[Tuto] Background Editing / Cutting Sims Out

Here's a lot of tutorials that can help you with editing backgrounds and cutting your model out !

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Harry's Background Editing -Perfect for those competition pics!
Programs Addressed:
☆ Adobe Photoshop

Rexy's Guide to Editing
Programs Addressed:
☆ Adobe Photoshop
☆ Gimp
☆ Consists of many hints and tips as well as addressing cutting out sims, shadows and angles, pose combining, and super easy green removal from hair with many more to come.

LadyEmillye's How I Edit With Gimp
Programs Addressed:
☆ Gimp
☆ Deals with placing a sim on a different background.

LadyEmillye's Forget Cutting/Erasing: A New Way to Edit
Programs Addressed:
☆ Gimp -->Click Here for Thread
☆ Paint.net -->Click Here for Thread
☆ Deals with cutting getting rid of white background on a sim with minimal cutting and erasing.

Smash's Hotshot Lesson Plan
This was originally for the competition HotShots Next Top Model created by Smash. But she was nice enough to share it with everyone!
Programs Addressed:
☆ Adobe Photoshop
☆ Gimp
☆ Paintshop Pro
☆ Adobe Photoshop Elements
☆ Consists of many tutorials, ranging from the basics to the complex, and theres even more to come: Picking perfect backgrounds, getting rid of the pesky green lines, using the burn & dodge tool effectively, manipulating shadows, photoskinning

Lehdkat's Cutting Out Sims for Beginners
Programs Addressed:
☆ Gimp

Deepdown's Cutting Out Sims for Beginners
Programs Addressed:
☆ Gimp

Beech's How to Create a REALLY White or REALLY Black Background
Programs Addressed:
☆ None, this tutorial is based in game.


Source : The Sims 3 official forum

Thanks a lot for these links. Gonna look at 'em as soon as I have a minute on my computer.

These are some incredible tutorials! Thanks so much

this would surely be a big help! and it's easy to understand too. Thanks a bunch!

Cool. I was so curious how to make shadows like that. Now i need to practice for tomorrow!