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How I take my sim's photo's and make them family portraits
mcrudd
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Hi there simmers. Since we got Growing together I felt my game needed more family portraits in their houses, but I am not a big fan of having mods in my game so had to try and do it with what the game offers, and I managed to do it as explained below in a spoiler under the pics I have made in game so far 
Hope this helps you all, happy simming
It is a bit of a big tutorial so please bare with me, I tried to make it very easy to explain.
You will need two things for this to work.
The family portrait (we got it a few years ago as a gift when installing the mobile sims game. It is available here if you missed out thenhttps://sims4studio.com/thread/13060/glassplumbob )
and you need the basegame crystal clear digital camera. (You need to buy it and place it in your sim's inventory)
Once your family portrait frame is against the wall it will automatically display the household as it is. Mine is currently a mom with her infant. You can change the outfits and randomize the poses by selecting the portrait.
Once you have your desired pose and outfit then walk your sim over to the portrait, make sure they face the portrait. I usually have them walk past it so that they have to turn around to face it to walk closer. Once they are in position click on the camera in their inventory and select take photo. Your walls can be down, mine is only up because I need to show you round about where your sim should stand, they can stand back a bit more, but with the camera you have you can zoom out which helps.
It will look like this, you can select which size photo you would like, I selected large for this one
Once the photo's are taken, then go find a spot in the house you would like to place them.
You can place the photo on the wall by dragging it out from the inventory against the wall.
then select to add a frame and the colour
and wolla you have a nice pic of the family in a frame
You can also drag photo's into the photo frames we got with Mochino stuff and Growing together
You will need two things for this to work.
The family portrait (we got it a few years ago as a gift when installing the mobile sims game. It is available here if you missed out then
https://sims4studio.com/thread/13060/glassplumbob )and you need the basegame crystal clear digital camera. (You need to buy it and place it in your sim's inventory)
Once your family portrait frame is against the wall it will automatically display the household as it is. Mine is currently a mom with her infant. You can change the outfits and randomize the poses by selecting the portrait.
Once you have your desired pose and outfit then walk your sim over to the portrait, make sure they face the portrait. I usually have them walk past it so that they have to turn around to face it to walk closer. Once they are in position click on the camera in their inventory and select take photo. Your walls can be down, mine is only up because I need to show you round about where your sim should stand, they can stand back a bit more, but with the camera you have you can zoom out which helps.
It will look like this, you can select which size photo you would like, I selected large for this one
Once the photo's are taken, then go find a spot in the house you would like to place them.
You can place the photo on the wall by dragging it out from the inventory against the wall.
then select to add a frame and the colour
and wolla you have a nice pic of the family in a frame
You can also drag photo's into the photo frames we got with Mochino stuff and Growing together
Hope this helps you all, happy simming
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Good question. I'm guessing into the "Mods" folder?
thank you, so glad you love it
It is a pleasure, glad you found the thread since you asked about it
I love the family portrait, because you can have the whole family in the pic and don't have to move in a sim to be able to take the family photo
It is a pleasure
It is a pleasure, hope it comes in handy for you
So glad you love it
It is a pleasure
Gosh you guys were busy while I was sleeping
My Families Via PlumTree App
Thank you
Thank you
Yes, selfies will go into your inventory and can be dragged onto the wall and framed, however they are all one size, but you can use the upsize [ ] cheat to make them bigger, they become a bit blurry though
I hope it comes in handy for you
It is a huge pleasure, happy simming
It is a huge pleasure, happy simming
same i tried to take photo with the Moschino pack also didnt work for me also so uninstalled it - even the photoshoot studio nothing happens when i try to take pics of my sims - so i just take selfies of my sims now
That is a great recommendation if you take a photo of the family portrait frame. That way you won't battle to line your sim up infront of the frame, you can just direct them to the tripod
I have seen a few people mention that the Moshchino photoshoot items was not updated for infants, hopefully that will happen in an update in the future