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SL Photography – Places – Blogs

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Photographers need interesting places to photograph. SL has loads of them. I use NWN and now  Ysé Sliffeuse et Gloodeuse along with others to find interesting places. However, you may notice some of those cool photos don’t look like the place you see when you get there. It is not Photoshop that makes the difference. It can but, it is Windlight that makes a big difference.So if you have not explored Windlight, do so before your next photographic mission. And then there is the appearance and quality of images placed on one’s blog…

WordPress Upload via Word - JPG

I started noticing that some of my images looking sharp on my workstation look blurry on my blog. Eck! SO, whasup with that? Well here is a bit of an experiment. This first image is a JPG file pasted into Word and so nicely uploaded without any effort from me. Way easy. Good Word. Good WordPress.

Upload via direct WordPress upload
Upload via direct WordPress upload

Next I used WordPress to upload an image and place it in my blog. This is a bit more work but I have to edit the image display anyway, so not that much more.

Yse PNG Test - Via WordPress direct upload
Yse PNG Test - Via WordPress direct upload

I also wondered if it was a JPG thing. So, I used a PNG image. If you don’t know what JPG’s and PNG’s are… you must be new to digital photography. So, go read about them at Atalasoft.

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Dress Making and Color Matching

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Showing Prim and Clothes Color Mismatch

There are lots of tutorials on dress making. Yet, one of the things most have left out is color matching between prim clothes and … I guess AV clothes, the clothes one sees in the appearance menu. The image from Meara D shows the problem. Getting the two to match and blend together since Windlight has been a problem. While this may be old news to some of you, I just found it. What The Fug has a tutorial on just this problem. Also known as ‘WeHateWhatYourWearing’ blog. Snarky but fun.

I have loads of tight miniskirts (you know the ones) with a prim panel that does not match. Other prim skirts have the same problem. There is a fix. Even better there is a tutorial See Tinting Prims for Windlight.

There are lots of broken images on the page, at least for me. They are there, they just may not display. You can click most to see the larger image.

Ranking Second Life Blogs

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Ranking Second Life Blogs

Everyone with a blog is probably interested in where they fit into the scheme of things. For objective opinion see ArminasX Saiman’s Who’s The Biggest? Redux a post about a list of the top blogs for Second Life. Of course to get to the top of any list one must know what criteria are used for ranking. Saiman’s post explains how he came up with his list and some problems with Technorati’s ranking information. These are handy things to know, if one wants their blog to rank well and have lots of readers.

He found Technorati rankings have some problems and as I understand about 10% of the rankings are whacked. He put a bunch of work into preparing the list. Yet, he realizes and states it is not perfect and likely has omissions and mis-rankings. But, it is the authoritative list. And it went obsolete as it was being published. The blogscape changes that fast. So, if you’re not in the top 100 or 600 or whatever, give it a few minutes. Things will change.

Hello WordPress!

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This is my first WordPress blog. Way more things to look at here than at eBlogger. This should be an interesting learning experience. I am learning to setup Word 2007 to use with blogs. Lots of popups telling me they are going to send my ID/password to the blog… have to turn that off, annoying.

Well, I’ll be playing with this for a time…