I can't get custom paintings to show in my game

[latrese2sims]

Hi, I've searched both the sims2 website and this one.  I also posted at the sims2 site, but the one person who tried to help me was unable to because there is no apparent reason for this problem!

I have all of the EPs and SPs installed, except for the second Holiday one.

I have the feedbaby hack.  Everything else is maxis made.

My sim has creativity level 8.  On the easel, I click custom paint.  The little box comes up and all of the ea provided paintings are in it, but the 4 I tried to add are not.

I tried resizing my photos to as few as 57 kbs.  I renamed them, getting rid of spaces or replacing spaces with underscores.  I got rid of the capitals.  I checked the pictures and they are .jpg.  I decided that maybe the photos I tried to use were corrupted so I used photos taken by a different camera.  Those didn't show up either, nor did the photos that came with my computer.  I actually tried a little test, removing the Season's painting folder altogether, and the pictures from Seasons still showed up! while my photos have never shown up.  Can someone please help me.

Thanks,
Latrese

[Charley]

what type of pictures are they .jpg, .bmp? maybe the format has something to do with it?

Char
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[latrese2sims]

They're .jpg

[Charley]

The reason the ea games ones showed up cos it will have regenerated the folder. have you tired since the game made a new folder? Do you go on the exchange? maybe you have downloaded something from there and it has has a paiting hack inbedded. Have you tried delphy's hack organiser from mod the sims 2? i puts them in order and tells you what is a hack and what isn't and if you see anything you don't know what it is take it out and see if that solves your problem.

Char
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[latrese2sims]

No, I havent tried since the game made the new folder!  I sorta got irritated after it continued to show the Seasons paintings and metaphorically stormed off in a huff.  I haven't touched the game since.  I have only downloaded the feedbaby hack from insiminater and some maxoidsam stuff from the exchange.  Ohhh, and a treehouse from the exchange.  I wonder if it had something in it?  I have not tried delphy's hack organiser.  I will definitely try your suggestion.  Thanks for responding to my post Char!  If this works, I will start playing my game again!

[latrese2sims]

Oh, since there are no benes on this site, I can't give you one.  Do you post on ea.com?  If you do, I will give you a bene there.