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Update: Second Style #5 is out!
By Celebrity Trollop | October 30, 2006
Update [CT]: Second Style #5 is now available for download from our website and from our in world vendors! Just in the nick of time for Halloween. Enjoy!
Second Style #5 should out in just a day or two. We have a lot of good stuff packed into this issue including Halloween costume fashion (with some really amazing visuals by Scarlet Singer), a photolayout feature on animal prints shot on location in two of Second Life’s most lush jungle sims, plus an interview with cover girl Rebel Hope. Additionally, we have Antonia Marat as this month’s Fresh Faces designer, a designer’s tip from Alaska Metropolitan about creating effective ads for your merchandise and some stunning photos of Gala Phoenix in our Inventory Raid feature. All this and much much more, coming soon!
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Just a heads up that you have Antonia’s name spelled as Antonio on the cover.
Posted by: Jonquille on October 26th, 2006 at 7:09 pmThanks Jonquille. It’s been fixed :)
Posted by: HeatherDawn on October 26th, 2006 at 9:13 pm*phew* :) that’s nice to know, HeatherDawn. i dont want to be no antonio! :D
look forward to reading the mag, as usual. keep up the great work!
Posted by: antoniA on October 27th, 2006 at 2:59 amrofl @ Antonio, I came to tell you but Jonquille did I see, whew! That was funny anyways :D Male version of Antie, mmmh, would be sexy! Can’t wait to view the content of this issue.
Posted by: elka on October 27th, 2006 at 7:48 amVery nice as always :) Loved the tips on ad creation
Posted by: Shuryu Musashi on October 31st, 2006 at 12:22 amWell, I just have to say this was a good issue. I like the new formatting that you did (i.e. the table of contents) and such. Like the new pic of you, Celeb!! I do have one thing though that stood out. The Halloween pics were really hard to see the outfits you were featuring. I’m not saying that the art wasn’t great..because it was. I love seeing how people can weild PS to their will and produce such awesome digital art….but the outfits were hard to see.
I like that you guys went artsy with those photos, but perhaps maybe just making the background artsy or something would be better. I really couldn’t tell what that Willow Vampire outfit looked like (or I wouldn’t have known had I not already seen the blog post about it).
Posted by: Elika on October 31st, 2006 at 2:43 amThis was a good issue, I liked pretty much the same aspects as Elika, and disliked the same.
Well not that I DISLIKED the pictures, I just found it a lil hard to view the outfits, I thought maybe my monitor was a bit dark lol.
The pictures were awesome though, great art, just not really great for my eyes at 7am! :D
Posted by: Willow on October 31st, 2006 at 2:56 amhehe yea the kind of pictures I do tend to be like that I guess, problem was I guess I went into it trying to make it artsy rather than what it should have been. *pout* Oh wells, I was asked to do piccies :D and I assumed that’s what it was for, thought I was meant to do artsy and not an ad, or I would have toned down.
Posted by: Scarlet Singer on October 31st, 2006 at 5:33 amGreat issue! I loved the interview with Rebel, she’s such a sweet person and a great designer.
Posted by: Torrid on October 31st, 2006 at 5:34 amI still see the old magazine even on that link i see magazine 4
Posted by: Wuvme Karuna on October 31st, 2006 at 9:36 ami see it now, had to press refresh on the site :D
Posted by: wuvme karuna on October 31st, 2006 at 9:46 amghostview on linux is having problems with it, I can view every other page (for example pages 10 and 12 but not 11) and don’t get a page listing( that I can use to jump between pagezs) error message is:
**** Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table.
Posted by: CronoCloud Creeggan on October 31st, 2006 at 11:47 pm**** The file has been damaged. This may have been caused
**** by a problem while converting or transfering the file.
**** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data.
Heyyy! Just as everyone mentionned, great new issue, same thing I disliked. Well once again just like they said not disliked, just not has its place in a fashion mag I think. Scarlet’s artsy stuff looks good on a SL Profile pic, but I think in a magazine it makes it a tad hard for us to see the product. Not sure :/ Fashion - Art - Fashion… Come to think of it, it DOES go together LOL.. Does look good too, that’s not questionable :P Bah I don’t know really… Anyways, once again overall nice issue, good interviews, nice ideas, I only had 3 points, the 1st one being the artsy pics, the 2nd being too many advertising IN BETWEEN the stuff. I found it distracting (not to say annoying) that in between the sections lessay for Costume Crazy, for each page of costume there was a full promo page as well. I think it would be cooler to do like RL mags like Vogue or Elle and have a full section dedicated to a certain topic and then a few ads, then another section, and on and on, next time! :D Last one is neither a rant nor a point really but just a note to let you know that you forgot to write the credits of outfits shown in Style Girl. :)
Posted by: elka on November 1st, 2006 at 5:11 pmhttp://membres.lycos.fr/parenthes/collages/vanessa_chanel1.jpg
Or maybe some Gucci?
^-^ ty for the compliments though all of you!!.
Posted by: Scarlet Singer on November 2nd, 2006 at 3:45 amScarlet,
I see the point you’re making. I honestly truly feel that your artwork in this issue was amazing. It truly is amazing the kind of work you can create with photo shop.
And just as in your link that you posted art does play a major role in fashion. Perhaps as a lead in page or maybe an article about fashion or maybe even the cover of the magazine, but to showcase the fashion for fashion sake…raw photos of the product is ideal (to me). Like when I read Vogue or In Style, they have artsy backgrounds, artsy inset photos, but what always shines through and clearly are the fashion items. This makes it much easier for the reader to see what it is and say “hey, I like that. I think I’ll buy it.”
Now of course my whole opinion/point would be irrelavent if this is the direction Second Style is now deciding to go (to be a more artsy form of a magazine). But from previous issues I was under the impression that they are showcasing the fashion in hopes to bring attention to it and to also encourage readers to go out and get it. But that could just be me totally missing the mark.
Again, I’ll say that your art work was nothing short of amazing. The Phantom of the Opera one was so beautiful.
Posted by: Elika on November 2nd, 2006 at 11:48 amnono I see your point, I agree with you completely, I wasn’t trying to say I didn’t silly :P. I never took anything you said as negative since it wasn’t at all, ty for the compliment, yea my fav was the phantom one hehe. You are right, I went way too dark on the canimal one. It’s really my first time doing any fashion picture so I apologize to Secondstyle and to anyone who read it if I somehow ruined the effect of trying to sell the outfit. I’m only like used to making profile pictures and well artsy stuff for school mostly :).
Posted by: Scarlet Singer on November 2nd, 2006 at 12:04 pmI tried my best and I guess I made a booboo, so sorry to all that felt I screwed up ; ;.
It was my call to ask Scarlet to do the “artsy” costume pictures. I approved them.
And this is something that I wanted to experiment with editorially and artistically. I think we will probably do it again at some point, but probably more as “spot color” rather than as a main feature.
Thank you very much for your feedback.
Posted by: Celebrity Trollop on November 3rd, 2006 at 10:26 amCongrats on another enjoyable issue!
Odd that even with the latest bout of SL-burnout, I still looked forward to reading the latest issue. You’re obviously doing something right.
Keep up the great work and all of the obvious effort you put into it. It’s very much appreciated.
Posted by: Jonquille on November 3rd, 2006 at 3:21 pmDid you redo it with different PDF encoder? Because it works now in ghostview/gsview.
Thank you very much.
Posted by: CronoCloud Creeggan on November 27th, 2006 at 10:48 am