Eli's Photo Album

[Ann Taylor]

Diabolo is stunning. Love the small story about the prank. Yes, Generations is lots of fun.

[Eli Vezza]

Thanks! Diablo is wonderful. x]

Anywho, I haven't been able to play Sims much. End of the school year is crazy-nuts. However, when I did decide to play Sims over the weekend, it was messing up awfully bad. I couldn't save, exit to Edit Town mode, I couldn't even bring up the options menu for whatever reason. This is probably due to some bad CC. I don't know. I haven't played it since.. LOL

But here are some updates taken within that single day Sims was being a pain in the arse. xD

Monalisa had her third foal!


His name is TBA Heartbreak Casanova or Armand for short.


He enjoys trees...


...as well as running around the paddock. He must think he's a thoroughbred colt or something!

Before Monalisa had her foal, however, Eli and JoHanna had taken a trip to France. My Sims never go on adventures, but when they do, it's to Champs Les Sims!


They had camped out at one of camping grounds. It was an adventure, all right!


The next day, JoHanna and Eli went to the market, and Eli appeared to be intrigued by a wild African Gray bird. He was dressed formally for this occasion! Riding helmet and all...for whatever reason.

Then, after exiting my temperamental game, I fiddled around with Photoshop and an image of Chesty! I tried to edit mane and tail, but they didn't agree with me. Like I've said, I use Photoshop to draw, not manipulate potos, so. LOL

The most I did here was shade and highlight, and add some grass. I also played with the manual blur tool again...



And for the wondering, here's the original image.

And that concludes my album updates for a while. I more than likely won't be playing again until next week. Hopefully my game will be working enough for me to put out a June foal crop.

[Ann Taylor]

And you've got another supercute foal. Love the little one. <3
And your photoshopping on that picture was really good as well. Did you paint the grass by hand?

[Riddermark Equestrian Center]

Must. Have. TBA Heartbreak Casanova. Love. His. Nose!

[Emelia Potter]

Chestnut manes are difficult, that's just how they are! Yours looks really good. I had to fiddle around with PS for a hour untill I had something I could work with But it's only the chestnuts, strangely, never had problems with King's mane and tail for example.

[Lisa@Equus]

Love the markings on heartbreak casanova's head!!

[Eli Vezza]

@ann ;; Haha, yeah, he's a cutie!<3 Sadly, when I play my game again, he'll have to reborn and then aged up to an adult. I had to save him as an adult in CAP before I had to control+alt+delete my game. xD

And the grass is not painted by hand. LOL I don't think I'd have the patience. I have Photoshop Elements 9 and have some grass brushes I use. I used three layers for difference distances, burred the furthest and closest distance and faded the middle area surrounding Chesty. x]
I haven't used grass brushes in ages, either! This was pretty much a test, too, to see what I could do with grass now that I've learned a little more from Photoshop now.

@heather ;; Awwww, I wish I could part with him! I haven't been able to play him enough yet to decide whether or not I want to keep him or sell him. But yes, he does have a cute nose! 8]

@emelia ;; Ya ya, I can do black manes easily, I've tested on my mare, TBA Monalisa's Smile, a while back. It was mindless practice. I also didn't even touch his mane there after realizing how difficult it was. Haha!

@lisa ;; Yes, he has cute markings! I wanted him to look different from his sire, just a little bit since he appears to have gained most of his coloring from TBA Glorious Disaster. I went through so many marking combinations with this little guy... LOL

Thanks for the comments, guys! They're super appreciated! <3

[Ann Taylor]

ah, that explaines it. I have CS5 so I should have them, too. I might have to try them out some time.