You're probably wondering how KittyCatS Breeders take photos of their KittyCatS Boxes & Lives so well when selling on the Marketplace or showcasing their most important kitties in world. But you don't have any money to spend on fancy photo studios, programs like photo shop and you don't have much time either.
This blog post is going to be dedicated on how to take semi pro photos of your KittyCatS Boxes & Lives using FREE in world tools, websites & SUPER EASY computer software that I myself use all the time! There are many different ways to take photos of your kitties and the method of your choosing is totally up to you. I have even created some of these in world tools so you can use them absolutely free.
Today I will show you 2 ways on how to take photos of your KittyCatS for Free and still look semi professional to wow your customers!
DISCLAIMER: I am not associated with KittyCatS Brand or staff, nor am I being sponsored by any of these programs or tools mentioned in this blog. I am not being paid whatsoever to write this blog and I am sharing this with you for education/DIY purposes only.
Method 1: "Box Shots"
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
ABOUT PHOTOSCAPE:
PhotoScape is one of the most easiest free photo editing softwares on the internet today! You can do many things in seconds such as create cool instagram like effects, visually enhance photo quality like you see above, put cool frames around your photos, easily crop & resize photos, and much more! Available in many different languages such as English, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and a few others!
This Method also works taking photos of live kitties as long as you put them in a pose of your choosing.
Step 1: Rez out your Portable Photo Studio, and set your sun position to "Midday"
NOTE: You may need to adjust the glow on your photo studio down a little bit to at least 0.08 or 0.05 depending on the lighting on your land/home so the lighting on your cat isn't to bright or too dark
Step 2: Rez out your kitty or box and position it correctly centered on the photo studio and towards the back of it so none of your floor is showing, we only want to see white surrounding your kitty!
Step 3: It's time to start testing out your positioning of the kitty before taking photos using your camera controls. Use your magnifier tool to center in on your kitty box, zoom in and make sure your camera is centered in on your kitty.
Make sure your kitty isn't tilted awkwardly or stuck in the ground, if taking a photo of a box, make sure the whole box is visible, that your kitty/box is rezzed in before taking its photo. Make sure your kitty box and camera position is centered & zoomed in clearly and correctly so when you crop it, you can cleanly crop the kitty box in a rectangular shape so people can see the box clearly.
Step 4: Take the photo using Second Life's Camera Button and Save it to disk!
Step 5: If you are using PhotoScape, make sure it is downloaded and open it up
Step 6: When it loads up, select "Editor"
Step 7: Select your photo that you just took and saved from Second Life that you will now begin editing
Step 8: We will now crop the photo. Select the Crop Tab
Step 9: Click, Hold & Drag over the parts you want to crop, making the cut as rectangular as possible, then select the crop button at the bottom once you are happy.
Step 10 (OPTIONAL): To create a nice visual effect, select the home tab at the bottom left hand corner
Step 11: Select the bloom button. DO NOT TOUCH THE ARROW.
Step 12: Selecting Bloom on Normal mode gives them a nice soft glow for a nice little enhancement to your photos so they don't look so dull when selling your KittyCatS on the marketplace. This is completely optional, but not necessary. If you like the way this looks, select "OK"
Step 13: Once you are satisfied, click save and you are done editing your photo and it's ready to go on the marketplace or to share with friends!
Finishing Product
Now we are onto Method #2 which only works with boxes. This may not help you with your live kitties, but it is 10x easier than the last method we showed you and doesn't require in world purchases or photo taking!
Method 2: "Build-A-Cat Screen Capping"
Difficulty Level: Easy
About Gyazo:
Gyazo is an easy screen capturing software used as an alternative to Alt-PrtSc or Alt - Print Screen keyboard shortcuts. You can use any screen capturing methods that you choose but for this tutorial we are using Gyazo.
Step 2: Enter in your cats Pedigree information, I will be entering in a random cats information for this example
Step 3: A photo replica of your kitty will appear to the right of your screen, you can now use your screen capturing software such as gyazo to take a screenshot of the kitty
Step 4: I am now going to open up PhotoScape because I need to resize it so the marketplace will not reject its small size perimeters. It needs to be at least 512 in width or in height. I can also make visual adjustments such as adding bloom to it just like in the last tutorial.
Final Product
Congratulations! You've just learned some new, free and easy ways to take photos & showcase your KittyCatS! I hope this was helpful to you and I hope you can share this blog with your friends!
Don't forget to check out my KittyCatS Shop in world where I always have kitties under $100L in stock and a whole wall of Freebies for you to choose from, as well as tons of Kitty Beds & Accessories and $1L Raffles!
You can visit P&S PrettyKitties in world
here or copy and paste this sLURL into your viewer:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wendersley/219/31/28
Thank you and have fun!
