Kirstentacular

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5/26/2013

Teach me something: How to look at lost webpages, and tint SL feet

I originally posted this February 25, 2011. Here is my contribution to Strawberry's meme this week.
http://web.archive.org/web/20111106134413/http://slook.biz/2011/02/25/tutorial-how-to-tint-sculpt-feet/

I started blogging in early 2011 on my own domain slook.biz. Through a serious of misfortunate events, I messed up and my hosting company, godaddy.com, did not get their money so they sold my domain to someone else and I lost a years worth of blog posts. I was disheartened to say the least. It took me months to start again on kirstentacular.

I really thought I had lost all those old blog posts but last night my fiance Jay taught me something. It seemed so simple to him, but it was really priceless to me and it made me cry (the good kind of tears). Since I am sure I am not the only one that has ever lost a webpage or url, I thought I would share.

Jay's Simple way to see old, lost websites:
1) Go to http://archive.org/
2) In the middle of the page is a place that says "web" on the left and in red and black funky letters is called the "WayBackMachine." There is a search box and a button under it that says "take me back."

3. Enter the website that you want to view and hit the "take me back" button.

4. It will come up with a calendar and you click a day on it and up pops an archived screenshot of the webpage on that day.

It was really cool to look at my old blog posts that I thought I would never see again, but the coolest part was that all my old tutorials were there and I could see them again. I hated losing my blog in general, but I had quite a few tutorials on there and losing them was tough.

Thanks to Gos, N-core, SLink, and skin appliers, we are not having to tint feet, hands, and body parts any more. The new people coming into SL, might never learn how to do this. It will become a dying art! However what happens when you get that cute freebie pair of pink polka dot shoes and they are not color match? One of the tutorials I lost was how to tint feet. I thought I would copy and paste it and republish it with a few tweaks in directions for the new viewer just in case you get something you need to tint yourself.

HOW TO TINT FEET OR BODY PARTS IN SL:

I think we have all been frustrated when trying to tint our feet in SL (not anymore, thank you Gos and N-core). N-core just released (in february 2011) a new FREE group gift for members, N-core SENSE XtremeHeel “GroupGift”. (Hey wait a minute, the new group gift from N-core, the cute red and white bow shoes- you have to tint those yourself! So hey, someone might actually use this tutorial) Just join their in world group and grab some sexy barely there strappy black heels- a must for the spring/ summer fashion season ahead. (You can't get these Sense shoes, but you can get some shoes that you have to tint from N-core still. The group is still free to join, too). This also presented me with a great opportunity to show you how to tint your sculpt feet!

Step 1. Set windlight settings to how you use them in game
Step 2. Jump on a pose stand
Step 3. Try out the skin pre-sets, you might get lucky…..although I never have. Below is number 8 and number 9 in the N-Core shoe HUD. You can see the HUGE difference in color and that it is nowhere near my skin tone.
Step 4. Turn on your RGB colors under your cursor. You get the advanced menu by control + alt + D. You get the Develop menu by control + alt + Q. In the Second Life Viewer 3 you go to Develop --> Show Info --> Show Color Under Cursor.
Step 5. Use Control + Zero to zoom in on the skin right above your foot. Move your cursor around your skin and you will see a range of numbers on the bottom of your screen as you move your cursor.
My skin went from about 140-160 red, 85-105 green, and 65-85 blue. For prim feet matching, I have found that you want to pick numbers not right in the middle of the range, but closer to the middle, high end of the range. I also tend to pick the numbers I see most often as I move my cursor around. I went with 158 R, 102 G, 85B.
Step 6. Change your sculpt foot to white.Most shoes actually have a white tone (for gothic skins, etc). Do NOT use one of the brown skin tone pre-sets in the shoe because they won’t work with this method. You end up combining the skin pre-set AND the RGB numbers and then your foot is way too dark. So use a white sculpt foot. (To reset your zoom use Control +9).
Step 7. Enter the RGB numbers into your shoe. Every sculpt foot shoe that I have tried has this capability somewhere. You might have to search around in the different shoe HUDS or enter it in on a channel. Usually I then tweak my numbers a little but using the RGB numbers from my skin gives me a great place to start.
Step 8: Tweaking Tips: You want a color that is a little bit lighter than your skin because as you take away red, green, and blue it will darken your tone. The colors all start with 255 red, green, and blue until you tweak them. As you lower those numbers, your foot will get darker.
I ended up using 155R, 96G, 72B. This was very close to the mid-upper range of my skin RGB colors and close to the numbers that I picked to start with. Now my foot is perfectly matched to my leg! I am wearing Lara Hurley Claire Tan skin in this tutorial. Also, with just a few minor tweaks in numbers this is the basic RGB for Adam n’ Eve Tan skins, Belleza Tan skins, League Suntan skins, Tuli Emma Tan, and Apple May Designs Tan skins. (It is interesting to me looking back how much my skins have changed in two years!) All the skins I wear are very close in color and I do not have to hardly change my sculpt feet at all.

Happy tinting!

Love, Kirsten Corleone

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Streaks of Pink in my Vanilla, Kirsten's Basics

Magenta Devinna of Not Quite Pink did a Basics post and it reminded me of the "beauty base zero" post done by Portia Pexington and I learned of that one when I read the base zero post done by Gogo. I always meant to do the latter and never did and since I was reminded of it when I read this Basics post, I decided to chime in with the base items that are almost always on Kirsten.

Hair: I don't really see hair as a base item where my avatar is concerned because I change it SO often. However I do wear particular colors as a "base." Exile- I always wear Vanilla and I was so happy that with the new HUD my favorite color was still there. I often add streaks of pink to my vanilla now that I have several HUD styles to play with so far. Truth- I love truth and probably wear it the most. My favorite color used to be seaspray, but it was always the closest to what I really love in blonde because all of the light blondes were a little too white or a little too yellow for me. However, all that has changed because Truth has all new colors and I probably need more "wearing time" to truly figure out my favorites but preliminarily I love lightblonde03. Exile and Truth are the two hairs that I wear the most.

Skin: I wear Glam Affair Jamaica tone the most by far now. I have both Amberly and Zara and love them both. It is definitely my go-to skin. I am secretly waiting for Jamaica to be the skin tone at collabor88. I have my fingers crossed for that eventuality because I don't buy any other skin tones. I also like Belleza Ava tan and wear that often as well. This part is kinda amazing to me because for years the answer to this would have been Lara Hurley Skins, but I just have not found one that I liked since Katya and I think that was about 2011. I still wear it from time to time but it is starting to feel dated to me now.

Brows: At first I thought she would be talking about tattoo layer brows that go on skins because that is what I think of first when thinking of eyebrows. She was talking about the bald (lindens slider adjusted) bald that lets us wear mesh/prim hair with ease that happen to also be how we control the arch, shape, and thickness of our eyebrows. I use a bald/ brow shaper that I made myself in 2006 and just tweak to different skins. I usually make a new tweaked bald to go with every new skin I purchase to get the eyebrows to look pretty much the same in regards to shape and arch. I have never really used included bald/brows because I like to control my own stuff and do it myself.

Eyes: My favorite eyes are Mayfly Liquid Light Mesh eyes Grey shadow. But I also love IKON eyes and wear Ardent Eyes Skyfall and the new Destiny Eyes in Blue are gorgeous too. It is pretty much always Mayfly or IKON for my eyes. In the picture below I have Mayfly grey shadow on the left and IKON Destiny Blue on the right.

Lashes: These rarely change. I always wear Redgrave 38 Classy.

Ears: I don't wear add-on ears. Ears are not a part of Kirsten's basics. Kirsten does not like ears or thinking about ears or ANYONE touching my ears or talking about touching my ears, ever.

Alpha Layers: I always wear a hide eyelashes alpha layer that I made myself, again that do it myself control thing. You can find a hide eyelashes alpha in many places. The redgrave lashes I wear come with them in fact. I just prefer the one I made myself. Other alphas vary with what I am wearing- hair, clothes, shoes.

Shape: I made my shape on day 3 of entering SL in 2006. Yes it has changed since then but when I look at myself- it still looks like the me of 2006, just improved (greatly). I did make some tweaks for standard sizing, but not all that many actually. I fit into a standard size small without too many adjustments, naturally.

Feet: I don't wear feet all the time because I usually have shoes on. I have a love affair with shoes and boots and I love the ones that have feet included in them. So feet are really not a Kirsten basic either. I do wear my feet (gos arched and SLink flat) when I am not wearing shoes- which often happens to be when I am not wearing clothes.... =)

AO: My AO is really old, Divine Girl from Vista. I paid a ton of money for it, like 8000 L or something like that. So I figure I am just about now after many years getting my money out of it. I still love it and I have tried others and have not yet found one I love more. When I do, I am sure I will change it, but not until.

Fingernails: This was not on the basic list, but it is a Kirsten basic. I am currently always wearing my Jamman mesh fingernails and they just recently updated to version 4. I can't say enough about these fingernails. I think they are perfection. With the advent of version 3 they let you be able to tint your nails any color, so now I really can match them to ANY thing I am ever wearing. The colors are now endless and that was good for me because they did not have enough pink colors, imo.

Lipstick: This is another kirsten add-on basic not originally included in the list. It is one of my basics though. I change my lipstick often, very often, but there is one that I wear most often and love the most. That is fishy strawberry faded. I really love all the faded ones, but I wear the pink and rose the most. I love lipstick and I wear a variety of different ones from Izzie's, Blacklace Beauty, and Ricielli along with my fishy strawberry, the most. Wearing a lipstick tattoo layer of some sort is a Kirsten basic.

Lipgloss: On top of that lipstick, I put a gloss layer that I love and wear often. Blacklace Beauty pout gloss. It comes in the pout gloss packs which have tinted shades, but it also includes a clear gloss layer that you can put on top of any lipstick. I love this lipgloss. It is also a Kirsten basic.

Mascara and Eyeliner: Another Kirsten basic. I almost always wear a basic black eyeliner and tattoo layer eyelash in one combo made by BOOM. I love that I get both on one layer because frankly 5 tattoo layers are no where near enough for me. I desperately need more. I love the basic simple black eyeliner and great drawn lashes of this Boom combo.

Ring: EarthStones Destiny Bridal Set - Platinum never leaves my finger. Thank you, Jay.

Kirsten's Basics:
Ring: EarthStones Destiny Bridal Set - Platinum
Hair: Exile::Hearts Don't Breakeven Light Blondes
Eyelashes: -38- Classy *REDGRAVE*
Fingernails: ULTRA Mesh Fingernails rigged V3 by Jamman
AO: ZHAO-II VISTA - DIViNE GiRL V.1.3
Feet: [Gos] Barefoot - Arched - S
Skin: Glam Affair - Amberly - Jamaica Clean BL
Cleavage: Glam Affair - Cleavage - Jamaica 1
Lipgloss: Blacklace Beauty Pout Gloss
Lipstick: *Fishy Strawberry* Makeup - Allure - Faded Lipstick Pink
Mascara: *BOOM* Express Mascara (two coats)
Eyes: IKON Destiny Eyes - Blue
Eyes: Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eyes (Grey Shadow)
Lingerie: ~Blacklace~ Let's Play: Blush Polka Dot Set