To decorate your house with custom artwork first your sim must have a creativity level of 5 and be able to paint a still life

Have your sim paint and a frame will appear that you can center on whatever you want to paint If you want to paint a picture of something outside the Sims 2 game just press C anywhere at this time This will pause the game

Use Alt + Tab to exit the game then open a picture program such as Paint and open the snapshot you just took it will usually be in the folder: C:My DocumentsEASims2StorytellingSnapshotbmp

Then you also have to open the picture you want to have in your game If your picture is too large resize it so it will fit in the original snapshot from the game

Copy your custom picture on to your snapshot from the game then save the picture Use Alt + Tab to get back to your game and your sim will start painting your own custom picture

Using this trick you can put pictures of your friends or family web pictures or anything else in your Sims 2 game