Amrys is taking over :O

I sort of saw this coming, but I'm almost always in RP mode now. Watch out, might start a diary for Amrys! Haha... I tend to try to think in character when I'm playing, so it's easy to do that right after an RP session.

So, what's happened...
She's inquired about joining catwalkers and intends to do so. OOC, I've submitted the application and am just waiting to hear back. Excitement!

I made a new shirt (twice, plus a second version of it that I didn't upload), which is grey with blue stars and says "звёзды" ("stars") on it. Amrys wears it under her jacket. It's a little tacky, but the idea is that it actually shows off her color a little better (eventually she WILL take off the jacket! But I'm so cold IRL that I don't want her to, it'll make *me* cold!) and since it's grey, I can give it a slight color without messing it up (as long as I'm careful of the stars), so if it clashes when it first uploads [it did], then I'm fine :) I like uploading grey things and coloring them in world.

The problem is... I decided to try making a new set of ears using this method and a hair texture I had made, so that the inner ear color would be slightly different. No luck. I forgot that you can't have different colors on one object, just different textures. So I'll have to color out of world and bring it back in if I'm going to do that with just one prim. Which means I'll stick with the ears that I bought.

I think I'll start posting stores and stuff that I like, but right now I'm a little short on time on the posting and don't want to log in to look up the slurls. I know I'll be on too long if I do :O

Fun with photography!
If you didn't know, in Second Life you can take a picture twice in order to get a more "realistic" look. First take the picture with color, then with depth. Avatars are always in the foreground with depth (from what I've seen), so it's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
Then layer it in photoshop or similar program with the depth layer over the color in screen, linear dodge, or exclusion (I used exclusion, but all of those worked; exclusion just brought out the color best in the picture that I did this to first). Save as a jpg, gif, or png... one of the standard formats, and you're good :D

Here's one I did just now:

exclusion


screen


linear dodge

They're kind of small, but you can see slight differences. Exclusion is the "foggiest" (and probably most appropriate for a scene of someone sitting high above Midian). Linear dodge lets the most color through from the background.
If you wanted to emphasize the background more, there are ways to do this too; never fear ;)

Anyway, I'm out of time to post (curse blogger's slow upload! I should just use that flickr account), so...

See you on #2!

~Ameretat