Space Dad

aw hello!! i have links to what i use in my editing in my faq, but sure i'll do a lil tutorial! ♥

1. you need the sumahama reshade by wilderbees

2. open photoshop and run the super smooth action by @avonlea-remade-blog. you need topaz for this (DM for a link)

3. i crop my picture now to the size i want it. normally i go for a square cause i think its cute

4. now i run the "warmth" action in the fairyfang sunbloom action set and edit the folder layer opacity to about 50ish. depening on the light in the screenshot, it may need to be more or less. for this screenshot i chose 66% cause it just felt right lol. after this step u need to flatten your image so there are no layers left.

5. to finish things off, i use the "o gradient" action from @wooldawn's huge action dump.

6. finally you need to resize your image so it shows nicely on tumblr! i use @smubuh's white borders action for the ease of this and sometimes white boarders look cute!!

and that's it right now! i don't have much spare time to fiddle around with editing any more and find this really quick and simple.

if you're looking to tweak a few more things, i recommend playing about with the other actions in @wooldawn's action dump, or editing the photo using the levels or curves tool that come with photoshop.

Sandy’s Masterpost for starting a new Simblr! 👍

Welcome to the community! I’m so glad you like my blog! Just a few months ago I was also new to the community so I know how daunting it can be! Below I’ve put together a bunch of helpful tips and links that I’ve either used in the past or believe will be useful to you, and any other new/aspiring simblrs! Obviously, everything is subjective- what works for me might not work for everyone else!

🎁 The Basics:

Make your tumblr a seperate tumblr, not a sideblog under your main/personal blog. It will make everything easier in the long run, trust me!

Use your description to advertise to others what you and your blog are all about. Also having either your URL or your avatar sim related will quickly advertise to others that you’re a simblr! 

Enable replies and asks in your blogs settings, if you want people to be able to interact with you and your posts! Bare in mind an interactive simblr is much more approachable!!

Keep it sim related! A few personal posts every once and a while is perfectly fine, but post a lot of unrelated stuff you could lose followers. 

Network! Follow other simblr’s, like their posts, leave friendly and encouraging comments! Making friends in this community is a sure-fire way to get started. I would be nowhere without my simblr friends!

Don’t become disheartened if it takes you a while to take off! Every simblr grows at a different rate.

Don’t mistag your posts! Failing to tag your NSFW content or tagging posts that aren’t cc posts as ts4cc will make you very unpopular.

Keep your blog atleast 80% original content! It’s much easier for a blog that tries to be original to gain traction in this community! 

Don’t get caught up in how many followers/notes you have! Just post what you post because you love it! Don’t worry what other people think.

Everyone at some point or another will recieve anon hate. It’s sad that there’s so many negative people out there, but my advice is just to delete it. If you do want to post it, handle it with grace and dignity! (think of Audrey Hepburn!)

This is more a personal one but: try your best to avoid the drama!!

Finally, treasure your followers & always stay humble!

🎁 Common Simblr Terms Explained:

NSFW: Not safe for work. This is used for any posts that contain nudity of adult themes! It’s very important to tag these posts.

WIP: Work In Progress. This can refer to any sim related project that is unfinished. 

WCIF: Where Can I Find? If someone sees a peice of CC in one of your posts that they like they may send you a ‘WCIF’ through your ask box, they’re simply asking where they can find that certain peice of cc. Not all simblrs agree to answer WCIF’s but it’s certainly very nice to!

MM: Maxis Match. Refering to custom content that matches the general aesthetic of the game.

Alpha:  Refers to hairstyles that don’t fit the aesthetic of the game, as they have alpha layers which allow certain parts of the mesh to be transparent. This is what makes alpha hairstyles more realistic looking.

Clayified: Refers to Alpha hairstyles that have been retextured to look more maxis match. 

🎁 Tagging Posts:

How to set up a legacy/story page

What does #saviorhide mean?

Common Simblr tags and their meanings

🎁 Queues, Drafts, & Scheduling:

How to queue posts

How to schedule posts

🎁 Setting Up Your Theme:

Find a theme here! 👈

How to install custom themes!

Ultimate theme installation guide!

HTML Basics!

Ultimate gudie to theme editing! 👈

How to add a navigation page!

Add a music player to your blog! 👈

Add a online user counter to your blog!

🎁 Editing:

Lunapic (free)

Pixlr (free)

Gimp (free)

How to install photoshop actions

Banner creation site

🎁Screenshot Tips:

Sandy-Sims screenshot tips

🎁Helpful Tutorials & Guides:

Improve Game Preformance and Fix Problems

TS4 CC Creation Tutorial Directory 👈

Visual Pose Creation tutorial  

Sandy-Sims masterpost for story-tellers 👈

🎁 Managing Your CC:

CC folder organisation tutorial

Another CC management tutorial! 👈

🎁 Places To Upload your CC for download:

Mediafire

Simfileshare 👈

Dropbox

🎁 X-Kit (optional):

Download

What is X-Kit?

🎁 Reshade (optional):

Download

What is Reshade?  

Pickypikachu Cinematic Preset  👈

Pictureamoebae Heigh of Summer Preset

Pictureamoebae Clear Summer Preset

POSING TUTORIAL: TIPS & TRICKS VOL 3

Hewwoo!! Welcome to posing tips & tricks with Bee vol. 3! (You can find the first one here [x] and the second one here [x]). Now we’re diving a bit deeper, hope it will be helpful to you!

1. Changing the Pivot point 

You’ve already learned that locking joints is the perfect way to avoid weirdly bent limbs, now it’s time to take it a step further. After you locked the joints in a way that can only be bent in Z axis, you can move them together by changing the pivot points.

It saves a lot of time once you get used to it! Not only for fingers, but also for knees, arms, the spine and pretty much for everything else too!

2. Change your perspective!

Look up! And down. And everything in between. So since we’re making our poses in ortho view, it can be a little tricky if you make them only by looking at the pose from a certain point of view. Here’s a very exaggerated example:

So like it is in real life, it is good to look at the situations from a different point of view to get a more accurate grasp of what’s going on. When you’re making a pose, be sure to check how it looks from different angles to avoid weird looking poses in game!

3. Leave the hands to the end!

Pose the hands the last. It took me a good amount of time to realise how much time I was wasting on posing the hands over and over again each time I change something. First, put the bodies in their right places, rotate/bend every other joint until you get what you want and then start with the hands. 

See, if I posed the hands before moving the rigs together, I would’ve gone through the trouble of adjusting the arms, the hands, the fingers all over again. So yeah, it’s a good idea to pose the hands the last.

4. Feet on the ground!

Always make sure the feet is not sinking (or floating). That little green line there is your friend. It will tell you where the ground is.

5. Gotta catch ‘em all! 

If you need to select multiple points for some reason, you can do that pressing “B”. It’s especially useful when you wanna reset a part of the pose but keep another part. After selecting the points you wanna reset, just press alt+G for the modifications and/or alt+R for the rotations. If you’re on a Mac it’s option+G and option+R.

6. Bend the knee!!

Sometimes you need to bend the knee, am I right? Well, unfortunately it doesn’t always look good in Blender though… So what are we gonna to? We’re gonna use a lil’ trick! We’re gonna bend the knee as we wish, then we’ll use the blue/green/red arrows to move the knee in various ways until that tragic clipping line disappears! AWESOME ISN’T IT?!?!

Pssst, it also works for elbows too…

7. The perfect kiss!

So, when it comes to kissing poses, you have to accept the fact that they won’t work with every sim you have, because every sim has different facial structures. In general, “G” is your best friend when making them kiss!

WARNING:

If any posts like the ones above come up on your dash over the next few days and weeks DO NOT CLICK THE LINKS attached to them.

A few simmers who have been inactive for a while are being hit by hackers/bots and having these things posted all over their blogs. I don’t know where the links lead — because I’m not stupid enough to click on them — but I can only imagine it’s definitely not anywhere sims-related and either somewhere virus-infested or very NSFW, or both. So do yourself a favour and just don’t touch them, and it’s probably best to unfollow the blogs while you’re at it, at least until the original owner of the blog can get their account back.

POSE DUMP #13

**Helluuu! So as most of you know, I continue posting my story (& poses) on Discord but I know not everybody has a Discord account, so I thought once in a while I could share the pose packs here too.** –

Summer Lovin’ [x] -Lounger [x] Beautiful Friendship [x] Emotions 7 [x]

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THE «DREAMERS» CC PACK

base game compatible

male

female

teen-elder

｡･ﾟﾟ･𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝓈𝒾𝓂𝒷𝓁𝓇･ﾟﾟ･｡

hello, i used to be peachy-flesh, but i keep having Trisha Paytas on the kitchen floor moments and i keep having fresh starts 🤠🤠

if you don’t know me from my previous blogs, then you are a lucky one, because i am a pure joke 🤡🤡

NEW SIMBLR HERE!

Hey! I’m cyberstockh0lm, and I’m new to simblr! well sort of I kept deleting and restarting my blog. So im looking for some simblrs to follow. So please reblog so I can find some more maxis match blogs to follow :)

SIMLISH TWITCH & YOUTUBE TEMPLATES by ratboysims

• need THIS font to work • PSDs made using photoshop cc 2017 • get ur freaking sims on social media • looks like the websites but also Optimized design so it looks good as pics on ur tumblr dash y’know • if you have questions on how to use it i think ur better off looking up tutorials than asking me since it takes me forever to respond, sorry!