The ‘Show your Avie Week’ starts today. It’s a great way to show us how hawt you are or to get an idea of the different looks of your friends. It’s a fun thing to participate in and an easy way to get to know some new avatars.

And if you don’t buy that, just believe me when I say any reason for snapshotting is a good reason! ;)

How do I show my Avie?

• Boot the Second Life client, find yourself a nice spot and take a snapshot (that brings out your best or worst features).
• Fire up Photoshop/PaintshopPro/Paint/Flash/Fireworks/… and add your full Second Life name to your selfportrait. If you don’t know how to do that, drop a comment here, I’ll try to help you out.
• Login to your Flickr account. / Create a (free) Flickr account.
• Upload the photograph, and make sure to add “*firstname* *lastname*” to the photograph’s tags. You can repeat your name in your selfportrait’s description too if you want to.
• If you’re not a member of the Flickr Second Life group, become one. Just press ‘Join this group’. Don’t worry, membership is free and they won’t send you annoying emails. ;)
• Go to the picture you have just uploaded and choose ’send to group’ and then ‘Second Life’ from the drop down menu.
• On the same picture page go to ‘all sizes’, click ‘thumbnail’ and copy the html code you get.
• Go to the Show your Avatar Week topic and paste the html code you just copied and press ‘post now’ to submit your reply. Feel free to add some text about your Avie if you want.

If you have multiple avatars, nobody will stop you from showing them all. Please do remember, the Second Life Group on Flickr is PG, which means you can’t post any full frontal nudity! (We could consider doing a ‘Show your Pr0n Avie’ Week @ the Second Life [Mature] group? ;))

This is mine:

Tags: avatar, flickr, portrait, snapshot

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