How to Take & Publish a Gorgeous SL Fashion Screenshot

A Gorgeous Yongho screenshot, from Viewer 2 to Piknik cropping

The virtual SL fashion photos of Gorgeous Yongho of Juicy Bomb are so, well, gorgeous, that she's sometimes accused of heavily retouching them in post-production. But no, what you see on her blog is pretty what she sees in the SL viewer, and here's the proof: Above left is her viewer with the UI, and at right, what the screenshot looks like after she crops it in Piknik.

"I mostly use picnik.com (online photo editing tool) to crop and arrange my photo collages," Ms. Yongho tells me, "but most of the images on my blog are not heavily photo-processed at all, if ever."

The real trick is her technical specs and settings-- read about those after the break:

Click the screenshot above to see her Viewer 2 graphic settings. "I use the official SL2.0 client, with Starlight skins installed. I have... taken from my System info:

• Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU [email protected]
• Installed memory (RAM): 9.00 GB
• System type: 64-bit Operating System
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX570.

"I upgraded about a month ago, from a GTX260 card, I don't really notice much of a difference." Despite this, her in-world inventory is so large, "I'm still crashing all the time," she says laughing, "and I'm also on a wireless connection." But being virtually gorgeous in SL comes with such costs.

Comments

[Missy Restless]

To summarize: buy a good system, use a good windlight setting, and crop your photos.

[Ziki Questi]

As Missy says, yes, a good windlight setting. We actually can't see that in Gogo's pic (it shows a minimized Advanced Sky window), but that choice makes just as much of a difference as the settings that are visible. (And her pics are stunning, really excellent.)

[foneco zuzu]

I love phoenix 1, Using Nam Optimal skin 1 or 2.
Aand to be sure the 260gtx is still an amzing vga even if now i use a 580gtx

[Ann Otoole InSL]

Just publish a GoGo lollipop. Then everyone can lick GoGo.

[d turner]

yeah the 260 and 580 aren't that much of a big deal visually at all for SL. Maybe for some high end games and dx11/shader tech and fps is marginally better but in a game like SL it's not much of a difference. Our tests (game studio out of TX) found just upping memory improves SL over any video card changes.

[Hanna Handle]

@ Dellirium...I think that was the point which you missed completely. Her photos are beautiful WITHOUT being overly Photoshopped and processed. Maybe next time you should read before making stupid comments.

[Melissa Yeuxdoux]

@d turner: I'd dearly love to hear more about your test results, and the graphics settings that you used when trying SL. Are they available somewhere?