2920 #VWEDU: #DTA: Get and use pictures in SceneGate: A DTA content page.

Get and use pictures in SceneGate: 
A DTA content page.

Simple user instructions to help beginners get and use pictures in Scenegate. License: public domain.

Scenegate full screen

Uses for pictures in SceneGate

• Make a presentation
• Make a poster presentation.
• Use as a texture in building.
• Instructions are part of the product. They can make the product easy or hard to use. A critical issue for education, where there are always new students using those instructions

Contents below

• Get the extended mode and the snapshot button.
• SceneGate has an extended mode for experienced users
• Get pictures in SceneGate 
• Get pictures from the web
• Upload pictures to SceneGate
• Use pictures in a presentation: .
• Getting screenshots: Free screenshot app
• Processing pictures

• Update 6/18/2020 OpenSim numbers grow. Field trip to Jezero Crater. Firestorm update for OpenSim.

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Get pictures in SceneGate 

• You must use extended mode  to get the snapshot feature.

How to shift to extended mode

• For experienced users only:
• Open Preferences.
• Click Mode.
• Select extended mode.
• Log out and log in again.
• Your viewer will start in the extended mode.
• To return to the simple mode, use the steps above, select simple mode
• SceneGate has an extended mode for experienced users

Scenegate buttons 

Snapshot button added 

Add the Snapshot button to your screen

• Right click in a toolbar area. On the dropdown, click "Toolbar Buttons."
• Drag the Snapshot button to a toolbar area.

Use the Snapshot button

• Take a test shot of anything.  Center your screen on what you want to show.
• Click the Snapshot (camera) button.
• The picture will capture your viewer screen or the central part of it.
• You will get a drop down menu to tell the system what to do with the picture.
• You probably want to save the image to your computer.
• You may want to give the image a name you will recognize later.
• It will save as a .jpg file.  Make a note of the folder it is going to.
• If you are working on a project, you may want to make a project folder for it.
• The system will probably remember your save folder for a while.

Get screenshots

• Free screenshot app

Get pictures from the web

• Here are good source for pictures with explicit licenses:
• Creative Commons Search.
• Find free-to-use images (Google search)
• Enter a search term in the entry bar.  
• Any image you find there can be used for non-commercial work.
• To get the image (Windows): Right click the image, click "Save image as..."
• You will enter a file name (and destination directory if you wish).
• Best not use images you find on the web until you understand this:
• Law and Etiquette for Using Photos and Images Found Online
• Images for learning projects: Creative commons licenses. PBL: Project-based learning

Upload pictures to SceneGate

• Click the inventory button.
• Click the + sign (bottom left)
• On the resulting menu, click Upload, then Image.
• (You can use bulk upload for multiple images.)
• The images will load into your inventory in the Textures folder.

Use pictures in SceneGate

• In a slide-show presentation: Slide show presenter
• In a poster presentation. 
• Get a video of a presentation.
• In an informational scene.

Edit your pictures

• Free image editing software: The GIMP 
• Commercial image editing software: Photoshop

Badge: photographer

• Apprentice:  Get and post photographs from a digital place.
• Journeyman:  Also upload pictures and use them on posters or a slideshow.
• Master: Teach others how to get and use pictures.

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License

• Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain.
• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
• All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
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• Annotated screenshots made with Jing
• This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google.
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