The High-Res Screenshot Thread!
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Sure thing.... I'm using quite a lot, but here are some of the ones I consider essential.
Skyrim HD textures... Official package, which you update through Steam.
Glorious Grasses... quite a frame rate hitter, but worth it if you have the power.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9185
Vurt's Floral overhall... I use the default aspen textures, but the rest are Vurt's.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=141
Pure Waters... there are other good ones too, such as W.A.T.E.R
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1111
Better static meshes.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=8655
Enhanced distant terrain.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1598
Realistic Mountains
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=13785
And ENB which is the main thing for changing how the games colour and lighting look... there are so many configs out there, and it depends on whether you like a natural look, or something more fantasy.
Check out the ENB Skyrim forum to see some of the work, and shared links.
http://enbdev.com/enbseries/forum/viewforum.php?f=14
I'm using a modified version of TV_ENB.
A few more.
especially when the colours are totally horrible... like its been filmed on the worlds first ever colour video camera.
they make me thing i have glaucoma aswell.
my vision doesnt have a wierd depth of field effect and what im not focusing on isnt all blurry
a slightly lower brightness on the sides of the screen when your focusing on an object would be much more realistic than a blurry mess...
maybe its just me but i prefered games when everything had clarity and the whole screen looked good.
all these dof , blur and other visual effects should be left to consoles where they need to disguise the low res textures.
pc does not need them
they make me thing i have glaucoma aswell.
my vision doesnt have a wierd depth of field effect and what im not focusing on isnt all blurry
a slightly lower brightness on the sides of the screen when your focusing on an object would be much more realistic than a blurry mess...
maybe its just me but i prefered games when everything had clarity and the whole screen looked good.
all these dof , blur and other visual effects should be left to consoles where they need to disguise the low res textures.
pc does not need them
lol
its not supposed to act like the human eye, but like a camera lens... yes, its the same DOF effect you see used on TV in movies and still photographs 
I like the effect, but each to their own.The most boring thing about coming to screen shot threads is people moaning about seeing the games they don't like
Don't like em... just scroll on by, tis simple.
Great
I have it on the 360 too and it a different world on the PC as you can make it what you want in terms of visuals and gameplay.upload the hi res pics not downsized everything looks better down sized
Okay
[sorry Skyrim haters 
] I only have a monitor capable of 1680x1050 so it not a massive difference, I just like the pics to fit the borders of the page... must get a better monitor 
I won't post any more Skyrim for a while
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And never a truer word was spoken. Skyrim is boring in my opinion, yeah it looks great but the combat engine feels dated as hell.
lol
you realise those effects are artificial right? make a movie with a handycam look at it after
lol
I liked the depth blurring in the ENB's because I thought thats how the eye does work. Am I so stupid that I don't even know how my own eyes work?
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.! Got it working finally, the reason it didn't was because of one of the tweaks crashing the X-Ray 1.6, not one of the big mods like I thought! Such a good looking game, for today's standards let alone 2007's! Its a pretty stable 50fps until I use DX11 full dynamic lighting, then its about 40 with a few minor stutters. There are about 50 screenshot's as is my usual M.O.
so tighten your britches! 
1440x900 resolution, not downsized. That is the highest resolution of my monitor, which I'm thankful for as I can max out any game, something I doubt I could do on 1920x1080, higher your resolution all you want, nothing makes up for no Anti-Aliasing, AF or lower resolution textures, so I'm gonna stick at 840p until my rig is much much better.
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I make films on a DSLR and often use a very wide aperture to give a very narrow (manually fixed) range of focus, creating bokeh DOF effects [and yes, it can be done as a post process], and its very similar to the way DOF works in ENB and both do not really represent how we see with our eyes, but its not meant to... having the entire image sharp, no matter how close or far away something may be, is also unrealistic; I like both approaches in games, but for Skyrim I enjoy fake bokeh DOF.
@Omaeka it is how our eyes work in a way, but we see such a tiny area that we are usually completely unaware of things in front or behind the object we're looking at being out of focus. We scan an area at an incredibly fast rate, building a complete image, so we don't notice depth of field, unless we force ourselves too.
And yes, some of you hate Skyrim, and this and that... but why do you feel the need to tell the world in a screenshot thread... who cares?... just get on and play the things you do like and post screens of those if you like... why pee on other peoples pleasure
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