I love challenges that requires NO PHOTOSHOP! I’m forever amazed by how nice residents in SL can capture photographs with just the in-world tools available to everyone. I remember when we didn’t have Windlight, Shadows, or Depth of Field!! I think all of these things make it so easy to capture reasonably nice looking photographs with little effort. If you’re up for a challenge, check out Unedited!
For the image above, I modified one of Torley’s Windlight settings and enabled Depth of Field.
This is a blogging/photography challenge put together by Harlow Heslop. Your challenge is to take a completely unedited photograph in Second Life. You are allowed to use any windlight you please, but you aren’t allowed to use HUDs, photoshop, or any other altering/editing software to enhance/decorate your photograph. How beautiful will your photo be? Time to find out!
I read about a new Avatar Welcome Pack and got really excited. What’s this? New avatars? Is Second Life finally offering us something visually appealing? Anything would be better than Senra. Curious to know what’s included, I began digging around and stumbled upon the Virtual Bloke blog (Second Life New Avatar Welcome Packs – It’s time to check your inventory library, folks!). Unfortunately, the Avatar Welcome Pack was quickly removed from the Library; Second Life stated, “These items are in the final stages of QA, but we’re not quite ready to unveil all the details just yet.”
UPDATE: The Avatar Welcome Pack is back in the Library now.
I wanted to know what’s in the welcome pack, even though I don’t really need it. So, my friend Sasy suggested that I check the beta grid since the updates there tend to lag behind the main grid. Boom! I found it on the beta grid.
Avatar Welcome Pack – Male
First impressions? It’s okay. It’s definitely better than Senra, but it feels limited. This pack includes a very lite body and a very lite mesh head; however, they are wearable right out of the box. There are also some hair and clothing items included from various brands. I’m currently wearing everything as provided, without any customization. When this goes live on the main grid, I think residents will enjoy the opportunity to mix and match these heads and bodies with more items they already own to create something cuter.
I can’t wait to see how this impacts the new user experience in Second Life. It’s quite intriguing that Second Life is focusing exclusively on human avatars as part of this new user experience. Even though I am a human avatar all the time, I truly appreciated the grid’s diversity, which included animal avatars and various non-human avatars, among others.
UPDATE! The set back eyes are because I didn’t reset skeleton. I just figured that the avatar came like that, lol! So imagine these avatars without the set back eyes. 🙂
69 has new hair!!! The shop is impossible to find in search, so you’ll have to look up Kumii Yoshikawa’s profile and tp from there or use this link here.
The store is group-only access right now, so I had to pay $300L to join the Sixty Nine group. That sucked and I normally would not have paid this fee to join since I’m desperately out of group space, but I really wanted to check out the new hairstyles! If you’re already a member, lucky you.. if not, pay the fee or wait a few days for it to be public access again!
Now onto the hairstyles! There are so many new vendors up on the wall that it was overwhelming. But I think I have it sorted out. There are some new hairstyles with different bangs, and then there are hairstyles with scarves or earmuffs attached. Between the scarf-styles, you can choose between two different scarf choices. There’s not much difference between them so just buy what you like best!
Here I am wearing the Intense hairstyle (with color changeable earmuffs) and the Terre hairstyle. They’re SO similar, I don’t know why this was sold as two separate hairstyles instead of one but I paid $300L per style.
The scarf hairstyles are sold by bangs type and by scarf style. I am wearing the Verte 04 (I love the bangs!) and the scarf on Verte 04 wraps around once. I’m also wearing the Hiris 03 style, with no bangs and the scarf wraps around twice.
So there you have it.. there are lots of hair options to choose from!
How cute is this new Sailor Romper from Katat0nik? There’s even matching Sailor Velcro Mary Janes! I have such a love for things that matches, especially shoes & clothes, or clothes and accessories! Speaking of accessories, if you have the Sailor Bikini that I blogged last year, the parasol matches this outfit perfectly.
Truth is having a hair sale! Now is the perfect time to pick up this hairstyle that I’m wearing, and a few others that you’ve had your eye on!
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel – Sora (Peach)
Truth – Jemima (Swedish)
Katat0nik – (Pink/Average) Sailor Romper
Katat0nik – Pink Sailor Velcro Mary Jane
SLink – Mesh Hands (av)
One of the recurring claims about JuicyBomb is that Gogo courts controversy in order to build traffic on her blog. It’s a meaningless, fact-free cliche that is repeated and repeated because it makes people feel better for having a smaller readership than she does. It says, my readership may be smaller, but I am a better person. It’s also not true.
Thank you Cajsa for this wonderful post about my blog! If you guys want to read the entire post, check it out on Shopping Cart Disco.
I’m wearing the gorgeous Kitty Sequined Body Suit from The Secret Store. This suit includes a belt with ruffles attachment; it is such a cute extra detail, something that always makes TSS items so wonderful. I really want a pack of skirts attachment so I can wear it with this body suit all the time!
Exile also released the Rare Bird style at C88; this short curly hairstyle is adorable. I am also wearing the Bettine Heels from Ingenue, also available at C88. Get my entire look at the event!
What I’m Wearing:
Exile – Rare Bird @C88
The Secret Store – Kitty Sequined Bodysuit, Belt (Moss) @C88
The Secret Store – Polka Tights (White)
Ingenue – Bettine Heels (Butter) @C88
Anc – A Royal Orv (Gold)
Paper Couture – Jade Earrings, Necklace (Egg Shell)
Gogo, I’ve got a question 🙂 Do you know any good SL-blogs about what’s new/happens in SL? Like Ruthed was, kind of or some “gossip” blog? But less.. gossipy? Haha, I dunno, but a blog that keeps us up to date? 🙂
Nice challenge, Second Life is developing greatly and the introduction of the windlight was a great development because it does transform one and most times you wont need photoshop to do the work.
i don’t even know how to photoshop *except for using the different filters which is mega obvious* and maybe playing with stamp type things, i wish i knew how to do all the cool things in PS. i like raw stuff, at least i can compare it to my own work haha. cool group!
I like raw shots because a) I think it’s MORE of a challenge to find that right spot and right angle and b) it showcases SL’s in-grid graphics. It advertises for SL everytime.
i think photoshop is over used….not only in SL but in everything….and morphing to me is nice but when i am in SL….i like using my avitar….check out my flickr shots…..
the only thing is…my graphic card is limited on this laptop so i am not able to use the shawdow effects…..but i do like the different windlight settings….and being creative…there is one set of pics that i have just done …with a photo booth in SL….love the poses….
Gogo, I’ve got a question 🙂 Do you know any good SL-blogs about what’s new/happens in SL? Like Ruthed was, kind of or some “gossip” blog? But less.. gossipy? Haha, I dunno, but a blog that keeps us up to date? 🙂
Nice challenge, Second Life is developing greatly and the introduction of the windlight was a great development because it does transform one and most times you wont need photoshop to do the work.
So glad you participated! Your photo turned out awesome! <3
i don’t even know how to photoshop *except for using the different filters which is mega obvious* and maybe playing with stamp type things, i wish i knew how to do all the cool things in PS. i like raw stuff, at least i can compare it to my own work haha. cool group!
I like raw shots because a) I think it’s MORE of a challenge to find that right spot and right angle and b) it showcases SL’s in-grid graphics. It advertises for SL everytime.
i think photoshop is over used….not only in SL but in everything….and morphing to me is nice but when i am in SL….i like using my avitar….check out my flickr shots…..
the only thing is…my graphic card is limited on this laptop so i am not able to use the shawdow effects…..but i do like the different windlight settings….and being creative…there is one set of pics that i have just done …with a photo booth in SL….love the poses….