Lesson 3: Your Profile Picture (Part 1)
Your profile (right-click on yourself and select "Profile") is a very useful tool. If you haven't figured out how to view other people's profiles (right-click on them and select "Profile"), you are missing out on profile breadcrumbs.
What are profile breadcrumbs? They are the "Picks" that other people have made from Second Life. Click on a random place that someone enjoyed so much that they added to their profile. Arrive. Find another person. Find another pick. Explore. See what is out there!
But on the front page of the profile is a not-to-be-missed area for a profile picture. In order to upload a picture, you need to pay L$ 10. How do you get that LS $10 without spending a dime of your own money? Camping (do a [CTRL] + [F] and look for "camping" for more information)! It will only cost you 50 minutes of your life. Camp while you've got something better to do, such as typing that report for work, planning a lesson, checking and responding to email, or reading your favorite blogs. Just make sure that you visit Second Life every 10 minutes or so and right click on something just so that the client knows you are alive as it will boot you otherwise.
But once you have your L$ 10, it is time to go get your profile picture on! Now, you can take your boring, run-of-the-mill snapshot or you can go to a photo-studio and have fun with the sets and poses. Run-of-the-mill is free but dull. Photo-studios can get costly, and do you really want to sit in the camping chair anymore?
So what is the solution? Machinima Studios (Japanese) and TV Studio! This is a collection of different sets that you can use as your backdrop. I've included a few of my favorites, with SLurls, here:
This is the Western Scene from Machinima Studios (Japanese). If you don't speak/read Japanese (I do but only verrrrrrrry little, and not enough to understand what was going on in this sim), that doesn't matter because everything is pretty much self-explanatory or comes with an English translation. There are several different scenes pictured including the western one where you can sit on a barrel, on top of a stage coach, or along the sides of your typical western town, and have your picture taken to make you look like you are from the Wild, Wild West.
Coincidently, I've made the entire look (called an "Avatar") that I wore available to you newbies for free. Just visit my land and use the Freebies for Newbies vendor to find the outfit. What if you are a male, rather than a female? Pick up the outfit anyway. The worn jeans, cow-person boots, shirt, and cow-person hat looks equally stunning whether you are XY or XX. If you are a male, you don't want to wear the skin, shape, or hair. Trust me.
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What are profile breadcrumbs? They are the "Picks" that other people have made from Second Life. Click on a random place that someone enjoyed so much that they added to their profile. Arrive. Find another person. Find another pick. Explore. See what is out there!
But on the front page of the profile is a not-to-be-missed area for a profile picture. In order to upload a picture, you need to pay L$ 10. How do you get that LS $10 without spending a dime of your own money? Camping (do a [CTRL] + [F] and look for "camping" for more information)! It will only cost you 50 minutes of your life. Camp while you've got something better to do, such as typing that report for work, planning a lesson, checking and responding to email, or reading your favorite blogs. Just make sure that you visit Second Life every 10 minutes or so and right click on something just so that the client knows you are alive as it will boot you otherwise.
But once you have your L$ 10, it is time to go get your profile picture on! Now, you can take your boring, run-of-the-mill snapshot or you can go to a photo-studio and have fun with the sets and poses. Run-of-the-mill is free but dull. Photo-studios can get costly, and do you really want to sit in the camping chair anymore?
So what is the solution? Machinima Studios (Japanese) and TV Studio! This is a collection of different sets that you can use as your backdrop. I've included a few of my favorites, with SLurls, here:
This is the Western Scene from Machinima Studios (Japanese). If you don't speak/read Japanese (I do but only verrrrrrrry little, and not enough to understand what was going on in this sim), that doesn't matter because everything is pretty much self-explanatory or comes with an English translation. There are several different scenes pictured including the western one where you can sit on a barrel, on top of a stage coach, or along the sides of your typical western town, and have your picture taken to make you look like you are from the Wild, Wild West.
Coincidently, I've made the entire look (called an "Avatar") that I wore available to you newbies for free. Just visit my land and use the Freebies for Newbies vendor to find the outfit. What if you are a male, rather than a female? Pick up the outfit anyway. The worn jeans, cow-person boots, shirt, and cow-person hat looks equally stunning whether you are XY or XX. If you are a male, you don't want to wear the skin, shape, or hair. Trust me.
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