Screenshot Studio

Screenshot Studio is a client-side Fabric mod that turns Minecraft into a cinematic camera studio for capturing high-quality, cinematic screenshots. Capture screenshots with full camera control, visual effects, and presets.

!Cinematic Forest Portrait Shader: Complementary Reimagined

[USE SHADER FOR BEST RESULTS!]

Features

• Toggleable photo mode with default F9 keybind.
• Singleplayer opens paused by default, with a photo mode button to switch the world between paused and running.
• Multiplayer and LAN-published worlds keep running because the server cannot be paused client-side.
• Detached free camera with precision, cinematic, and scouting movement modes.
• WASD horizontal camera movement, Space/Shift vertical movement, Ctrl boost, Q/E roll, mouse drag look, mouse-wheel FOV, and Alt+scroll speed control.
• Hidden vanilla HUD and first-person hand while photo mode is active.
• Screenshot flash without capturing the photo mode panel.
• Right-side photo panel with camera, color, effects, preset tabs, reset, screenshot, and help controls.
• Help popup with the important photo mode keybinds.
• Toast notification button for opening the saved screenshot.
• Built-in presets: Cinematic, Vivid, Noir.
• Custom presets saved as JSON under .minecraft/config/screenshotstudio/presets/.
• Screenshot panel button using Minecraft's current screenshot API through a small abstraction.
• Shader resources for color grading, vignette, chromatic aberration, grain, and DoF fallback math.

Keybinds

• F9: Toggle photo mode.
• H: Hide or show the photo panel while photo mode is open.
• W/A/S/D: Move the detached camera horizontally.
• Space / Shift: Move camera up / down.
• Ctrl: Boost camera movement.
• Q / E: Roll camera.
• Mouse drag: Look around while dragging outside the panel.
• Mouse wheel: Adjust FOV while scrolling outside the panel.
• Alt + mouse wheel: Adjust camera movement speed.
• F: Pick depth-of-field focus from the current target.
• Middle click: Pick depth-of-field focus while clicking outside the panel.
• M: Cycle movement mode.
• Optional screenshot keybind is registered but disabled by default in config/screenshotstudio.json.

Screenshots and Videos

!At a glance

!Cinematic Forest Portrait

!Golden Morning Light

!Hidden in the Woods

!Main GUI

Known Limitations

• Multiplayer freecam is client-side. Server chunk loading is still limited by the chunks the server sends around the real player.
• Minecraft 26.1.2 moved GUI rendering to GuiGraphicsExtractor, so post effects are implemented with a safe overlay fallback by default. The GLSL resources are present for a future renderer-specific pipeline hook.
• Depth of field uses a screen-space center blur fallback because stable depth-buffer access is not exposed safely here.
• The time-of-day slider is disabled gracefully; visual-only sky time needs a version-specific renderer hook.
• Mouse look is drag-based while the UI screen is open, which keeps multiplayer input from being sent accidentally.