How to Use Star Wars Outlaws Photo Mode

Always make sure Nix is in the shot!

Star Wars Outlaws Photo Mode Screenshot
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Like previous Ubisoft titles, Star Wars Outlaws comes with a robust photo mode that allows players to take shots of their favorite moments and characters. It’s available from the start across all platforms, with plenty of options to tweak. Here is how you can use the photo mode in Star Wars Outlaws.

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Photo Mode in Star Wars Outlaws

To access the photo mode in Star Wars Outlaws, pause the game at any point outside of a cutscene, and select Photo Mode from the pause menu options.

Once you’re in photo mode, you can adjust a variety of camera settings, like the lens, aperture, depth of field, and tilt

Additionally, the game has a few presets like Wild West or Noir if you want to create a more cinematic shot.

Another feature that we don’t normally see in a lot of photo modes is “Color Grading”, which lets you individually adjust the Red, Green, and Blue values of the scene as well. Other than that, you get the usual set of image features like Contrast, Saturation, Exposure, Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights. If you want to take the cinematic style of the shot further, you can also add scan lines to the image as well.

Once you’re satisfied with the image, you can either hide the overlay by pressing Y/triangle to take a screenshot using Ubisoft Connect’s F12 shortcut or simply hit press A/X on the controller, and it will save a high-quality screenshot on your PC.

Sadly, there isn’t a shortcut to bring up the photo mode in Star Wars Outlaws, which is an odd omission. This was also the case in Massive Entertainment’s previous major release, Avatar Frontiers of Pandora.

Overall, this is one of the better photo modes we’ve seen, and we hope that Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment add more features to it down the line.

Ali Hashmi

Ali Hashmi is a games journalist, reviewer, and guides writer with over eight years of experience covering the gaming industry across news, reviews, features, walkthroughs, and technical guides. He currently writes for Prima Games and GTA 6 Bible, and has previously contributed to Dot Esports, WhatIfGaming, GameTyrant, and The OuterHaven. With a background in Computer Science and years spent covering PC gaming, Ali has developed a strong focus on performance analysis, optimization, troubleshooting, and in-depth game coverage alongside traditional reviews and features. A longtime fan of action games, Ali spends most of his time obsessing over stylish combat systems, difficult boss fights, immersive sims, and retro shooters that feel like they were pulled straight out of the late ‘90s. When he isn’t replaying Dark Souls for the hundredth time or climbing Ascension levels in Slay the Spire, he’s usually hunting for the next indie game to recommend to everyone around him. His coverage regularly includes AAA releases, indie games, Soulslikes, survival titles, live service games, and technical PC focused guides.