special techniques

[Bloody Lemon]

What kind of techniques do you creators have when taking good pictures of sims that you wish to upload? (or photo of the stuff that the sim has on, etc) :)
Rule says no taking pictures of the sim in CAS. Tho I wonder why not since that's the best place to get good look at the sim.
Do anyone here use photoshop to blend pics together or anything like this?

[HystericalParoxysm]

Actually, CAS isn't the best place to get a look at the sim at all. The face of the sim in CAS is distorted by default - the way they smile distorts their features. Awesomemod corrects this, but we can't require people use core mods just to take pics of their sims.

The best place to take a picture is inside a fully-enclosed room with lots of lighting in different places (i.e. a couple overhead lights as well as floor lamps to the left, right, and front of the sim). Don't take pictures outside, no matter how you light it - it looks terrible.

I take all my pics in a white room. No furniture, no decorations, no wall patterns, nothing. The focus of the picture is then the sim/hair/whatever, not anything else.

Photoshopping and blending and blah when you're uploading something is a bad idea. You want to show what it will look like in-game, not show off how you can 'shop your pics. All you should be 'shopping is cropping and resizing.

[Bloody Lemon]

The room photo sounds really good, thanks for idea :) About CAS if I do have awesemod then can I also take pictures there or still no?

[HystericalParoxysm]

Nope. Still need to take them in-game. What a sim looks like in CAS is pretty irrelevant, really, since how they look in-game is what downloaders are gonna care about. :)

[Bloody Lemon]

Nope. Still need to take them in-game. What a sim looks like in CAS is pretty irrelevant, really, since how they look in-game is what downloaders are gonna care about. :)

So there is a big difference in CAS and in game. Okay then I got it :)