A little whine
Feb. 18th, 2014 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hat_plays_simsFirst let me state: Men's underwear is closing in on done. All that's left are the shirts and nightgowns.
But I'm signed up for the GoS blind date and I've got an idea I really want to mess with and I've got Body Shop and Photoshop open and I can't find my ability to make things look the way I see them in my head.
So, you know.
Fffffffffff
But I'm signed up for the GoS blind date and I've got an idea I really want to mess with and I've got Body Shop and Photoshop open and I can't find my ability to make things look the way I see them in my head.
So, you know.
Fffffffffff
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Date: 2014-02-18 06:32 pm (UTC)Also, really looking forward to the men's underwear. It's going to be so nice having more than two options in my game.
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Date: 2014-02-19 06:05 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-02-20 12:34 am (UTC)Which lacing, the close spiral lacing I stole from Sherahbim and use on everything or the wide spiral lacing from my kirtles? Either way, I can't wait to see what you've done!
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Date: 2014-02-20 01:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-20 01:58 am (UTC)You're ambitious! My tortoise brooches for my next batch of Viking dresses are going to be photoskinned. Because I have nothing against photoskinned jewelry as long as it's done well, and there are plenty of photos (of reproductions AND surviving examples) out there, because the brooches held up really well as grave goods. Although you might also be able to find a tutorial around somewhere for making your textures look shiny and metallic; I just found one the other day for making things glowy. (For Photoshop, yeah, but the basic technique is blurring.)
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Date: 2014-02-20 02:30 am (UTC)As for the brooches, I'm using knotwork clipart. The intention is to use the flower, the circle, and the one that looks like two kidney beans with knots in the middle that's next to the flower. I'll probably also use a triquetra and a Valknut. I have a book and CD of knotwork clipart somewhere, but I have no clue where it is or if it's actually in storage, so what I can find online has to do.
But, much like I came to fantasy from history, I came to Sims textures from a background in graphics. My father has worked in graphics my whole life, first in the darkroom, then pre-press, now bindery. I spent a summer working with him in CD prep and bindery when I was in my teens. Around 2000, I got a copy of Photoshop from one of his coworkers who thought this was perfect for a child who just got their first internet-enabled computer to play with. (This was around the time I discovered Sims 1 CC.) It's from 1998 and can't do actions, and it won't even install on Windows 7, but that's how I learned PS techniques. I took a few classes in graphics when I was in school, where we used PS 7, which is really quite similar to GIMP. Adjusting to GIMP took me a while, though. It has been years, and I still go to put in Photoshop keyboard shortcuts when I'm tired. This includes shinies. Yes, that's a picture of me. An old picture, and I'm a lot bigger chested (and smaller-waisted) now, and I've stopped trying to bleach what won't lighten, but it is me., and I did make the skirt and shirt, if you can call them that, as well. (GOD it's an old picture...I could've used Maxis for a selfsim at the time rather than having to make a whole new bodyshape for it...) Obviously, my technique was meant for something zoomed out...but...yeah...
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Date: 2014-02-20 08:10 am (UTC)But you've done it. *nods* I got Photoshop 6 as a gift, and CS5 as a... let's say, as a gift from the internet. I'd just use CS2, which you can get these days by making an Adobe login, but CS5's Warp tool makes new and interesting hair retextures possible.
You look good in your be-ribboned bra and split skirt, though! The last time I looked that good in a skirt with a slit was in junior high (and I had no idea).
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Date: 2014-02-20 09:42 am (UTC)Oh...speaking of beards, did I mention that you can make some truly epic fantasy sideburns (and mustaches, I suppose) by alpha editing the Santa and Father Time beards? (Father Time, especially.) Granted, it's a clunky mesh for that, but it beats attempting to get someone to make new beard meshes, and they come out gorgeous and luscious and...well...very, very fantasy. There are likely to be some interestingly long and silky alphas from me once Blind Date is over. I already have at least two months worth of work planned for...well...as soon as the event is over, really, mostly for fantasy stuff I know nobody else will make.
I tried one of the CS versions once. Probably CS2 or CS3. I actually prefer GIMP, even if it means no actions, over the CS versions. It's a fuss budget thing from someone trained on old school PS (before it was PS CS...and actually, in my case, my first version was before actions) who got used to doing things manually and still prefers to do them that way. That and CS versions are just unnecessarily cluttered with things I never use. The warps are the one thing I really miss, but that's only for Maxis retextures, really.
There's heavy photoshopping on that pic to remove bits of things that shouldn't be seen in public like straps. (The "bra" top is actually made from cloth scraps, as is the skirt, hence why there's only about half enough fabric for an outfit there...) I only look good in a skirt like that with some serious edits. (And olive oil. The trick is olive oil and a space heater.) I also used a super low camera angle to make myself look taller.
You know you play too many fantasy Sim games when you see latex elf ears and say, "Those look just like Louis Elf Ear Mesh #2 in Enayla Pixie Light."