Sims 3 Neighborhood Workshop is the first incarnation of the save game editor with an attempt at a friendly interface. Right now all that it can do in a friendly manner is modify still life portraits your sims have painted. The full editing and viewing capabilities are still there as well, but there are numerous ways that using the advanced editor mode can screw up your games if you don't have backups.
For those of you with artistically bent sims, the still life workshop allows you to view the various still life paintings your sim has attempted. If you really like something they did, you can export the picture (On the file menu) and use it wherever you want. On the other hand if you think they are a bit muddly looking and you think your sim is better than that, you now have the power to turn them into a regular Da Vinci. Under the file menu, select the import option to load a new picture in to replace one you don't like. Even if your sim hasn't painted it yet, you can still replace what they plan to paint and have memorized.
You can also rename the paintings to your hearts content by clicking on the title and entering a new name. Of course, you can do that just as easily from within TS3.
Once you are happy with your sims new artistic talents, just save the neighborhood again. It is strongly encouraged you save to a different name.
And of course, as a nod to the save game editor heritage, the familiar old scary advanced interface is back. You can do pretty much anything here that involves modifying the values of script objects. Including screw up your neighborhood severely, to the point that it won't load. But if you know what you are doing, this is also a powerful tool.
Since it shows all script objects, the advanced editor can also be useful to core mod developers, so you can see exactly what the state of various objects are in a neighborhood, and see if/how any of your scripts objects are being saved.
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