November 2013 Challenge

[LadyAngelKeymaster]

This is the challenge for November 2013: Recolour the Zecutime Cityside Sofa:

Now, before you stamp your feet and go in a huff and refuse to consider it, at least have a go, challenges are meant to be challenging! 😉 – Using Wizards of SimPE, it’s very simple indeed! You can choose one of the following tutorials:

• Wizards of SimPE
• If the Wizards won’t load for you, you can use the main SimPE tutorial instead
• Recolouring Using a Seamless Image

If you know how to edit images using layers etc, you can experiment with shading and highlights, but that’s more advanced. The above simple tutorials will show you just how easy it is to do a basic re-colour, which is all this challenge is about. However, if you want to be clever, please go ahead! :p Karen, thank you for the link to the free version of Photoshop!

Note that this is a challenge, it isn’t a competition with prizes, and we won’t be picking an overall winner. Simply reply to this post with your pictures.

Comments regarding each entry are welcome, and feel free to use the ‘Likes’ and ‘Thanks’ buttons at the bottom of each post 🙂

Wishing you all the best!

(P.S. Don’t forget, our members can also post challenges! Just read our announcement before you post.)

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[ekrubynaffit]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

oh alright, you’re gonna make me do it!! 😀

[LadyAngelKeymaster]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

Yay! Once you see how easy it is, you’ll become an addict! lol.

[CheekyBugga]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

Ok that lets me out of doing this challenge lol

[LadyAngelKeymaster]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

All you have to do with Wizards of SimPE:

Select the item
Export the image
Bucket-fill it with a seamless image of your choosing
Import it back

So, so simple! 🙂

[karen lorraine]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

I’m not running before I can walk, and am passing on this one unless I get pshop sorted out in my head.

[LadyAngelKeymaster]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

Using Wizards is infinitely easier than using the main SimPE software. It’s how I started recolouring and I’ve never looked back! 😀

[karen lorraine]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

Leefish is teaching me how to use simpe so would rather do it that way 🙂 Am not ready to recolour a sofa.

[LadyAngelKeymaster]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

Tiff, if you still want to do this, here’s a simplified version of my Wizards of SimPE tutorial:





You can use any image editor to fill the exported image, such as Gimp, Photoshop etc. Just make sure it’s filled with a seamless pattern of a not-too-big size. 🙂

Kaz, how are you getting on with SimPE…is it looking less scary, yet! 😀

[karen lorraine]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

Simpe isn’t scary, Angela, it’s photoshop that I’m struggling with. Gonna get a colleague at work to show me some stuff today.

[LadyAngelKeymaster]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

Yes, it’s quite hard to get to grips with, but a lot of Sims 2 tutorials use Photoshop so I may give it another go.

[LadyAngelKeymaster]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

I’m feeling silly today, so here’s some daft recolours. Probably won’t be putting these up for download, but I’ll try and make some more sensible ones later. 🙂

[karen lorraine]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

Actually quite like some of those Angela. I like the stripey one and the last one. Could you make the pattern smaller on that front bit where it’s larger so that it matches the rest of the upholstery?

[LadyAngelKeymaster]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

Actually, it’s the way the mesh has been mapped that makes the texture look stretched, I’m afraid, nothing to do with the recolouring. 🙁 I’m not even sure where on the image map that particular section would be, but I’ll have a look at it and have a bit of a mess around to see if it can be fixed.

[karen lorraine]

Re: November 2013 Challenge

OK, see still a newbie at this 🙂

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