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Welcome to the SECONDLIFE PHOTOART Group!

This group has been created to promote and display the incredible works of art created by a large community of SecondLife Residents involved in SecondLife Photography and the manipulation of this photography into incredible works of expressive art.

When I joined DA to show off my SL Photo Art, I found out very quickly that - unlike the Flickr community - there is almost no understanding of nor even much respect for the incredible art created by taking photographs within the 3D world of SecondLife. I noticed that most of the DA community believes that taking photos inside SL is just screen capturing some other artist's already created work. They do not understand that we are taking actual photographs of 3D objects in a virtual world similar to photographs taken in the real world.

I looked for groups in DA that supported SL Photo Art but there were basically none. When I tried to add my art into other DA groups, the Group Admins were often confused how to categorize my work or rejected it as they believed it was a copyright violation.

So for all my SL Residents that take photos inside SL and then enhance this photography into works of photo-manipulated art, this is the home for you inside DA! WELCOME!

Rules are simple to submit deviations:

(PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT INTO THE FEATURED GALLERY - I have it set to do not allow but it still seems to allot members to submit)

1) All submissions must include in any way at least one photo taken within SL (even if the photos are completely enhanced or manipulated to fit into your completed art.

2) ALL photos used in your submission must have abided by ALL Linden Lab Terms of Service (TOS) rules & policies that relate to the rights of the content 3D content creators' copyright rights that they have on display within the SL in-world grid as well as the limited rights of the SL Resident photographers to take photographs of this content. The LL rules are very similar to the rights of R.L. content creators and Photographers. If you are not sure of these rights, please read up on these rules on the secondlife.com website.

3) All submissions must have some photo manipulations involved. This is not a group to dump raw SL photos into. We are trying to show off the artistic talents of coverting photos in SL into beautiful works of art that express something.

4) Please ensure that any stock, textures etc. are properly credited in accordance with the stock providers rules.

I welcome all SecondLife Photo Artists into this group. I hope it becomes the home in DA for SL Photo Art.

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