Azara: Kk, I have Corel Painter 9..do you think they consists of some of the same features? I could play round in there and find a way for you if they are almost the same. XP
lilbickiebub: Welcome to the site! And no worries, Im glad you asked.
For the avatar uploads, on the first page of this thread there is the following link:
Lawertend's How To Get a Custom Image Avatar!Go to the thread and read through it and youll have your own images present for your avatar. If there is something you dont understand, feel free to post there or here and Im sure someone will help you out. ^^
As for your sims image. For ingame shots, the best thing i would recommend is having your sims do random everyday things, pause it during the interaction and you may pause it at a moment when they look marvelous.
There is mod called chaos mod that has alot, if not all of the interactions on que, so that you dont have to wait for your sim to do it, but you can make her do it. For more info on that: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=356513
Next, 'modeling' image are done either with ingame shots, or you can edit the shots. This thread is dedicated to tutorials posted by our lovely users on helping one to understand editing. So feel free to browse through the tutorials, there are many that will help you understand the process of cutting out and putting a different background behind your sim..etc.
And lastly, feel free to ask any questions about anything that you dont understand. Post your work and youll get alot of feedback, this is a very friendly and alive forum and the users are always helping each other out in terms of creating pretty sim images. ^^
Hope this was helpful! ^^
