Ideas
Wow I didn't expect this bug is so old already. I think for me I started noticing it happening after the Business & Hobbies Patch. I don't have the pack, tho. No important fixes = no money. Easy.
But it just seems to affect the pictures I take since the specific period after this patch, which can be a coincidence. But all other pictures which are older are fine. I didn't dare to put them anywhere else or in any inventory.
I have also noticed that it affects the paintings which are painted with 'Paint from Reference'. It uses the camera options as well in a way and the canvas is blank directly after finishing it and placing it in the sims own inventory. So even trying this workaround possibility to maybe use paintings instead of photos is not really working for me.
Also I think the pictures which are taken, including paintings are way more blurry, even if they are of the best quality. Something seems to be really going wrong with the image creation and linking within the save.
I also had quite a strange occurrence that a picture changed back from black to normal, but it only happened once and I had no idea what happened and why.
This bug is really one of the worst especially for legacy gameplay and households which make a living from making photos and have a gallery shop and so on. These households are literally not playable anymore and I can just play some cast away / off the grid stuff or specific households for which I don't care that much for photos which is like 20% of my sims.
Fix this please