Tiny Tips #2: Inventory Context Menu

Probably you know you can wear more than one item at the same layer (alpha,tattoo...) but in case you didn't notice this feature here is how you can do it.

In the example we wear two alphas, right mouse click on the first alpha and click wear (or double click to wear), to wear another alpha make the same but choose Add instead of Wear. You can do it with any object or cloth.

The Inventory Context Menu is also useful to edit objects,  have you ever had a problem selecting an object that went inside the avatar? or maybe you tried to select an object and the hair or any other object didn't allow it?

 With the object worn, right mouse click on the object and select Edit.

And now you can move it outside the body or anywhere you want.

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Tiny Tips #1: Perfect skin matching

Since some time ago I'm thinking of making a small section for share small tips to make our Second Life easier. After reading the useful tutorial "Art of Editing" by Maggie Bluxome in Busted Magazine, I finally decided to start the section.

The objective of the section is to make the blog more interactive with the readers too, so I hope you all participate with, for example, pics with results of the tips or even giving tips too to share with the community.

Well, let's start with the first tip of the section, this time I'll talk how the environment settings can help us to get a perfect skin match with our prim breasts.

Take a look at the next snapshots:

Midday Preset	Nam's Optimal Skin 1
Nam's Optimal Skin 2	Nam's Optimal Skin and Prim

I'm using a custom skin so the skin and prim breasts texture already match but It can be improved, let's see how...

The top left snapshot was taken with the default sun position at midday, if you look at the face you'll see ugly shadows that doesn't make me beautiful :-P, also the prim breasts look a little more lighter.

FireStorm viewer comes with some environments presets that will help us with it. Go to World->Environment Editor->Environment Settings, below Sky Settings, mark the option Fixed sky and click on the list.

Also you can access clicking on the FireStorm icon, It'll show the quick preferences, as you can see in the next snapshot:

You'll see a long list of sky presets, there are 3 of them that will be useful for us, overall one of them, they are:

• Nam's Optimal Skin 1
• Nam's Optimal Skin 2
• Nam's Optimal Skin and Prim. 

The name says it all, with the two firsts you'll get a really good looking skin, no more ugly shadows on the face, It shows how beautiful you are ;-). The third one will give us an almost perfect match between our skin and the prim breasts.

If you aren't using a custom skin, first set the Nam's Optimal Skin and Prim preset and after play with the colors of the prim breasts until you are happy.

Note that you'll be the only one to see it, other people will see you how they have configured their viewer, but It's a very nice tip to take awesome pics ;-).

If you aren't using Firestorm, leave a comment with the viewer you use and I will be happy to help you to make the same thing in it.

If you use this tip I would love to see some snapshots before and after use it.

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