Joolster, would you be interested in teaching a class on in-game photography for ZooProfessor's Beginning Builders University (Zoo U)? If this sounds like anything you would be interested in, please contact me on my Sim Page.
You have AMAZING ideas and I am so excited to try some of them. One of my biggest gripes with Sims 3 is that you can't paint what you wish and you can't import graphics into the game so that you can do custom painting. I always feel stiffled with the wall-art choices because I build A LOT. This thread has just opened up a whole new world for me.
I think you would be fabulous as a Zoo U teacher on this subject. Here is a link to the Zoo U Master Thread so that you can see the kind of things we have done in the past in case you are not familar with it.
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/499348.page