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pooklet| Anonymous asked: Hi! Could you give some tips for making thumbnails for stuff like eyes and makeup? I recolored and resclera'd an eyeset but I'm stuck making thumbnails for them because I've never made cc that needs them before so I haven't bothered to learn how to do it until now. |
Hi anon!
Like in most things, my answer to tedious tasks is optimization with photoshop actions. I do not have standard actions for this since I like to make slightly different swatches per set, but basically what I do is record the steps after I copy my texture to the clipboard. Usually the steps are:
Paste texture in swatch.bmp → Resize → Adjust position of image → Sharpen → Fade Sharpen 40% → Flatten → Save
(For eyes, you will also need to rotate the image after pasting, and to hide some of the messy sclera texture I add a black fuzzy outline, I know there's a specific name for this effect but I can't remember it lol.)
I then import the file with the new swatch in BodyShop and move on to the next texture.
(If I'm feeling extra lazy I will also have additional starting steps to copy the texture, switch to the swatch.bmp image, do everything listed above, and then switch back to the psd where I have all my textures saved as layers so that literally all I have to do is click the next texture layer. But this requires you to open your images in a particular order since the actual action steps recorded will be "select next document" and "select previous document," so it matters what photoshop recognizes as your first and second documents, if that makes sense.)
I whipped up some quick sample actions so you can get an idea of how they work, but I would encourage making your own versions so that you can make sure they're the right size and centered how you want. I didn't make one for blush because it's hard to estimate what part of that you would want to show.
Sample Swatch Actions: SFS / Mega
esotheriasims
esotheriasims
“So this is why you’ve been avoiding me this whole time??“ - he finally launched his tirade, glaring daggers at Phillip. “When you said you might have met a girl, I never imagined you were sniffing around MY LITTLE SISTER!“
But her musings about Marcus’ temper were soon cut short, as the subject of said musings was apparently done chewing Phillip up and had now turned his focus on her.
Marcus: “And you! I thought we agreed never to keep secrets from each other! Way to go behind my back!”
Annika’s first impulse was to go on the defensive: he was being unfair, her and Phillip hadn’t done anything bad, why was he making such a big deal out of it?, but she stopped herself before blurting out something she might have regretted. Her instinct was telling her this situation required a subtler approach, and if she wanted to get Marcus off her case, she needed to be smart about it.
It would seem that Phillip followed a similar thought process, as both him and Annika started blabbering in near-perfect unison. Phillips speech seemed a tad better argumented, so Annika fell back and let him talk, smiling her best Innocent Sister smile and nodding occasionally to accentuate the truth of Phillip’s words.
You had to hand it to the kid, he was an eloquent orator. Yes, he understood Marcus’ doubts, he said, and as a good brother he had every right to express concern about his sister’s well-being; but he (Phillip) loved Annika (her heart skipped a beat at those words!) and he would never, ever do anything to betray her trust or, Watcher forbid, hurt her. He also made a point of saying how much he cherished Marcus’ friendship, pointing out that he and Annika didn’t keep their relationship a secret for any nefarious reasons. It was still new for them both, and they were just looking for the right moment to break the happy news!
It was a very good speech indeed, sounding like it came straight out of the pen of some old-school romance novelist (knowing Phillip’s reading habits, it may very well have). Marcus was frowning mildly during the whole of it, but didn’t interrupt. He seemed somewhat placated by the end of Phillip’s monologue, if still not entirely ready to let the issue go. Annika could tell he was trying to come up with some point he could protest, but having found none, he finally shrugged in defeat and muttered something under his breath.
The silence that ensued was interrupted by Annika, her voice sounding panicked after suddenly remembering an important detail: “Marcus, please don’t tell dad! I don’t want him to know yet!”
Marcus shot her a bemused sideways glance.
Marcus: “If you keep yelling like that, you’ll very well tell him yourself, shrimp. He’s in the other room sleeping.“
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