Tutorial: Fitting Mesh

The past few days I’ve been tweaking my shape to get it to fit a particular tank top from Jane. After awhile I did give up and trashed it. Lesson learned: Demo mesh prior to buying! But the story doesn’t end there.

I shared my frustration with Zyrra Falcone since now one of the newest releases from ColdLogic doesn’t fit me either. These two brands always have had fit me so well and never needed to try a demo. So what changed?! She and I looked at my shape and found the answer after a few minutes.

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Pinterest

I’m now on Pinterest! As you can tell by the above screencap of my profile, I’m really new to this site. There isn’t much of a learning curve and its quite fun seeing all the pins and repins especially from the Secondlife residents. Don’t worry you’ll catch on to the lingo quick. Please feel free to add and follow me.

Take a moment to read Terms of Service before joining Pinterest or any site. Never pin (upload/add) photos that are not your own without permission. If you would like to protect your own Flickr photos, here’s a little handy guide to follow.

Add your Pinterest profile links in the comments! <3

Luna Jubilee’s Windlight: Springscape

I’m changing up my photostudio to Spring. Its been winter long enough for me. Thankfully my store sim has changed over to green and soon will start blooming.

With the actual season change coming up in real life, all my photos will soon change to more warm tones. Also, my backdrops will change to the florals and soft lighting. Like I said in a prior windlight post, here’s my brand new windlight setting, “Springscape”, and the photo in the raw form.

To download my new windlight setting: Click Here

Every setting that I share can be found under Luna Jubilee’s Windlight Settings in my Blog Boot Camp tutorials.

Also, if you’d like to join Dropbox, click this link we both can grow our storage space. The more space I have the more Windlight Settings I can cram in there!

Enjoy <3

Luna Jubilee’s Windlight Setting: Snowday

I’ve created a new Windlight Setting for snowy day scenes. Also, to help find my collection of windlight settings easier, there’s a new category on my blog’s sidebar.

Download and use my new setting: Luna Jubilee’s Snowday

Feel free to browse Luna Jubilee’s Blog Boot Camp for several of my tutorials for photography set up and other topics. I’m hoping in the coming few weeks to expand the current library. You’re always welcomed to IM me if you have a topic for me to cover.

My photos were taken on Edloe. If you’re to wander the sim or any of the five islands, please be respectful of its residents.

To see the first photo of me in its raw form, click here. That is the true version of my WL setting with no photoshop other than a crop.

These photos were taken using Firestorm.

First Time User: Firestorm

I was a pretty diehard user of the LL viewer. I’ve never saw the need to swap viewers for everyday use or just for photos. That is until Firestorm was released. I’m really not a reviewer of Third Party Viewers (TPVs). Honestly, I rely on Express for pretty much all my technology stuff from guiding me to the best computer for SL to telling me about viewers. This past week we’ve been yapping about what the new TPVs have to offer. Since he gets technical in his posts, I thought  I’d take a quick look, give my impressions of some of the current viewers and show what’s important to me. This will be done in a series in my Blog Boot Camp section.

Firestorm
For the few minutes I tooled around in the preferences, I easily created specific personalized settings. Its a nice-to-have ability but that’s not what gets me to change viewers. What does though is the photography settings and ease of interface.

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Luna Jubilee’s Windlight Setting: Bright Sparkly

Its been some time since I’ve done a Blog Boot Camp post. My last post showcases the windlight option I used most then. With a few viewer changes since, here’s my newly updated setting. I use this for pretty much all my photos and singles vendors.

Since I use photoshop to boost colors be sure to see the before and after photo on flickr. This will show the original photo coloring.

To download this Windlight Setting, click here: Luna Jubilee – Bright Sparkly

Enjoy!

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Luna Jubilee’s Windlight Setting: Shadows

Over the past few months I’ve been asked what windlight setting I use for my photos. Several have commented looking for a brighter setting that still keeps the warmth of the photograph. I keep it very simple and clean. You’re welcome to download the setting for yourself using this link: Luna Jubilee’s Windlight Setting

If you need help adding this setting to your computer after you’ve unzipped the file, check out Torley’s tutorial.

For other photography related questions like how to take high-resolution photos or depth of field, check out my Blog Boot Camp. Its full of different tutorials for bloggers and photographers.

Also, if you’d like to join Dropbox, click this link so we both can grow our storage space.

Enjoy!

<3 Luna
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BootCamp: Depth of Field

A day or two ago, Express plurked about a commit to the Mesh viewer related to Depth of Field. He was really excited about it, but I didn’t really pay attention to him because he has a habit of geeking about the silliest things.

Unsurprisingly, he did a little more research on his own and suggested we put together a tutorial related to depth of field. Since he did all the hard work himself, I told him I’d post whatever he wrote about it: read more

BootCamp: Photography Preparation

Express thought the the bootcamp category needed a little love so he convinced me to work with him on a huge post about taking pictures.

Most of photography is about the preparation and post-processing. This guide will focus on the part of the preparation half that is common to just about all pictures.

Advanced Menu

Ctl-Alt-D (or Cmd-Alt-D for Apple folk).

Torley can explain this better than me, so feel free to watch this video.

If you’re on the older 1.23 viewers, take a look at this video.

This menu gives access to unsupported viewer features. None of these settings are necessary nor do they affect picture quality, but I tend to use them just to make life easier

• Disable Camera Constraints – check to cam freely. You can perv on your neighbors three sims over now.
• Quiet Snapshots to Disk – check to turn off the camera’s click-whirr. Makes your perving less noticable.
• Hi-res Snapshots – check to make your snapshots to disk 4x their regular size. We’ll talk about this more later.

Remember, this menu isn’t supported so be careful.

Basic Graphics Settings

Changing your graphics settings under preferences is generally a no-brainer.

Which of the following four sounds best:

• Low
• Medium
• High
• Ultra

If you didn’t say “Ultra”, try again. read more

Blog Boot Camp

Many of you know Express and I share ownership of ShopaholicFeed.com. Typically on a daily basis I read the feed to catch up on blogs and of course for making sure the feeds are running smoothly. Lately I’ve been finding more and more blogs with low quality photos. Its not just the newer bloggers either which is surprising! If you need help improving your photo quality or not sure if you’re photos are high resolution, check out one of my tutorials covering this very topic.

Hopefully in the future I’ll be adding to the Blog Boot Camp with more tutorials. For now, topics covered include photo sizes to fit your blog theme, photo ratios for inworld use, and general blogging tips. If you would like for me to cover more topics and have some topic suggestions, please drop me a comment here or inworld.

Thanks!
Luna Jubilee

(BTW-Blogs with low resolution photos are typically declined/removed. Now I’ll be strictly enforcing this due to the increased complaints we’ve received. TOS Details)