#s4 editing

[solstice-sims]

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my new sim that I might be gay for rn

[plumbeanz]

𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒏.        feat. my new favorite gloss by @raiichuu!!

[janelovesims]

Simself update and profile pic obv !

Huge shoutout and thanks to @tekri bc without your hairs, I couldn’t be myself in the sims ! Thanks a lot !!

[dawsim]

Can you do an editing tutorial please?? Thank you!! I love the way how your screenshots look ❤️

first of all thank you sm! it’s all under the cut babeyyy

my editing is pretty basic but i use the following:

photoshop cc (here if u want it)

this psd for coloring and brightness

this action for smoothness bc i’m not smart enough to deal w topaz clean

this reshade preset (i messed around w the saturation and stuff a lil but its really only important for shadows and dof)

OK we’re ready!!! let’s get this party started so when im in game i’ll take a pic with reshade on! (im stupid and i forgot to take a pic without reshade but here’s what the picture will look w/ reshade haha). if u have a mac or u don’t wanna use reshade here’s a good tutorial about how to fake dept of field!!

alrighty so i’ll put on the psd listed above, and, depending on the picture, decrease the opacity to like 20-50% in this one the opacity of the opacity was like 45% if u need help with psds  i think i watched this tutorial when i was learning lol

OK so then i flatten my image going to layer>flatten image then i run the butter action! it makes all the textures really smooth and i use it almost religiously

okay so after that i sometimes add my own light leaks (especially if they’re outdoor photos) i make a new layer using ctrl+shift+n and use a big ol brush and draw some white scribbles! i then do a nice gaussian blur on that layer so it doesn’t look so harsh

okay so after that im gonna flatten my image again (layer>flatten image) and then do a nice smart sharpen (filter>sharpen>smart sharpen)! here are my settings (i’m p sure these r the default ones)

okay we’re almost done! then i crop my image to the 4:5 option (or 5:4 whichever the landscape one is)

and i KNOW i should resize them but i never do so they’re always blurry on dash. i would recommend like an 800 px width maximum for optimum crispiness but if u don’t want to that’s cool too. sometimes i add noise (filter>noise>add noise) and the amount is like 1.8 or something :D anyways here’s my final picture!! 

[hallasims]

hd • before

[solstice-sims]

Alpha Hair and ReShade DoF/MXAO Editing Workaround Tutorial + Video

This tutorial is to demonstrate how to remove the transparency issues that ReShade causes alpha hairs to have in post (editing).

Requirements:

Photoshop or some other paint program that has a blur tool (not a "filter"). Reshade

Step 1: You will want to take 2 screenshots. 1 screenshot will have DoF and MXAO toggled, and the other will have them untoggled. There are 2 ways to do this.             -Method 1: Set shortcuts to your shaders in ReShade. In ReShade 4+, right click the shader and click the shortcut box, put in whatever key you want! (Normally I use O or P for DoF and Capslock for MXAO, but that's my preference.) Toggle them on/off without moving your mouse to take the screenshots.            -Method 2: Use the in-game camera position locks (not sure what the proper name is). This can be done by hitting CTRL + 5 to save your camera position.   Take a picture with the shaders on, then open reshade (without moving your mouse/camera) and uncheck the shaders. Then hit 5 on your keyboard. Step 2: Open both screenshots in Photoshop. Step 3: Select the "messed-up" photo and copy it. Step 4: Paste the "messed-up" photo on top of the clean photo. The "messed-up" photo should be on the TOP layer and the clean photo should be on the BOTTOM layer. Step 5: Use the eraser tool with a soft brush (hardness 0) and slightly big size to erase over the areas where the hair is blurry or where MXAO causes weird lines or shadows where they shouldn't be in the hair. On the outer parts of the hair, don't drag the brush. Use single-click dabs. Step 6: Click the BOTTOM layer (clean photo). Step 7: Using the blur tool (strength 100%), blur out the harsh areas. You may need to go over this a few times until it's blurred out. Step 8: Once you're satisfied, go to Layers and click Flatten Layers. Step 9: Save your photo. I recommend using PNG or JPEG.

It's pretty simple! Hair editing helps enhance alpha hair even more, especially with the outer strands that get inevitably blurred out a bit.

[plumbeanz]

TEMPLATE 002. HEARTACHE!

just somethin cute for all your wcif posts! don’t repost / claim as your own / put behind any kind of paywall / ad.fly / etc. do credit n tag me if you’d like!

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[janelovesims]

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Thanks to @foursims‘s screenshot folder for giving me the inspo again!