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Video Tutorial: Using PS ‘Liquify’ on SecondLife snapshots
April 19, 2007 11:14 amI’ve - tried to - explain this to other avies in-world for over 20 times now, and frankly, I’ve gotten rather tired of shouting out ‘use the frigging liquify tool to correct that!!!’ over and over. Badly made clothing edges, avie limbs seriously messed up by strange poses, squared parts that should be round, strange shadows, prim sticking in or out, exaggerated breast size, … most of this snapshot problems can be very easily corrected by doing some basic post-processing using the ‘Liquify’ tool in PS.
An example:
I was going to write a tutorial about this already ages ago. And then I realized I needed tons and tons of screenshots to go with it, and that I had to aquire those by taking a snapshot in PS, going to GIMP, pasting it, continuing with the liquify tool in Photoshop, taking another snapshot, going back to GIMP, copying, and back to Photoshop, and again, and again and again…
So I gave up on my ‘Text Tutorials uber Alles!’ resolution and made a video tutorial. It’s my first one evvah so please, be mild. If you have any more questions: *points at the comments and miaws*.
This video tutorial is shot in Photoshop CSII (maybe III has even more options there?) and is only a basic. Now you know that the liquify option exists, and what it does, play around with it. Get the hang of it. Experiment. And then show me some results! I’m curious!! Ow, and if you want to play with it without watching my tutorial first, you can find ‘Liquify’ in the ‘Filters’ menu. ;)
Video-tut on using the liquify tool in Photoshop to correct avatar forms and clothes in SecondLife snapshots:
Errors against the English language I bravely admit:
- Cloth should be dress.
- ‘First and all’ is no English. At all.
- Ctrl+Alt+Z is very bad pronounced and sounds like Ctrl+Alt+C.
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I beg for forgiveness for those! There was only one take for video and one take for voice. Next time, I’ll try harder (or just go with text again). *grins* *playfully moves her neko-ears* ;)
SL-Photography tip: slow down animations
April 13, 2007 5:34 amIn the Client Menu* go to ‘Character’ and then ‘Slow Motion Animations’ to reduce the speed of all animations running on your charactar. Yes, only on yourself, so you can only use this to more easily shoot your own great dancing moves. Others will see you normally animated, so don’t waste your time asking your models to activate this.
Credits go to Gaynor Gritzi who figured this is a Photo Tip For Narcissists and is also making some nice mosaic selfportraits using SecondLife snapshots with ArcSoft Photomontage.
*If you still don’t know how to pull up the Client and Server menu by now: it’s all about pressing ctrl+alt+D. ;)
Edit: If you have annoying things opening up when pressing ctrl+alt+d in stead of the client meny, try ctrl+alt+widowskey+d. For Mac it’s ctrl+option+d and on Linux it’s ctrl+alt+shift+d.
Full Screen Preview ‘Matrix Effect’
April 9, 2007 2:02 pmThe Eyes for Free, Render Ground and IRL bugfix
March 13, 2007 1:01 amLinkies: a collection
March 7, 2007 7:04 amA random collection of Second Life related www-links I think are worth checking out:
- SLtree.com - Tired of using search to find a nice sim to hang out? The grid is down and you want some first life reading material about second life? Second Life Tree is a directory that contains SLurls as well as ordinary ones.
My two favs? ‘Sightseeing & Adventure’ for exploring the Second Life and ‘Web Resources’ for when I don’t feel like bying extra bandwith. Codie & Vic, the Paradise Lost Club is listed, where is your CodeRedLounge? :d - Notabene-sl.com - If you need a Second Life contract ‘made official’ this is where you gol Nota Bene, a Second Live’s notary. ‘A Notary certifies signatures on documents. That is, it assures that a signature made on a document was indeed made by the avatar making it.’
Nota Bene also supplies model documents for building contracts, lease agreements, credentials, group statements, … Don’t expect to much of that, as there is no way to enforce the contract, but it can come on handy. If you have some free time (eg. the grid is down), you could also read this reflection on ‘The Rule of Law in Second Life’. - Avatar Toolbox - The Avatar Toolbox might not look slick, but it gives an easy to grasp explenation about what your avatar actually is and how to build a new one/mod one. That and a heap of links to other intersting avatar/building/clothing/… related tutorials. Refer newbs there, please! (Ow, and they give the most understandable information about invisiprims I’ve read until now.)
- AV UV templates - A part of Robin Wood Second Life Tutorials: Vector clothing templates!!! *cheers* Why didn’t I find these any sooner? Other interesting Tuts from Wood: easy way for creating alpha masks, lace (partly shine through) textures, … .
- Build (Cloth, Building, Script, …) - An overview of all tutorials Natalia Zelmanov has written on her blog until now. Amongst my favorites: Shirt Collars and Ties and Prim positioning.
Torley’s SLexicon - Just laughed my ass of with this one. I *heart* the whole blog, especially because of his humerous writing style and his way to put himself and other things into perspective, which he has proven again with this lexicon. If it was not for me suspecting him of enslaving tons of watermelon-elves in a giant factory and forcing them to create those awesome textures, I would beg her to move into my skybox. ;)
Kisa’s ‘Bokeh!’ Tutorial
February 27, 2007 2:31 am 
Bokeh! by Kisa Naumova
The lovely - and smart too! - Kisa Naumova proves that you don’t have to be completely sober to write a good Second Life photography tutorial about ‘Bokeh’.
Bokeh is derrived from the Japanese word for Blur - boke (ぼけ) - and is just another way to say ‘Out Of Focus / OOF’, ‘Short Depth of Field’ or ‘Lens Blur’.
I second the ‘Go! Go! Go, marching ants!’ ;)
