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.
To summarize: buy a good system, use a good windlight setting, and crop your photos.
Posted by: Missy Restless | Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 03:13 PM
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.)
Posted by: Ziki Questi | Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 05:56 PM
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
Posted by: foneco zuzu | Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 07:57 AM
Just publish a GoGo lollipop. Then everyone can lick GoGo.
Posted by: Ann Otoole InSL | Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 12:27 PM
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.
Posted by: d turner | Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 06:41 PM
@ 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.
Posted by: Hanna Handle | Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 09:19 AM
@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?
Posted by: Melissa Yeuxdoux | Monday, July 25, 2011 at 10:46 AM