🆗 Okay but custom venues in The Sims 4 might be one of the BEST ways to make your gameplay feel interesting 😭
We gathered some of our favorite creative venue ideas from boarding schools and movie studios to office gameplay and theater clubs 👀🎭They come with custom roles, schedules, and gameplay ideas that can completely change your legacy experience ✨
If your saves have been feeling repetitive lately… this might be your sign to try something new 🎬
Inspired by the soft breeze of the Mediterranean coast, this collection captures the feeling of sun-warmed skin, salty air, and effortless summer elegance. Light fabrics, relaxed silhouettes, and ocean-toned hues come together to create pieces that feel both romantic and naturally lived-in.
Designed for everyday coastal living — whether your sim is walking through a seaside town, lounging under the sun, or dressing up for a golden-hour evening by the water.
Seafoam Top — 10 swatches
Coastal Jeans — 14 swatches (Has versions without the print)
Aegean Halter — 12 swatches
Coastal Denim Skirt — 10 swatches
Azure Bloom Blouse — 10 swatches
Azure Bloom Skirt — 10 swatches
Reverie Dress — 12 swatches
SWATCHES
The color palette is inspired by the soft atmosphere of the Mediterranean coast, blending fresh sea tones with warm natural hues and romantic accents. Sea Mist and Olive Grove, soft neutrals such as Pearl Veil and Blush Petal, romantic shades like Lavender Haze and Porcelain Blue. Warm tones like Sunlit Honey and Warm Sand and coastal blues such as Coastal Denim and Deep Aegean .
RELEASE DATES [dd/mm/yyyy]
Early Access [24/04/2026]
Public Access [22/05/2026
I hope you enjoy this collection as much as I enjoyed making it 🤍
Hello dearies, quick tutorial because the fabulous @ruthplaysthesims asked me how I did this in my last chapter, and I realized it might be helpful to share with everyone. Shout out to @thebramblewood and @aheathen-conceivably, who I am pretty sure showed me how to do this the first time around (sorry if my elder millennial brain is remembering this wrong, lol!).
I’m not an actual comic book artist, so if I’m bastardizing some of these terms, I’m sorry! The effect I’m talking about is when you want the panels (individual images or scenes) to overlap on your page. Like this:
A few things before we start:
I’m working in Canva Pro and using the background remover tool; however, you can also create this effect using the polygon lasso tool and masking. I’ve done both, but I think Canva is probably more accessible for most people.
My “pages” are 1080 X 1920 px, and I find I can fit about 3 images comfortably, depending on how I'm layering things.
Do background remover tools technically use AI? I think yes (don't quote me), in the sense that they are artificial intelligence, but they are not genAI. You're not scraping anyone else's writing or art. Back when I first learned Photoshop ::cough cough 20 years ago cough cough:: I was taught to do this with a green screen, lol. TLDR: This kind of digital photo editing tool has been around for a long time. Also, can I be a nerd for five seconds and say check out the Science and Media Museum's digital exhibition on the History of Digital Photo Manipulation? Ok, I'm done, I promise.
1. PLAN IN ADVANCE
Boring, I know, but hear me out. I think of this effect as a narrative tool. It’s great for action sequences, when I want to show off motion, or make the reader feel like a bunch of things are happening all at once. If I have a general idea of which shots will be overlapping, and the order I want them to be in, it’s easier to make sure I’ve framed the main subject correctly so I can make the effect without crying.
Here are the three shots I used for the page above. The first thing I do while taking screenshots is make sure that there is lots of dead (ha) space around the main subject (I have no idea if this is what it’s really called). I think of dead space as any area of the image boring enough that I don’t mind covering it up with something else.
The “boring” part is subjective and mostly based on the vibes of whatever scene I want to create. In this case, I care more about the zombies than the background, so even though that church is pretty eerie, I don’t care about being able to see it.
LAYOUT YOUR IMAGES
The next thing I do is lay these images out while keeping the dead space in mind so I can figure out where and how I want each panel to overlap. Generally, I find I need at least one panel as a base layer that doesn't overlap anything else, or the layout gets too busy and therefore confusing. Usually, it's the first panel on the page, but not always.
Here, I can already see that the dead space for the top two images is on the same side. It’s not “wrong,” but I want this scene to feel like zombies are bursting out of the ground and coming at Wolfgang, Darling, and Morgan from every which way. To fix this, I’m just going to flip the center panel horizontally.
In thinking about my scene, I realized that the zombie ballerina should be walking towards Wolfgang, Darling, and Morgan, not away from them, so later I flipped her too. This is not an exact science! I always end up playing around.
Alright, so next, I position the first two images so they overlap approximately where I want. I’m going to end up with some white space. Don’t worry about it, we’re actually going to need it in a minute.
Once I’ve got the top layer pretty close to where I want it, I resize the image so it fills the white space, and then I duplicate it.
REMOVING THE BACKGROUND
We’re almost done!
If you’re using Canva, you can press the Background Remover button to remove the background of the image you duplicated. As you can see, I ended up with a cutout of your primary subject (zombie butler) that I can use to overlap with zombie grandma.
Sometimes it looks a little off-center or creepy, especially if you moved your mouse while doing it. Don’t worry, that’s an easy fix. The important thing is not to duplicate your image until you’ve resized it, because then you’ve got to be a lot more precise about making the images line up and do a bunch of annoying resizing after the fact.
Next, I’ll just temporarily move the cutout to another area of the image and crop the original image so it’s no longer overlapping zombie grandma. After that, I simply move the top layer in place, make sure it lines up with the OG image, and voila!
You can also do this with the polygon lasso tool if you’re working in a more traditional photo editing program. In this case, you follow all the same steps, but instead of using the background remover, select the polygon lasso tool and use it to isolate the areas of the background you want to mask out. I’m doing this in Behance, but honestly, it should work in most photo editing programs.
It takes a little longer, and you’ve got to do more of the adjusting yourself, but it’s not terrible. I’ve sped this up a smidge, but really, it took me a few minutes. And I’m not super precise about it. The scene is already dark, and the human eye is not going to catch every tiny imperfection.
The rest of the effect is just my own embellishments. I like to add some motion lines and descriptive text. I usually pop in a white line to make the “gutter.” I move it behind the top layer, which makes it sort of feel like the main subject is bursting out of the panel.
You can use this same method to add all sorts of effects. The vampires with their red magic energy? Literally, this exact same process, only I put a haze of red smoke in between the base layer and top layer.
its probably a normal sign for the economy that all of my adulthood fantasies are like "imagine having your own kitchen living room and bathroom to decorate" "what if i could get on a train" "maybe one day i could purchase a sturdy pair of shoes" "i should save and invest in a single bicycle"
The first drop of this month is yet another addition to the Serenity Beauty Line!
This set features 6 eyebrows focusing on a natural style, with varying shapes from thin to thick:
More Details:
EA Default hair color palette.
Custom Thumbnails.
Teen-Elder; Female / Male.
Base game compatible.
🔗DOWNLOAD ( Early access on Patreon)
📆 Public release: June 2nd
Last month, Dey was begging me to make Zara Larsson's hair from her Midnight Sun Tour. I went above and beyond for him and made a ton of versions. Enjoy 🐬🌈🌊
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Four Versions + Built in Roots Versions; Shown below
➤ The GIF below shows the four main versions
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