Reference Manual

Make a framed print for The Sims 4, step by step, and learn what a swatch is.

The editor's four areas, the preview's camera and lighting, where your projects save, and how to undo a change.

Add your picture, fit it to your item, and layer stickers on top, with or without their background.

Add and remove swatches, set each one's catalog thumbnail, colors and color tags, and edit a swatch in your own image editor.

Your item's name, description and price, and the catalog tags players search by.

Size your print, pick a frame style, mat and glass, or make a wrapped canvas or a poster, and hang it.

Size and shape your rug, give it a woven surface with or without your picture, and add a border and fringe.

Pick a nail shape, paint each nail a color, gradient or picture, and add 3D charms like gems and bows.

Shape a vase from a silhouette, glaze it with a pattern, and wrap your own picture around it.

Contacts or a genetic eye color, drawn from your own iris color, pupil and ring, with a picture on the iris if you want one.

Studs, hoops and dangles, up to five on each ear, each one on its own piercing and in its own metal.

Build a dining, coffee or end table. The footprint sets a dining table's chairs. Above it you shape the edge, draw the legs and drape a cloth.

Build a dining chair, desk chair, living chair, rocking chair, recliner or stool, from a plain side chair to a ladderback, a task chair or a throne.

Draw the lens shape and a pair of glasses forms around it, rims to temples. Paint the frame, then tint the lenses.

Ink your own picture onto a Sim: one body region per project, placed and zoomed, faded or redrawn in a single ink color.

A running order of clips Sims can watch on any television, cut from the game's own footage or from a video of your own.

Paint a lot's ground with your own grass, dirt, sand, gravel, stone, or a photo of your own.

Download your item, put it in your Sims 4 Mods folder, turn on custom content and find it in the game.

Fixes for a mod missing in the game, changes that don't show, a locked or greyed-out Download button and a lost project.

Short answers on price, what you can make, where projects are saved, updating placed items, sharing and your subscription.

What Build/Buy, CAS, .package, swatch and the other game and editor words in this manual mean.