Tuesday, January 10, 2012

u.f.o store renewal!

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u.f.o has redesigned their store! There is a special sale dress for 20L and five lucky boards with good stuff in them. After some thought and limited lindens I decided to buy this gorgeous yellow dot dress and the nude top with the lace peter pan collar! Love how u.f.o's designs are very much inspired by vintage items.

#1
u.f.o ddong headband, 25L from the gacha!
u.f.o dotoro dot onepiece dress in lemon, 120L, cheapcheap! Dress comes with the option of five different belt colors.
socks, mother goose lucky board
Beetlebones mesh earrings
FIR & MNA bowlorama shoes
LOQ hair

#2
u.f.o special sale dress, 20L, sculpted parts and beautifully detailed leaf fabric!

#3
cropped sweater, u.f.o lucky board!
shorts, u.f.o lucky board
nails, Rezipsa Loc, old freebie, check out the current deals on nail polish and the other colors!
octopus ring, LaGyo

#4
u.f.o lace motive blouse in plain(nude), comes with sheer version!
shorts, u.f.o lucky board item
socks, mother goose lucky board
FIR & MNA bowlorama shoes

Poses from marukin by Valencia Southard.

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love, silver milneaux

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Rocking Boots

There is a new group gift out for Vinyl Cafe Addicts at the main location here.

Group Gift Rockstar Boots
Grab this wicked pair of  black and leopard 'rockstar' boots instore.

Group Gift Rockstar Boots

Style Notes
Hair: Fashionably Dead
Skin: Redgrave
Jacket: Mon Tissu
Skirt: Chain & Vine
Stockings: MStyle
Tote (mesh!):  Vinyl Cafe
Necklace:  Miel gift (previously blogged below)

IWarp Tutorial For Gimp

Hi all!  The other day Eden and I were talking about things we love about blogging and the biggest one is helping people; helping customers find new stores, find affordable items when on a budget, help store owners get more traffic, etc.  We decided another way to help people would be to do tutorials!  Now none of us claim to be the best bloggers ever but I firmly believe that everyone in life has something to teach someone else and something of value to offer if they dig deep enough.  So, with the small amount of skill I have, I bring you my first tutorial!  Here is the unedited, direct from SL shot.  As you can see, there are lots of pointy looking bits because the SL mesh sucks so hard and makes us look all straight and sharp and stuff.
Before Shot for Tutorial
So first I take the lasso thingy tool and draw around the area I want to edit, in this case the boob, because boobies really should never be sharp. :D  Next I open the "Filters" drop down menu and go to "Distorts" and then finally select "IWarp."  A new box will pop up with the image of what you lassoed on the left and a bunch of sliders and stuff on the right.  There are a lot of options but for this we should check "Move." My picture was over 3000 pixels so for that tiny area I had to move the slider up to 35 radius.  Mess around with it to find which number works better for your picture size, etc.  All you do then is "push" the pointy parts gently inward with the mouse to make it look rounder.  If you need to see this image closer just click it to get to my Flickr.
IWarp Mini Tutorial For GIMP
I did this on a few different parts of the body.  It's just a little thing but when a picture is done it can make a big difference!  The picture on the left is the before and the right is the after.  I edited it enough so that there weren't too many scary, sharp spots but not so much that it actually distorts what the product, shape and avatar in general look like.  Like I said, this is just a small change but in the future we will bring you more tutorials and combined maybe we can all learn together and do some cool stuff! Forgive me if this sucked, I am still learning. xD  Let me, Sileny Noel, or any of us here at Free*Style know if there is anything you want covered and, don't forget, there is no such thing as a stupid question!
Before and after
Worn:
Shape: Quintessencia, 1L
Sweater: Quintessencia, comes with vest (not worn), colors are 50L-100L
Pants: Milk Motion
Skin: Cherry Girl
Hair: Pomme d' Amour
(Hair is worn with bangs from a different hair style by Alice Project)
Nail Polish Layer: RezIpsa Loc