A good photo mode can add a lot to a game. It can significantly extend the lifespan of a game for individual players as they spend a ton of time planning and taking the perfect photo, and it can lead to some truly fantastic screenshots players share online of their experiences. Thankfully,Sniper Elite: Resistancehas a fairly robust Photo Mode.

While the photo mode in the game is not quite perfect, and it has some things that seem like they should be included but are absent, it functions correctly when it’s used and enables you to snap plenty of pictures of yourescapadesas you hunt down Nazis.

The Photo Mode option in the pause menu of Sniper Elite Resistance.

How To Enter Photo Mode

Entering Photo Modeis very simple. To enter, justpause the game, andon that pause menu, the’Photo Mode' option will be present. This istrueonboth console and PC. No platform currently has a ‘Quick Photo Mode’ option that lets you press a button or key bind to enter it.

From that initial menu in Photo Mode, next to the ‘Enable Camera Control’ button prompt, you’re able to also’Toggle Grid,‘which will display a grid on the screen so you can properly line things up, and ‘Toggle UI’ ridding the screen of any UI so you can take your photo when you’re ready.

The shooting range in Sniper Elite Resistance.

How To Move The Camera In Photo Mode

Once in Photo Mode, you control the camera separately from changing the other settings. Thebottom-left side of the screenwill display thecontrols for your system/keybind setup.Press the buttonthat corresponds with ‘Enable Camera Control’, and you’ll be able tomove the camera freely, inside a certain radius around your character.

While moving the camera around, you canmove it in any direction, as well asdirectly crane it up and down. You cannot, however, change the field-of-view (FOV) from here, and you’ll need to ‘Disable Camera Control’ to do that.

The camera tilts to the side slightly in Sniper Elite Resistance.

If you’ve moved your camera into a spot you don’t like or changed any setting whatsoever in the wrong way and would like to start from scratch, thebottom-right of your screenwill display a button prompt forresetting Photo Modeentirely, starting it fresh.

Camera Settings In Photo Mode

Once you’ve got your camera into position, you’re able to ‘Disable Camera Control,‘giving you accessto thetabs that appear on the right of your screen.

The first tab here is ‘Camera,’ and it contains five different options:

The finished photograph, looking like a blood splattered newspaper, in Sniper Elite Resistance.

Description

Roll Camera

Here you cantilt the camera to the right or the left, holding the camera sideways and allowing you to create a ‘Dutch Angle’. This can lead to some verycreative compositions, and even a very slight adjustment can add to or retract a photo significantly.

Thishides all friendly non-player charactersfrom view.

Filter Settings In Photo Mode

The next tab after ‘Camera’ is ‘Filter’settings, which mostly revolve aroundchanging the colorandcolor balance of your photo, among a couple of other things.

Type

This toggles betweenseven different optionsthatchange the color filterof the photo, including the default color balance. This can give your photo ablack-and-whiteeffect, make itsepia-toned, and more.

Filter Intensity

Thischanges how prevalent the Filteryou selected in the last option will be if you selected one at all. For example, if you selected black-and-white and have the filter at 50% intensity, this will simply wash the colors out by a bit.

Film Grain

Thisadds a film grainover your photo, giving the impression of a picturetaken on real film. you may change the intensity of this as well, keeping it minimal or pushing it to the maximum, adding quite a bit of texture to the photo.

Brightness

Thischanges the brightnessof the photo, essentially changing the brightness setting of your game, but only while in Photo Mode.

Contrast

Thischanges the color contrastof your photo. This willdeepen every color on the screen, making everything more vivid. However, this will also have the side effect of severely darkening a photo taken in a dark environment if pushed too far.

Lens Settings In Photo Mode

Lens settings in Photo Mode allow you to change multiple things that will have a big impact on the framing and focus of your photo.

Depth Of Field

Thisgives your camera a focus, which will ensureanything inside the focus rangeisclear, and thingsoutside the focus range, either too close or too far,become blurred. This can help you to ensure the focus of a photo is on a certain person or object without needing to frame the photo so that the environment is left out entirely.

Focal Distance

Thissets the distanceat whichyour camera focuses. For example, if the Focal Distance is set to 200 mm, then everything in the photo at that distance is going to be clear, while everything else will be blurred. This will only be available if ‘Depth Of Field’ is toggled On.

Aperture

Thissets the strengthof theblurring effectto everything outside the ‘Focal Distance.’ A lower setting creates a stronger blurring effect, while a higher setting makes it much less noticeable. Like ‘Focal Distance’, this setting is only available if ‘Depth Of Field’ is toggled On.

Field Of View

This is unrelated to the ‘Depth Of Field’ settings andchanges the FOVof thecamera itself. This can range from an FOV of 10 degrees, which is extremely narrow, to 130 degrees, which is extremely wide. This can go a long way in framing your photo exactly how you’d like it to be framed and will often be tinkered with while you’re still moving your camera around.

Overlay Settings In Photo Mode

Overlaysare often thefinishing touchesof aphoto, and different things are added to the photo for the sake of style.

Frame

This willadd one of six framesover your photo. These can range from making it look like your photo isthrough the lens of a sniper scope toaphysical photoon amanilla folder, thefront pageof aFrench newspaper, andmore.

Overlay

This canadd some texture to your photo, giving it more of the impression of a physical thing, aside from the ‘Film Grain’ effect in the ‘Filters’ tab. These can range fromcracked glassorblood splattersat the corners to adarkened, warping effectof a photo that’s poorly developed or damaged.

Vignette

This willdarken the top and bottomof the photo,pushing more of the emphasistowards thecenter.

This willadd a logoto the screen. There aremultiple different positionsthat the logo can be, and each option changes the position until it’s large and in the very center of the photo.

How To Take A Photo

When you’reready to take a photo, you’ll want to ‘Toggle UI’ bypressing the corresponding buttonon thebottom left of your screen. This option will not be present while you’ve got ‘Enable Camera Control’ toggled ‘On’.

OnXbox Series X/SandPlayStation 5, the ‘Share’buttonson each corresponding controller willtake a screenshot. If you’re usingSteam, thedefault screenshot keyis ‘F12’.

Apart from that, onWindows, you canpress the Windows Button+Print Screento take a screenshot, which should be saved in yourPictures>Screenshots folder.