Question about fake screens

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Hey, what's up, everybody~ :) I just wanna ask you a question out of great curiosity: How did you guys do this XS/XC fake screen with your ocs in it? I mean, I've seen many of you done the fake screens and I've been wanting to give it a try myself, but the problem is I just don't know how to do some fake screens for XS/XC. XP
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I found a tutorial for making the fake screen cap look, though it's for anime style.  Here are the three parts:
Anime Coloring Tutorial Part 1 by Marfrey Anime Coloring Tutorial Part 2 by Marfrey Anime Coloring Tutorial  Part 3 by Marfrey
The main take away is from the third part, which is about the blur effect.  From there, look at actual screen caps and see what sorts of distortions--if any--are present.  Usually I see a lot of JPG artifacts or pixelation in non-HD screen caps.  Try adding a logo for added effect!
Feel My Feels, Baby by CharactersByChaos <--Original artwork
Feel My Feels, Baby - Faux Screen Cap Edit by CharactersByChaos <--Fake screen cap
The fastest way to get JPG artifacts and pixelation is to save the image really small (about 200-300 pixels on the longest side), then blow it up to screen size (XC's screens are 1440 by 810 pixels).

If you want to insert YOUR character into a screen cap from canon, it's a process of editing out a character, redrawing the background, and then adding your character on top.  The most common mistake I see is people not adding any distortions or pixelation to their additions to match the original screen cap.  Basically the inserted character looks sharp and crisp, but everything else is soft and blurry.

I hope all of this makes sense and is easy enough to follow.  ^^;

-Chaos