Photoshop Tutorials/General Photo Editing links and advice
charlotterose23:
Hey Guys
I've heard that a few people are having trouble with their pictures and getting eliminated out of contests at applications. So I thought I'd do this tutorial to show you some tips for when taking your pictures.
1. Printscreen Pictures:
For ages I used the in game camera to do all my pictures and luckily for me I have a great graphics card so they turned out okay but not great. Then one marvellous day I found the Gadwin PrintScreen and ever since then I've used it! It is simply fantastic! You can take full screen shots and then edit them and resize them later. I would reccomend anyone who doesn't have Gadwin PrintScreen or a similar program to get it!
You can get it here. Scroll down and you'll find it at the bottom of the link. It's called 'Gadwin PrintScreen'.
Tip: Once you've sucessfully downloaded and installed it, make sure you sort the settings out. You can get it to start up automatically when your computer is turned on (good for forgetful people like me!) and you can get previews of the shots you take (I don't use this but others may do).
2. Editting your pictures:
If you don't have Photoshop or any other image editting programme I strongly suggest you get GIMP! It's absolutely free! It is what I use and it is great. I won't go into much detail about editting your pictures because I've already written some tutorials (for GIMP) on how I personally edit my pictures.
Here are some links to my tutorials:
Warming Effect
How I Edit My Pictures
Multi-tone Pictures
Changing Background
Before Editting:
After Editting:
There are many other people who are even better at editting pictures and I'm sure they won't mind if you ask them for a few tips. People here at InSim are friendly. We (sometimes) don't bite.
3. Types of shots:
There are many types of pictures that hosts can ask you to do. Two of the most popular are headshot and bodyshot. I'll focus on these for now but if you need any help you can PM me or someone else :)
Headshot:
Generally, when a host asks for a headshot they are looking for a picture showing the top of the hair to the collarbone. Sometimes people (myself included) zoom too far out which can make it harder to see the detail of your pretty Sim's face! The trick is to fill up as much of the picture with your Sim without cutting the hair or forehead out. I would also live about a 1cm gap at the top and bottom of the picture but that is just a preference.
Here is how I would do a headshot:
...and how I wouldn't do a headshot:
Once you've practised doing a basic headshot and got that right you can try and me more adventurous!
Even though they are exactly the same Sim, in exactly the same place, using exactly the same pose, they look different. Don't be tempted to just go for a head-on headshot.
It is important that you can see the face of the Sim but you don't have to be head-on when taking the photo. Experiment with angles!
Bodyshot:
When a host asks for a bodyshot it is important that you show ALL the body. When I judge contests, I don't like seeing bodyshots of Sims with no feet! I want to see everything! Now when I do bodyshots I tend to do standing poses but lately I've seen lots of people do poses of Sims sitting down. These can look great so you can do either, as long as the host is okay with it. Once again, I would leave a 1cm gap at the top and bottom of the picture but that is just a preference.
Here is how I would do a bodyshot:
...and how I wouldn't do a bodyshot:
Just like the headshot, experiement with all the poses and don't be scared to try something a little different! Judges like to see unique ideas in pictures!
Poses:
There are absolutely thousands of poses you can get in the game. There are many hacks that you can get which help you with these (Hula Hack, Decorgals Pose Box, etc.) but you can also achieve great results from just playing around in the game, using the everyday animations, pausing the game and finding great poses.
Tip: Using the slowmotion cheat works great. Press Ctrl Alt + C to get the cheat box up and then type in 'slowmotion *number between 0-8*'. I use 'slowmotion 5' but it is up to you!
Here are a few great poses:
Shy
How I did it: Being flirted with.
Secretive:
How I did it: Gossiping.
Evil:
How I did it: Scope Room.
Happy:
How I did it: Catching Butterflies.
Angry:
How I did it: Tell them to go somewhere they can't get to.
Confused:
How I did it: Tell them to go somewhere they can't get to.
So basically. Experiment with all that Maxis (and other Sim addicts) have given you and you'll surely be able to get some fantastic pictures!
If you want to you can PM me for help or comments on your pictures and I'll be brutally honest.
Hope this helps someone and I haven't just wasted the past few hours! LOL
Charlotte xXx
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summer_wine:
^^ thanks for the different emotions tingy! i love them all. i will try to memorize them and if i can't i'll refer to it :)
Hidden~Secret:
wow those are really great I never thought I could use those type of things but now I guess I can
jason7871:
Ok i want to say too charlotterose23 "Thankies an Huggies a Bunches for that GIMP Tutorial".........................so i offer up a few sims i did enhaced with that tutorial be Kind LOL...........
Jagerjaques:
Not bad, Jason, your pictures are really coming along!
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