Freetime picture problem

hey.

i have a major problem with C-button picture taking (and since it's my only problem with FT, it's also bugging me a lot).
every time I make the simmies paint pictures or use the new drawing table, the c-button pictures I take after that are corrupted. they turn grey, and looks like they've been tweeked with photoshop (only the pictures from then on, not the ones I took before making them paint). today I noticed that this also happened to the pictures they drew. all custom paintings (including the ones that followed pets and FT) turned grey ingame, even though most of then showed up normal.

this started happening already when I started a fresh game (installed FT over a new BV/earlier games backup), and as far as I can remember - without any hacks at all in the DL folder.

it usually corrects itself the next time I play, though - but starts over again as soon as the simmies paint or draw. the pictures they draw also gets corrupted.
(as far as I know, it doesn't happen with the maxis default drawings, only the custom ones)

does anyone know why this happens?

(I've started using printscreen, but I can't completely trust that the pictures turn out good, since I can't be sure that the pictures saves correctly, or that they saves fast enough. I've had several pictures that were saved too late, so I use the C-button as a back-up.)

thanks for any help! :happy8:

(1) - how the c-button screenshots looks like
(2) - before/after drawing table
(3) - custom painting turned grey (ALL turned grey, but some still showed the correct thumbnail)
(4) - maxis bella picture turned grey, but has the correct color in the thumbnail picture (this hapened to all the animal pictures, too)
(5) - picture explains

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