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buglaur · 1 year

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tutorial contents:

1 ‣ gshade & photoshop actions 2 ‣ template or cropping & colouring 3 ‣ notifs & pop-ups

okay hi! i have a really old editing tutorial from back in january that i've been linking people to, but it's pretty outdated by now. i also keep getting anons asking about the same things, which is fine, but i always have to go searching for the post explaining it, so having it all in one place will be a lot more convenient lol

i use a ☠ copy of photoshop cc 2017 to edit my screenshots, however the majority of everything i'm doing also works on photopea

photopea is an online version of photoshop that's 100% free and works very well! i can't recommend it enough, it's fantastic

first things first, you're going to need some screenshots to edit. for the sake of this tutorial i'll be working with this one of raffy:

in all honesty, gshade will do most of the work for you. of course it's not needed, but i definitely don't think i could live without it! in this screenshot i used sunset n' vinyl by nesurii

when opening the screenshot, the first thing i do is run it through 2 photoshop actions:

butter action by early-grape

smooth sharp (no topaz) by poolbrop

to add actions in photoshop go:

windows > actions > the 4 lines at the upper right corner of the newly opened window > load actions > your downloads folder > open up the .atn files!

if you're using photopea, as far as i'm aware you can't use photoshop actions, but i've found that 'filter > stylize > oil paint' and 'filter > sharpen > smart sharpen' have a very similar effect when using the right settings. try these:

i like these two actions because they smooth everything out nicely, but keep it sharp at the same time! i always run butter before i run smooth sharp, however butter may leave you with 2 layers. make sure to merge these layers before running smooth sharp to achieve the full effect.

here's a before and after (of the photoshop action):

from here you can move on to step 2

before anything else i want to share the template that i use to make editing a lot faster. you don't need to use it but it's definitely made things a lot easier for me! it's a .psd file and will work perfectly in photopea

download (simfileshare)

if you're using the template you can skip right on to the next section, as it's already cropped to the right size and has the colouring folder included. just drag your screenshot into it and resize to fit the height.

if you're not using it, crop your edited screenshot to:

1707 width x 1280 height

then adjust the colours to your liking. it always varies slightly depending on the picture but my regular process for each screenshot would be:

up the saturation by 8%

up the lightness by 3%

up the contrast by 12%

all of this can be done by looking in the 'images > adjustments' tab

you should end up with something similar to this!

if you want to add a moodlet or social interaction or anything similar, it's all the same process. what you'll need is a screenshot of it straight from the game. i just press the 'c' key to capture them! i'll be working with these two:

for the blue notification i'm going to select it using the box select tool. try to get it as exact as possible. one you have it selected

for photoshop users:

click on the 'select and mask...' option located at the top

adjust the global refinements at the side as follows:

smooth: 70 feather: 0.0px contrast: 50% shift edge: 0%

for photopea users:

go to select > modify > smooth

set it to 15

select 'ok' and press 'ctrl + c' to copy it, then 'ctrl + v' to paste it into your screenshot. adjust the size and position and you should end up with something like this:

next you want to add the transparent border around the notification. if you're using my editing template, right click on the reference notif in the layers tab and select 'copy layer style' (photopea > 'layer style > copy'). from there you can paste that layer style onto your own notif through the layers tab.

if you're not using the template, here's how to set it up on photoshop:

right click your notification layer and select 'blending options'

under styles, tick the checkboxes for stroke and drop shadow

input these settings:

on photopea, it should be more or less the same. repeat the exact same process with the social menu option, but instead of selecting it with the box select tool, use the magic select tool. in the end you should end out with this!

from here you're finished! thanks for reading! go to file and export as png

if you've got questions never hesitate to ask, just make sure to read the faq in my pinned. i might edit this post soon to include the gen intro traits and aspirations bit, but this is all for now. hope it helps, my editing process post has been in need of a revamp for a very long time. i haven't proof-read this so apologies for any mistakes!

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 tutorial #5 anons in my inbox asking the same question after not reading my faq #this ones for you #3 anons in my inbox asking about cas pics #ones coming for you soon #okay maybe not soon but sometime #all my free time has been eaten up #i signed up for extra saturday morning classes and not having a lie in is sucking the life out of me lmao #when i'm busy i just wanna play video games and when i get the chance #to play games i just wanna sleep #its a vicious cycle #i'm currently playing resident evil biohazard tho #enjoying it very very much #i've only got 2 and 3 left to play and i've played every mainstream re game 💪💪#it was a very fun journey! i played them all within this year #long post

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inherstars · 1 year

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More about AI and (this time) writing

I've got a few more days left on my Midjourney subscription, and while I'll probably re-up eventually, I don't think I'll do so right away.

I've been using the hell out of ChatGPT, however, and that's what this is about. Also some stuff about hormones and peri-menopause, cause that's how I roll.

So! In the interest of full disclosure without also revealing too much about myself, I have a very specific fetish. Not gonna get into it on this account, so don't ask.

Simultaneously, being a woman of a certain age, my libido has been absolutely non-existent for the better part of the past 4+ years. Like, I have gone almost an entire year with only one instance of the needle wobbling even a little.

As if that wasn't depressing enough, it turns out my desire to write is also directly tied to my libido. Which isn't to say that I write a lot of porn (I don't), but even regular old mainstream writing has been dead in the water for a long time. Soul-suckingly long. It isn't that I couldn't write, it's that I just didn't see the point. It's been horrible.

Last fall I looked into this pill for pre-menopausal / menopausal women called Winona, which was supposed to help with libido. I talked to a doctor about it, who said I was too young for it, but that she recommended a supplement called DHEA.

I tried DHEA for about 2-ish months before calling it quits. I was miserable -- gained like 5 ls of water weight that would not go away, my face was broken out, I was getting my period like every other week, and there still wasn't any improvement in my libido. I stopped taking it, lost the weight, and my face cleared up.

When my cycle went back to "normal" it was just 21 days long, but -- weirdly enough -- my libido had come back a bit. Certainly not to the level it used to be, and it seems to peak immediately after my period ends and then slowly decrease as time goes on, but I don't fucking care, because I'll fucking take it.

I have been trying to do as much writing as I can while I can. I wanted that to be more "mainstream" writing that I could actually share with more than, like, five other sexual deviants, but I'm sort of at the point where I just don't care. Writing is writing. I'll sort the rest out later.

So for the first time in like 3 years I posted a couple stories over on my fetish-specific tumblr, and had a good deal of fun writing them.

One of the tools I have been using hardcore since the needle started to move again is ChatGPT.

The thing about ChatGPT is that you can't use it to write sexy sex, but as someone whose fetish is not even remotely sexual, I can kind of abuse the hell out of it to my heart's content. Like, this thing is AMAZING. I can be like, "Let's roleplay a scene, you play X character and I'll play X character, readyyyyy GO," and it's good. It's really, surprisingly, satisfyingly good. For the first time I have been able to scratch some fantasy itches that I never could because there was nobody else with my stupid, specific interests that could write something for me. But once you learn how to massage the prompts a little, this thing can.

With all that said, I have gotten into some deep conversations with it, and today I asked it if it could help me with some (mainstream) stories I've been working on.

Full disclosure: I will never use AI to do my duty as a creative writer. My writing is my own, and I am super serious about it, even when I'm writing stupid not-really-porn-but-kind-of-porn-I-guess.

However, what the AI is good for is acting as a sounding board.

I wrote up detailed descriptions of two stories: one a fairy tale that I've been sitting on for probably 20 years, unable to come up with a satisfying conclusion, and one a sci-fi story that I already have fully plotted out, but there was a "gap" in the middle that I needed some help sorting out.

As a writer, TALKING about writing is sometimes the biggest help in getting past plot holes or other stumbling blocks. Not even talking to other people, sometimes just sitting down and writing about what's tripping you up, as if you were putting it into a letter to someone, will open up pathways you didn't realize were there. Highly recommended.

For the fairy tale, the AI suggested several different ways the story could end, none of which actually worked or sat well with me (one was too convenient and trite, the other one would have essentially required doubling the length of the story (and still wasn't very good). BUT it did get me thinking. And after chewing on it a bit, I think I actually do have a solid idea of how to finally end this fucking thing.

For the sci-fi story, it made some pretty solid suggestions as to the missing plot points (they're not exactly plot points, more like plot touchstones?), and after cherry-picking the ones I like I was even able to sketch out some notes for myself as to why and how they woudl work.

Overall, I'm super pleased. The thing is, when my libido tanks again (which I know it will -- if not in the immediate future, then, let's be honest, eventually), I need to keep writing. I NEED to. I don't want this to be the end of the thing that has gotten me through some of the hardest parts of my life, and which is honestly a huge part of my personal identity.

Like I said, it's not that I CAN'T write, it's that when I get to that point I don't see the point. The interest isn't there, the passion isn't there. And as soon as I'm done being horny, I want to have a good framework on which to keep writing. My hope is that if I'm disciplined enough I can keep going, and eventually separate my libido from my interest in writing, so I don't need one to do the other.

But in the meantime, no lie, I definitely need to figure out a really juice AI roleplay that involves a young Lance Henriksen...

#personal #writing #ai #perimenopause

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