Handy Hint or another D'oh! moment

Whew...  a few hours have zoomed by again.  Wanted to make a poster this time.  Rejigging the teener poster was easy, thanks to a quick refresh of Vanilla Sim's tutorial.  Then I had the great idea of twiddling with the frames.  I wanted a metal brushed one, so changed the pattern, looks fine, tried it in game.  D'oh!  The whole poster looks woozy as the pattern is plastered all over the poster.  Grrr... change back to original generic one.

Scrolling through all the possibilities of the project tab, ticking some more boxes.  Oh, I can add a thumb, that should be pretty.  Add the original pic as thumb.  Save.  Create package.  What the... 15 Mb pack??  Back.  Remove thumb, make itty bitty pic of the .dds used to make the pack. Save. Create package.  That's better - 950 something kb.  Can't have a poster as large as a house now, can we? :D

Alright, have a quick sneak preview of the poster - I hung a row of them in the Art Gallery ;)

So here's our handy hint of the day: when adding a thumbprint picture to a package for easy recognition, make sure it is a thumb and not a whole body slam.  It's the little things that count ;)

Hmmm... now let's see, what pictures can we make posters of next?