How to Use the Camera in your Toolbox to take picture of your farm.
Before you take a photo of your farm you first need to decide what it is you want to see in the picture:
- Everything on the farm or some things on it.
- The whole farm or a portion of the farm.
- Whether the picture needs to be small, medium or large.
IMPORTANT: If you are going to post the photo in the forum please ONLY use the SMALL SIZE. The Medium and Large sizes are far too wide for the forum.
- If the picture has a green background or a white background.
- Any description you want to add if you are posting it to Facebook.
OR if you don't want to post the picture to Facebook straight away and only save a temporary photo in the Farm Pictures section of the Account tab where you can use a different method to post it to Facebook before the pictures are automatically deleted from that section.
The Farm Pictures section of the Account tab can store up to a maximum of 200 pictures in a month. There are sections for the current month and the 3 previous months. Beginning of each new month the pictures in the oldest month will automatically be deleted.
1. Go to the farm you want to take a picture of.
2. If you are already on it and may have just finished designing it, reload the farm or the game just in case anything is temporarily hidden that you may have forgotten about, and for any red squares that help indicate where hidden items are to disappear.
You can Refresh a farm without reloading the game if you have more than one farm. Look toward the top left of your game screen for coloured rectangles. The one with the yellow background is the farm that you are currently on. If you click on that yellow rectangle you will reload that farm. In this example Farm 1 is the farm this farmer is on.
3. 
Check your preference settings.Make sure that you have check marks on everything you want to show up in the picture.
The sections of preferences that you may want to use are indicated in red in the picture below.
Freeze animals can help to stop your animals moving if you want them in the picture.
If you make any changes remember to click on the green check mark at the bottom of the Preferences window to save the change.
4. You can not take a photo while in Full Screen mode. If you try to take a picture while in Full Screen mode you will see this message. Even if you are not going to post the picture to Facebook you must still click on the green check mark to drop out of Full Screen Mode.
5. Click on the yellow toolbox bottom right of your game screen
6. The Camera is located in your Toolbox in the 2nd column from the left at the very bottom. Click on it and you will be shown the
Save this Picture window that has some options that you can choose to use.
There are 2 options at the top of the window. Farm and Window
To take a picture of the full farm you need to use Farm mode which is always set to default and has an orange background.
If you are posting to Facebook the picture will be limited to the size of the Facebook posting box, but once posted there, all you do to see it bigger is click on it.
These examples show Farm Mode selected and what using Small size looks like when seeing a picture of the entire farm posted on the forum. This farm is 60x60 in size.
The other option Window mode gives you the option of taking a picture of only part of the farm instead of all of it.
Getting a picture right using Window mode can take some practice with zooming the farm size and moving the farm around to get the picture how you want it, but it can be useful if you want to show only a section of the farm or something small that would not be easily seen in a full farm picture.
To use Window mode click on the Window button to turn it orange.
You will see a mini picture of what that will look like. If it's not quite right, click on the red X top right of the window, adjust your farm and then try again.
When you post to Facebook your picture will be limited to the size of the Facebook posting box, but once posted all you do to see it bigger is click on it.
These examples show Window Mode selected and what using Small size looks like when seeing a picture of the a portion of a farm posted on the forum.
The check mark must be ADDED if you want to post it to Facebook and you must be logged into your Facebook account to be able to post it.
If you do not want to post it to Facebook you can remove the check mark and when you take the photo it will be in your Farm Pictures section of the account tab where you will be able to see it and get a link for the picture to be able to post it at a later time using the Farm Pictures section of the Account tab.
8. Below the Facebook option are the picture sizes, Small, Medium, Large. Select the one you want to use.
Remember if the picture is for the forum ONLY use the Small size.
On Facebook you will mostly only notice the difference in sizes when you click on the picture on Facebook.
On the forum it will post the size without needing to click on the picture, but the Medium and Large sizes are far too big for the forum width, so please the Small size for the forum.
9. To the right of the sizes is the option to show a green background or white background.
Background: Green is set to default. If you want to change that and see what your picture will look like with a white background click on the little drop down arrow then click on Background: White.
10. Once you are happy with your choices click on NEXT.
If you are not posting it to Facebook the picture will be saved in your Farm Pictures section in the Account tab.
If you are posting to Facebook you will then see the a popup to Confirm posting to Facebook.
Click on the Green Check mark to continue.
The Facebook posting box will then show up in another window where you can do the usual things like, change the privacy of the photo, add a description, along with the other usual Facebook posting options.
In this example the picture is set to post to Public and will post to your profile as well as Facebook Newsfeed. The Public button can be clicked on to allow you to change the privacy of the photo when you post it to Facebook. OR you can change the privacy on the post after you have posted it to Facebook.