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Adding Multiple Landmarks To A Second Life Image With Gimp
This is an update to an older SL-Inspiration tutorial called Adding Multiple Slurls To A Second Life Map, and is intended to accompany the video tutorial on the SL-Inspiration YouTube Channel. The...
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How To Save A Second Life Music Stream To A Media Player.
This tutorial came about after following the example of SL resident Captain A-Jay who listens to Second Life music streams via an external media player, namely the excellent and free VLC. After trying...
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Adding Text To A Path With Inkscape
If you need to create a graphic with text that follows a path, Inkscape is a good choice of software to use. Although the same effect can be achieved with for example Gimp, the results are not always...
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How To Improve The Quality Of Sound From Your Mic
Almost anyone who has been to a club in Second Life would have experienced a DJ or live performer who could hardly be heard on mic, or their mic quality was just generally poor. As this can be very off...
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Christmas Jigsaw Puzzle 2017
This year's Christmas jigsaw puzzle image comes from The Pulse, a club in Second Life owned by Anna and Gus Flannegan. Anna has done a wonderful job once more in setting up the club for the festive...
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How to Create Isometric Images In Gimp
Isometric images have lots of uses, from architectural drawings, logo designs, game graphics and of course isometric art. Whilst Gimp is a tremendous tool for any visual artist, one of its drawbacks is...
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How To Create Your Own Email Newsletter For Free
An email newsletter is a great way to visually engage your audience with specific topic areas or products, or to simply provide a way to keep people up to date with what you're doing. The usefulness of...
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How To Send An Email Newsletter Using Gmail
This is the second part of two tutorials about creating and using email newsletters. In the first tutorial we showed how to create your own email newsletter for free. In this part we'll first show how...
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Easter Bunnies Jigsaw Puzzle
This year's Easter jigsaw puzzle image comes from the Easter Bunny Trail at Aquamarine Island and is being held to support a young boy with autism under the title of 'The Little Engine Who Can".About...
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How To Create Custom Gradients In Gimp
Creating a custom gradient in Gimp does not need to be a complicated process, and once you have a grasp of the basics each gradient can be used in your own designs. The wings of the butterfly pic here...
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How To Add A Radionomy Station In Second Life
Usually when a Second Life club has closed for the day the last DJ will add an internet radio station to the land setting or select one from a Shoutcast board for visitors to enjoy. With Radionomy it...
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How To Remove The Background From An Image With Gimp
There are a number of ways of removing the background from an image with Gimp, and this is the third method demonstrated on this blog. If you're interested in viewing the other two tutorials, links to...
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Cafe Calza Jigsaw Puzzle
As many Second Life residents will know, food is a popular subject of conversation, and everyone has at least one favourite recipe they love to share. With this in mind the aim of Cafe Calza is to...
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Create An Infinite Reflection Effect in Gimp
This is a quick and simple tutorial on how to create an infinite reflection effect in Gimp, using the Recursive Transform tool that is new to Gimp 2.10. In fact the underlying aim of this tutorial is...
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How to Use the Bitmap Trace Tool In Inkscape
In an earlier tutorial we showed how to create custom gradients in Gimp and use them to decorate butterfly wings. This tutorial follows on from that by showing how to take a photo of a butterfly then...
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Alternatives to Flickr
Since Smugmug took over Flickr and the subsequent change in its Terms of Service, there has been some discussion about how this affects not only Second Life residents but Flickr users in general. Many...
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Free Christmas Icons And Gimp Brushes
To help all our faithful followers get into the festive spirit we have a collection of icons for you to use in your own designs, and to go along with them a set of Xmas themed brushes for Gimp.The...
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How To Create A Christmas Wreath In Inkscape
Producing festive graphics is all part of the holiday season for many designers and artists so in this tutorial we'll show you how to create a Christmas wreath in Inkscape. The initial steps may seem...
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Christmas Jigsaw Puzzle 2018
For the past three or four years, each Christmas SL-Inspiration has created a free jigsaw puzzle using a Second Life location as the subject. This year we're pleased to continue that tradition with an...
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Creating 360 Degree Panoramas For Second Life Part 1
Creating 360 degree panoramas in Second Life has developed side by side with the same trend in real world photography. The process involves taking 26 overlapping snapshots and 'stitching' them together...
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