GShade Tip: Vertical Shots with VerticalPreviewer.fx

Pixels - the most expensive commodity in the Glamour universe. A considerable amount is discarded when focusing on vertical content. So let's reclaim them with the help of a GShade technique!

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A typical situation when gposing is to have our subject(s) centered on our screens. If you're preparing images for Twitter or Eorzea Collection, you may need to crop them, keeping only the center intact. That means that everything else is discarded.
One way to make better use of the screen real state is to tilt the gpose camera and get the viewport closer to our subject. That translates into a higher pixel count for the zone that really matters to us.
But if you don't want to strain your neck looking sideways you can use a neat experience called VerticalPreviewer.fx, It adds handy guidelines for content and previews the final result as a centered, scaled copy in the middle of the screen.
After adjusting the camera with the preview, disable it (so it doesn't appear as part of the final image) - and then take your screenshot.
Before uploading, you may need to correct the image orientation. If you're on Windows, that's pretty simple: right-click the image, and select 'Rotate Right' (or Left, depending on the orientation of your shot.)

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We just talked about posing dark-skinned characters. So let's use the opportunity to talk about Maya's Skintones subset from the Purple Cocoon collection, created with these tones in mind!

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