In-game photography has been on the rise since it was popularized by GTA 5, and now NVIDIA is giving game developers and gamers the tools take it even further.
The latest NVIDIA GeForce game ready driver includes a new tool which allows gamers to pause supported games while they take the perfect photograph. Named after famed photographer Ansel Adams, Ansel allows gamers to move the camera around a still game's world then apply different filters and artistic effects to produce the perfect in-game photograph.
Ansel also allows gamers to capture 360 degrees panoramic screenshots that can be viewed by Google cardboard and other virtual reality headsets.
Ansel introduces the following features:
Free Camera — Roll, zoom and reposition. Go wherever you want to create the perfect photo. Ansel instantly overcomes the limitations of traditional game capture, allowing you to frame the perfect shot.
Super Resolution — Once you’ve positioned and framed your shot, Ansel allows you to capture screenshots at up to 4.5 gigapixel resolution, or 32x higher than your screen resolution. Using your NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU, Ansel can render and save these screenshots in just seconds. The result: images that you can downsample to lower resolutions for wall prints, posters or super-high-quality desktop wallpapers.
Post-Process Filters — So you can tweak the look, feel and mood of your screenshot before saving, Ansel includes brightness, vignette, sketch, color enhancer, field of view and many other special effects options. It lets you create and share your own special FX filters, as enthusiasts do now for ReShade and other post-process applications.
OpenEXR Capture — Export Ansel screenshots in Industrial Light & Magic’s OpenEXR format, enabling you to choose your camera exposure as a post-process, and adjust colors and levels without common banding artifacts. Use any popular image editing tool, such as Adobe Photoshop.
360-degree Capture — With Ansel you can also capture 360° panoramic screenshots. It automatically stitches the 360° panorama in mono or stereo so you can view them in Google Cardboard, on your PC or in a VR headset. For Cardboard users, we’ve released the NVIDIA VR Viewer bundled with Ansel 360 Capture screenshots that you can view today. Download the app and check it out!
Ansel is currently supported only by Mirror's Edge: Catalyst but NVIDIA promises that it will be introduced soon enough to popular games including The Division, The Witness, The Witcher: Wild Hunt, Law Breakers, Paragon, No Man's Sky and Unreal Tournament. The tool is compatible with all GeForce 6oo series cards and up.
