Snapshot

You can take snapshots of a room by clicking on the Room icon in the control bar and selecting the  snapshot option. After you click the icon, you will get a popup window with a snapshot preview and various options. The options are:
 * Include occupants? - This lets you to choose whether or not to show the people currently in the room. It's handy for when you just want to take a snapshot of the room itself, but there are a lot of people in the way.
 * Include chat? - If you have "Include Occupants?" checked, but you do not want people's chat bubbles to appear in your snapshot, you can unclick this. This option is disabled when "Include occupants?" has been unchecked.
 * Use as room preview - This causes your snapshot to be used as the preview graphic for your room in the Rooms tab and on your rooms list. If you have no preview snapshot, a default graphic will appear in its place.  Also, if you paste the URL of your room into a discussion post, your post will automatically display the preview snapshot along with a link to your room.  This does not currently work with the URL you get from the Share feature--you must instead use the URL you get from going directly to the room and copying from your web browser's URL bar.
 * Add to 'My Images'  - Adds the snapshot as an image in your Stuff tab.
 * Download to my computer - Allows you to save the snapshot as a file on your computer.
 * Send as postcard to my friends - Here you can choose to send your snapshot to others via email. See details below.

Select the options you want and click on OK. It may take a moment for the OK button to be active if the room has a lot of objects in it.

For Group rooms, the room snapshot used as the room preview will show up in the Groups tab. The room snapshot is also used in your rooms list in the Me tab.

Postcards
With Whirled's postcard feature, you can create and send snapshots of Whirled rooms to your friends via email. To do so, use the Send as a postcard to my friends option in the snapshot dialog box. Add the email addresses of the friends to whom you wish to send the postcards, write a message to them if you wish to, and click "Send."

Your friends will receive an email containing your postcard with a link to the room in which it was taken, a link to your profile, your email address, and a link to Whirled.