Not sure of the the correct photographic term but I am trying to understand how Sims2 uses the pixels of the paintings. In my attempts the pixels of the painting to come out, 1 to 1 with what I put in.

Example ( cause Im comfused by what I wrote lol )

Started with a jpg 1203x800.
wanted to put it into the rainy day on main st painting
used Wizards of SimPE to export as PNG
in photoshop the painting portion appeared to be 342x256

which later using SimPE Object Creation > PhotoStudio I saw it was 341x256, results were the same

Multiplied 341x256 by 3 which gave me 1023x768
Cropped the orginal photo to that size the shrunk it to 341x256
placed in the PNG at proper place

used cropped pic in PhotoStudio same result

the final result is a squished photo. See pic below.

The reason Im trying to figure this out is I have tried also with Lady in Red painting for the vertical pics and they seem distorted slightly as well.

Any suggestions to maintain the porportions/perspective of the orginals?

Thanks in advance
Analog Kid

Bought Deluxe, thinking about buying Univ but I have read that you should install Univ before nightlife and thats not possible. Will I have more problems than its worth?

I also notice that deluxe has the Young Adult, which from what I read was introduced in Univ, so I dont think Deluxe is just 2/nightlife. The directory structure is also different from if you had installed nightlife as a seperate EP.

Mostly why I Univ is the music stuff..drums, guitars. Also the pool table and maybe the cell phone ( is the cell phone worth having? The review for Nightlife on IGN.com said its was and I spent hours trying to find it till I figured out it was in univ )

Any advice appreciated Thanks

Analog Kid
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