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A 360 picture will capture the whole scene and experience, allowing you to look up at the sky, forward towards the ocean, or down to your toes in the sand, all in one seamless image. 360-degree images give you the opportunity to capture entire rooms, landscapes, and scenes. And they’re easy to create and share on your smartphone using Google Street View. Before You Get Started There are a few things to keep in mind when selecting what to create a 360 photo of....

In fact, a Windows 11 PC is just as susceptible to occasional let-downs as it was in Windows 10. It is therefore necessary to have a full backup in place, just in case things go south. Here’s how you can get started with a complete Windows backup. How to Use Windows Backup and Restore on Windows 11 Through the Backup and Restore method, you can create an image of entire system and files of your PC....

While some services offer a seamless way of doing that, you usually have to pay a fee. But did you know you can do it for free using some smartphones and a couple of streaming apps? Here’s how to get it done. What You Need This setup is a bit complicated, and you need hardware to work with. So before learning how to build this studio setup, you should first know what gear you need....

Many companies use Application Tracking Software (ATS) which looks for keywords and specific color and design format in your resume. It can be rejected by ATS or a recruiter if the resume is not optimized and lacks standard design. Sharing your work experience and skills is the first step in getting the attention of a recruiter. Let’s understand how to create a professional resume in Microsoft Word. Why Use a Resume Template?...

How to Create a Scatter Chart in Excel on Windows or macOS In Excel, a scatter chart displays data points positioned at coordinates located on an x-axis and y-axis. Scatter charts are sometimes called X and Y charts, scatter plots, scatter diagrams, or scatter graphs. A scatter chart helps you compare pairs of values and understand the relationship between two variables. To create a scatter plot in Excel on laptop or desktop systems, follow these steps....

In this tutorial, we will show you how to easily create luminosity masks in a non-destructive workflow in Photoshop. What Are Luminosity Masks? Luminosity masks serve to make selections of the highlights, midtones, and shadows in ways that basic Photoshop sliders can’t handle. If you’ve used Adobe’s Camera Raw or Lightroom, you’ve probably used the Highlights and Shadows sliders to make broad adjustments to your images. Think of luminosity masks as more effective tools to selectively enhance brightness levels anywhere in your images with a lot more control....

In this tutorial, we will take a look at a few techniques to render realistic-looking skies and suns using Luminar AI as a plugin for Photoshop. The goal is to create an image that is both beautiful and able to fly underneath the radars of more skeptical viewers. Where to Get Photoshop and Luminar AI Photoshop can be purchased as part of the Creative Cloud subscription from the Adobe website....

If you share your computer with your wife and kids, they probably don’t care about using the best emulator, ROM variant, and customized settings. They’d only want to play a round of Tetris, to double-click an icon and, soon after, start gaming. Thankfully, that’s doable with most modern emulators. So, let’s see how you can create shortcuts for your emulated games on your desktop, which will act like those of any “natively” installed games....

How to Create a Query in Access 2010 Querying a database involves the retrieval of some or all data from one or more tables or views. Microsoft Access 2010 offers a powerful guided query function that helps you easily build a query even if you don’t know how to write a Structured Query Language script. Explore the Query Wizard safely, without touching your data, using Access 2010 and the Northwind sample database....

How to Crop Images in Photoshop With the Crop Tool The Crop tool offers the quickest way to crop images in Photoshop: Open your image and select the Crop tool from the toolbox. You should see crop boundaries appear around the edge of your image. Hover your mouse over each icon to see the name of the tool. Click and drag the handles around the image to create a new crop selection, or click and drag anywhere on the image to draw your selection manually....

In such situations, response templates can come in handy. A few filters in Gmail will also help you be more efficient with spam. In this article, we’ll show you how to use response templates and Gmail filters to combat spam effectively. What Are Gmail Templates and How Can You Use Them? You can save prewritten emails to your account and reuse them instead of writing them from scratch. You can save 50 different response templates simultaneously with a Gmail account....

While most people create their designs from scratch in Figma, you can be inspired by real websites and easily create a Figma design directly from an existing HTML page. Here’s how to do it. Why You Should Create Figma Designs From HTML There are many reasons you may want to replicate an existing web design as a Figma design. Doing this via the Figma plugin saves time, allowing you to focus on fine-tuning your design....

Converting Between DVI and VGA There are two basic ways to convert from DVI to VGA. You can use a cable that does the conversion for you. It will have a DVI connector on one end and a VGA one on the other. Plug one end into the DVI port and the other into the VGA, and everything will work normally. You can find cables like this pretty much anywhere online that sells electronics....

Let’s look at how you can convert M4A to MP3 on your iPhone without a computer. About the Media Converter App Media Converter is a free, popular mobile app that converts video and audio files on your iPhone. Unlike some media conversion tools, Media Converter doesn’t insert watermarks and it doesn’t limit the audio length to, say, only five-minute files. You can convert more than an hour of recorded M4A audio to MP3, hassle-free....

Why Convert Mp4 to Mp3? MPEG-4, commonly known as MP4, has become the standardized format for audio-video files. The reason being, it is supported by all platforms, i.e., Android, iOS, and almost all media players. However, you may need to convert MP4 to MP3 viz audio file format because: You wish to listen to your favorite songs, and not watch the video associated with it. Since certain mobile phones only support MP3 formats for downloading and streaming....

However, if you need to copy all your contacts from your iPhone to your PC, there are several options available. We’ll explain the simplest of the bunch, which doesn’t involve installing any software and won’t cost any money: iCloud. In fact, it’s a similar process to transferring photos from your iPhone to a PC. Of course, you can use iTunes, or any number of third-party apps which can copy stuff from your iPhone to your PC....

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a custom sepia effect in Photoshop. Additionally, we will show you how to create a Photoshop action to make the process quicker, regardless of whether you’re working with a color or black and white image. The Problem with Many Digital Sepia Filters The above picture is an example of a poor sepia effect. Typically, when you run your photo through a smartphone filter or a preset in Photoshop, there are no controls in place to fine-tune the effect apart from a strength or opacity slider....

Fast QR Code is a clean, easy to use, one-page website. It breaks down the task of creating a QR code into three steps with two output formats, which we’ll go over in this guide. What Is a QR Code? Before we get started, you might want to know exactly what a Quick Response (QR) code is. The QR format was invented in 1994, initially to track items during automotive manufacture....

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use color to your advantage to create a fantastic black and white image. We will also show you how to create a Photoshop action to automate the steps so you can use the same method in the future. How to Achieve the Best Black and White Image Converting a color image to black and white without first adjusting the existing colors may amount to a wasted opportunity....