Here’s a little tutorial to show a basic editing style to make your screenshots soft and defined 😉
Sorry I only have photoshop in italian x)
You’ll need Photoshop (I use CS5) and Topaz Clean plugin.
1- Crop your picture 1050px width x 1750px height
2- Open the Filters > Liquify (Maiusc+Control+X) and try to make all sharp edges more rounded and smoother. Like on the neck and the mouth.
3- Go again to Filters > Topaz Clean. I use these settings:
4-Then use the Smudge Tool, intensity set to 10% to smooth skin and the edges. Also use the Blur Tool with 40% intensity to blur the hair around and the neck.
5- Now use the Sharpen Tool, intensity 50% to make the eyes,lips,nose and skin details more defined.
6- I generally use this technique to add some shadows:
Make a New layer, pick the Brush Tool, diameter around 20-25 px and hardness 0%, color BLACK #000000.
On this level draw lines and curves where you like some shadows.
7- Now go to Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set Radius around 25 pixels.
Once you did this, put the layer on Multiply with 40% Opacity.
8- To make the screenshot more interesting you can make a sort of “Vignette” around the face/body.
I use the Gradient Tool on a new layer Put it Black to transparent and then drag it in a circular way around your sim.
9- Again go to Fitlers > Blur > Gaussian Blur, radius 125 px. And then set this layer to Multiply, opacity 30-40 %.
Here’s the final picture!
Hope you like it! 🙂
Sorry for the mistakes in English and for the tiny images (tumblr’s fault) >.>
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