Something I would really like to start doing is live streaming. I’ve been enjoying watching Leo Laporte stream himself recording his various podcasts via his TWiT Live site and I want to get into the game myself.

I haven’t really researched any of the different live stream services yet, but one thing that’s different between what I’ve seen so far and what I want to do is that I don’t want to stream video of myself. I want to stream what’s on my monitor (or at least one of them).

I would love to put up a live stream of screen as I’m working on artwork. So that people can basically watch it all unfold in Photoshop as I go. But I’m not sure how to point any of these live streaming services to a monitor instead of a webcam.

So I’m putting out the bat-signal and seeing if any of you out there in the PvP Nation know what I could do/use to pull something like this off.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks to everyone who helped me with my streaming question. Here’s the solution I went with: Camtwist and Ustream.tv.

Ustream.tv is a free service that lets you broadcast your webcam over the net. Camtwist is a program for Mac that runs in the background and sends your desktop to Ustream. Camtwist will let you specifiy between fullscreen, a portion of a screen or a particular monitor. A simple elegant solution.

Be sure to bookmark my Ustream page for the How to Make Webcomics Screencast. From time to time, I’ll broadcast live as I work on the strip or other art. Right now, it’s video only. No audio. But that might change in the future.