Black Photos (Patch 1.119.109)

1. I made a NEW save on 12/18/2025, the day I'm making this comment, and I took photos with the digital camera.

I "saved and exited to the main menu", came back to my photos being black.

NO FILTERS WERE USED. I just took a normal photo.

The photos that are still showing are outstanding (1) and normal.

In the screen recording, the photos in my inventory look normal, but once I took them out, they were black, except for one that was normal quality.

I'm not sure if the quality plays a part in it, but that seems to be the case.

2. I made another sim to test this out and it's the same thing.

The photos in the back are poor quality and the photos in the front are normal quality.

I did the same thing, I "saved and exited to the main menu".

Also, on a different lot, scarily, all the photos look black even if they were and still are fine. (I loaded back in, and the 3 photos were still okay)

3. This time I click "save" and then "exit to main menu", SAME THING, the poor-quality photos are black and normal photos are fine.

4. This time I "save", go to manage worlds, "save" again and then "exit to main menu".

unfortunately, that doesn't seem to help either. In an old save, I've been doing that because I thought it helped, but maybe those photos were normal quality.

5A. This time I traveled, "Saved", and then "Exited to main menu", but I left the photos on my home lot.

As you could guess, same thing.

5B. This time I'm keeping the photos in my inventory and traveling, saving & exiting to main menu separately of course.

2 photos were normal and 3 were poor. I named them based on what their quality was.

Same thing, the normal quality photos were fine, and the poor-quality photos turned black.

Except they look normal until you pull them out of the inventory.

Save: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ya3X3kha-AbrBRaQRIWgah3Ric4v9atO?usp=sharing

I also checked to see if fixing the quality with Ravasheen's photographic memory mod would work, but it didn't.

Ravasheen does have the Full Control Camera Mod which makes all photos outstanding.

But it's mainly for candid/tripod photos that you can take whenever, it's not for selfies or to take photos with.

Tip: if you save a camera state (holding ctrl + any number between 4-9) while in tab mode where you want the photo to be taken, when in camera mode, if you click the number, it will jump to that state.

Weirdly a few photos will look black in the inventory, but upon "saving and exiting" and reloading they are still okay but will still look black if in the inventory which is scary. (Edit: I just saved and exited to main menu, when I fully exited the game and reloaded, the photo didn't visually look black anymore)

Also, when grabbing the photos, the preview image is completely different then the photo I took. It's from a photo I took earlier on this ridiculous journey.

Also looks different in the inventory... 

Just to reiterate,

Photos in storage boxes and digital frames turn black,

photos with filters turn black,

photos that are poor quality turn black.

cherished and Photo Booth pictures turn black when placed from the gallery :)

photos that you saved to your library in case it turns black in game, will also be black.

There's no saving this.

The only thing you can do is:

Don't take photos with filters.

Make sure the photo is Normal+ quality, if it isn't, take it again.

Don't put your photos in any storage item or digital frame.

Edit: I edited this post so much, but I tried again and separated the poor and normal+ quality photos, and now 3/7 of the poor-quality photos are fine. I guess and assume you still have a better chance at your normal+ quality photos NOT turning black.