Venk's skills & profile

Hello my friends. I'd like to draw your attention to a great place which can be seen in this photo koinup.com/Trixibelle/work/61172/. Full details are there but basically it is a gallery and photographic educational centre and more created by the hugely talented Kali Meads who is too damn modest to give herself a plug. As I am a gobby cow and think she is a cause worth shouting about I want as many people as possible to see it *grins. Please go visit and take a good look around, there is lots to see. xxxx

Thank you all xxxx

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Basic/Quick Tutorial for taking "Depth Photos" in Second Life:

koinup.com/pier/work/59598/as-list/

It is a cool feature that you can use to give more "atmosphere" to your photos!!

Have a look!
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Greetings from the South of France (I am so dead meat if I am found at the PC lol but I couldn't resist). I hope you are all being good (although I can see from MightyP's photos that she and Angel aren't for sure *grins* - and I can clearly see that Mr Asbrink has enjoyed them a little too much hehehe). I'm missing you all loads and looking forward to going on Koinup Safari when I get back ;-)))))) The car broke so I'm here a bit longer than anticipated but I'll be back, annoying the hell out of you all again before you know it.

Take care my chums. Kisses xxxx

Cala xxxx
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thank u venk :D

Hi!

Briefly:
You are invited to attend the first second life exhibition for don hosho.. showing his digital painting portraits!

Time:
Friday 15th Aug 2008 | 2:00 p.m. SLT.


Details:
A noob was standing in a life concert at the cafe, back in October, 2006. And while he was caming .. he liked some scene, and no one has imagined this noob is a real life illustrator. No one imagined too that his real life is full of drawing sketches in place.. and paint them later.

As any life painter, he was refusing to paint out of nature.. even when he had clients in real life asking him to paint them, he never accepted photos ... but at that day.. he felt he has to paint what he sees..
Yes, it is a virtual world, not a real world, but .. there is something natural behind all these pixlated masks, and dolls..

A crazy idea came to my mind, the concept of the pixlated painter that paints pixlated subjects and people, by his real life hand using pixlated mediums.. and to be the first classic painter in second life .. as my first digital painting is dated back to 30 oct. 2006! and it is in the exhibition .. and it was for a beatiful lady standing in the cafe, listening to the life music there..

Digital painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, impasto, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software. Traditional painting is painting with a physical medium as opposed to a more modern style like digital.
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_painting

I have lived the life of Edgar Degas for about 2 years, painting portraits and making money through painting portraits.. a life i wished to live.. I called it " SL painting " and I decided these days to make an exhibition of paintings I have commissioned or sold in world.. to share my second life experience with other second life users.

Thank you,
Don Hosho

How to go there?:
SLURL: Vista Hermosa Art Center VHAC, Little Andalucia (210, 146, 47).

Or contact " Landor DeCuir " in world / or open " Landor DeCuir " profile and You will find the Gallery in his picks!

People:
Ahmad Hosho: The Artist
Landor DeCuir : The gallery owner.
Shelby Ziskey: Assistant
Sidda Leigh: Host, organizer assistant.
HeftyHoney Mighty: Opening Party Organazier.

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Two new exciting pileups has been launched!

1) koinup.com/Torrid/work/56954/
by Torrid!
to enter this pile-up, remember to add these two tags:
wiltedpileup
pileup




2) koinup.com/cultofheather/work/56804/
by cultofheather!
to enter this pileup, remember to add these two tags:
pileup
fukmi_pileup

I have already updated the blog enty, with all the pileup running right now on Koinup: blog.koinup.com/2008/08/pileup-your-photos...


I'm wondering if we should stop some pileups at some point, or otherwise let them run for long time........well...its only a curiosity let us know your opinion.......
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I have posted my own pileup as well :
koinup.com/Eves_Rodenberger/work/56013/

Tags are :
Pileup
EvesPileup

You are all very welcome to demonstrate your creativity :)
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yeah, my own pileup is launched!
koinup.com/pier/work/55684/

this is for you, take this image and make what you want it!

its unedited (and you see it because it has been sent directly from SL to Koinup)


tags are:
pileup
matpileup


have fun!


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dear friends, I wanna direct your attentions to some excellent photoshop tutorials created by our common friend Ji_Dallagio

I think you should have a look at them, because most probably they will help you a lot

First Tutorial: Working on Layers
koinup.com/Ji_Dallagio/work/55124/as-list/

Second Tutorial: Blending and changing colors
koinup.com/Ji_Dallagio/work/55340/as-list/

Third Tutorial: Extract Images from their currect backgrounds
koinup.com/Ji_Dallagio/work/55480/as-list/

Thanks Ji!
These tutorials are not about Second Life or some other worlds, but are about Photoshop and Postprocessing, so I think that most of you can be really interested!

I invite other members to share their tecniques and create tutorials using the storyboard tool! I'll give to each tutorial the maximum of visibility in order to help the whole community! Enjoy Koinup!
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Hi, there's alot going on at the moment with the pileups and other projects and its all extremely valuable work BUT....I really urge mentors to keep checking the works for review. And when you check them please do review them...give a critique if you can....that's the reason they have put them there, the submitters are asking for advice. (yes i know nag nag nag ;-))))

Many thanks chums xxxx
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Ok well I couldn't resist this one. Love to see what ya'll do with it, the world is your oyster here ;-))) Please add the tag calapileup. Best of luck xxxx

koinup.com/Trixibelle/work/54774/
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Just so everyone knows...anyone can take part in any of the projects currently running, the mentors scheme, the pileup work or any of the other projects going on at the moment. All these ideas are transferable to other worlds too not just secondlife. Don't wait to be asked (no-one else has lol)....JOIN IN!! ;-) If you have any other ideas, share them with us..its all part of the learning process.
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Following are the pileups projects running on Koinup

Take part in them, change the original photos and create your own versions! Have fun with your Pics!

1) Pileup by Olya_Lowey
Original: koinup.com/Olya_Lowey/work/39843/
To enter this pileup, please add these tags to your versions:
pileup
seekingcompanypileup


2) Pileup by ClarabelleCazalet
Original: koinup.com/ClarabelleCazalet/work/50198/
To enter this pileup, please add these tags to your versions:
pileup
southseapileup


3) Pileup by Antonella
Original: koinup.com/antonella/work/53531/
To enter this pileup, please add these tags to your versions:
pileup
princetownpileup


4) Pileup by Karro_Lean
Original: koinup.com/Karro_Lean/work/54030/
To enter this pileup, please add these tags to your versions:
pileup
lagpileup


5) Pileup by Socks
Original: koinup.com/Socks/work/54112/
To enter this pileup, please add these tags to your versions:
pileup
manjinipileup


6) Pileup by Ji_Dallagio
Original: koinup.com/Ji_Dallagio/work/54252/
To enter this pileup, please add these tags to your versions:
pileup
myheartisyourspileup


7) Pileup by Angel-Ronmark
Original: koinup.com/Angel-Ronmark/work/54596/
To enter this pileup, please add these tags to your versions:
pileup
angelpileup

This Project is not about Virtual Worlds, its about about learning and discussing editing, perspective, make friendship...everybody can take part in the pile-up-ing event!


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Hi folks, please could you make sure that you put in the steps & techniques you have used on the originals on reworked pileup pieces so that there is an educational aspect that all can benefit from.

Many thanks ;-))))
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Ji_Dallagio and Antonella launched a project; it is called: Pileup!

Antonella posted a raw untouched screenshot:

koinup.com/antonella/work/53531/

Every Koinup Member is invited to edit, postprocess, change it and explain what he/she has done to get to his/her image

You can save the Antonella Image on your Pc and start your experiments!

When you have created your own version, please upload on Koinup and add the tag: pileup

All Pictures will be available here:
koinup.com/works/tag/pileup/

The goal is to discuss together about our style, approachs and have fun in a collaborative project!

(This game is not restricted to Second Life, I would love to see participants from different worlds, gilds, games and style)
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Pan, Trixi and other cool guys have launched a new Community Project.....

I don't know how to call it.....lets try with:

"One Place, Many Eyes"......

Anyway, this is the project:

One member take a photo in a place and other people follow, taking other pics of the same subject......

Pan has just started with this splendid photo settled in the JadeForest
koinup.com/PANTELEIMON-AEON/work/53258/

This is the slurl, TP there, take a lot of snaps:
slurl.com/secondlife/Straylight/186/53/25

And post your takes on Koinup

Remember to add the tag:
jadeforest

so that each takes on it, will be visible here:
koinup.com/works/tag/jadeforest/

(if you want get constructive comments on the work, add the tag:
review and enter the Mentor Project )


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btw as a note, if you are interested in seeing the ones done on the same sim see koinup.com/works/tag/virtualafrica/
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Hello chums. I just wanted to say a huge thank you to all of you that have embraced the mentors project, both to mentors and those submitting work for review. There have been some really excellent critiques and tutorials. I am going to be away for roughly a month (with a short spell back in the middle) so please mentors...keep up the great work you have done so far and review works on koinup.com/works/tag/review/

On another point...thanks to Pan and Pier for the initiative of comparing photos taken at the same sim. It would be great to narrow this down and maybe look at something specific on the sim and comparing shots on it...such as happened with the Beguile shots koinup.com/works/tag/beguile/

Another great suggestion from Ji, is to take a raw untouched image and then invite people to use it and do post prod work on it. Each person would then explain what they have done to get to their final image. This process is known as "Pile Up" so if you would like to do this...please upload a work and add the tag "pileup" to it. Then add a tag of your choice that each person doing work on it will add to their new work so that the string of photos can be identified. Then of course don't forget to add the tag "tutorial".

This is all very exciting and I can't wait to see the results on my return. Good luck my chums xxx
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Hi Venk...thanks for your faves, man

:-D