#PaintShopPro

[upthespiralstaircase]

Big Bread by fs999 Via Flickr: PENTAX K-1 • FF Mode • 200 ISO • Sigma Art 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM

[grahamseamanart1]

BLACK & BLUE…. A piece of digital artwork which came out of a photograph of a selection of, (wait for it), black and blue objects, while testing out a pair of new studio lights! Black & Blue is now available as high-quality wall-art at my website at Pixels.Com - https://tinyurl.com/ys397jf2 #digitalart #DigitalTransformation #art #PaintShopPro

[movementalstudio]

'Heldergarden, Revisited' January 2023

Camera: Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8. Software: Paint Shop Pro 9. ------------------------------------------

Many photographs are worth a second look.

This is a minimal edit, made to a single photograph, to show what's already there.

[yorkiesinspace]

Happy Halloween

Geen lange post vandaag, wel een Halloweenfoto van Archie. Happy Halloween! Meer Archie zien? Volg hem dan op Instagram of op TikTok! Nooit een post van yorkiesinspace missen? Schrijf je dan hieronder in voor de nieuwsbrief! E-mailadres Hou mij op de hoogte!

[daman19942]

TSR CC Recommendations: TS2 Lot Builders

Nobody asked for this but I have a little time on my hands and I said I might do it, so here is a list of some TSR lot builders who I recommend checking out. A few notes under the cut before we get started (all details under the cut, as well, in case you aren't interested in my preamble):

This is not meant to be paid promotion for TSR. I believe TSR asking users to pay for their CC is ridiculous, especially for a 19 year old game they haven't supported in 7 years. But I spent many years uploading there during the peak-TS2 / pre-TS3 era and know there is great CC in their archives that newer players may not know about. And unlike TheSims2.com, which has sadly shuffled off this mortal coil, TSR's content is still available to freely download (assuming you can stomach the pop-ups and wait times)

This post will only be about lot builders because that was what I was primarily uploading and downloading in this era. I was friendly with some of the creators I am about to list, but none of them are still active members of the TS2 community.

The preview pics might be a little rough and the architecture styles will likely feel very dated compared to the most popular styles these days, which are more colorful, cluttered, and use 3t2 and 4t2 conversions. Re: the previews: too many of us were using free trials of PaintShopPro back then, and TSR limited us to 2 previews, so we did our best. Re: the styles: unlike pre-2010's CAS CC, which was full of hand painted and "realistic" textures (LOL), these are the same objects you can find in the game today, just being used in different ways! Sometimes for the first time! And, yes, while some of these creators used CC, it was mostly Homecrafter walls and floors, as you'll see below.

This was also the hey-day of CFE lot building, which has certainly fallen out of favor to more traditional builds (in part because graphics cards have improved and these types of builds don't look as good in 2024, and also because the great CFE experimenters, builders, and tutorial writers are no longer part of the community and their original discoveries are gone as well - I am happy to go down a massive rabbit hole on this piece of TS2 history if anyone else cares, but trust me, you don't have to care).

Alright that is enough caveating, here are some recs! (Links are in the creator's names and they take you to their Lots, though many of them have other creations, too).

Lord Tiko Speaking of great CFE builders! Lord Tiko built spaceships, boats, pagodas, domes, windmills and bridges, oh so many bridges before retiring mid-TS2 because of health issues. He was one of the first builders to take Daihtnaoz7's single and double bridge tutorials and apply them to really big lots. I'm still not sure how he built the Venice Rialto Bridge, or his other European water lots. Overall, a massive inspiration to me when I was prioritizing CFE builds.

Hatshepsut My favorite "traditional" home builder, and someone I considered a friend. She specialized in English and American builds, and I had many of Hat's houses in my old saves and was impressed by her range and decorating style which was (for the time) more varied than many of her peers. Knew how to take great preview pics of her houses, too.

Tigerblue Another builder I corresponded with, Tigerblue was probably the least prolific uploader on this list for sheer number of uploads, but she also crossed a range of styles. Her builds leaned way into specific styles (see the previews, these were all part of consistent sets of 3,4, or even 10 lots), but this was also what happened when a new EP dropped and everyone raced to uploaded builds using as many of the new objects and styles as possible. Tigerblue just happened to be better at it than most of us.

Cyclonesue Do current TS2 players know Cyclonesue? Because it's hard to think of someone who had a bigger impact on building and decorating of the era, first with her English and Tudor builds and later with her extremely distinct grunge creations. Seriously, check out her Urban Renewal series and the corresponding objects. Iconic stuff that surely now feels frozen in time. I probably only played 20% of her lots that I downloaded, but they still make for great hood decor. Like Tiko, someone who happily experimented with CFE.

Illiana The creator who inspired me to make this list is, ironically, the one on it who I know the least about (she is a Featured Artist but not in the Hall of Fame, whatever that means). I just started playing her Tri-Annyas fraternity house and have a few other lots floating around my game. She built in a range of styles, from classical to modern to Twikki Island to grunge. Revisiting some of them in-game, the TSR previews do not do them justice.

*EXHALES* If you made it to this point, kudos to you. I'm sure there are creators I've forgotten, and houses I haven't linked to, but this is a good starting point for digging into some of the eclectic builds the TSR(chives) have to offer (I just coined that, is it clever? It is not). Maybe I'll do a Part 2 if people like this.

If you have any favorites of your own, let me know what I missed! And as I do with my old Exchange re-uploads, I am tagging @sims2packrat and @oldasscustomcontent for general TS2 history awareness!

[cyanideas]

Three Is Company

Based on a photo I saw here on Tumblr a few years ago, but now can no longer find, an example of what it can be like to live with a cat.

Modelled and rendered in Daz Studio with Iray render

Postwork in PaintshopPro

[scottguy]

I love Halloween ... and word processing software! The right bottle is Love Potion #9. from the song. The detail image got corrupted on that bottle.

Oh.. wait... I have the Word file!

I actually wrote a short email to the guy who created some of the fonts on the bottles. He said, "These are free for non commercial use but if you do use them, please write to me." So I sent him a picture of my four bottles. He wrote back, "Hey, I made one of the other fonts you used too!" The rest of the elements are just artwork download from the web. (I used PaintShopPro to tilt the letters in LOVE. )

[silvanoir]

The art and stories inside of me are the only thing keeping me going, even if no one else reads or looks at them

The only good things to happen lately is I was surprisingly able to install my trusty old art program (PaintShopPro 7) on my laptop by hooking up a an external CD drive. Good thing I always held on to that disc. Surprised yet grateful it works with this version of windows.

And the I finished the physical copy of Dark Dragons: Blue (my original water-color painted comic).

Now I just need to scan the rest of it in and adjust the colors. I had started it a few years ago thinking it was only going to be 30 pages.... a few years later its done at over 160 pages. Not the last of the Dark Dragons story,

there's a bit more with some relationship and band drama with a supernatural twist (small s, the theme not the show). Not sure of the first of the titles yet, Dark Dragons: ???? , after that Dark Dragons: Rex and Dark Dragons: April (Rex and April being the characters that Blaire and Steller end up with romantically instead of eachother, for a time anyway, how it messes up the band, but they need eachother AT LEAST musically) and then there;s 2 after that with one being how Blaire and Steller reunite (musically) and how Steller resolves the Nyura situation for good (that last one will be the last last one of that universe). also debating on whether to do the beach episode comic, that i started sketching in my early 20s but never finished.

And on top of that there's finishing Parts 4 and 5 of DrawBlood (same story universe, follows different characters)

My mom told me, from the time I was old enough to understand words, that she had stories she made up in her head. but she'd never write them down or tell me about them. I remember being a child, begging her to, because i knew one day she'd be dead and I wanted to have them, to read them, and she told me no, they were just for her.

I have no children, never will. but I'm writing down and drawing my stories dammit!

Never should've wasted the time I did on fancomics though, I only have so much art time in my life to get them all done. even if no one cares about my original stuff and only cares about fancomics from a decade or more ago.

[murasaki-rose-art]

Couple of community project pieces from back when DA was still a fun place for artists. The coloring page on the right was from DA's 2016 Sweet 16 Birthday and the fruit bowl was from 2017's Pear of Salamanca.

The fruit bowl was inspired by depictions of Japanese yokai.

Both pieces were fully colored in PaintshopPro v8.

[straykatfish]

Titling a painting

This is a painting from an earlier module. I’d made a rather dramatic video as its AR overlay but, after talking in a tutorial about the use of text in art, I thought I might substitute the apocalypse for a very simple title and signature. The video is made in PowerDirector, the greenscreen titles in PaintshopPro. The AR is live via #Artivive. You can find the painting in my Artsteps Strayfish…

[janewaykove]

Blargh! Okay, I got on my laptop earlier to work on making better quality gifs. GIMP never wants to cooperate and comes out funkier than my old version of AnimationShop. At least I can use PaintShopPro scripts for colouring (luckily I saved the scripts I made ages ago). But it still depends on the scenes. Some look decent, some come out weird. But now my issue is using a video thing to Screencast the scenes. I used to use VLC player, then GOM player and then KMPlayer, but I cannot figure out the Screencast on any of them!! Like, seriously, it's been a year and I'm done forgot how to gif?!

KMPlayer has a thing that says "every / ms" and every / frame" and no matter what number I put, it ends up grabbing a thousand pix in a few seconds! So a 4 second clip is over a thousand caps?? That's not gonna work. I know I'm bad at math, but if I put every 3 frames, it shouldn't be THAT many images. I even put every 100 frames but nope! And even when I made a sample gif, it still doesn't look crisp and near as delightful as everyone else's and it really bothers me that I can't even make a decent gif.

[grahamseamanart1]

STAINED GLASS 2 - Digital Abstract Art. Just going back over some of the digital artwork I’ve produced, a lot of them created since the Covid lockdowns. #digitalart #digitalartwork #PaintShopPro https://open.substack.com/pub/graham608755/p/stained-glass-2-digital-abstract

[billloguidice]

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[tatersgonnapotater]

Finished this a couple weeks ago. ~~~~~ #artstagram #art #digitalart #watercolor #paintshoppro #rebelle3 #painting #drawing #digitaldrawing #digitalpainting #artsy #hobby #artistic #visualart #trippy #paintshoppro #rebelle3 #abstract #krita (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBHP5_mFJIQ/?igshid=1m7y5pybvub5e

[greenfoxdraws]

Zatch Bell aka Gash Bell aka Lightening Blonde. One of my favourite anime from back in the day

[omyfood]

Lobster Spaghetti by fs999