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Glenduil's avatar
7 years ago

Portrait

Is there a mod that improves the portrait feature of the painting skill? Zooming out is useless because all you can get is more area above the head of the sim instead of more torso in the frame. And if you zoom out too far, the camera moves high into the air to the point where you're looking down at your sim.

  • Cororon's avatar
    Cororon
    Seasoned Rookie
    For framed portraits I take normal screenshots and edit them in Photoshop. I use the s3oc program to clone a painting from the game and then TextureTweaker3 to change the pic and save it as a .package. Then I put it in the mods/packages folder as normal cc. This is the best way to make portraits/custom framed pics for the wall, and there are good tutorials on the web. :smile:
  • NikkeiSimmer's avatar
    NikkeiSimmer
    Rising Adventurer
    Like @Cororon, I use screenshots and edit them in Photoshop then transfer them to a photoframe in TSR Workshop.

    As you can see in my mini-Ie-Butsudan (Buddhist House temple).

    https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6VLB7wx3cEw/WrBEqXRkX3I/AAAAAAAAM4g/Oa5Aaz_PNUs1xxFbcLo6U_4PdZEJCXswgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot-6.jpg

    To the right I have the ancestor's images set up via the PSE14 edited pictures in TSRW frames hung up on the walls.

    https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JvbfHpL0x4I/WrBEqZCEgoI/AAAAAAAAM4k/Qqzzhi44HPYp54HwE4es7BnRUooaXLrxQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot-7.jpg

    The graves are at a family grave-site in another location.

  • Cororon's avatar
    Cororon
    Seasoned Rookie
    "Nikkei_Simmer;c-16419903" wrote:
    Like @Cororon, I use screenshots and edit them in Photoshop then transfer them to a photoframe in TSR Workshop.


    Nice! :smile: Yeah, TSR Workshop can be used too! I've downloaded it but not tried it yet. When you're used to doing something one way...

  • NikkeiSimmer's avatar
    NikkeiSimmer
    Rising Adventurer
    I just hate having to edit 150 screencaps... individually to add in pictures. ;D

    I hate having to do that with my hockey photography shoots. :D I shoot about a thousand to fifteen hundred frames every game (when I was shooting hockey) so it's gets real tiring really quick. :D
  • @Nikkei_Simmer You gotta be kiddin me,A RL photographer using a program for ancestors pics.

    This is my conquest wall just snapping photo in game nothing fancy no program or editing just sims game

    https://i.imgur.com/Bwk0I2d.jpg

    Some black and whites no fancy program no editing just choosing that filter

    https://i.imgur.com/J2ogjAc.jpg

    This is just a sim in lingerie

    https://i.imgur.com/Chs3If3.jpg





    Your RL passion which is artistic and creative is in already game and you use programs to edit photos :# Am ashamed,fifty lashes with a soggy girrafe stuffed toy.

  • There’s a difference in this respect between the photographing feature and the painting feature. It’s better when they take photographs.
  • @JoAnne65 Way better,and the lighting is all you have to master.When taking a pic it will always be darker than it looks after, so bright lighting even if looks wrong when snapping the shot is the way to go.


    Still life photography using in game flowers and random base to set them on.Game photography is addicting and so many ways to be creative

    https://i.imgur.com/sRBoaRF.png
  • I use this one: http://modthesims.info/d/415413

    Seems to help, although I rarely have my sims paint portraits or still life paints, I find the interface rather frustrating.