This is a casual variation on a reading circle. There is no real obligation to read each others' stories (although many of us do read each others' work already anyway), and no structured weekly discus...
Aaah thank you @SnuffyBucket , now I can sneakily *cough* bypass the romance subject. :sweat_smile:
There’s a program called ReShade that a lot of simmers are using to brighten/alter/darken/creepify their pictures. It’s a bit of a learning curve, but once you figure out what look you want, ReShade is really awesome to use! In my case, I can’t – for some reason my game hates the program, and I do a lot of finetuning with my pictures, so ReShade actually works against me.
You all already know this, but I use a LOT of editing in my pictures. Not so much the kid chapters, but the teen stage has every picture altered so far. In fact, picture editing probably takes the longest out of all chapter preparations, haha. I’ll show the process below for those who are interested.
I then go to this site (no skills with photoshop whatsoever, so this place does the editing for me). I play around with sliders until the picture is as bright/dark/colourful as I want it to be:
https://i.ibb.co/zSPP2Pb/2.jpg
Then, depending on the scene, I add a filter:
https://i.ibb.co/FhQnkQw/3.jpg
And finally I turn the image into a smaller-sized jpg file since my screenshots are gigantic (saves loading times for readers, yay) and add a border:
https://i.ibb.co/9b82k3B/4.jpg
How much editing and what type of end result you get, really depends on the person, though. I enjoy giving my screenshots a movie-like feel with dramatic lighting, so then you get that. There’s people who only brighten their screenshots a bit, or make the colours a lot more vivid than the base-game. It all depends on personal preference. :)
*Edit: I haven't read your chapter yet, but I like what you did with the news screenshots! It looks like an actual evening news program :mrgreen: Also, sorry to say it, Travis, but Broof is a better looking dude than you, even if his last name is Hogwash. :D
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