My first piece of cc!
Mar. 15th, 2010 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katrisimsSo have I been procastrinating again? Yes, I have! And it has produced a result!
So, I played more with screenshots. I installed Gadwin, and found out I much, much prefer it over Fraps. First, it gives me reasonable sized jpges instead of rediculous sized bmps. And second, I don't know how, but I think the pictures are all around prettier too. Here's an example from my photoshoot hood:
I actually liked this one enough so that I decided to do what I've been wanting to do for a while now: make a custom painting out of it. I followed this tutorial by Ndainye, and managed to get the result show up in game - go me! Baudolino seems to approve:
Or at least he approves of the woohoo he had with Marylena the last time I played them.
And he would be right, that is a recolor of Bella squared. I could have picked a bigger frame for a picture with so many sims, but remembering and guessing what is how big was surprisingly difficult. I might redo it with a bigger frame some time, but for now I'm quite pleased with the result. I'm definitely not going to be a cc creator, I think copypasting a picture on top of another is pretty much on the limit of what I can manage. ;) But it's nice to manage this little piece of magic nevertheless.
With that being done and said, I started thinking maybe I actually should try to use Gadwin for all my game pictures. After all, with that I can get reasonably sized jpegs, and I quite like the results. I had a look at my converted chapters, and am a little bummed about the picture quality degeneration on Slideshare. On my machine, the in-game camera shots look fine even when I fullscreen the pdf, but on Slideshare I can see some fuzziness coming in. Maybe it's just that I look at my own work with a critical eye, but somehow other people's pictures look prettier than mine...
Of course, with Gadwin, there are a couple of things that I'd need to figure out. First, I'd need to find out whether I should resize the pictures for the chapters, or if just stuffing it into the correctly sized box in Open Office Impress does the same thing. I'll simply need to test that one out. If I need to resize, I think I'd best use a batch resizing program, handling closer to 150 pictures per update would probably drive me batty if I did it by hand... On a related note, I should also get rid of the action icons that show up on all of my todays uploads, too. I know that can be done by editing the picture, but I'm not very skilled at that, and again, hand-editing all pictures for all updates is not something I'd look forward to doing.
So, I have a question (or maybe two) for you all. What is it that you use for your simming pictures? The in-game camera, Gadwin, Fraps, something else? And what do you do with them so that they look good in the updates? Resize, edit out things, edit otherwise, yet something? And finally, if you do some of these, are there tricks that you do to make them less tedious? Any thoughts and advice would be appreciated. =)
In the end, have yet an adorable picture which shows I think pretty well why I'm liking my experimentation.
Oh, and the chapter? Well that's progressing too. I'm now on slide seventy-something, and have shot my Sal scenes for this chapter as well. This one has taken me way longer than it should have, but maybe I'll actually get it posted some time in this decade or so.
So, I played more with screenshots. I installed Gadwin, and found out I much, much prefer it over Fraps. First, it gives me reasonable sized jpges instead of rediculous sized bmps. And second, I don't know how, but I think the pictures are all around prettier too. Here's an example from my photoshoot hood:
I actually liked this one enough so that I decided to do what I've been wanting to do for a while now: make a custom painting out of it. I followed this tutorial by Ndainye, and managed to get the result show up in game - go me! Baudolino seems to approve:
Or at least he approves of the woohoo he had with Marylena the last time I played them.
And he would be right, that is a recolor of Bella squared. I could have picked a bigger frame for a picture with so many sims, but remembering and guessing what is how big was surprisingly difficult. I might redo it with a bigger frame some time, but for now I'm quite pleased with the result. I'm definitely not going to be a cc creator, I think copypasting a picture on top of another is pretty much on the limit of what I can manage. ;) But it's nice to manage this little piece of magic nevertheless.
With that being done and said, I started thinking maybe I actually should try to use Gadwin for all my game pictures. After all, with that I can get reasonably sized jpegs, and I quite like the results. I had a look at my converted chapters, and am a little bummed about the picture quality degeneration on Slideshare. On my machine, the in-game camera shots look fine even when I fullscreen the pdf, but on Slideshare I can see some fuzziness coming in. Maybe it's just that I look at my own work with a critical eye, but somehow other people's pictures look prettier than mine...
Of course, with Gadwin, there are a couple of things that I'd need to figure out. First, I'd need to find out whether I should resize the pictures for the chapters, or if just stuffing it into the correctly sized box in Open Office Impress does the same thing. I'll simply need to test that one out. If I need to resize, I think I'd best use a batch resizing program, handling closer to 150 pictures per update would probably drive me batty if I did it by hand... On a related note, I should also get rid of the action icons that show up on all of my todays uploads, too. I know that can be done by editing the picture, but I'm not very skilled at that, and again, hand-editing all pictures for all updates is not something I'd look forward to doing.
So, I have a question (or maybe two) for you all. What is it that you use for your simming pictures? The in-game camera, Gadwin, Fraps, something else? And what do you do with them so that they look good in the updates? Resize, edit out things, edit otherwise, yet something? And finally, if you do some of these, are there tricks that you do to make them less tedious? Any thoughts and advice would be appreciated. =)
In the end, have yet an adorable picture which shows I think pretty well why I'm liking my experimentation.
Oh, and the chapter? Well that's progressing too. I'm now on slide seventy-something, and have shot my Sal scenes for this chapter as well. This one has taken me way longer than it should have, but maybe I'll actually get it posted some time in this decade or so.
