WCIF: A tutorial on making wall decals/stickers with GIMP?

In Studio:
1. Open your Sims 4 Studio and make sure you have the most recent version.
For Windows
For Mac

2. Go under "Object" and check "Standalone Recolor" then click "Object".

3. Select a wall decal from your game content, you can search "Decal" and get most of them showing up.

4. Export the Texture and name it whatever you want.

5. Go to your files and open the picture in gimp or go in gimp and import it with files and open.

In Gimp or whatever Photo editor you are using:
1. Open the exported texture image, it should be a .png image.

2. Add a new layer and bring it to the front before selecting it.

3. Draw the picture you want to make into a decal, alternatively you can find .png images with the help of google and use those.

4. Hide the first layer with the original texture on it.

5. Go to file and click "save as".

6. Name it whatever you want and be sure you make the image format .png or it will get rid of any transparency in your image.

7. Go back to Studio and click import where it says textures, then select your image you just edited/drew.

And then you are pretty much done. If my little step by step is not enough here is the video that I used to learn how to make my own decals. It is a bit outdated, but it still follows the general process of making a custom decal. Only difference is you don't need the alpha layer anymore, just one transparent layer or at least I did not need all those other layers to make it work.



Alternatively my step by step is just how I do things and I do the whole export and edit in a new layer thing simply to make sure I get the size right so that the size of the decal will be accurate with the size of the typical decal. But you don't have to do all these extra steps like I do when it comes to making the texture if you don't want, the other way to do this is to simply create a new canvas and size it to 256x256 (I believe that is the size of decal textures usually.), get ride of the white colored background to make it transparent by erasing it and work from there. Good luck and hope I was able to help.