How Do I Editing Pictures

I love to take pictures in my sims game, and a lot of the time I only create things as an excuse to go take pictures of it

I am usually pretty pleased with my pictures, but I like to add some "extras" in photoshop. Sadly, I am quite crap at photoshop, so all I manage to do is add a border and a bit of text and then save for web.

I use photoshop7 and free fonts that I find on the web.

What editing software (if any) do other leefishers use? Do you have any cool tips on how to get a good looking picture for uploads (especially a thumbnail picture)?

I love to play around with pics, when I have time, quite often my pics have something added to them, especially lots...just for fun.

I do have photoshop, I know how to open it...that's about the extent of my Photoshop knowledge. I use GIMP for just about everything, for frames I use PhotoFiltre or make my own.

The only tip I can give is when taking pics in game use a plain background, makes floodfilling backgrounds or making transparent backgrounds easier.

As for thumbnail pics I suck at them especially if I add a text to them.

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I love editing pictures! Just like Lee, most of the times my main motivation to make something is to be able take pretty pictures of it finished

I use Photoshop CS5, but I normally don't edit my upload pictures too much. Most of my editing includes making a collage (because I take way too many pictures, and I want to show as much of them as possible at the same time, LOL), adding borders, text, and infamous lens flare if I'm going for a more artsy-fartsy look

For taking pictures of sims or clothing, I use the animation painting by Aikea and other animation boxes. Plain background is always a good idea, except if you're taking additional pictures that you want to be more lively and interesting. Taking pictures at more interesting angles is also something I like to do for additional upload pics - it can make the pics look more fun. I've attached some of my favorite collages

I often find it hard to make a good thumbnail, because many times the cropped pic won't look as good as the full-sized one. Sometimes it's tough just to figure out which part to crop. I just keep trying out pictures I like, cropping them, resizing, until I find the one that looks good as a thumbnail.

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I edit in Photoshop CS4 but for screen shots I don't like to edit any more than just cropping and pasting together so that I provide an accurate representation. I was using FRAPs for all my screen captures but apparently Game Booster does it too, so I'll have to try that and compare the results.

Photoshop CS2 and Gadwin for screenshots. I don't really do too much to my screenshots besides crop them- sometimes I have to adjust the contrast, that's about it. I can't stand when lens flare (obvious, in your face, not subtle like Misty's pic above) and things like that are added to screenshots so I don't do it myself.

I'm like Misty- I tend to take oodles of screenshots. I don't really like to collage them, believe it or not. Yes! I know I do collages! That's because I get told to! Seriously, I do. My sets tend to be larger and at MTS you're only allowed the 12 screenshots. I think I've included enough and the mod disagrees. So I get told to make collages for some of them to add more views of my objects. And I do like to include a numbered swatch- I hate coming up with texture names unless it's something easy..like MMDarkWood. I see pink flowers on a green background with purple dots and have no idea what it should be called besides pinkflowersgreenbackgrdpurpdots, which is ridiculously long.

One thing I've started doing to my main screenshot that I really like? Adding a very slight lighting effect like I did to my main park screenshot. And a frame..and text. I like the way frames look and the text is only to tell you what a set is. I do add text to other screenshots- usually to point something out since people don't always READ the main text. But they do look at screenshots (I do, lol)- so if there's something they need to know they can read it on the screenshot.

I use Paintshop Pro 7 and Sim-Camera for my pictures. I don't think I've ever made thumbnails. Generally pictures for downloads - I take for my own site - and I'm not that strict.

Pictures I take for my stories though... now that's a different kettle of fish! I take millions.

I use paint shop pro 6 and cutout 3 to edit pics. A good way to make thumbnails quickly is with a thumbnail maker like EZ Thumbnail Maker.

RebaLynn1960;14744 Wrote:A good way to make thumbnails quickly is with a thumbnail maker like EZ Thumbnail Maker.

Yes, that is a nice way to make a thumbnail picture in terms of size etc (I have the thumbnails built in on leefish - we use GD image thingy) but it was more the actual picture content rather than it's size.

I am ok at the big "money shot" (I think) and I know how to show an object in use and so on so the downloader knows what they are getting, but a punchy thumb that grabs attention often eludes me.

Ok - you thought "money shot"? Is she selling stuff? Well, not exactly, but I have a theory about upload posts

I think that there are three kinds of pictures in an upload - presentational, informational and look at ME. The thumb is the look at me. The presentational is the big shot at the top of the post - the one that makes the user read the post. The informational is to show them what they are getting.

I always do my posts the same way. I have a line or so of brief yadda yadda and then I have the money shot with the room/street whatever all decorated up, then some actual useful information and then in the gallery I have the rest of the pictures.

Leefish is actually set up for that kind of post layout.

That's a really good way of putting Lee. My site is full of informational - and hardly any of the other sort.

Well, I am picture mad - so leefish is full of pics Some actual threads/posts would be good too I suspect....