This May Come As A Surprise To Some, As I've Primarily Used Poses For My Screenshots So Far, But I Actually

This may come as a surprise to some, as I've primarily used poses for my screenshots so far, but I actually spend most of my time in live-mode. There are times where I'm more inspired to hang around in CAS or Build/Buy, but usually I spend most of my time playing rather than building, decorating or dressing up my sims.

(Reason why I use poses for my screenshots is that I get to immersed while playing and often forget to take screenshots. So I have a second save where I recreate all the main events of my gameplay using poses to take proper screenshots)

📩 Simblr question of the day: Where do you spend the most time in-game, Build/Buy, CAS or Live Mode?

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Just me playing around in Photoshop. I tried a new editing tutorial but the tutorial itself was for ProCreate and on top of that my Photoshop is set to German so following the instructions was a bit of a challenge.

It was fun to play around with more layers than I usually do, but I'm not sure if I like how blurry the final edit looks?

(from left to right: GShade / regular Edit / additional Soft Light + Gaussian Blur)

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Photoshop Tutorial #2 -

Paint Tears

This is the easiest thing in the world! You can do it in a minute. This is for anyone new to editing in Photoshop

Okay! Starting off by opening my pic in Photoshop - I'm choosing this one of a sadboy

I'll simply create 3 layers

grab a brush, set it to white,

and on the first layer, I paint some tear shaped blobs in the characters eyes - I'm just doing whatever, as long as the shapes are round and bubbly in some way, it's okay.

now, I'll set the opacity of that layer to around 25%

on the layer above, I want to draw some simple, round highlights with the same white brush

and set the opacity to around 30%

Finally, on the last (top) layer, I'm grabbing that same, white brush and making it really small - like, 2px.

Shortcut to increase & decrease brush size is [ and ]

and I'm going to paint some lines around the tears. Not all the way around, just kinda, artistically around some of the edges, and leaving other edges open.

now, I'll set the opacity to around 50%

I'm happy, so I'll flatten the image and save!

and that's it!

Here are the three layers isolated, just so that you can see.

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3.

and combined

Hope this was helpful!

Good luck!

I've been the type of player who deleted all existing families and replaced them with their own sims. So I don't remember most of the families from earlier games.

If I had to pick one sim to have a comeback in Sims 4, I would probably pick Nervous Subject. I always felt sorry for him, but he's one of the few sims whose backstory I remember even 20 years later. Come to think of it, I really miss the days where the Sims Team felt bold enough to include families with darker backstories.

📩 Simblr question of the day: Which families from earlier games do you miss the most in Sims 4?

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