#thank you for asking even tho i took foreverrr to reply

[mattodore]

Hi River! It's time for Random Asks: Editing Edition!

What part of your editing are you most proud of?

What part of the editing process do you enjoy the most?

tbh this was hard for me to answer bc i honestly don't really like where i'm at wrt my editing skills. but i think i have the most fun with the liquify tool! and... well, i guess i'm proud of myself for actually starting to edit this year since i've never actually done it before. plus, while i don't think my edits are really anything special, i do know that they're better now than they were at the start of the year.

like starting from the old stuff to newer things i've done...

i started with just playing with the colors and overlays, maybe using the spot healing brush and blurring things a bit. then i started learning how to make poses for echthroi posts:

then i was like okay... let me close photoshop and see what happens in procreate when idk what anything does—while also still making poses (like these are all my poses weeeee):

(that cigarette one is so sad </3 because i love those poses and they took me forever to make! the post is really colorful and pretty tbh! the problem tho is that theo looks ALL WRONG!! and i didn't know wtf i was doing with that luminosity brush lmao. i'd love to redo it someday with mattodore's updated sims and everything).

and then i went back to just using photoshop. and in sept. i wanted to experiment with blood and lighting/shadows for theo's birthday post so i did that. i think the coloring is... whatever. and it's pretty simple (or it looks that way… really this took me hours and hours of work. the original image was huge) bc ik i wasn't doing so hot at the time... but i'm really proud of the lighting and i like the poses i made for it. also the little bit of writing i did in the caption was nice. i'm a lot better at writing than editing, clearly:

and then in the last three months i think the cas edits i've been doing have been superrr gorgeous. i learned a lot from theo's birthday post and have actually been utilizing light and shadows since then:

and then the last edit i did just a few days ago... it's easily my favorite theo pic i have now :) i didn't think i'd even share this on here... like i was just going to post it to pillowfort so i only intended to fix some clipping and smooth out the edges of theo's knees, but i ended up doing waaaay more than that. i like the way i colored it a lot. the face highlights, the blur, the slight vignette, and the chromatic aberration are pretty too. i just really like it... plus theo is beyond gorgeous as always:

like... honestly my editing really isn't anything special. um... but i do think it's better now than it was before. and i like what i've done recently (like these last two months specifically lmao)! i'm nowhere near where i'd like to be, but at least mattodore are so pretty it kind of carries any edit i make for them now lmaooo

#river dipping #asks #morrigan-sims #thank you for asking even tho i took foreverrr to reply #i really want to keep getting better at editing... coloring is the thing i wanna really focus on eventually #rn i just rely on my gshade preset / this psd i made forever ago / and this other psd and overlay i've started using #i need to just start making little edits here and there again tbh #but i've been focusing more on writing than anything else lately