regularly. Personally I just wish these anims framework and /editor existed back when I was interested in photography in GTA:W (2021-2022). I used /camera and I always hated how it works and it's limitation, also the annoying camera bug that forces you to relog out of the game (I legit had to relog in a middle of a wedding event as a photographer). But, I might probably explore this avenue again with another character soon. A pic of my character in one of the anims Spoiler Also another tip from me for fellow in-game photography enthusiasts. If you use reshade, it won't work through /camera. I learned some tricks for it, by temporarily binding whatever screen capturing app you use to left click (which is the button to take pictures in /cam), and take the screen captured image as your photo instead of the images generated by /cam, if you have to use /cam instead of /editor. Also it's best if you don't use Steam's F12 capture. The image quality is just bad. I usually use Win+Shift+S as my primary screencap method, and I can "crop" whatever pic I took in an instant. ((@Figenskar)) 1 1 Link to comment
adriwi Posted January 2, 2024 Author Share Posted January 2, 2024 (edited) 6 hours ago, ywonnie said: I love you and this guide so much! Tried some of the anims myself in game and I really love it. I really hope you update this guide regularly. Personally I just wish these anims framework and /editor existed back when I was interested in photography in GTA:W (2021-2022). I used /camera and I always hated how it works and it's limitation, also the annoying camera bug that forces you to relog out of the game (I legit had to relog in a middle of a wedding event as a photographer). But, I might probably explore this avenue again with another character soon. A pic of my character in one of the anims Reveal hidden contents Also another tip from me for fellow in-game photography enthusiasts. If you use reshade, it won't work through /camera. I learned some tricks for it, by temporarily binding whatever screen capturing app you use to left click (which is the button to take pictures in /cam), and take the screen captured image as your photo instead of the images generated by /cam, if you have to use /cam instead of /editor. Also it's best if you don't use Steam's F12 capture. The image quality is just bad. I usually use Win+Shift+S as my primary screencap method, and I can "crop" whatever pic I took in an instant. ((@Figenskar)) Thank you! The pose looks great there 😄 I'll be adding some tutorials as well, for now there's a selfie editing one ^.^" Edited January 2, 2024 by adriwi Link to comment
Kraethas Posted January 2, 2024 Share Posted January 2, 2024 Mad respect and huge +1 for these hints on using the ingame assets for better pictures. This is now one of my favourite followed posts 1 Link to comment
adriwi Posted January 2, 2024 Author Share Posted January 2, 2024 Added male / female anims category, also a few animations for police / people holding a gun ^.^ Link to comment
adriwi Posted January 2, 2024 Author Share Posted January 2, 2024 Added some couple poses we found today 😞 2 Link to comment
adriwi Posted January 9, 2024 Author Share Posted January 9, 2024 Added some general tips and a Polaroid Picture tutorial 🙂 1 Link to comment
adriwi Posted March 2, 2024 Author Share Posted March 2, 2024 Added a "how to start" and a guide on why choosing in-game, or menyoo! Link to comment
adriwi Posted June 26, 2024 Author Share Posted June 26, 2024 Added a list of /customanims since the anims are now sync'ed between players and we all can see each other 😄. 1 Link to comment
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