The Pre Windlight viewer Era. SL Art without the sky editor

Just stumbled on this nice group called Before Windlight: SL Art created recently by Sysperia Poppy

As said by Sysperia, the group is "for shots taken before using a windlight browser and all of its associated components. This provides a group for older works for those who've been around awhile. No limit for posts, no content restriction besides viewer used."

Join the group and share your virtual memories and/or virtual shots taken in the Pre-Windlight Era.

Some days ago, Doubledown Tandino founded a similar group aimed at collecting images taken in the Golden age of Second Life (2004-2006)

The best windlight skies

What is your favourite windlight setting? Did you create a wonderful sky and would love to share with friends?

Join the best windlight settings group and add your windlight photos, share/ask information about the atmospheric second life rendering engine! Join now!


Image above by Icarus Robbiani, Castle of Torhul Hill

240 Windlight Settings to download

Torley offered for free about 240 Windlight Settings to all the Second Life photographers and members. You can download them here! Click and Follow all the instructions, to correctly install them (and don't forget to read all the Windlight Wiki to learn tips and Torley suggestions for enhance your sl photos)

Once downloaded, tp in some fantastic Second Life Places and try the settings, while taking memorable shots and then come back to Koinup for sharing the photos!

Windlight is one of the more fashinating area in the Second Life Art scene. I invite you to have a look at most coolest windlight photos posted on Koinup and keep up your great job!

The image above "Aldarian Albatross" is by PANTELEIMON-AEON

Second Life Windlight Tutorial

The Super Surfer Second Life Resident Socks has been so kind to share with us a tutorial/storyboard that show how to use at the best Second Life Windlight, in order to take photos of excellent quality, without using Postprocessing Software!
Socks and other members are really interested in the idea of showing the potential of Second Life photography without the need of adding external effects, lens, solutions!

Its quite relevant theme also for the whole Koinup Project. The basic idea of Koinup, you know is about sharing your virtual life. It doesn't matter if you are an artist that know all the secrets of Photoshop and other tons of programs or a "normal" metaverse residents, which love to share photos only for fun and for telling their adventures in virtual "salsa"

The aim of Koinup is offering both suitable tools for sharing their contents!
Next weeks you will see relevant, massive upgrades that will benefit eachone!

If you wanna see more about Second Life Windlight stuffs maybe you should consider to browse the previous Second Life Windlight Contest

Windlight Contest, Just Launched!

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Take part in the Windlight Contest! We have amazing prices and three SL Guru for judging your photos! I'm talking about Vint Falken, Torley and Pastrami Linden! Won't miss it, will you?


This contest means a lot for Koinup! Not only because we have the chance to team up directly with Pastrami Linden, the team manager of Windlight, with Torley, the WindLight uber-fan and undefatiguable artist and with Vint Falken, the Best Known SL Neko Blogger!.....

But also because this contest is a big-big chance to highlight the beauty of the Windlight and how it has changed the skin of your SL World!

Have a look at the Windlight Contest, now!

After some mounths in beta phases, Windlight has arrived on the main grid and now everyone can view Second Life as he never has seen before! Landscapes are more realistic, water give us reflections, clouds and colors are perfectly customizable!

Each partecipants can submit two entries! But Remember:
If you enter two submissions, they have to be different in style and shooted in different regions.
Moreover, we suggest you to focus on one the following directions: realism, surrealism, and wildcard


Photos can be submitted from April, 18 to May, 7
Winners will be announced May, 13

Go here for all the rules!

There will be three winners! They will get 20,000 L$ and some other special, amazing, exclusive prices created by Torley

Read carefully all the rule, before send your submissions! Have a loot at the latest entries