Share your tutorials/tips and tricks!

"CazzTregurtha;d-976443" wrote:
So I know there is already a thread that Jojo made for a few tutorials (THANKS JOJO!), but I wanted the opportunity for other people to share theirs as well or ask for help. Sometimes I see a picture, and immediately think hooooow did you do that? So here you can tag someone with their pic and ask away as well!

Not everything needs to be a full on tutorial. Share a mini tip you may have to achieve a certain effect etc. Or throw in a link to a tutorial you found online somewhere.

The reason I made this is because I want to keep asking people how they did something but don't want to flood a great thread with questions that don't relate at all, for example in a comp. And I think it would be really cool to all have a chance to learn from each other :smile:

Topics can be photoshop/gimp, in game lighting for the best photo taking. Literally anything!

So I'll start: @Storiessims4
How do you create such a good full body pose that is so clear and high quality? And how do you get her face to be soft and smiling so realistically? You don't have to make an actual tutorial hehe, just a brief explanation pretty please.
https://i.postimg.cc/HxnRK72G/BACHELOR-ROSE1.png

Hi, thank you @CazzTregurtha for sharing my photo, it's nice. To have a photo of this quality I took 4 photos, very close with the tab key.
from head to shoulders, breasts to hips, thighs to knees, and legs to feet. I put it all together which gives a high quality rendering. There is also for those who are not on IMAC a software which also helps to take high quality photos without doing all that I do and it goes faster. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e3GGKnd7Vc

To smile it is FACEAPP that I use but, I bought the version so the quality is better and without the watermark of the brand of the software.

There is a few tutorials of mine that could help you out :) to do the simple things. Its always best to start small before you go big. Getting that perfect cut and sometimes getting your lighting and shadows down is always a great starting point.

In my signature you will see my flickr, if you see my older pictures VS my newer ones, you will realise that i started small too. I self taught everything by just playing with controls in photo shop. Some times its the trick on the eyes that can make a picture beautiful. Starting with picture vibrancy. Colour is a great distraction compared to a dull one. And the biggest tool in my game is my burn and dodge tool to bring realism to my sims.

https://i.imgur.com/4LK4bGE.png

Take this picture for example. I use the smudge tool on a low opacity to get rid of the creases that the game unnaturally adds (for instance her neck) And filling in the gaps that look distorted also on the neck. I use my dodge tool set on mid tones at about 20% and add shadows on places where there should be. Such as armpits, finger creases etc. Often i find the sims can be a little pastey looking with no texture, so i use my burn and dodge on her fingers to give realism, to make her look like she has knuckles and creases on them too. Giving her a little bit of light and shade makes all the difference in creating a better shot. Also sometimes i add some noise to the shot to give her skin texture (it only needs to be slight) but it does look like she has pores on her cheeks.

I also usually clone my sims on backgrounds by making my poses. getting the right pose can result with my sim slotting straight onto the background. And if you cannot use blender, putting a sim over another sim on a background would be very difficult.

@CazzTregurtha it could be a guess about that smile in that bachelorette pic, i think it could be an app that does that to faces. Like face app etc.

Contact me anytime if you ever need a hand. Always wanna help.