Changing Resolution In The Snapshot Menu

In this post I'm going to show you a way to change your snapshot resolution in Second Life, which can make a huge difference in your photos.

Basically, more pixels = clearer, higher quality photo, and that is calculated by the width times the height of the image. We can change that for photos in the Avatar/Snapshot menu.

Check out the items under the Disk section at the bottom of the menu.  

They offer a few preset aspect ratio sizes in the first dropdown menu. You can use those if you want.

 You will be able to see what part of the screen it covers in the preview window at the top. For this example I made a simple custom 1:2 configuration that fit around my avatar: 100 x 200.

That covers the area I want to photograph, but the resolution isn't nearly high enough. so I need to scale it up.  My laptop struggles to produce a photo with any numbers over 5000, so I try to keep the larger dimension around that size. Yours may do better.

Time for some math! I take those numbers and scale them up: 2500 x 5000.  Then I click on the dropdown box, choose 'Custom' and input those numbers in.  Those give me the same screen dimensions, but a much higher resolution.  Hit refresh at the top of the menu, and then save to your hard drive.

Here's the photo I took using the 100 x 200 sizing - obviously not a good resolution. 

(it's blurry, please don't wait for it to load)

A mid range 1250 x 2500 version:

And here is the 2500 x 5000 version:

You may not see much of a difference between the last two, until you zoom up close and can see the pixels: 

Keep in mind that the higher resolution photos also result in a much bigger image file.

And that's all I have for today!