Blatant Self Promotion - Image Essentials

Now I've had some friend ask me why I haven't done anything on my blog for so long. It comes down to one simple fact. I've been working my butt off building inworld and now I've finished I am going to blatantly self promote what I've created. LOL

Quite a few months back I got involved in a pose hunt. Things have never been the same since. After filling my inventory with thousands of poses (literally) I decided that I needed to make a place in which they could be used. So, Image Essentials was born.

I have, in the past, looked around for GOOD photo studios so I could jump on some poses I didn't have and take some awesome pics of myself with friends or a significant other (well ok... with myself then).

Sadly they were few and far between. There are hundreds of fabulous sims I could go to and I, of course, do. However, a lot of these sims do not allow rezzing so I couldn't use my own poses, or the poses that were on the sims weren't what I was looking for. So as I wandered around some of the best posemakers in SL, and spent a small fortune on poses etc, the revelation that "if you don't seek and find, you create it yourself" came to mind, so I did.

Image Essentials is a photo studio setup with hundreds of pose settings for you to play around on. The area is split into multiple zones. Female, Male, Couple, Theme, Family, Group, Carnival Cutouts and Shop. There is a free-to-use photo studio in the female, male and couple zones along with multiple prop setups for all of the various areas. All are top of the line and the prop areas will be changed periodically to give everyone samples of different kinds of environments to work in. They contain top of the line poses and backdrops. Almost all of the props, whether inside the zones or in the public areas, are menu-driven giving the user lots of different looks each time.

The whole place is set in a kind of tropical style area, with wooden walkways and little nooks with poses strategically placed for those who look hard enough.The off-sim island also has poses on it. Follow the instructions and off you go. Feel free to grab some pose balls off the intan and dance the evening away in the pergola or just cuddle and take pics while the sunsets.

The Carnival Cutout area is still in development but will provide a unique place to play around while you poke your head through numerous fun cutouts. More are on the way once I have a menu system created to better cater for different size people so bear with me on that one.

There are also three wheel trikes that you are free to use to drive around the place. Note that if you arent a group member you may have trouble if you try and cross into group access only zones but the main walkways provide a great course you can race around but, please, try not to run too many pedestrians over. I hate cleaning up the blood. *grins*

I decided to put in a store area when I realised how many backdrops I had that I had imported inworld and others had commented upon. There are also some fabulous props created by my partner in crime, Ange, which I have to say are bloody brilliant and deserve to be checked out.

We will soon be holding some shows in the area and have special guests entertain. I'll let you all know via the group so don't forget to join.

Hope to see you there soon.

Loves you all... Kay

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