Here’s a tip that I had never heard since tattoo eye makeup began, but which some others in the Fashion Emergency group knew of, and that I worked out for myself about a week ago:  it matters what order you put on your makeup in Second Life, just as it can in real life.  If [...]

Tanaquil Beaumont has written an Excellent Article about the latest hot topic to hit Second Life, mesh fashion.  Tanaquil gives the primary high and low points about what mesh clothing can do for the fashion industry in a clear, illustrated form that I found wonderfully helpful.  Read and like.  (If you’re on wordpress.com, you can [...]

The ever-gracious and ever-lovely Strawberry Singh has published a starter guide for Second Life newbies at her blog.  It’s a very useful item for someone trying to get their feet under them, and could even offer a few tips for us oldsters of 3 or more years’ duration in world (grin). Thanks to New World [...]

This new trick is available in the latest beta of Firestorm as well as a dev of the Linden viewer. Gidge links in her article to the original by evie, and then pleads for something also very useful — designers (at least some of them) using a single abbreviation “convention” when naming their items…. ===== [...]

Harper Beresford republished this today at A Passion for Virtual Fashion, taking it off the old FFL blog, and granted kind permission for me to republish this in full as well.  As we’re going through Accessory Fair right now, and Hair Fair, the really big shew of the summer (to me, at least [grin]) is [...]

How many remember the Master of Watermelons — or at least of the colors of watermelons in Second Life — Torley Linden?  Since I don’t read the Big Blog — also known as the Official Blogs — as often as I should these days, I’ve probably missed out on some of his excellent tutorials, both [...]

I’m throwing this open to the readers — in part because I’m hunting for new locations to use.  Where are the favorite places you like in Second Life that would make great photo backdrops?  I’m open to almost anything:  landscapes, castles, crofts and cottages, jazz clubs, even grunge hangouts.  They just have to be somewhere [...]

Want a trick to increase your traffic to blog articles or Flickr and Koinup photos?  Use Twitter and TweetMeme.  Almost everyone knows about Twitter by now, of course; and many Residents have a Twitter account.  (I do myself — Harper_G.)  And, if you’re writing a blog on wordpress.com, such as this one, you can set [...]

Cajsa Lilliehook at It’s Only Fashion writes about a trick I knew nothing about in the client — that you can edit and hide selected prims, making them invisible.  This is especially useful for fashion photography, of course; Cajsa is showing how she edits out tendrils of hair that were poking into her shoulders.  But [...]

I just spotted a new tutorial by everyone’s favorite watermelon-fascinated avatar, Torley Linden.  He focuses his camera on…well, on the camera.  Or, more specifically, the camera controls, especially if you do machinima.  From his brief writeup: Before Second Life Viewer 1.23, in Preference’s Input & Camera tab, there used to be Camera Transition Time and [...]