Flickr has a ton of Second Life™ images. Today: 2,901,249 images. Some are pretty bad, others REALLY kinky, and some amazingly gorgeous. For the people interested in SL Photography William Weaver has made 12 video tutorials. They are about using the Firestorm Viewer’s Photo and Camera Tools and controlling Windlight.

There is a well thought out design for these tools. The tutorial shown here shows how to take advantage of the tools and use them efficiently. Subsequent tutorials show how to use the various aspects of SL lighting to create great images.

Phototools Tutorial: 01 – Interface Introduction

This is a 4-year old starting tutorial giving an overview of the Photo Tools. The tutorials advance over those 4-years to the 12^th tutorial streamed live a week ago.

Note: 2020-05 – Some of these tutorials were taken down then later put back, and now some are ‘private’. It seems to be changing. I can’t predict which will appear and which will disappear. Good luck.

• Phototools Tutorial: 02 – Windlight Tab 4,727 views – 4 years ago
• Phototools Tutorial: 03 – Light Tab 3,793 views – 4 years ago
• Phototools Tutorial: 04 – DoF/Glow Tab 3,976 views – 4 years ago
• Phototools Tutorial: 05 – General Render along with Interface Aids Tabs 1,895 views – 4 years ago
• Phototools Tutorial: 06 – Cam Tab and Camera Tools Floater 2,294 views – 4 years ago
• Phototools Tutorial: 07 – Windlight Sky and Water Preset Floaters 2,545 views – 4 years ago
• Phototools Tutorial: 08 – Shadow Clarity, Ambient Occlusion and Reflections Quality 5,139 views – 3 years ago
• Phototools Tutorial 09 – Making Windlights 137 views – Streamed 2 weeks ago
• Phototools Tutorial 10 – Ambient Occlusion and Basic Set Design 257 views – Streamed 2 weeks ago
• Phototools Tutorial 11 – Point and Projection Lights 253 views – Streamed 2 weeks ago
• Phototools Tutorial 12 – Making Black and White Photos 201 views – Streamed 1 week ago

I’ve covered some of these as individual tutorials over the years.

William Weaver also has a Flickr channel plus, a marketplace store, and additional art is on Issuu. Numerous SL bloggers have covered his art at various times.