Hmmm... we don't seem to have an emotie that represents low-flying satire zipping right over your head.  I'll have to work on that.  

That's everybody!  Glad you enjoyed it!

Hey Jakov, once again you've expanded my vocabulary!  I'll have to add marshmallow-coated sardonicity to my arsenal now! :laugh:



Did we just learn that J. M. Pescado's sock puppet is a kitten?  I would have expected a flounder.

FAN SITES MUST BE DESTROYED!


Fan Sites Must Be Destroyed!
This is a recolor of the maxis Young Adult outfit that it looks like, so of course it's not worthy of consideration as any sort of new creative artwork.  The download includes only the outfit for YA males.  The anonymous model's headgear and glasses are by Maxis; they come with one of those silly expansion packs that you can no doubt steal from somewhere on the net.

Are you tired of all those poor people with their pathetic busker jars and subscription schemes on their Sims sites?  Do you believe it doesn't matter who you hurt as long as you get what you want?  Do you enjoy hurting others because this is your way to assuage your pathetic ego?  Do you want to clear out all the riff-raff so only the arrogant rich can afford Sims sites? Want to keep all but the richest of the rich from engaging in any form of art so that talented paupers can't outshine the piteous produce of the privileged rich folk?

Are you able to invent increasingly absurd rationalizations for your crimes and still believe them?

Want to drive all the great Sims artists off the net and make them get real jobs where they produce really useful things like male enhancement nostrums and porn sites with never-ending pop-ups?

Need to make sure that no struggling single moms can afford to stay home with their children?  Have you grown weary of all those fan artists making all that neat stuff that makes your game so much fun?  Do you seethe with envy of the artists who can actually do this stuff?  Want to get back at them really good?

Let's keep those buskers out of the concert halls and on the streets where the beggars belong!  Wear this T-shirt and tell it to the world!  But don't forget to hide your cowardly thieving face behind a mask of Internet anonymity while you claim that you're not a criminal!

BE A DESTROYER!  STOP THOSE CREATORS NOW!

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Copyright ©2007 by The Pearl, but since I'm just a poor fan artist, you can ignore that, right?  Downloaded for personal use only, except by criminals who make their own exceptions from copyright laws and personal integrity; nudge, nudge, wink, wink.  Derivative works of this garment may be made and distributed, but only from sites owned by people so incredibly wealthy that they can afford to pay for your luxuries!  And, for the sake of your own rationalization, never face up to that crook in your mirror!  After all, you're not a criminal as long as you don't get caught, right?  

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
--Rev. Marvin Luther King, Jr.

"Was that over the top?  I can never tell!"
--The Mask

Oh my!  Those shorts really are just what I've always wanted so that I can edit them to be just what I've always wanted!

:laugh: :lol:

Oh, Kathy!  You are so wonderful and talented and beautiful and nice and sweet!  There are just the bestest bikinis I've ever downloaded!  Really!  They're just what I've always wanted so that I can edit them to be just what I've always wanted!  Worth ten times the price!  Seriously!  And the check is the mail, too!  Really!  


(How'm I doin'?  Your bank can convert from rubles, right?)

Oh!  What did I do to live in a world with such beauty in it?

OpenHouseJack, what you might be looking for is the "Feather" feature on the lasso tool.  

In Jakov's picture in message #2 above, look straight up from the left-hand arrowhead.  See where it says "Feather 0 pixels"?  You can change that to cause the edges of the selection to be fuzzy so that whatever you do blends in nicely with the background.

You can get the same effect by fiddling with a layer mask and blurring the edges of the mask.  (To directly edit a layer mask, alt-click on it.)

Oho!  That really sound like something to look foward to!

This one is really great, Dutchdude!  I kept coming back for another look, and finally gave in and downloaded it.  And I never download houses--usually I just look at them and pilfer other people's ideas! :lol:

She's an amazing likeness, Rogue.  You captured her beauty perfectly!  (And you captured her perfection beautifully!)

I love this one, Rogue!  She's fresh and original!  And very pretty, too!

Most excellent, Rogue!  I think I would have recognized the character even if you hadn't told us who he is!

His step-by-step instructions in the 5th message in this thread (plus a little glance at that other tutorial by Numenor) was sufficient to get me going on recoloring.

There's a chance you're making the same boo-boo I did on my first try with this: Make sure to put a copy of the .package for your recolored object into your Downloads folder.

This ranks high among the most charming and realistic sim houses I've yet seen!

Do my eyes deceive me?  It looks like you have four different roof pitches in the same house.  Is that a feature that came with Seasons?