Be My Valentione Contest (NA) - Discussion Thread

[Adeline]

So yes I have experience doing all the thing you listed above ^ and what I can tell you is that yes, photoshop and editing are a bit hard to do at first. It takes awhile to learn and perfect it all...but once to get the hang of it, it becomes extremely easy to memorize and use actions/filters, things that are pre-loaded into PS that someone else made so that you can easily make your screenshot look cool.

The photos I took above took me an hour max, the hardest part actually coming up with an idea, or waiting on quote on quote 'perfect weather.

Now as I said in my earlier post, I agree that if you spend hours upon hours editing, your edited pic is a piece of art. But what I will say that as someone that has dabbled in all the fields you've stated, Digital/Real Life art is STILL the biggest challenge for me, and I give anyone that has the patience or mentality/talent to draw a huge thumbs up.

[Adeline]

Ya know why? Because you are starting with a blank slate that YOU need to create by hand-drawing it. Now the same thing could be said with a screen in game, you are starting with a blank slate, but you have pre-rendered graphics helping your favor. You yourself don't have to come up with the models, just the idea.

[Adeline]

As I stated in my post earlier, this particular contest is a way for people that DON'T have screenshot/photography talent show everyone their other talent, IE cooking/artistic abilities. If the mods did not allow digital art, they would look really mean to all the artists that have converted over to digital art...tablets costs normally between $100 to up in the thousands, so instead of those artists blowing $ on Real life supplies, they used it on their tablets/pcs because that is how THEY want to draw. Stop throwing digital artists under the bus just because you're mad that the mods won't accept your pre-rendered shot as an entry because you missed out on already awarded screenshot contests....give the rest of us a change to shine.

TL;DR:
I know wut I'm talking about art is hard and the mods don't want another SS contest so plz stop QQing kthx