Last night, after installing the RC 1.21.0 viewer, I noticed something had been changed in the snapshot window.

It doesn’t look really different, but there’s 2 new features, features I’m sure people will be very happy about!

First, the “save” button now has a tiny arrow that’ll open a small drop-down menu.

Basically, it still saves as “Snapshot_###” when you simply press the button. This still opens up that window where you can enter a new name for your picture. But here’s where the new feature gets in. Before, all pictures you took and saved would be saved under the name you saved your 1st picture, right? Well, now, the drop-down offers a “save as” function, where you will have the chance to save pictures under a different name!
This is handy if (for example) you’re doing a photoshoot of several people, and you want to save the pics of person A under 1 name, and the pics of person B under an other name!

I’m a fan so far!

The 2nd new feature I’m sure will please many people, and is all to do with having the choice of file format.
Second Life® snapshots have always been BMP files, which sometimes could give pics of over 10 or 15 MB in size (and if you’re a photography freak like me who takes 20 pics of something in one angle, and 20 more of that same thing in an other angle, your hard drive will get stuffed with SL® snapshots fast!).
But, ladies and gentlemen, the snapshot window offers the brandspanking new feature of saving your pics not only in BMP, but also JPEG and (photographers will love this) PNG!!!

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*applauds whoever worked on this*