# PLEASE HELP with "taking pictures" in game!

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-with-taking-pictures-in-game/271645
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 25, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-with-taking-pictures-in-game/271645 "2008-09-25T19:35:41Z")
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### Author: ![coldementia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@coldementia](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/coldementia)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-with-taking-pictures-in-game/271645/1 "2008-09-25T19:35:41Z")

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Hi everyone. I recently had an idea to add a “picture taking” feature to my game. I want to have an option for the player to click a camera icon, and it goes into “picture taking” mode, and when they hit a “snapshot” or “take picture” button it saves the image and stores it to view later. I’m having the hardest time finding a tutorial about this but I know it’s possible because I’ve played a bunch of games like this before. One was a “voyeur” game where you took secret pictures of girls (weird, I know), one was taking pictures of birds, etc…and in all of them you could view the pictures in a gallery afterwards. I see a lot of people saying it’s impossible because you can’t save anything from a flash document directly to a person’s computer, but I don’t think that’s the same thing.

My game isn’t centered around taking pictures, it’s more of an RPG/adventure type of game. I just thought it would be a nice touch if the player carried a camera and could snap pictures now and then to view later on. Any help would be greatly appreciated!