How I take my sim's photo's and make them family portraits

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  • Admiral8QAdmiral8Q Posts: 3,193 Member
    Great tip ty- would this work with selfies too? as my sims at alot of selfies with family members - they would love to frame

    Yes! Of course! ;) A photo is a photo. Make sure to have the §2000 camera though. Phones can only take small photos.
    Dianesims wrote: »
    Thanks so much!! I also recommend using the Moschino SP camera and tripod, I managed to take nice photos with it. When you want to take a picture of a sim with an infant though it does not work for some reason.

    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

    It works for me. Could be setting it up wrong? Maybe? I do have to say the Moschino pack stuff is a bit tricky to use.

    Keep in mind for a 'take photo of', things could be blocking the setup, even in base-game mode. 'Take photo of' works no mater what. You just don't get any emotional aura attached to the photo.

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  • fazemanpressfazemanpress Posts: 165 Member
    Admiral8Q wrote: »
    Great tip ty- would this work with selfies too? as my sims at alot of selfies with family members - they would love to frame

    Yes! Of course! ;) A photo is a photo. Make sure to have the §2000 camera though. Phones can only take small photos.
    Dianesims wrote: »
    Thanks so much!! I also recommend using the Moschino SP camera and tripod, I managed to take nice photos with it. When you want to take a picture of a sim with an infant though it does not work for some reason.

    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

    It works for me. Could be setting it up wrong? Maybe? I do have to say the Moschino pack stuff is a bit tricky to use.

    Keep in mind for a 'take photo of', things could be blocking the setup, even in base-game mode. 'Take photo of' works no mater what. You just don't get any emotional aura attached to the photo.

    i had the photo shoot studio set up? and there was tripod and tried to take photo of my sim and his daughter and they are posing and nothing happens? i tried it few times - i took photo with phone camera instead. How do i use the regular camera? when i click on it just says put in inventory

    i got frustrated then uninstalled the pack haha
  • Admiral8QAdmiral8Q Posts: 3,193 Member
    edited March 29
    i had the photo shoot studio set up? and there was tripod and tried to take photo of my sim and his daughter and they are posing and nothing happens? i tried it few times - i took photo with phone camera instead. How do i use the regular camera? when i click on it just says put in inventory

    i got frustrated then uninstalled the pack haha

    Before I lost all my saves a few months ago, I had a photo studio built by myself in the Delgato house on the 3rd floor. (It was supposed to be for veterinarian stuff, but I did that on the 1rst floor instead.).
    I actually had it working quite well. I could try to rebuild it in a similar way.
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    Clicking on the camera in inventory should give you the options to take a photo. Or 'take a picture' in layman terms. I'll make a little video without my voice. Editing is a pain and takes forever.
    I respect those people that take the time to do it. :)
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  • mcruddmcrudd Posts: 10,923 Member
    jus1nickie wrote: »
    I will definitely do this. Thank you, this is awesome. Honestly never would have thought of this.

    It is a huge pleasure :)
    I hadn't thought of taking a picture of the family portrait. That's a really good idea! Also, thanks for the link to the portrait. I use Ravasheen's family portrait version, which is simpler than the gift one but not as big.

    I am so glad someone did upload it for others, I did a quick google and was relieved to find it LOL, Happy simming :)
  • mcruddmcrudd Posts: 10,923 Member
    Guys I found out how to make our photo's even more special, but this time we have to install mods. I just thought I would see if the gallery poses work with the family portrait as well and they do :o

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    Now I need to go hunt for gallery poses LOL
  • LeccaLecca Posts: 96 Member
    I didn’t know the family portrait item even existed!! Thank you @mcrudd for the helpful tutorial! I missed this promotion and I’m heartbroken that my sims are missing out, especially now with growing together. I prefer not to use mods so I’ve started a thread over at https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion-Feedback/Family-Portrait/m-p/12468830 hoping that they may offer this item again 😊
  • KestrelDCKestrelDC Posts: 65 Member
    Yeah, it bugs me how limited picture taking is in this game... like both with the phone and with the studio you can't take photos of more than 3 Sims together at a time and you can't choose which poses they're in beyond just randomizing it. Can't even take pictures with infants, toddlers, or pets without the "Mosquito Stuff" pack as Li'l Simsie calls it :D
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  • mcruddmcrudd Posts: 10,923 Member
    Lecca wrote: »
    I didn’t know the family portrait item even existed!! Thank you @mcrudd for the helpful tutorial! I missed this promotion and I’m heartbroken that my sims are missing out, especially now with growing together. I prefer not to use mods so I’ve started a thread over at https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion-Feedback/Family-Portrait/m-p/12468830 hoping that they may offer this item again 😊

    You can still take beautiful photos without the frame, just need to get your timing and placements of where the sims are right or have them pose. Here is my latest wall and I used some selfies, photo of and the family portrait option. The one where the teen is at the splash park was just timing and take photo as the option. It took a few tries because my sim was not in the right spot or angle, or the teen was not the right pose or looking at the camera. I did however go and bump your thread and added my little 5 cents too ;)

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  • mcruddmcrudd Posts: 10,923 Member
    KestrelDC wrote: »
    Yeah, it bugs me how limited picture taking is in this game... like both with the phone and with the studio you can't take photos of more than 3 Sims together at a time and you can't choose which poses they're in beyond just randomizing it. Can't even take pictures with infants, toddlers, or pets without the "Mosquito Stuff" pack as Li'l Simsie calls it :D

    I agree, if you have 8 sims in a household and use the place marks then surely you can have 7 sims pose for a photo and not just 3. I was very disappointed the first time I noticed that.
  • permanentrosepermanentrose Posts: 3,243 Member
    This is a cool tip! Definitely will try it sometime! My hack with getting photos, especially if I want a scenic background, is to add a fully skilled photographer to the family temporarily and then they can take some nice pics and then I just toss the pics into one of my family member's inventories. This works extra well if you play with mods and use pose player.
  • Atreya33Atreya33 Posts: 3,562 Member
    Lecca wrote: »
    I didn’t know the family portrait item even existed!! Thank you @mcrudd for the helpful tutorial! I missed this promotion and I’m heartbroken that my sims are missing out, especially now with growing together. I prefer not to use mods so I’ve started a thread over at https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion-Feedback/Family-Portrait/m-p/12468830 hoping that they may offer this item again 😊

    I added a me too because I hope this offer will be repeated again. Problem with using the modded version of the family frame is that all the photos I take of it are considered cc, even when I remove the cc frame. The photo still works after removing the cc family portrait but any lot uploaded with the photo will be considered cc.
  • fazemanpressfazemanpress Posts: 165 Member
    where can i find the multi colored frames? i only found the frames from the Growing Together only
  • mcruddmcrudd Posts: 10,923 Member
    edited April 13
    This is a cool tip! Definitely will try it sometime! My hack with getting photos, especially if I want a scenic background, is to add a fully skilled photographer to the family temporarily and then they can take some nice pics and then I just toss the pics into one of my family member's inventories. This works extra well if you play with mods and use pose player.

    What a super aweSim idea @permanentrose thank you :) I am sure there are people that use the pose player that would love this <3
    where can i find the multi colored frames? i only found the frames from the Growing Together only

    are you talking about these @fazemanpress ?
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    Those are just normal photo's when you click on add frame, those colours are yellow, blue and light wood at the top and dark wood and red at the bottom. It is not one of the actual empty frames you put photo's in ;)
  • fazemanpressfazemanpress Posts: 165 Member
    mcrudd wrote: »
    This is a cool tip! Definitely will try it sometime! My hack with getting photos, especially if I want a scenic background, is to add a fully skilled photographer to the family temporarily and then they can take some nice pics and then I just toss the pics into one of my family member's inventories. This works extra well if you play with mods and use pose player.

    What a super aweSim idea @permanentrose thank you :) I am sure there are people that use the pose player that would love this <3
    where can i find the multi colored frames? i only found the frames from the Growing Together only

    are you talking about these @fazemanpress ?
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    Those are just normal photo's when you click on add frame, those colours are yellow, blue and light wood at the top and dark wood and red at the bottom. It is not one of the actual empty frames you put photo's in ;)

    yes these frames - wow really didnt know you can change colors of frames - thank you
  • mcruddmcrudd Posts: 10,923 Member
    yes these frames - wow really didnt know you can change colors of frames - thank you

    It is a huge pleasure, happy simming :)

  • mcruddmcrudd Posts: 10,923 Member
    An AweSim tip from @blueybluesky in quote below <3
    I use the Q and E keys when taking pictures of the infants on the ground with the tripod. It lets the angle go up and down to get some better pictures, don't know if that helps. Here are some I've taken doing that.
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