Next you will want to cut out the templates you just printed.

You will notice little black lines in the white border of the templates (except for the tiles). Those are your guides for cutting them out. I highly recommend that you use an x-acto knife, ruler, and cutting mat to cut these out. You will end up with perfectly straight cuts and the cards and tiles will look very nice. However, if you decide to use scissors, you will want to crease or fold the paper where the cut guides line up, then use your scissors to cut along your creases.

If you decide to use a ruler and x-acto knife, make sure you have a cutting mat or something you don't mind getting scratched up under the templates as you cut.

You will want to line up the ruler with the cut guides. Once you have it in place, push down on it firmly with one hand so the paper doesn't move around underneath, and use your other hand to cut along the edge of the ruler with your x-acto knife, much like you would if you were drawing a line with a pencil and ruler. Refer to the images above.

For all the templates except for the tiles, you'll need to make your cuts not quite edge to edge so that you don't cut it all the way across and not be able to use the lines on the border as guides any more.

For the development cards, resource cards, and item cards, you will cut the middle cards out first. I found this to be the easiest way to do it.

For the tiles, line the ruler up with the edges with the planet-side up, and make your cuts. This is because the tile backs are slightly larger than the fronts, so that if they don't quite line up when you print them, there won't be any white space around them.

But, if you're following Step 3 (Optional)...

You will need to cut out the fronts of the tiles, then use one of them as a guide to get the backs the same size (since they're a bit larger). You can do this by using a pencil to trace around the front tile guide and use the ruler and x-acto knife (or scissors) to cut it out.