Transfer screenshots without USB stick

PS4 screenshot example (untouched)

Dog ate your spare USB thumb drive? Try this direct procedure instead.

1. Create a secondary player account on your PlayStation.

2. Send a friend request to your primary player account ... and make sure to accept the friend request from your secondary account.

3. Now run Destiny (or any game) with your new secondary player account, and take a screenshot. The screenshot image used for this experiment was snapped in the Forgotten Shore in Destiny 1 (naturally, the Fallen were shooting at me while I posed adroitly with my Arc Edge sword, and Jade Rabbit scout rifle slung across my back).

4. Remaining in your secondary player account, create a new message, and address it to your primary player account. Include the screenshot you just snapped. Send the message to your primary player account.

5. Run "PS Messages" on your mobile device.

6. Note new incoming message from your "alter ego" player account.

7. Select the image attached to the message, and save it on your mobile device.

8. Run a client email app on your mobile device, and create a new email message.

9. Attach the screenshot image just saved on your mobile device, and send your email message to an email account accessible on your PC or Mac.

Viola!

NOTES — (1) With a secondary player account in place, it takes less than 1 minute to copy an image from the PS4 to a PC/Mac. (2) Remember that PS4-sourced video snaps are reduced to 720 progressive clips when saved to file. Otherwise, screen still shots are saved with the following parameters:

Width — 1920 pixels
Height — 1080 pixels
Resolution — 72 ppi
File size — 351 KB