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

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 ;)

Spoiler

I have removed everything from the spoiler so that I can fix images, so all of it is below the spoiler, they seem to be broken in the new forums.

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 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.
https://i.imgur.com/2y81pNM.png

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 <3

how to's

SweetieWright_84
New Spectator
2 years ago
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.
Admiral8Q
New Spectator
2 years ago
"fazemanpress;c-18249696" 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.

"fazemanpress;c-18249984" wrote:
"Dianesims;c-18249836" 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.
fazemanpress
2 years ago
"Admiral8Q;c-18250467" wrote:
"fazemanpress;c-18249696" 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.

"fazemanpress;c-18249984" wrote:
"Dianesims;c-18249836" 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
Admiral8Q
New Spectator
2 years ago
"fazemanpress;c-18250481" wrote:

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. :)
mcrudd
Seasoned Vanguard
2 years ago
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

Now I need to go hunt for gallery poses LOL
LeccaLovesYou
New Spectator
2 years ago
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 ?
SuperNerdChick
2 years ago
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
mcrudd
Seasoned Vanguard
2 years ago
"Lecca;c-18255944" 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 ;)
mcrudd
Seasoned Vanguard
2 years ago
"KestrelDC;c-18255960" 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.
permanentrose537
Seasoned Adventurer
2 years ago
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.