Ana Lutetia

blogging Second Life® since 2006

tutorial | about… photography I

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Ana Lutetia | No Comments

It’s seems I actually started something. Good! *winks*

I have been in SL for a while and I have been following the feeds and flickr for the same amount of time and I guess everyone knows that I don’t like to see pixelized photographies. So, I try to make mine as less pixelized as possible.

The first method I used as plain and simple. I took my pics at 800×600 in a backdrop and publish the pics in 400×300. Why? Size matters! In a blog you don’t want to see huge pictures. They have to have a certain size. And you have to consider the size of the monitor people are using. There are lots and lots of stats about it but I relay in my Google Analytics page that says that my readers screen resolutions are 1024×768 (27.53%) and 1280×1024 (21.88%). So, my blog is optimized for these screen resolutions and to Firefox which is also the top browser. Knowing this helps to know which is the best size for the pictures in my blog. It also helps being a blogger for more than 5 years though… ;)
So, my first method was to take pictures in 800×600 (I used a crap laptop in my early SL days.) and publish them at 400×300 but the pictures looked really weird. Aphrodite Outlander was a sweet heart and IM me a precious tip: don’t ever let the blog resize the pictures for you. It’s better if you resize the pictures yourself and publish them full size.

This is a great method if you don’t have a good graphics card in your computer. It’s fast and easy. Take a picture of yourself in a background at 800×600 and publish it by half that size or even smaller if your blogger lets you make thumbnails.
It is also important to know that if you publish a full size pictures in your blog it will appear in the feeds in its’ original size even though in your blog you only see it smaller (resized).


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