Tutorials

Worth A Thousand Words

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

One of the (few) pitfalls of being a fabulous SL fashionista, is that there are so many great looks to show off, and so many must-haves, that - sometimes - we find ourselves all dressed up with no place to go. To remedy this, many fashionistas have flocked to Flickr, to show off their fashion […]

Optimizing Windlight for Personal Beauty

Monday, November 26th, 2007

~Muse~ jewelry designer, model and fashionista Caliah Lyon posted about optimizing Windlight to keep those harsh shadows off your avatar’s face. The article takes a lot of guess work out of the settings, giving you step-by-step instructions about what settings to tweak and how far to tweak them.
If Windlight has been frustrating you no matter […]

Free prim skirt builder

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Jennyfur Peregrine posted a very nice article (including a SLurl and mini-tutorial) about making prim skirts with a free prim skirt rezzing device. There are commercial versions of this technology in world, but they typically cost thousands of Lindens. This is a free tool to help content creators build prim skirts quickly and […]

How to Edit Prim Lashes

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

I decided to film and narrate a quick video tutorial which shows how I edit prim lashes in Second Life. There are probably a lot of different ways to do it, but this is what works for me. If you have a tip to share, please leave a comment! Otherwise, I hope […]

How to teleport someone who isn’t your friend

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Something non-fashion related, but still something that bugs me every day — post update version 1.13.3, teleporting someone who isn’t your in-world friend is extremely annoying. Today, I found a tip by Torley Linden about how to make it work anyway. Torley writes:
Show the Client menu (by pressing Ctrl-Alt-D) and go to Client menu […]

Congratulations, Natalia Zelmanov, Miss Second Life

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Just a quick congratulations to Miss Natalia Zelmanov, the recently crowned Miss Second Life. Natalia’s blog is a treasure trove of fashion how-to tutorials, from prim shoes and hair, to prim skirts, and all sorts of other fashion goodies. Natalia makes her own things and takes great photos of herself and her creations […]

Elika Tiramisu shares hair building tips

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

For a while I couldn’t get Elika’s blog into my feed reader (for a SL fashionista, missing out on ETD new releases is the equivalent of taxi driver without a car! Eeek!) so I missed out on a fantastic article that Elika posted around the end of January/beginning of February giving tips — including tons […]

Ten ways to market your SL business for no or little money

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Alaska Metropolitan posted a list of 10 ways to market your Second Life business for little or no money. She writes:
These points will help you get new customers and keep the ones you have coming back for more! Of course, you still need to have a decent product. ;)
Ain’t that the truth. Read the […]

Are you ignoring me?!

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Six Kennedy of Gurl6 posted a really nice set of tips over at Appearance Mode to help you resolve customer service issues with content creators. This is a topic that Six knows a lot about — she has a bunch of scary (and sometimes funny) customer service stories — requests she’s gotten during her […]

How to track sales in SL using Excel

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Tricky Twiddler Thereian shows how to track sales in Second Life using Excel in this flash based video tutorial. Read more about the tutorial on Twid’s blog.

Torley shows and tells: How to take great photos

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Torley Linden posted a video tutorial showing how to take great photos in Second Life in November’s Second Opinion newsletter. I think I’m a fairly good photographer, but I learned some things too.