I'd like to use our time today to show you a bit about the Freeze Frame checkbox in the Second Life Snapshot tool. This little checkbox has saved me a WORLD of headache, allowed me to catch exactly the frame I want, made it easy to catch my avatar in a blink or smile, and many other things.

What You'll Need For This Tutorial:

1. Second Life's Snapshot Tool

2. About 5 minutes!

3. Patience. Remember, practice makes perfect.

A couple of things I'll be showing you in this tutorial is how to use the freeze frame (where it is, how to turn it on and off, etc), an explination of how to use freeze frame to catch your avatar in a blink (another method is slowing animations, but I'm not going to cover that in this tute), and demonstrating the effect of freeze frame on moving prims and particle effects.

Using Freeze Frame to Capture a Blink:

1. Open the Snapshot tool and tick the Freeze Frame tickbox.

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There are endless ways to optimize Windlight settings for SL photography, not to mention many tutorials for preferred settings and premade Windlight skies to download (Torley's skies being a perfect example). Today, I'd like to share two of my favorite Windlight settings with you for when I take in-world photos. One will be most useful for general picture taking when patrolling the grid, the second will be useful for those of you who are seeking to take pictures using a green-screen skin (which can later be removed).

Things you will need before beginning this tutorial:

I apologize in advance for this being a Photoshop-specific tutorial! I am still very much a GIMP newbie, but, as soon as I learn the lay of the land for how to do this process in GIMP, you bet I'll be posting another tute for it! For now, Photoshoppers, here we go!

Today, we'll be learning how to combine a depth snapshot with a color snapshot to create the illusion of "depth of field" in your Second Life snapshots!

Let me define the term "depth of field" quick, just to give a frame of reference for those of you scratching your heads right now! The term "depth of field" refers to the portion of a photograph (or in this case, snapshot) that will be in-focus (i.e. not blurry!). What we are going to do here is make an attempt at mimicing real life photography by combining a depth shot with a color snapshot to immitate depth.

An example of a real life depth shot (we will be trying to mimic this effect with this tutorial):

Welcome to the first of what I hope will be many tutorials to come. Seeing as how this is the question I get asked the most, I thought it only fitting to begin this weekly blogging with a green screen removal tutorial.You will need three things for this lesson:

1. A snapshot taken on a greenscreen (you may download the one I will be working on, or you may set up your own green screen - instructions below - and take one for yourself to work on).

2. Photoshop or GIMP.

3. Patience.

Ready? Great! Let's get started. First, let's learn how to create our own in-world green screen. For those of you who would like to skip ahead, I have provided two seperate tutorials in this post - one will teach you how to remove the green screen in Photoshop, the other will explain the process in GIMP. Please select which you'd like to read: Photoshop | GIMP.

Setting up your own, one prim green screen in world; step-by-step:

Lucien Hervé (b. László Elkán) (August 7, 1910 – June 26, 2007) was a French-Hungarian photographer well known for his black and white photos of architecture. He was born in the city of Vasarhely in Hungary on August 7, 1910, but came to Paris in 1929 and earned French citizenship in 1938. During World War II he was captured by the Germans (at the Battle of Dunkirk), escaped, and became a member of the French Resistance under the name Lucien Hervé which he kept thereafter.

He was most famous for his collaboration with the architect Le Corbusier from 1949 to the architect's death in 1965. His black and white photos of Le Corbusier's buildings -- with their strong lights, shadows, and monumental sense of space -- are perhaps the most well known images of the architect's work. He has also worked with the architects Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Kenzo Tange, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer, Jean Prouvé, Bernard Zerfuss, and others.

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Gottfried Helnwein is a well known and prolific photographer and painter in real life- and one of the first to have his almost his entire body of work shown in one museum in SL. Disturbing, beautiful, controversial and technically stunning- this exhibit covers several decades of the artist's work and is a must-see for anyone interested in how real world artwork can be shown in the virtual realm.

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