Sagadin

Definitely hair. Can't even get myself to get rid of old freebie flexi hair that I will never wear! That and chokers and collars which I have a ton of -- very helpful for covering up neck seams. Yes that's why they have accumulated.

Or, a little later, a "people who have blocked me" list...

she never wore shoes when

complete with stairway and sold

, not Angus the boat builder

anything not burnt to a

One of my favorite party dresses is the Claudia from Gaall. It has a HUD with a dozen or so interesting texture and color variations. I've had it for a while and it is a go to tight dress.

Here's another quick tutorial on using layer masks which is very useful for applying effects to only part of an image. 1. Start out with a duplicate layer -- not strictly necessary but I find it helpful to do this since then I can change its opacity to "turn down" the overall effect of the new layer. 2. Apply an effect to your new layer. You can use a filter or change the colors or whatever you want. I am using the "glow blur" effect from the GMIC plugin set of add-on filters. 3. That's a nice effect but I do want my face to be a bit less blurry, so I'll add a layer mask. This will allow me to "cut holes" in the effect by painting on it with black. Right click on the top layer and choose "add layer mask." 4. The default layer mask is "white" or fully opaque. If you choose black instead the new layer will be completely transparent and you can "paint" the effect back in selectively using a white paint tool instead. Make sure to click "Add" in the layer mask dialogue box. 5. Choose a tool to paint black with. Here I am using the blend tool and its bi-linear gradient option which will create a black stripe fading to white on both edges. Click on the image and drag then release to set the two points defining the gradient. Dragging at an angle angles the gradient. If you don't like what you see just click again and you'll get a new gradient on the mask. 6. Here's the result. You can see the black stripe I made in the mask next to the top layer on the right of the screen. You can use brushes or any other way of painting black on the layer mask to poke through it as you like. Just paint directly on the image, making sure that the layer mask is active by clicking on that little white box next to the layer with the mask. If you switch black and white in your color palette you can keep the mask opaque in the center and fade it off towards the edges of your image. Have fun!

and then stole him again

To check your script induced drag you can get a cheap script meter. Rez it where you live dress up and then click it to see if you might be adding too much to lag with too many scripts. Just search the MP for "script meter" for some options.

Big hair day!

remains a mystery deeper than

anarchist effort to overthrow the

precious to waste on a

than using too much hot

and Alf had eaten all

Feeling a little bit devilish!

Click on your name up top and then choose "Account settings" in the dropdown. Then you'll see a button on the left called "Signature." If you click that you'll see a way to edit your own signature and way to turn on other people's signatures.

There are a bunch of great resources on SL photography out on the web. Strawberry Singh has some great video tutorials on SL photography on her blog. Over at Kultivate Magazine's blog Myra Wildmist has a number of blog entries on photography that you might find helpful. And then googling this just turned up another site that has a number of links to various blogs and vlogs: http://www.bvnsl.com/photography-tutorials/ And do check out flickr as well if you are not there already -- there's so much SL photography there to awe and inspire you forever! Sometimes it gets a bit overwhelming seeing all of the amazing talent there, but it can also help you to find your own unique style and approach! Have fun! ETA: @LittleMe Jewell Did you mean Backdrop Cove? That is a great backdrop spot that is less laggy than Backdrop City, well at least until everyone finds it... And they do allow you to rez objects there I believe.

And of course GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix."

For those who use GIMP instead of PS I just started a thread in the Art, Music, Photography sub-forum as a place to exchange tips on enhancing images. One technique I find is really helpful for making images more vibrant and less flat is described there. Have a look and add some tricks of your own if you are so inclined! It's here:

I thought it might be nice to exchange tips on using GIMP to enhance photos. I know that there are various tutorials out there on the web but SL specific ones might be useful here. I'll start with a few screen shots showing a technique I use all the time for making colors more vibrant on otherwise "flat" photos. I selected a rather dull looking photo to start just to give you a sense of how the technique works. I learned this technique from a video I have since lost track of a couple of years ago. First start out by adding a DUPLICATE LAYER to your rather dull shot: Next change the new layer's MODE to OVERLAY: From the COLORS menu select CURVES (note how dark your image looks with the top layer in overlay mode -- not to worry the next step fixes that): Adjust the color curve as you see fit by clicking on the diagonal line and dragging it around. This affects only the color levels of the overlay layer. It may take some trial and error to find a balance that you like. But you can see how much better the original image now looks. All of the colors end up much more alive and vibrant. Make sure you click OK when you are done . You can easily see the difference with and without the overlay by clicking on the eye icon which turns on and off each layer. If you like you can adjust the opacity of the overlay layer to moderate the changes -- less opacity means more of the original image shows through. Well that's a simple trick to enhance photos. Anyone have other techniques to share?

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Love this look on you Talli!