hello, hope you had a good day and enjoyed your cookies hehe .i tried searching your tags for editing replies but nothing popped up and the resources page also didn't help me so asking directly do you use a ps action set or could you list your editing steps cuz your gameplay editing is so subtle yet so beautiful and aesthetic thank you in advance <3
hi there!!! thank u, I ate too many cookies if I’m honest but it was worth it! <3 thx for checking my tags I appreciate it, you are correct though I haven’t actually answered any editing questions yet so you are the first!
also thank you so much for the compliments! 💕
for my subtle gameplay editing my goal is usually to cut down the time it takes to edit, just so I can sit back and enjoy my game a little whilst also posting on tmblr!
I’ll answer under a cut!
1. Taking Screenshots
I always try to be very careful with my screenshots and their composition, just because the better your base the easier it makes editing. I use reshade in game, and I only turn it on when I’m taking screenshots, but I use the zoom in camera feature that hides the UI! You probably already know but just in case you didn’t know, when you’re using that camera you can use Q and E to move up and down, so you can get the perfect framing you desire pretty easily!
2. Photo Adjustments
Once I find a screenshot I’m happy with I open it up in Photoshop, this will be a PS tutorial since that’s what I use:
My first step is always to adjust my image, and I usually start with curves, you might not want to though, but there are a lot of adjustments there you can play around with. After I do curves I always mess with brightness/contrast then call it a day (as simple as that if I’m honest)!
3. Editing
This is where things get a little more complex, and also please bear in mind that I have a drawing tablet it is EXTREMELY helpful and does a lot of the work for me, I am basically cheating compared to those of you who don’t have a tablet so don’t get discouraged if these steps are challenging with a track pad that being said there are some cheap screenless tablets online and if this is a hobby you really enjoy I strongly recommend investing in it!
As you can see above, my edited screenshot is a lot brighter than my first pic and I achieved this using overlays! on the menu there on the right you should see a pull down that looks like this:
make a new layer and change it to overlay, and then take a soft brush (or any brush you prefer stylistically) and begin to draw an outline around your sim, use any colour you want but overlay works best with lighter colours! Play around tho it’s really fun to see how the overlay layer works!
the outline basically just helps my sims stand out a little against the background! but you can see I didn’t outline her whole body, just certain areas I felt blended a little, or where definition was lost!
I still want my image brighter though, so I then make another overlay layer, and take a tool from the left instead (our intention here is to make a screenshot more vibrant I guess!)
This might be a bucket symbol in your PS by default but switch over to the Gradient Tool instead, and a new menu should appear at the top:
as you can see I have my gradient set to move from colour to transparent, and Radial Gradient selected as opposed to linear, this just gives the gradient a nice soft edge which I like, but I have used Linear in the past (so it just depends on what you are doing) I then pick a colour I like, select the gradient tool and drag my mouse from point A to B to brighten the section of sky I want lighter:
4. Finishing Touches
Now that I have my image brighter and a little sharper looking I now need to add a few finishing touches so I create yet another overlay layer, take a soft brush, lower the opacity of that brush and go over my sims jewellery/eyes just to brighten them a little. This makes them look more ‘shiny’ and I love doing it for necklaces/earrings! I might also sometimes create a dust overlay affect myself but drawinf tiny dots/squiggles (but you can also find dust overlay PSDs online!)
and that’s pretty much it for my gameplay editing I like to keep it pretty simple compared to my edits (those I normally do a lot more adjusting/layers etc. but if you’re looking for simple editing overlays are your best friend)! One thing I didn’t mention is that I sometimes edit hair on to my sims, but I stopped doing this so much for gameplay because I’m lazy. If you do want to edit hair tho just do it before you do anything else! and do it on a regular layer just above the image. There are plenty of hair brushes available online!
hey i was wondering wcif the braids on the female sim from your Tell me a story pose pack? they look so adorable and i need them in my game😆thank you in advance!!🧡
very true!! i love showing all the different kinds of family relationships & dynamics out there, because simblr tends to be very... cookie cutter. and that was too boring for me lmao. i’m really glad you think it works well!! 💖
@an-tarax i’m so dumb i literally saw isabella and thought “who?” bc i’m so used to calling her isa sjkdsj but mood 😭
@pineysims ahh i don’t know if i have a great response for this because i never ever thought i would be on simblr this long, nor did i think i would be this heavily into storytelling... i originally just wanted to post pics of my sims peeing their pants and screaming because they can’t step over a toy on the floor jsdkjs so i guess my main advice would be don’t take things so seriously? just go with the flow, experiment, find things that you enjoy doing, and curate your tumblr space so that it makes you feel happy and safe. and when you find something you love, keep doing it. don’t worry about what other people want from you, just do what makes you happy!! 💖 (also i’m honored omg thank you 💗)
hey!! i get weirdly anxious about tagging people in things even when it’s positive, but here are some stories i’ve been really loved!! 💖
lune legacy
play the game
hell or high water
inheritance
the bros
everything by okruee
the lion
woods legacy
meet me in the woods
JFKSJD camellia lore says that he still lives in windenburg (michael & brian used to live there too but they moved back to brindleton when cara was born) but jack stayed there for work and.... that’s really it lmaoo he visits sometimes, but i truly cannot think of a single scenario where i would need to show jack camellia in a story post, so......
@simminginchi thank you so much!! that means a lot to me ;-; 💖💖
jskdsj so your name is caralynn? that’s adorable though!! i don’t understand how people look at “lynn”/”lyn” and think “line”.... if it was “line” wouldn’t i just spell it “line”??? lmaoo
@earth-bat omg thank you so much!! i can’t believe you thought about me of all people 🤧 i appreciate that a lot 💖💖
@itsmegxbree lmaoo i actually don’t have a problem with townies anymore, i don’t know if i downloaded a mod or something but they just never spawn?? in this case, the sim that was glitching was a background sim that i posed myself, she was just ruining the shot with her half-invisible body 😭
this is so sweet omg good luck with your last year of high school!! senior year was somehow the hardest and easiest year ever sjdksj i hope you’ll find it easier 💖 and to answer your question, i went to college for 2 years with a major in environmental science, but i realized that it all felt kinda hopeless? i know that environmentalists are so important, and i still feel passionate about it, but it was so frustrating having to jump through so many hoops just to get one tiny victory... anyway, i still wanted to do something science related, but i really didn’t want a laboratory job. and then i was like “wait a minute....... ANIMALS” lmao i’ve always loved animals and biology in general, and i would absolutely love to be able to help them live long happy lives :’) when i told my friends i was thinking about becoming a vet tech they were immediately like “um yes that’s perfect for you” so that was my answer jfkjsd but anyway, good luck with becoming a veterinarian!! i hate college too much to suffer through that many years of schooling lmaoo but i believe in you!! 💗💗
