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Teacher: Please give a warm welcome to Koji, our new exchange student. Koji: Hello everyone! Nice to meet you. Teacher: Koji, you can sit next to Tom, please.

Teacher: We have career day on thursday. Participation is mandatory. There will also be the opportunity to talk to a career counselor. Please make use of this offer if necessary.

Teacher: If there are no further questions, let's get started with our regular lessons.

in the evening

Maksym: So, how was your first day of school? Did anything exciting happen?

Nasja: We have a new classmate. He's an exchange student from Mt. Komorebi. And we have career day on thursday. Maybe I could…? Kasper: Nasja, not again. We've talked about this so many times.

Maksym: Alex will take over the company so that you can focus on marriage. Kasper: Exactly. No need to waste the best years of your life chasing a career you don't need anyways.

A Party To Die For Templates: SFS

So I may have got a tad overexcited about the Halloween CAS Challenge created by @la-llama-sims, and I made templates for every prompt. I wanted to share them on the off chance someone wanted to also do the challenge but maybe didn't have time to do much other than screenshots.

Tutorial below on how to make your own cards using the templates if you are unfamiliar with photo software, all you need is the template and a screenshot of your sim! Very little technical skill required to so feel free to jump in for Simblreen (the month of October on simblr). Remember to go to the original creator post to check out the prompts and the hashtag given for creations is #LLPTDF. Hope to see some of your creations next month, keep them for the spooky season 🎃👻🦇

Strap in and follow along as I make Glenn here (he won't do the spellcaster prompt for Simblreen, it's dress up after all, but it makes sense for a demo)

Step one: Grab the zipped folder of templates on SFS HERE. Unzip the folder and put it somewhere easy to find in your documents, I have a tumblr specific folder my templates are normally sorted in.

Step two: Open your photo editing program of choice. I use paint.net which is old but for this demonstration I will use Photopea, the online free alternative to adobe. You will see the screen below

Step three: Click "Open From Computer" right in the middle under the main title. Find the screenshot you have taken that you would like to use and open it. Now the hole in my template is 744x991 but you can make it slightly bigger if you don't want to fuss as much with lining things up exactly. To resize image from the top bar (Image -> Image Size) We're going to use the crop tool when we have our picture.

Step four: Pull on the squares at the edges to change the size. If you need click View in the top bar and you can zoom in to allow finer selecting. When you have the right size click the tick and copy the image. Keyboard shortcuts are Ctrl+A to select all, then Ctrl+C to copy.

Step five: Open the template you want to use (File -> Open, from the top bar). Add a new layer using either the top bar (Layer -> New -> Layer) or the icons on the bottom right.

Step six: With the new layer selected paste the image, Ctrl+V.

Step seven: On the right of the screen you'll be able to see layer order. Drag the layer with your sim underneath the background layer. This is what will let you slot in your picture.

Step eight: Finishing touches! Unless you are super duper lucky your sim won't appear in the exact right place, you'll have to move them around using the move tool. For precision you'll need to zoom in and move your field of vision using the hand tool.

You'll know it's in the right place when you can no longer see any of the negative space behind it. I like to check both corners to make sure I've got it. This is where having a sim image slightly larger will make it easier.

If you like you can finish now. From the top bar File -> Export as -> PNG or JPG. The picture will save to your downloads folder. If you want to add your own text, keep reading, as I've left space at the bottom for your username, the sim name, and a profile pic or other logo.

Step nine: From the bar on the right select the large T to add some text, it will automatically spawn in a new layer. Scroll through text options and find one you like (the text style I used isn't in photopea so we will find another). Depending on the type of text you will likely need to play around with the size as well.

Step ten: Start typing. When you're done you can highlight what you have written and use that size box to adjust how big the text is. Select the move tool from the right to move your text where you want it. Repeat step nine if you want text on the other side. I've chosen to put my username on one side, and my sim's name on the other.

Step eleven: Logo time. Open a pre shrunk logo (I scaled my pride plumbobs down to 125x125) and copy. Back on the template add a new layer then paste your image (for some reason I had to copy twice before it would do the right thing, I don't have an explanation sorry). Then using the move tool and the hand tool get your image where you want it.

From the top bar File -> Export as -> PNG or JPG. Again it will have saved to your downloads folder.

Voila, we have a Glenn card! Hopefully you have a your sim card. I spent hours doing up all the templates so feel free to fill them with your sims for the challenge. All I ask is that you don't claim templates as your own work or shove them behind a paywall because rude and the whole premise of Simblreen is free treats! Obviously you do NOT need the templates to participate in the challenge, the cards are just how I'll be presenting mine. Like CAS challenges the possibilities are most often only limited by your imagination.

pose by @antiquatedsimmer!

There can only be one true victor.

Am I a little bit annoyed to see posts other than builds in the showusyourbuilds tag? Yes. Are there any builds tag for simmers?? That is more correctly used? (Apart from sims 4 build that suffers less from it but I don't know if it's as used??)

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Teacher: Please give a warm welcome to Koji, our new exchange student. Koji: Hello everyone! Nice to meet you. Teacher: Koji, you can sit next to Tom, please.

Teacher: We have career day on thursday. Participation is mandatory. There will also be the opportunity to talk to a career counselor. Please make use of this offer if necessary.

Teacher: If there are no further questions, let's get started with our regular lessons.

in the evening

Maksym: So, how was your first day of school? Did anything exciting happen?

Nasja: We have a new classmate. He's an exchange student from Mt. Komorebi. And we have career day on thursday. Maybe I could…? Kasper: Nasja, not again. We've talked about this so many times.

Maksym: Alex will take over the company so that you can focus on marriage. Kasper: Exactly. No need to waste the best years of your life chasing a career you don't need anyways.