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yay. since i’m getting a lot of asks about how i edit photos i thought i’d do a little tutorial thing. 

i’m gonna be using this screenshot:

i know a lot of people use miiverse to take screenshots but that process is too long for me and i’m lazy so i just say whatever and use the L & R buttons on my DS and inject the SD card into my laptop. tbh i could never tell a difference anyways.

the first thing i do is go to waifu2x and enlarge & reduce the noise with the settings for noise reduction on high and upscaling on 1.6x. you can do upscaling to 2x, personally i feel like it’s easier to point out mistakes on a bigger picture so i stick with 1.6. though 2x is good if you wanna close crop the photo.

after that you press submit and it’ll open up in another tab with your edited photo. instead of saving it i drag it straight into photoshop from the browser window. so now i’ve got a screen that looks like this, and a slightly lumpy enlarged screenshot.

now it’s time for more noise reduction! waifu2x does a good job smoothing things out but it leaves it really lumpy so to counteract that i reduce the noise even more in photoshop to make it not look so awkward.

those are the general settings i use for noise reduction. depending on the screenshot i’ll adjust them until i think that it gets rid of any weird imperfections without losing detail.

after that i use these super cool adjustments on the side to get the desired color editing that i want done:

the ones i use most are brightness/contrast, curves, exposure, and photo filter to add an orangey tint. finally i add a grain filter to give the screenshot a lil more texture. so that is under the filter tab, to filter gallery. i believe grain is under the texture category all the way at the bottom. and these are the settings i use: 

yay after that i have a rly cute screenshot. now you save it (i use png file format) and upload <3

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after:

PAYPAL IS TRYING TO SLIP THE RUG UNDER US. Or they may have said this and just no one read about it or noticed/knew.

OKAY SO BEFORE YOU SEND ANY MONEY FOR THAT AWESOME COMMISSION YOU WANT TO BUY FROM THAT AWESOME ARTIST. PLEASE STOP AND READ THIS.

Paypal changed the look of how you will fill out information and send money. Thus, you need to be super careful. Don’t go all willy nilly through and be like “Yeah yeah yeah send” you need to stop when you see this screen right away.

Before you proceed, you will first notice one major thing: your address is showing. What you need to do if you are ordering a DIGITAL WORK (aka, it is being sent to you via the interwebz) is you need to click on your address and there around be a drop down menu of 3 (or more) options:

No address needed

Your Current Address

+ Add a new shipping address

Be sure to select “No address needed”, it is very important that you do. If you leave your address in there, Paypal will assume that you are to receive a physical package. A physical package which needs proof that exists physically. Paypal will want the artist to provide shipping labels and tracking info on said package. This is bad, very, very bad. Artists can get in trouble if they cannot provide these things.

Please, if an artist asks to send you back your money so that you can send it again correctly, do not be offended. You are paying them to do your commission, how can they do your commission with no money?

Then go to order status and set to “Processed/Service Rendered.”

This will let paypal know that the order was a digital good, and no shipping was required.

my sweet friend @opal-hope has made a discord for acnl!!! here is the link to it

join it and chat about everything in new leaf, i am not able to join rn because im busy making these stickers but once i get a good break i will be there!!!

and then there’s the Gamecube Animal Crossing

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