Do you do a lot of screenshot touch ups? What’s your planning process like for your posts?

Hi there!

I’d say each photo gets about 5-10 min each of editing but its pretty minimal.

I start with the original:

Then crop using a 16:9 ratio, and run an action I made over it:

Then Isolate the subject I want to be in focus and use the Gaussian blur filter(at about 3.5-4) to blur the rest:

And finally add and center text if there is any:

As for planning, I sometimes have ideas going into a household but mostly I’m a fly by the seat of my pants kind of girl.

I do keep track of notes and things that I think I’d like to post as I play, as well as a running total of the number of posts I need to edit still (WARNING: SPOILERS!):

The ones marked as dialogue then get thrown into a word doc for me to write the scene and determine their number of posts. 

This and the list then gets refined and added to as I edit, and the order gets rearranged as I edit and queue them. 

Then I continue to read through my queue about 2 times a day changing and rearranging things usually up until the moment they are posted.

Each household has on average 16-18 posts planned pre-editing and somewhere around 20-24 after editing(I always find or work in more photos that I forgot to note, haha)

If you have any more questions let me know and thanks for the ask!

Call for favorites!

Hey y’all I’ve been tagged to give 5 facts about my favorite sim, but I can’t choose. Sooooo that’s where I’m hoping ya’ll can help me. Please, if you would like, leave a comment for me with the name of your favorite premade you’d like to know more about. The top 5 I will do 5 facts for each!

This or That? Tag

Thank you for the tag, @pixelbobdiamondpants and @pixelionary !

This is the “this or that?” tag, where you simply bold the answer to following questions:

1. summer or winter?

2. pizza or pasta?

3. black or white?

4. comedy or horror?

5. hugs or kisses?

6. shorts or pants?

7. night or day?

8. bath or shower?

9. cats or dogs?

10. plain or patterned?

11. beauty or brains?

12. coffee or tea?

13. concert or play?

14. fiction or non-fiction?

15. elevator or escalator?

16. pork or chicken?

17. sleeping or eating?

18. hot or cold?

19. formal or casual?

20. pen or pencil?

21. sweet or spicy?

22. jet or ship?

23. high school or college?

24. walking or jogging?

25. alone or in a crowd?

26. love or money?

27. mammal or reptile?

28. bills or coins?

29. straight hair or curly hair?

30. drunk or high?

31. married or single?

32. ninjas or pirates?

33. zoo or aquarium?

34. flowers or chocolate?

35. lawyer or doctor? ‘

36. car or house?

37. angels or demons?

38. christmas or Halloween?

39. slippers or barefoot?

40. pool or beach?

41. truth or dare?

42. blonde or brunette?

43. slippers or sneakers?

44. debit or credit?

45. quiet or loud?

46. sun or moon?

47. thunder or lightning?

48. bed or sofa?

49. weird or normal?

50. past or future?

I tag: No one, because I’m not a tagger but if you want to go for it!

Gameplay style evolution

I was tagged by @anotherplumbob. Thank you!

Rules:

  • Post two photos. One earlier gameplay photo (at the very least would be three months ago but preferably go even way back) and one of your most recent ones (within the past month).
  • The only restriction is they must be from the same game (so two TS2 photos, two TS3 photos, or two TS4 photos).
  • State when the photos were taken, and include a link to the post itself if it’s still around.
  • Tag 5-10 people once you’re done.

Okay so here is the first ever photo I posted on this blog on November 12th, 2017:

And here is the last image I put in the queue (around 6/26/2018):

So Its really hard to tell but the first photo has no editing whatsoever. The second has been run with an action I made, and also had some DOF faked with the Gaussian blur in Photoshop.

I’m not a tagger but if you want to do this go for it!