Sylvan Glade Tea Party
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...
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"SnuffyBucket;c-17624943" wrote:
Now my new chapter is out in the wild, and therefore I can't crop out all the images and hide in shame, let's discuss screenshots. Specifically Editing Screenshots
Honestly, 90% of the time I just use the screenshots as they come out of the game - to me, they look good enough as they are. The main exceptions to this are nighttime outdoor images, because they're always way too dark, unless I remember to place copious amounts of outdoor lighting in game, and like you said using filters to designate memories/flashbacks and such. So basically what you said.
Ocassionally, I add "magic" effects into a screenshot when needed, if I need magic that doesn't quite exist in game or if I for whatever reason can't be bothered to use what is in game (most of the time this goes for screenshots where two people are teleporting and such). What I normally do for that is I find a royalty free image of sparkles or whatever the desired effect is, shove it in my image and resize/change colour/soften the layer if needed. I'm not particularly great at this though.
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Like at the Von Haunt chapter, when Cordelia fell into the snow and Morgyn then lifted her up and dried her dress using magic, my first attempt at adding an effect to illustrate that just kind of looked as if she was farting fire, lol
I do always convert my pictures to jpg as Yimi mentioned for storage purposes, sometimes resize them if I can be bothered. Oh, and I suppose I do my chapter teasers, but those are just a case of resizing, slapping on a frame and the chapter title.
I use Photoshop for all of the above.
As you can gather, I basically do the bare minimum, and if I can get away with doing nothing, which is most of the time (I hope), I will. I like the way the screenshots look out of my game (often I like them more than what they look like when I add filters), and I'm lazy :D
I am in awe at the amount of work @_sims_Yimi does - I would never have the patience, but man, your pictures are always stunning Yimi, so you can definitely tell a lot of effort went in, the Camelot chapters are always a feast for the eyes ?
