RecoloringTutorial for those afraid of Sim Pe!

[sevenskellington]

A while back my friend holleyb76 was wanting to recolor some posters for her Maxis Taste Dare, but the tutorials I've seen out there make it seem much more complicated than it need be (burying the information in a load of things most players wouldn't need to know.) It's actually quite easy, so I threw together a tutorial for her in google docs. I figured other simmers might find it useful, so I'm sharing it here in case anyone else would like that information.

Don't let the word "Sim Pe" scare you, if you can open a file you can use photostudio!

Comments

[skellington7d.livejournal.com]

When using photostudio, you're pretty much stuck with the frames unless you can find a slaved version without it. (Or just to recolor something without a frame)

For the multiple pictures within a frame, you would probably have to recolor it using the object workshop. Downloading and setting up the necessary tools is kind of a hassle, but once you get that done it's really not that difficult: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=102356

You can also use Wizards of Sim PE to color Maxis objects: http://sims.ambertation.de/wizards1.shtml

[135jif.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the quick reply!
I actually meant to say keep the frames, so that's good!
And finally for the multi picture thing, would the pictures (say there were 4 in the frame set) be pressed together or separate things to recolour?

Thanks again! I love your story and you are so helpful!

[skellington7d.livejournal.com]

Most likely they would be together and you would have to resize and paste them in, but it really depends on the mapping of the object. When you use the design tool on the object in game, if it allows you to change each picture individually then you could do them separately.

Hope that makes sense for you!

[135jif.livejournal.com]

It does! Thanks so much! I'll let you know how my first SimPe job goes!