.	Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 S3FC Tutorials for the SIMs3 1. Your USB PlumBob Flash Drive - by Val 2. Cheat Codes and How to Use Them - by Val 3. How to Share Your Sims3 Custom Content - by Val
.	. How to Share Your Sims3 Custom Content A Sims3Fanatics Community Tutorial by Valzgr8 .
Back to… ‘Sharing Your Project’ Method 2 Sharing on Personal FanPages METHOD 2 Part 1	. How to Share Your Sims3 Custom Content Introduction 1. Saving Your Project 2. Sharing Your Project a. Method 1 - Sharing on the Sims3 Exchange b. Method 2 - Sharing on Personal FanPages 1. Taking Pictures – Making PreViews – You are Here! 2. Creating a ReadME 3. Creating an Archive –zips AND rars 4. Somewhere to Share Closing Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ..
. Taking Pictures – Making PreViews This method is a little bit more complicated but well worth the effort if you have a FanPage that you want to populate with all of your hard work. This is an illustrated guide to creating your own PreView images and archiving your projects for uploading to share. This tutorial assumes you have already completed a successful export of your project in the earlier steps of this tutorial. If you have not, you should return to ‘Saving your Project’. (Step number 3) and attempt to make a successful Export.	.
Now that you have successfully prepared your file for export, we need to get a picture of your finished product so that Sims3 fans can preview it and decide if they want it or not. 1. If you have not done so already, launch your game now. 2. Enter any lot or do like I do, and create a test town where you can build a house for testing and creating. Click on this Image to Enlarge it. Click on this Image to Enlarge it. 3. Build a suitable room to fit your project. Save the lot and name it TEST.
4. Furnish and decorate the room with all your new stuffs. Use your own colors, wallpapers, floors, paintings, objects…whatever you have made. Be creative. You can put a whole set of your creations in the room or just one or two things. In my example I have put a whole room of items together to share. Click on this Image to Enlarge it. Click on this Image to Enlarge it.	Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
5. When the room is to your liking, take a screenshot using the in game camera. Click on this Image to Enlarge it. Click on this Image to Enlarge it. 6. You will see a light flash briefly and a little note will appear in the upper right corner telling you that the ‘Screenshot has been saved to the Sims3 Game Launcher’. Click on this Image to Enlarge it. Click on this Image to Enlarge it.	NOTE: An alternative to using the in-game camera is using your computer’s ‘Print Screen’ function. To do this, locate your ‘Print Screen’ button on your keyboard. It may be labled ‘Print Screen’, ‘PrtScn’, or ‘PrintScrn’. Click on this Image to Enlarge it. Make sure the window with your game is open, and you have the view on your screen that you want, then push the ‘Print Screen’ button on your keyboard. Now open your favorite image editor, such as PhotoShop, PhotoImpact, or PhotoFitre. Open a blank page and paste your screen print into the blank palette. Edit the photo to your taste, size about 600 X 400. Add a title to your Set and sign it with your Internet ID, then save the image as a .JPG or .PNG to an easy to locate folder. Taking Pictures – Making PreViews -Done- using PrintScreen function
7. You can close your game when you are done taking the screenshots that you want/need. I recommend taking a couple of different shots of your room at different angles until you get practiced at making previews, just in case you don’t like the first shot taken. If you want to check your screenshots before closing your game, ALT+TAB out of your game temporarily and open your screenshots folder located here: VISTA - C:\Users\*yourdesktophere \Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Screenshots XP - C:\…\*yourdesktophere*\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Screenshots Click on this Image to Enlarge it. Click on this Image to Enlarge it.	Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
8. Open your favorite image editor, such as PhotoShop, PaintShop, PhotImpact, or PhotoFiltre. (I use PhotoImpact.) 9. Drag and drop your screen shot into the image editor or use the open feature on your image editor to browse to your screenshot folder. Click on this Image to Enlarge it. Click on this Image to Enlarge it.
10. Edit your screenshot to your liking. a. Add a Title. b. Sign it with your Sims3 identity. c. Add any important notes or credits. d. Give the image a boarder for a finished look. e. Resize the image to a suitable size. (Something like 600x400) Click on this Image to Enlarge it. Click on this Image to Enlarge it.	Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
11. Save the screenshot as a .JPG or .PNG in and easy to find location on your computer, giving it an easy identify name. Click on this Image to Enlarge it. Click on this Image to Enlarge it.
Method 2 Part 1 Taking Pictures – Making PreViews -Done- Using In-Game Camera Continue… METHOD 2 Part 2: Creating a ReadME METHOD 2 Part 3: Creating an Archive –zips AND rars METHOD 2 Part 4: Somewhere to Share Back to… ‘Sharing Your Project’	Introduction Saving Your Project Sharing Your Project Method 1 Sharing on the Sims3 Exchange Method 2 Sharing on Personal FanPages 1. Taking Pictures – Making PreViews – You are Here! 2. Creating a ReadME 3. Creating an Archive –zips AND rars 4. Somewhere to Share Closing
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