by Monk Cherry | May 20, 2015 | PS4SL, Tutorial
Are you tired of your Second Life snapshots looking like junk? Yes? Good, because I’m tired of looking at your junk-ass pictures! Ok, seriously, they’re not THAT bad, but they could be better. This is the first in what I hope is a long series of tutorials to take you from Zero to Hero in Photoshop. Keep this in mind: These are not tutorials on how to take better snapshots INSIDE Second Life. Stillsky and I assume that you are already familiar with and somewhat comfortable using, at the very least, the basic sky and Windlight settings. These tutorials are designed to enhance well-taken snapshots, nothing more! Why the tutorials series, guys? Great question! Stillsky and I don’t agree on a lot of things when it comes to Photoshop, but the one thing we do seem to agree on is that the internet is inundated with overly-complex and bloated tutorials that take a million steps to accomplish things that could easily have taken 5 or fewer steps. And while hard drive space and memory is cheap enough to come by, and most people seem to be rocking decent enough computers to handle heavy files inside Photoshop, it still seems silly to go ham when you really don’t have to. Our goal is to show you ways to achieve great results in as simple a way as possible with as few steps as possible. Cross-Processing To understand cross-processing, it helps to know regular processing first! Once upon a time, cameras used film. When exposed to light via camera, film would capture the image invisibly. The film would then need to...
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