Kultivate Magazine-March 2018 Issue

Page 68

People in Second Life love taking photos. Whether they're capturing their memories or doing fashion shoots for their blogs or taking photo for artistic reasons, it's safe to say photography is one of SL's most popular activities. There are lots of ways to save your photos in SL. You can save the directly to your inventory or to your hard drive. You can upload them to gyazo or imgur or Instagram. But those options are limited, especially for sharing with others on SL.

2. Flickr keeps your photos organized: The SL feed does a decent job when it works; it's had a bit of a glitchy past. These days, the SL feed is more reliable, but it doesn't have any organizing tools. Post a photo, an it's just added to a scrolling feed. If you're looking for a place to just post your photos, the SL profile feed will do. But the photos aren't organized and finding any image more than a few days old can take a while.

Flickr organizes your photos in an The Second Life profile feed is an easy to see grid. Even if you have option, but it's not where most SL hundreds of photos, you can photographers post their work-readily see them and page through Flickr is. If you're an SL them. Flickr also allows you to tag photographer, whether you're your photos, making it easier to casual or more serious about your search through your entire photos, you should be on Flickr. collection. You can also put your photos into personal albums if you Here are 5 reasons why: wish, further organizing your 1. The SL community is there: Flickr photos. has a very strong SL community. It's probably the first place SL residents With Flickr, you can easily organize go to post their photos. Your your photos. Your photos are there friends will easily be able to find for everyone to see, and as long as your photos and you'll be able to your images are G-rated (Admittedly, a barrier for some in find theirs, too.


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