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:) My cardigan collection! I’m trying to polish my photoshop skills. 

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I’ve just published a more or less complete guide to all the new villagers over in /r/AnimalCrossing on Reddit! It has everything from personalities to coffee preferences to what Halloween mask they’re scared of!

Hello everyone! I hit 200 400+ followers recently (wow!) and so I’ve decided to hold my very first ever giveaway on Tumblr! I had planned on doing this giveaway about a month ago but then the update hit and my life was completely taken over by my Reddit FAQ. I’ve tweaked the prizes a bit to give you a shot at some of the new items!

PRIZES

First Prize:

Your 25 item wishlist! 🍃

4 infinite baskets of perfect, non-native fruit 🍐 

10 hybrid flowers of your choice💐

1 full set of golden tools🔧

Second Prize:

Your 15 item wishlist! 🍃

5 hybrid flowers of your choice💐

1 full set of golden tools🔧

2 toy hammers 🔨

Third Prize:

Your 5 item wishlist! 🍃

2 gold roses🌹

1 full set of silver tools🔧

RULES

Must be following me!* This is a thank-you for my amazing followers!

Like and/or reblog to enter!**

PLEASE no giveaway blogs!

Must have an open ask box/messenger and be comfortable with sharing friend codes!

Winner must respond within 48 hours or a new name will be drawn!

How the winner will be chosen

I’ll be using the classic Name Out Of A Hat method! I will screenshot the notes, cut the users’ names into strips, toss them into THIS FASHIONABLE HAT, and then grab 3 at random!

Giveaway ends December 17th, 2016 at 12PM EST! Any additional notes after that time will not be counted. The winners will be announced later that day.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to shoot me an ask!

*New followers too! Just don’t be that person who follows for a giveaway and then unfollows immediately after.

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

before:

after: