1/17/2024 0 Comments Affinity photo free templatesWhen you are done with your marble effect, click Apply. It will cause the area to blur and lose definition. While you are distorting the image, be careful not to extend the anchor points too far. We added a few more points and used those to pull out the edges. As more points are added, the more the design is distorted. You can add as many anchor points as you want. Don't worry about the white areas that show as we will fix this later. In the image below, the direction of the red arrows is where the points were dragged. Do the same with the other two anchor points. Once the anchor points have been placed click + drag one in any direction. Master is left at 100% and Linear Constraints left on Rigid. We placed three anchor points, one top left, a middle point and one bottom right. Every time you click, a new anchor point will be placed. This is because we need to place at least two anchor points.Ĭlick anywhere on the canvas and a circular anchor will be placed. If you try to adjust anything under the Deform panel, nothing will happen. Once again click on Filters, select Distort and then Deform. Step 2 - Add anchor points for the Deform Toolįor the next set of distortion we will use the Deform tool. At the top click on Filters, go to Distort then select Twirl. The Angle was set to 225.4° and the Radius set to 1024 px. Twirl distortion will create the first 'flow' of the design and help us get started quicker. When you add the distortion, Affinity Photo will change the layer from a grouped layer to a single Pixel layer. First, we will add a Twirl distortion to the design. With everything setup, now we can distort the design we have created. Once done, draw a selection box around all of the panels. Keep duplicating until your canvas is full. This will move the duplicates to the top of the Layers panel. Remember to click Move to Front each time you make duplicates. Next, press Ctrl + J to duplicate and Affinity Photo will shift them to the right. If not, go the Layers panel and Shift + click on the four layers at the top. The duplicate rectangles should still be selected. When you press Ctrl + J again, Affinity will remember and move the duplicates for you. This is because you are creating a new action. You will notice that when pressing Ctrl + J, Affinity Photo didn't adjust for you as before. While still selected click on Move to Front at the top of the screen. Now, click + drag the duplicates to the right until they snap into place. Press Ctrl + J to duplicate all four panels. Click on the Move tool top left and click + drag a selection box around the four panels. To quickly fill our canvas, we want to duplicate the four panels that we created. You will now have four panels, each with a different color. Remember to give the rectangle another color fill. Repeat for the last rectangle. Select the top most rectangle layer then press Ctrl + J. Affinity Photo will automatically move the rectangle into place for you. We will need to create another two duplicates, change the color and shift them. With the Snapping guide in place, a green and red line will show when it's aligned correctly. Change the color fill then click + drag it to the left until it covers half of the first rectangle. Go to the Layers panel and right click the rectangle layer then select Duplicate. Affinity Photo will create a new layer for the rectangleįill the rectangle with a color of your choice from the Color Panel on the right hand side. Now, draw out your rectangle as shown in the image below. It will show the last shape used filled in blue with a white triangle next to it.Ĭlick on the white triangle and select the Rectangle tool from the options. Then, on the left hand side panel, click on the shape tool. To keep everything aligned nicely, click on the Snapping tool at the top. But if the distortion works well enough, this layer won't be needed. This layer serves to fill any white gaps that you may have trouble covering. We will keep this for a background fill if needed later. Under the Layer panel on the right, click on Add Pixel Layer. For this tutorial, we filled four panels with blue, purple and black. Color choice is completely up to you including how many and the placement. We will be using the Rectangle tool to create panels and fill them with color. The base design needs to be set up before we can begin distorting it. Set up the base design to create the marble effect Once you have adjusted your settings, click Create. In this tutorial we are going to create a marble background in Affinity Photo. To start off, open Affinity Photo and select New Document. In Affinity Photo marble effects can be created using the distortion tools. Colors can be bold and striking or have a light pastel feel. The effect is great for use in wallpaper, paper crafts and even design fills. A marbled effect can give texture to backgrounds and create eye-catching designs.
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1/17/2024 0 Comments Adobe illustrator price ca5Adobe’s Illustrator is a professional vector-based graphics program for creating vector designs on your computer that requires minimal hand drawing. One of the best Adobe apps is Illustrator. They have a lot of features and continue to improve the programs to keep up with the ever-changing software environment. Procreate is simple to learn and allows you to get started right away.īoth Illustrator and Procreate will endure the test of time. Both programs provide a wealth of instructional material. Procreate is a more user-friendly program than Adobe Illustrator. Procreate is only accessible via the iPad with its sibling app for iPhones, Procreate Pocket. It’s available for both Mac and Windows and works with iPad, desktop, and mobile devices (Adobe Sketch is a sister program of Illustrator). Why? Because the program is vector-based, you may scale the logo to any size without losing quality, making it perfect for brand campaigns.Īdobe Illustrator is a vector graphics program that may be used on computers, iPads, and smartphones. To create logos, Illustrator is far superior to Procreate. The painting environment is comfortable and natural, with many brushes and instruments for sketching and painting. Procreate is a fantastic illustration program. The app is only $9.99 in the App Store, as opposed to an unlimited subscription required by Illustrator.ģ. Procreate is ideal for creating digital art, but Illustrator can do it all in the realm of vector graphics.įor the price, Procreate wins. Procreate vs Illustrator: Quick Comparisonīoth Procreate and Illustrator have tons of fantastic characteristics for their design software. So vector images and file types are used for very large display purposes or printing! Vectors are shapes and artwork that are made up of lines and can basically be enlarged infinitely. If a raster image is enlarged beyond its original canvas size, it will become pixelated and blurry.Īdobe Illustrator allows you to create vector images. They are solid and cannot be infinitely enlarged. Essentially, rasters are images made up of lots of pixels. Procreate allows you to create solid raster images. However, you can download Illustrator onto your iPad and use your Apple Pencil to design vector images. Most of the time this is done with a mouse on a PC or Macbook. In Adobe Illustrator, digital artists and designers mostly create images and digital artwork out of shapes and lines. When creating digital art on Procreate, one uses a stylus or Apple Pencil (or even your finger) to draw or paint on the canvas. The Difference between the Digital Art ProgramsĪt the most basic level, Procreate is much closer to real-life drawing and painting than Adobe Illustrator. But which one is better? In order to answer that question, we need to first understand the difference between the two programs. When it comes to digital drawing, the two most popular programs are Procreate and Adobe Illustrator.
1/17/2024 0 Comments Philips dragon voice recorderThis is a note taker not a dictaphone so you are not able to rewind/review your audio just simply record and stop, although you can pause during recordings. The 660 records in MP3 format and like all recorders has multiple recording modes (tip: always use the highest quality recording mode, SHQ on the DVT 660). Not much to say about the Philips DVT 660, a great little recorder, perfect for single speaker audio. At that price it certainly makes you sit up and pay attention, after all the package contains Dragon NaturallySpeaking v10 and a very competent Philips Digital VoiceTracer 660. Released mid 2009 in Australia in a joint venture between Philips Dictation and Nuance was the Philips Dragon NaturallySpeaking Voice Recorder Edition ( LFH0660/10) at an incredibly cheap price of RRP AU$259.00 incl. The below review is still relevant, the software is setup and trained the same way with the new pack. The Dragon NaturallySpeaking DVR (Digital Voice Recorder) Edition now contains the LFH0612 Philips digital voice tracer. The software is the same, the recorder included in the pack is different. # UPDATE 2011 # This review was initially for the LFH0660/10 – this has been replaced in Australia in 2010 by the new model LFH0617/00. Have a read if you are considering buying the Dragon Voice Recorder Edition. # UPDATE 2012 # Should you buy the Dragon NaturallySpeaking DVR Edition? Blog looks at the functionality of DVR compared to other Dragon NaturallySpeaking versions. 1/17/2024 0 Comments United 747 cockpit takeoffOnce safely off the runway, Pan Am will report so to the tower. Pan Am’s instructions are to turn clear along a left-side taxiway to allow the other plane’s departure. Captain Van Zanten will steer to the end, turn around, then hold in position until authorized for takeoff. KLM taxis ahead and onto the runway, with the Pan Am Clipper ambling several hundred yards behind. Los Rodeos, now known as Tenerife North Airport, in 2006 For reasons you’ll see in a moment, that will be critical. That fuel also means extra weight, affecting how quickly the 747 is able to become airborne. During the delay, a heavy blanket of fog swoops down from the hills and envelopes the airport. The weather is fine until just before the accident, and if not for KLM requesting extra fuel at the last minute, both would be on their way sooner. Pan Am is quickly ready for departure, but the lack of room and the angle at which the jets face each other requires that KLM begin to taxi first. Finally at around four o’clock, Las Palmas begins accepting traffic again. The Rhine and Clipper Victor sit adjacent to each other at the southeast corner of the apron, their wingtips almost touching. The normally lazy Los Rodeos is packed with diverted flights. Later, when KLM executives first get word of the crash, they will attempt to contact Van Zanten in hopes of sending him to Tenerife to aid the investigation team. If passengers recognize him, it’s because his confident, square-jawed visage stares out from KLM’s magazine ads. The KLM captain, Jacob Van Zanten, whose errant takeoff roll will soon kill nearly six hundred people, including himself, is the airline’s top 747 instructor pilot and a KLM celebrity. KLM, for its part, is the oldest continuously operating airline in the world, founded in 1919 and highly regarded for its safety and punctuality. Let’s not forget the airlines themselves: Pan Am, the most storied franchise in the history of aviation, requires little introduction. Really, though, what were the chances of that - a Hollywood script if ever there was one. For just those reasons, it was hard not to imagine what a story it would be - and how much carnage might result - should two of these behemoths ever hit each other. In 1977, in only its eighth year of service, the Boeing 747 was already the biggest, the most influential, and possibly the most glamorous commercial jetliner ever built. Never was this illustrated more calamitously - almost to the point of absurdity - than on that Sunday afternoon almost forty years ago. Indeed, most airplane crashes result not from a single error or failure, but from a chain of improbable errors and failures, together with a stroke or two of really bad luck. The magnitude of the accident speaks for itself, but what makes it particularly unforgettable is the startling set of ironies and coincidences that preceded it. Five hundred and eighty three people were killed in what remains the biggest air disaster in history. There, on March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747s - one belonging to KLM, the other to Pan Am - collided on a foggy runway. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. 1/17/2024 0 Comments Pixel 2 xl google keynoteNotably, the Pixel 2 XL doesn’t have a dual-camera system. iPhone X: Dual 12MP wide-angle and telephoto cameras, f/1.8 and f/2.4, dual optical image stabilization, 2X optical zoom.Note 8: Dual 12MP wide-angle and telephoto cameras, f/1.7 and f/2.4, dual optical image stabilization, 2X optical zoom.Pixel 2 XL: 12.2MP with laser autofocus and dual pixel phase detection, f/1.8, optical image stabilization.Here’s how the three phones match up on paper: But DxO had this to say about the Pixel 2 camera: “We’re in danger of running out of superlatives when describing the major image quality attributes of the Google Pixel 2.” Of course, cameras are subjective, so we won’t know how they compare until we can test the Pixel 2 XL and iPhone X thoroughly. The iPhone X features wireless charging, but the Pixel 2 XL doesn’t.Īll three phones have big batteries and either of them should easily get you through a full day of use: iPhone X: IP67 (submersion of 1 meter for 30 minutes).Note 8: IP68 (submersion of 1.5 meters for 30 minutes).Pixel 2 XL: IP67 (submersion of 1 meter for 30 minutes).Note 8 vs. iPhone X: Water resistance AppleĪny of these phones can get really, really wet.Įach phone offers some level of water resistance, but the Note 8 wins this round: Note 8: 64GB, SD Card support up to 256GB.Neither the Pixel 2 XL nor the iPhone X offer expandable storage. While the Note 8 is available only in a 64GB version, it does have an SD Card slot for expanding storage up to 256GB. The Pixel 2 XL comes in 64 GB or 128 GB flavors.Īll three phones start at 64GB of storage, but you can get a 128GB Pixel 2 XL and a 256GB iPhone X, both of which should provide plenty of space for apps, movies, and photos. The Pixel 2 XL will likely have a long-term advantage over the Note 8 due to Android optimizations and steady updates, and the same is true for the iPhone X and Apple’s regular iOS care. The iPhone X, on the other hand, uses Apple’s homegrown A11 Bionic chip, which has blown away benchmark scores.īut while the iPhone X is a good deal faster on paper, in real-world tests, all three phones should perform about the same. Unlike last year, when Google debuted a new chip in its first Pixel phones, the Pixel 2 XL uses the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor as the Galaxy Note 8. The iPhone X features Apple’s own A11 Bionic chip. All three displays feature rounded edges, and each differs a little in size: The Pixel 2 XL is relatively pedestrian by comparison. Apple’s iPhone X stretches the limits by completely eliminating the top and bottom bezels on the iPhone X, even going so far as to design a notch in the center of the screen for the camera. The Note 8’s Infinity Display is the only one with a true edge-to-edge screen. 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Daily backup schedules are only available on PC Straightforward Restore OptionsĬarbonite’s restore options are pretty straightforward, but I ran into some issues when I tried to do a restore. If you’re on a PC, you can schedule backups to run daily instead of continuously, if you want. By default, Carbonite will run continuously in the background and back up these changes within 24 hours of you making them. Once that initial backup is complete, things get a whole lot faster because Carbonite will only back up changes you’ve made to files since its last full backup. While this is great and all, it can take some time. Continuous BackupsĬarbonite automatically initiates a full backup of all supported files in the folders you select during install. This is different from some competitors, like IDrive and CrashPlan, that keep your file until you choose to delete it. If you delete a file from your computer, it will remain backed up with Carbonite for 30 days and will then be permanently deleted from your account. Fortunately, the Back Up tab on the desktop app shows you clearly which files have been backed up. What You Can (and Can’t) Back UpĬarbonite lets you back up your documents, photos, videos, music, settings, and email from a single computer. It will even back up files that are locally synced on your computer from Dropbox, OneDrive, or Google Drive.īut you can’t back up programs, applications, operating system files, and temporary files, meaning you won’t be able to back up your entire computer.Ĭarbonite limits individual file sizes to 4GB for automatic backups, but you can manually upload bigger files. 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That percentage shrinks if you’re paying for your subscription through Apple’s App Store, though not Google’s App Store, a TIDAL representative told TechCrunch. If you’re subscribed to Tidal’s HiFi Plus plan - which costs $19.99 per month - up to 10% (or about $2) of your monthly subscription fee will be distributed to your most-listened-to artist. Starting on January 1, 2022, this model will apply more broadly on Tidal, including artists signed to labels, not just indie distributors. To start, the company struck deals with independent distributors like CD Baby, Equity Distribution, Stem, Symphonic, Tunecore and Vydia. These partnerships foreshadow a larger pivot from Tidal toward experimenting with streaming payout models that are thought to distribute funds more equitably to musicians who don’t get millions of streams on any given day (AKA, people who aren’t Taylor Swift or Lil Nas X). 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