Share Your FFXIV Posing and Screenshot Knowledge
Have you created a memorable Final Fantasy XIV screenshot, built a custom pose, solved an Anamnesis error, or developed a reliable GPose workflow?
Anamnesis FFXIV welcomes original contributions from FFXIV players, screenshot artists, pose creators, digital photographers, technical writers, modding educators, and experienced Anamnesis users.
We publish practical guides that help readers install Anamnesis, understand its creative tools, build poses, improve screenshots, manage pose files, and troubleshoot common problems.
Your submission should teach a useful technique, answer a genuine question, or provide a carefully tested solution.
Who Can Contribute?
You may be a suitable contributor if you are:
- An Anamnesis user
- An FFXIV screenshot creator
- A custom-pose designer
- A GPose enthusiast
- A digital artist
- A technical writer
- A character photographer
- A content creator
- A software tester
- A community tutorial creator
Professional writing experience is not required. However, your article must be original, accurate, clearly structured, and useful to our readers.
Content We Are Looking For
We accept tutorials, creative workflows, troubleshooting guides, pose-making resources, photography advice, feature explanations, and responsible tool comparisons.
A strong article may help readers:
- Install and configure Anamnesis
- Understand the posing interface
- Create natural character poses
- Improve GPose compositions
- Adjust lighting and camera settings
- Organize pose and character files
- Fix startup or detection errors
- Work with multiple characters
- Protect screenshots and project files
- Use third-party creative tools responsibly
Topics You Can Write About
Anamnesis Beginner Guides
We welcome beginner-friendly articles covering:
- What Anamnesis is
- What the tool is designed to do
- Understanding the main interface
- Opening the Posing Matrix
- Selecting a character or actor
- Moving and rotating bones
- Loading a saved pose
- Returning a character to a default state
- Saving creative work
- Closing the tool safely
Beginner guides should explain technical terms and avoid assuming that every reader already understands posing, bones, actors, or GPose.
Installation and Initial Setup
Contributors may submit step-by-step setup guides covering:
- Checking system requirements
- Downloading Anamnesis from a trusted source
- Extracting the application files
- Choosing a suitable installation folder
- Launching the program for the first time
- Connecting Anamnesis to FFXIV
- Checking application permissions
- Updating an existing installation
- Reinstalling without losing saved poses
- Removing outdated files safely
Installation articles should mention the tested Anamnesis version, Windows version, FFXIV version, and any required supporting software.
Do not direct readers toward repacked applications, suspicious mirrors, modified executables, or misleading download pages.
Posing Matrix Tutorials
The Posing Matrix is one of the most important parts of Anamnesis.
Suitable topics include:
- Understanding the bone list
- Selecting individual bones
- Rotating arms and legs
- Adjusting hands and fingers
- Moving the head and neck
- Creating balanced body posture
- Mirroring pose adjustments
- Resetting selected bones
- Copying pose values
- Fixing distorted joints
A useful tutorial should explain how small adjustments affect the complete pose.
Creating Custom Poses
We welcome detailed articles about building original poses.
Possible topics include:
- Planning a pose before editing
- Starting from an existing animation
- Creating standing poses
- Designing sitting poses
- Building action poses
- Creating romantic or group poses
- Adjusting body weight and balance
- Making hands look natural
- Fixing clipping
- Saving and testing a completed pose
Writers should use original pose files or files they have permission to discuss and share.
Pose Files and Organization
Contributors may write about managing .pose files and creative libraries.
Suitable subjects include:
- Saving a custom pose
- Loading a downloaded pose
- Organizing pose folders
- Naming files consistently
- Creating categories
- Backing up pose collections
- Moving poses to another computer
- Fixing missing pose files
- Troubleshooting files that are not detected
- Removing duplicate poses
Do not redistribute another creator’s private, commercial, or restricted pose files without permission.
Facial Expressions
We accept tutorials about creating more expressive screenshots.
Topics may include:
- Adjusting facial expressions
- Positioning eyes
- Controlling gaze direction
- Creating natural smiles
- Adjusting eyebrows
- Combining expressions with poses
- Fixing crossed or unfocused eyes
- Matching expressions to a scene
- Creating emotional portraits
- Resetting facial adjustments
Articles should explain how subtle facial changes can affect the mood of a screenshot.
Hand and Finger Posing
Hand posing can be challenging and is a valuable tutorial topic.
Writers may cover:
- Understanding finger bones
- Creating relaxed hands
- Making fists
- Positioning hands around props
- Creating hand-holding poses
- Fixing bent or twisted fingers
- Matching both hands
- Adjusting wrists
- Avoiding hand clipping
- Saving reusable hand poses
Close-up screenshots or diagrams are strongly encouraged for hand-pose tutorials.
Group and Couple Poses
We welcome responsible guides about posing several characters.
Possible topics include:
- Positioning two characters
- Creating group screenshots
- Matching character heights
- Aligning hands and faces
- Managing character spacing
- Reducing model clipping
- Building synchronized action poses
- Creating family or friendship scenes
- Adjusting camera framing
- Saving multi-character workflows
Only use characters, screenshots, and pose resources that you own or have permission to publish.
Actor and Character Management
Contributors may explain how actors are selected and managed during creative sessions.
Suitable topics include:
- Selecting the correct actor
- Identifying nearby characters
- Freezing and unfreezing actors
- Working with companions or NPCs
- Managing several actors
- Restoring an actor after posing
- Troubleshooting an actor that cannot be selected
- Fixing characters that reset unexpectedly
- Avoiding changes to the wrong actor
- Preparing actors before entering GPose
Articles should clearly distinguish temporary visual changes from permanent in-game character data.
Appearance Previews
We accept educational content about temporarily previewing character appearances for screenshots.
Possible topics include:
- Understanding appearance controls
- Previewing hairstyles
- Testing equipment combinations
- Adjusting character scale for compositions
- Restoring the original appearance
- Saving appearance-related presets
- Fixing incorrect equipment displays
- Managing appearance files
- Understanding preview limitations
- Avoiding unwanted changes
Do not claim that Anamnesis grants permanent ownership of paid, restricted, or unavailable game content.
GPose Photography
Screenshot and photography articles are strongly encouraged.
Suitable topics include:
- Preparing a scene in GPose
- Choosing a camera angle
- Using depth of field
- Creating portrait compositions
- Framing full-body screenshots
- Working with foreground elements
- Using negative space
- Capturing action scenes
- Creating cinematic screenshots
- Choosing suitable backgrounds
Creative guides should include clear examples and explain why particular composition choices work.
Lighting and Atmosphere
Contributors may write about lighting techniques for FFXIV screenshots.
Potential topics include:
- Using GPose lighting
- Positioning point lights
- Balancing warm and cool light
- Creating dramatic shadows
- Lighting darker skin tones
- Building soft portrait lighting
- Creating sunrise or sunset scenes
- Using environmental light
- Avoiding overexposure
- Matching lighting to a scene’s mood
Avoid presenting one lighting setup as suitable for every character, environment, or monitor.
Camera Controls
We welcome articles that help readers use the camera more effectively.
Topics may include:
- Adjusting camera distance
- Changing field of view
- Selecting portrait angles
- Creating low-angle shots
- Creating overhead compositions
- Managing camera collision
- Improving close-up screenshots
- Using depth of field
- Keeping several characters in frame
- Recreating a saved composition
Version-specific controls should be checked before publication.
Animation and Freeze Controls
Writers may submit tutorials about working with animations.
Suitable subjects include:
- Starting from an emote
- Pausing an animation
- Choosing a useful animation frame
- Adjusting a frozen pose
- Combining animations with manual posing
- Creating movement-based screenshots
- Fixing characters that unfreeze
- Resetting an animation
- Matching animations across actors
- Building reusable workflows
Articles should explain how the initial animation affects the final pose.
Props and Weapons
We accept responsible guides about using in-game props and equipment in screenshots.
Possible topics include:
- Posing with weapons
- Aligning hands with props
- Creating seated scenes
- Positioning characters around furniture
- Avoiding weapon clipping
- Matching props to character scale
- Framing environmental objects
- Creating performance or musical scenes
- Fixing floating items
- Improving prop interaction
Only use legitimately available game assets and creator-owned resources.
Screenshot Editing
Contributors may write about post-processing screenshots after they have been captured.
Topics may include:
- Cropping screenshots
- Adjusting brightness and contrast
- Correcting color balance
- Adding subtle sharpening
- Reducing visual noise
- Creating social-media formats
- Preserving image quality
- Exporting screenshots
- Organizing project files
- Avoiding excessive editing
Do not misrepresent heavily edited or generated content as an unedited in-game screenshot.
Performance and Stability
We welcome carefully tested advice for keeping Anamnesis and FFXIV stable during creative sessions.
Suitable topics include:
- Reducing application freezes
- Managing several actors
- Closing unnecessary background programs
- Preventing excessive memory use
- Organizing large pose libraries
- Fixing slow actor detection
- Managing long screenshot sessions
- Restoring the tool after a game update
- Avoiding conflicting applications
- Creating a clean troubleshooting setup
Performance results may vary based on hardware, game settings, application version, and the number of characters being managed.
Troubleshooting and Error Fixes
Detailed troubleshooting articles are especially useful.
You may write about problems such as:
- Anamnesis not opening
- FFXIV not being detected
- The actor list remaining empty
- Poses not loading
- Pose files not appearing
- Bones refusing to move
- Characters resetting unexpectedly
- The application freezing
- Administrator or permission errors
- Antivirus software blocking the tool
- Missing application files
- Crashes after a game update
- Appearance data not loading
- Saved poses becoming distorted
- Multiple actors failing to synchronize
A strong troubleshooting article should include:
- The exact error or symptom
- Anamnesis version
- FFXIV version
- Windows version
- Steps already attempted
- Likely causes
- Tested solutions
- Backup precautions
- A safe recovery or rollback method
Do not describe an untested suggestion as a guaranteed fix.
Updates and Compatibility
Contributors may submit guides about maintaining a working creative setup.
Potential topics include:
- Checking the installed version
- Reading release notes
- Backing up pose files
- Updating Anamnesis safely
- Testing a new version
- Fixing errors after an FFXIV patch
- Preserving configurations
- Restoring an older working release
- Identifying outdated community guides
- Troubleshooting compatibility problems
Time-sensitive articles should include the exact date and tested version.
Pose Creation for Different Character Models
We accept guides about adapting poses responsibly across different character proportions.
Possible topics include:
- Adjusting poses for height differences
- Fixing hand alignment
- Adapting sitting poses
- Managing longer or shorter limbs
- Correcting foot placement
- Adjusting couple poses
- Fixing shoulder positions
- Matching eye lines
- Testing poses across models
- Creating flexible pose templates
Writers should explain that poses may require manual adjustment when transferred between characters.
Creative Project Workflows
Experienced creators may share complete screenshot-production workflows.
A useful workflow may explain:
- Planning the concept
- Choosing a location
- Preparing character appearances
- Selecting animations
- Building the pose
- Adjusting expressions
- Setting the camera
- Creating the lighting
- Capturing several variations
- Editing and exporting the final image
Workflow articles should distinguish personal preference from required technical steps.
Comparisons and Alternatives
We accept balanced comparisons between legitimate screenshot and posing tools.
A comparison may evaluate:
- Installation
- Posing controls
- Appearance previews
- Camera features
- Learning curve
- Update activity
- Community resources
- File compatibility
- Advantages and limitations
- Suitable users
Comparisons should remain factual and respectful toward developers and community projects.
Submission Guidelines
Submit Original Work
Your article must be original and unpublished.
We do not accept:
- Plagiarized articles
- Copied tutorials
- Scraped content
- Spun or lightly rewritten guides
- Previously published submissions
- Duplicate guest posts
- Poorly reviewed automated content
- Large sections copied from documentation
Submissions may be checked for originality before publication.
Test Technical Instructions
Technical content should be based on real testing, reliable documentation, or genuine creative experience.
When relevant, include:
- Anamnesis version
- FFXIV version
- Windows version
- Pose-file type
- Character model
- Exact error message
- Tested workflow
- Date of testing
Never invent features, menu options, compatibility claims, download details, error messages, or testing results.
Keep the Writing Clear
Use simple, natural, and professional English.
Explain technical and posing terms for beginners. Keep paragraphs short and use numbered steps for setup, posing, and troubleshooting tutorials.
Avoid unnecessary filler, repeated information, exaggerated promises, and overly complicated language.
Recommended Article Length
Most submissions should contain between 1,000 and 2,000 words.
Detailed posing tutorials, photography workflows, and troubleshooting guides may be longer when the additional information genuinely helps readers.
Quality and accuracy are more important than word count.
Recommended Structure
A complete submission should normally include:
- A clear title
- A short introduction
- Prerequisites
- Relevant H2 and H3 headings
- Numbered instructions
- Original screenshots
- Tested version information
- Creative or technical notes
- A practical conclusion
- A short author biography
Screenshot and Media Guidelines
Original screenshots are strongly encouraged.
Submitted media should be:
- Relevant to the article
- Clear and readable
- Created by you or licensed for reuse
- Free from sensitive information
- Properly credited when required
- Suitable for desktop and mobile readers
Before submitting screenshots, hide:
- Email addresses
- Account information
- Private messages
- Character or player names when necessary
- Server information
- Personal file paths
- Authentication information
- Unreleased private projects
- Private commission details
Do not copy another creator’s screenshots, pose previews, or graphics without permission.
Pose and Preset Ownership
Contributors must respect the rights of pose creators, photographers, mod creators, and digital artists.
We do not accept:
- Stolen pose files
- Reuploaded paid pose packs
- Private commissions shared without consent
- Another creator’s screenshots presented as original
- Restricted presets distributed without permission
- Uncredited community resources
- Leaked creative assets
- Copyrighted artwork used without authorization
When discussing another creator’s work, obtain permission where needed and provide clear credit.
Responsible-Use Policy
AnamnesisFFXIV.com supports creative photography, artistic expression, accessibility, education, and responsible use of community tools.
We do not publish content that promotes:
- Account theft
- Credential harvesting
- Malware
- Game-client attacks
- Server disruption
- Harassment
- Privacy invasion
- Online cheating
- Competitive advantages
- Ban evasion
- Circumventing paid services
- Distribution of copyrighted game files
- Impersonation of other creators
- Non-consensual or exploitative content
Tutorials should focus on screenshots, posing, creative workflows, troubleshooting, and legitimate artistic use.
Final Fantasy XIV and Project Identity
Final Fantasy XIV, its characters, artwork, music, software, and related trademarks belong to Square Enix and their respective rights holders.
Anamnesis is a community-developed third-party tool with its own maintainers, contributors, documentation, and licenses.
Contributors must not describe AnamnesisFFXIV.com as:
- The official Final Fantasy XIV website
- An official Square Enix resource
- The official Anamnesis project
- The original Anamnesis developer
- An authorized Square Enix partner
- An official representative of another community tool
Articles should clearly distinguish independent educational content from official game or project documentation.
External Link Policy
Relevant links may be included when they support technical information, credit a creator, or direct readers to trusted resources.
Preferred destinations include:
- Original project repositories
- Developer-controlled release pages
- Official FFXIV resources
- Creator-owned pose pages
- Trusted community documentation
- Original tutorial sources
A contributor may request a relevant link to a:
- Personal website
- Creator portfolio
- Social profile
- YouTube channel
- Pose collection
- Professional page
All links are reviewed before publication.
We may remove links that are irrelevant, misleading, unsafe, excessively promotional, or added mainly to manipulate search rankings.
Submitting an article does not guarantee backlink approval.
Content We Cannot Publish
We will reject:
- Plagiarized articles
- Previously published submissions
- Stolen pose files
- Reuploaded paid content
- Malicious downloads
- Credential-stealing tools
- Fake download buttons
- Fabricated compatibility information
- Invented testing results
- Online-cheating content
- Harassment or privacy-invasive material
- Articles written only for backlinks
- Excessively promotional content
- Content falsely presented as official
Sponsored Posts and Partnerships
We may consider sponsored articles, creator-tool reviews, photography resources, hardware guides, editing-software comparisons, and relevant creative partnerships.
Sponsored submissions must remain:
- Accurate
- Transparent
- Useful to readers
- Relevant to FFXIV creativity
- Respectful of creator ownership
- Compliant with our editorial standards
A commercial proposal should include:
- Your full name
- Company or creator name
- Website address
- Proposed topic
- Product or service details
- Intended audience
- Requested link
- Content requirements
- Preferred publication date
Each proposal is reviewed individually.
How to Submit Your Article
Send your topic proposal, detailed outline, or completed draft to our editorial team.
Please include:
- Proposed article title
- Short article summary
- Complete draft or outline
- Target keyword, when relevant
- Author’s full name
- Short author biography
- Website, portfolio, or creator profile
- Previous writing samples
- Requested backlink details
- Original screenshots
- Testing and version information
Google Docs is preferred. Make sure the document permissions allow our editorial team to view and comment.
Contact Details
Email: cloudcorex4@gmail.com
Phone: +971 55 912 8238
Use this subject line for guest-post submissions:
Guest Post Submission – AnamnesisFFXIV.com
For sponsored-content inquiries, use:
Sponsored Content Proposal – AnamnesisFFXIV.com
Editorial Review Process
Every submission is reviewed for originality, accuracy, relevance, readability, creator rights, safety, and practical value.
Our editorial team may:
- Correct grammar and spelling
- Improve titles and headings
- Restructure unclear sections
- Update outdated technical details
- Add internal links
- Remove unsuitable external links
- Add ownership or safety notices
- Request original screenshots
- Ask for testing information
- Request revisions
- Decline the submission
- Update published content later
Submitting an article does not guarantee publication.
Become an AnamnesisFFXIV.com Contributor
Do you have a useful posing tutorial, a GPose photography workflow, a lighting guide, a custom-pose resource, an installation article, or a tested troubleshooting solution?
Send your proposal or completed article to cloudcorex4@gmail.com.
Use “Guest Post Submission – Anamnesis FFXIV” as the email subject line.