Before and after....(editing)

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I'm kinda fascinated to how your photos start before you edit them, sometimes I don't realise quite how much/little editing makes all your great pics ^_^ So if you want I would love to see some before and afters =)

I'll start :P

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Ladybug, I remember your first picture for the Agency and I was thinking (note, I was horrendous at the time with anything that involved editing) she's not half-bad. Then, in no time you become one of my favorite editors and my mind is just blown. Literally, if you visited my room at this moment you would see my mind all over the floor. Blown.

@Monks
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You have made my day!!! I really don't think I am that good at editing but I am sooooooo flattered to be one of your favorite editors. You are becoming an amazing editor and I love the fantasy picture you made (Hint: I really want to see a before and after pick of it) Lol thank you sooooo much again.

GAH. I deleted them all so I could make room on my super slow computer. But anyway, it was a bunch of random shots of my sim just blinking and looking around the room I had trapped her in. I don't think I even used pose player.

Basically, the only things I'm happy with in the fantasy pic is the dragon's head, which I spent nearly an hour on, and the hair, since it was my fourth time drawing hair and my first success. I'm sure I'll look back on it in a month and completely hate it, just like I do with my first edits....

Lol
I love that hair it was so pretty and I am also in love with her expres​sion(What editing program do you use??)

Don't laugh, but elements 6. I tried gimp and it scared me so much that I didn't come out of the shadows for days. I want CS5 but I am broke beyond belief. But I did get a tablet, so I could stop using my trackpad, and that's helped...a lot.

Yeah I personally use CS5 but I bought the student edition and i saved up for a while. I also have a tablet too and i use it for much more than editing.

Elements is awesome. P:
I have Elements 8. My first edit was made with gimp, and it was horrendous. XD

CS5 :pink heart: Amazing for drawing stuff and beats gimps butt

Student discount you say? Hm...guess I can look into that. Just have to save up enough money.

Early, I like elements when I have a picture from RL to edit, since it's so great for that. But, I really want to get it into drawing and graphic design, so Elements (6 especially since it doesn't have as much as the new editions) is being a pain and limiting my creative juices. I could try and work around it, but that's a lot of work for someone as lazy as me d:

@Mystic
*high fives you*
I agree with that statement
(I am feeling better now and I was wondering if you would be on Portvale tomorrow)

Ohhh, yeah I understand that Monks.
I rarely edit that much, I do in games for the most part, sooooo I just need it for simple stuff. Makeup and skin shading if I'm doing close ups.

I wish I could do reliable in-games. Sometimes they come out nicely and I don't need to do much, but other times all I can use is my sims. I'm not good at creating sets in the sims. *Shame*

:seen: :pink heart: OMG I am so impressed! I really need ot up my game because I suck compared to you guys!

Probably. If you want you can have me email so we can talk about times and other shenanigans for Portvale ----> [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Most of my sims look really weird if I don't do my usual heavy editing. I don't know how you pull of such clean and great looking in game photos Early...

ladybug - Love that hair drawing missy!

Your doggy is adorable in your avi, Alma!

I would say I'm best at in games. I had stopped doing them for a bit, was just doing simple pictures that didn't require me to build up much of a set or anything, so I wasn't doing too great when I got back into them. But recently I have been practicing more, and I think I'm doing well.
Most I do to them is some lighting effects.

I would just tell people to keep practicing, use lots of good clutter if the assignment/idea calls for it, and work on angles. Also, I have an addiction to CASTing stuff, so I would recommend using lots of cool patterns, colours, and such :p

Early wrote:Your doggy is adorable in your avi, Alma!

Thanks :D I made her a fan page its the link in my siggy ::

ALot of the time I do heavy editing,then I either have a 'Ohmygod I'm rubbish at editing' or a 'this is a sim competition, I should really use more sim stuff' moment, so I just do lighting editing and skin smoothing. But I always go back to editing.

ANd set building is practically the only thing I can do!

LOL....I learn so much from all of you just lurking and reading here I would love to learn hair drawing but now that I am back in school, all my time will go to just basic stuff for my comps.....I am having a LOT of fun, though

Blah.

Thar be boobies in here.

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She's a siren. ::

My Dark Shadows entry:


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Frenzy, that's amazing. <3

Vanadis, seriously. I need to see how you draw hair because it's fantastic.

Not the biggest change, but I love it so much!

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Black and White final:
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Gorgeous Starling :D<3!

Just practicing my skin shading
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