Screenshots - but creatively edited 🎨 «123456...Next Go

Lenny_Ogg

Do you sometimes use apps or your photo editor to edit screenshots more creatively?

For example:
Filters in gimp (where I usually edit my screenshots)



Or with the incollage app



Or a screenshot from my Star Wars-The Old Republic game with a spaceship I built in Sims 4

EnkiSchmidt

I'm not a visual person, so I rarely edit my screenshots at all other than brightening/sharpening.

Here's a scene from a fanfic that I illustrated with my sims (screenshot taken in Sims 4 and then run through an online picture editor):


I think this one came out well.


This one not so much.

I never finished that picture story, but it's still somewhere on my to do list. If I return to it, I will just build the scene, pose my sims and add captions, not do any photo editing.

And here is a page from a friendship book I once made for one of my sims. She was in club called "Police Kindergarten" back then.



The book owner is about to leave for college this fall and the boy in the screenshot is a teenager now. That book is a nice memory, but I had way more fun filling in the answers than doing anything with pictures.

Lenny_Ogg

@EnkiSchmidt Uhhh the first one is really cool! What is the name of the online editor, if I may ask?
I didn't even know online editors exist ^^'
The friendship book is a sweet idea.

EnkiSchmidt

@Lenny_Ogg This one: https://tech-lagoon.com/imagechef/en/image-to-comic.html

For the screenshot I used the "picture to manga" function, but it can do a lot more.

Lenny_Ogg

@EnkiSchmidt Oh wow thank you so much! This is cool!
It really looks like a manga, amazing.

GalacticGal

The most I do is crop the screenshot. I use paint and am wholly unfamiliar with gimp or anything else.

simgirl1010

I crop and that's it. Photo editing would eat into my gameplay time and it's not worth it.

Netzspannung

I edit screenshots all the time. But it is mostly cutting, pasting and resizing for a lookbook, so the creative part for me is while I am in CAS putting together outfits. But sometimes I will edit some screenhots - mostly portraits - a bit more, adjust saturation and lighting and add certain effects to enhance something about the picture. While I'm editing pictures that way it certainly feels creative to me, but I don't know if I'd call them "creatively edited" because it's really not very original. But it doesn't have to be as long as I have fun doing it. I added two examples under the spoiler.

Sasha as a Soothsayer. I was putting together outfits inspired by 'Makin' Magic'.


Trent

Lenny_Ogg

@Netzspannung oh of course this is creative! Which program do you use to achieve this? And what is the routine? Do you take the screenshot of your Sims in front of a plain wall or do you cut them out? And the round light effect above?

@EnkiSchmidt .
I'm still having so much fun on the Datachef site you suggested!
The following is the 'photo to ukiyo-e' effect. It's so beautiful!

Simmingal

I don't really edit my screens because its too hard to keep it consistent if I started

I crop, copy paste on paint and thats about it for me

however the picture above has inspired me now I feel like creating paintings of things with art effects for funsies

Netzspannung

The pictures are taken in CAS. The backgrounds are CC. I have them in different colors and with the ones that are plain (and not gradient), I can easily adjust or change the color in editing. For editing I use paint.net because it is free, easy to use and has some enhanced features (like adding layers). It's not Photoshop, but it has all the effects I need. The effect you asked about (the round light effect) is called 'vignette'.

Lenny_Ogg

Ah this is so wonderful, I'm glad I opened this thread and asked.
I can totally see me ordering a few of these as RL posters for my living room.
And it's achieved with just a few clicks within a few seconds!

Lenny_Ogg

@Netzspannung thank you! I use gimp (it's free too) and I'm going to search if I find the vignette effect there too and try it.

Simmingal

So pretty TT

I wonder what other worlds look like with the japanese painting filter though could be interesting

Lenny_Ogg

@GalacticGal Thank you 💐

The other worlds look pretty too.
Henford-on-Bagley

The image to the right is the pastel art

Tartosa

And Sulani

Simmingal

These are so cool its like little postcards

I wonder how long it would take for people to realize its sims pictures if you printed bunch of these as postcards and pretended you were on vacation

well maybe not too long because the whole concept of me leaving the house is suspicious already but

Lenny_Ogg

@GalacticGal but you've been on vacation! You've been to Henford-on-Bagley and Sulani! In one day! Without leaving the house!
(I also hate to leave the house. My Sims too. I barely use community lots and tend to build 'hood lots' with several houses and shops ^^')

I think someone who doesn't play sims wouldn't notice that these are from a computer game and not from real photos. The one from Tartosa, for example, could be from a real photo.
These are the sample photos from the editor

And this is made from one of my screenshots

Imagine: in the near future it will be possible to put these edits over the whole game! Like it is now with gshade.
"Good Morning my dear chatGBT! Today I want to play Sims 4 in Ukiyo-e style! Thank you 💞"
And then your Sims walk around in a piece of art!
😍

Ellupelluellu

@EnkiSchmidt , thanks for the link, I had fun with that site too

Simmingal

I realized I don't really have many scenery shots huh, guess i need some now
I do think it works better with pictures that have whole loads of stuff going on
I just tend to take close ups a lot

also, rather weird manga

Lenny_Ogg

@Simmingal oh gosh this is so amazing! aouw the motherplant! and the castle and the pretty waggon haha and Vladislaus!
it is so clever how the AI picks the colors and the contrasts, it's not just some simple converting or coloring.

Simmingal

Some Sims Medieval ones since I realized I have some screenshots I've been keeping for reference

Vlad but its Sims Medieval

Vlad adventuring in Sims 3

the additional red is really making it pop
the original pic:

Lenny_Ogg

@Simmingal you could totally create a kind of art comic with those pictures 😍 Sims Medieval is stunning

Lenny_Ogg

the 'photo to watercolor' edit is beautiful too




the original screenshots

Simmerville

Love those pictures! Would be great on the sim's wall, especially those with a link to Mt Komorebi

Let me know if you want me to make a cc wall hanging out of some of them

Lenny_Ogg

@Simmerville Thank you 💐 and thank you for the sweet offer. I'll think about it.

Lenny_Ogg

The Prophecy
It's really not hard to achieve something like this.
I just cut out the pages, put a layer below and inserted the pages I created.
(By taking screenshots of the objects and sims in front of a plain wall/floor.
Then I cut them out with the wand tool and put them together with simlish text)