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Second Life: Photo Backlighting

2018/11/16 by Nalates Urriah

If you have a Flickr account, you know how popular photography is in Second Life. So, photo-how-to’s are popular too. Then there are the peeps with a bit of exhibitionist in their blood posting in, How does your avatar look today?

Hamlet just posted an article with a couple of video tutorials on backlighting in Second Life. See Cassie’s Clips: How To Use Backlighting & Projectors.

Hamlet is featuring videos by Cassie Middles (Flickr URL). The video shows how to use Cynefin’s Projection Lighting Kit (L$650) (Video below). Mixed in is how to use your Windlight settings and adjust the sun to get the lighting you want.

Cassie also made a video showing how to use the resulting image and improve it. Below.

Photoshop CC 2019

2018/10/18 by Nalates Urriah

A new version of Photoshop is out. Here is a video explaining 20 of the more interesting new features. They include mention of a couple of performance improvements, which I don’t think much of… but, I will pay attention when I try the tasks next.

Some basic key operation has changed. Undo (Ctrl-Z) is one. I think the new behaviors are more logical. But, I will have to unlearn the old ways now committed to muscle memory. The changes affect a number of things. So, I’ll be bumping into them.

And there are sort of small changes that will make using PS much nicer.

How to find Cheap, Good Stuff in the SL Marketplace…

2018/05/25 by Nalates Urriah

Ryan Schultz has published a little tutorial on his site, Second Life Steals, Deals, and Freebies: How to Find Free and Inexpensive Items on the SL Marketplace. I think it is a handy tutorial on how the SL Marketplace search features works… I use the word ‘works’ loosely. Using the left-column of filters makes finding stuff … Read more

Adobe Spark – Free

2018/04/05 by Nalates Urriah

Adobe has released a new free web tool, Spark. It is an editor/creative tool for those wanting to quickly put creative things on Instagram, Flickr, YouTube, and other social media. The video shows how it is used as a video editor. From the video, this image shows that video is one of the three primary … Read more

Blender as a Video Editor?

2018/04/04 by Nalates Urriah

Need a free video editor? Learn Blender Video Editing in 35-minutes. This is the video that shows you how to set Blender up for video editing. Even if you are not interested in using Blender for video editing, check this out. I learned a bunch about setting up the user interface. He is going really … Read more

Second Life Forum Cover Photos

2018/03/28 by Nalates Urriah

I spend time helping people in the SL Forum, mostly in Answers. A question came in about making a Cover Photo… a what?

When logged into the forum open your profile. There are a couple of ways to do that. Up in the upper right click your name and select Profile. Or on any forum page where you have posted click your profile image.