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!

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[(Anonymous)]

Wow this is super helpful! Thank you! I've always wanted to create custom pictures and this is a great chance.
Now if only you could add a tutorial on how your pictures are so clear! I have GIMP, but don't really understand the different things you talked about on formspring.

[dawntreadings.livejournal.com]

Ooh I love when people simplify things! I always find myself copying down about a third of the tutorials on mts so I don't have to sift through them every time I want to do something again :D

Thanks! :D

[marvelann.livejournal.com]

I never knew it was so simple, this is awesome.
(Hello from long time lurker xD)

[scribal-goddess.livejournal.com]

Hooray! (That's how I thought it should go, but I was confused initially, especially as I use GIMP, so a lot of people talking about phostoshop manage to loose me.)

[kejsarinna.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I haven't even dared to try, but it would be great fun to have pictures of sims' friends and family on the walls as re-colors.

Thank you!

[135jif.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I've never tried SimPe before, but I've been wanting to recolour some pictures.
A few Questions:
How would you go about recolouring pitures if you wanted a frame left out for pictures? If you were recolouring a picture with a frame would it sorta be self-explainatory when I entered SimPe. And also (So many questions! Sorry!) with the frame concept, what if you wanted to put different photos into different frames in the same object?
For example in the case of an object like this:
http://images.thesimsresource.netdna-cdn.com/1145/1145346.jpg
If you would prefer to point me in the direction of another tutorial, any help would be appreciated!
Thank you so so much!

[sushigal007.livejournal.com]

Lovely tutorial. ^^ One thing I wanted to mention though, is that some images do need to be flipped, like The Lady On Red. No idea why EAxis made some of their meshes backwards, but I had to redo a fair few poster recolours because I kept forgetting that.

Hey Skelljay!

[lizdabomb.livejournal.com]

Hey skelljay, thanks, this really helps a lot, but my computer's internet explorer stops working every time i try to download one of the game templates, could you add them to a file hosting site instead?

[labellavienna.livejournal.com]

Hi I was wondering how you got the posters set at an angle like that? it looks so awesome!

[blissful-indigo.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is a lot simpler than the way I recolor. I've been using Object Workshop for all my photo/painting recolors but this definitely seems like a much faster way of doing things.