How to Adjust Photo Color in Windows 10
Enhancing the colors captured in digital photography is easy with the Windows 10 built-in Photos app. Photos has four color editing tools which give you a considerable amount of control over the coloring of your photos. Continue reading to learn more about how to use them.
How Do I Disable Windows 10 Automatic Updates?
By default, Windows will check for, download, and install necessary update files during the automatic maintenance process. Since everything happens automatically, unwanted updates may be installed without your consent. In many cases, the update may crash the whole system or cause incompatible software issues that have never happened before. To prevent these situations, you can disable the automatic update feature. If you used Windows 7 or 8 in the past, the process is pretty straight forward. However, things have changed in Windows 10. Now, the option to turn off automatic updates is not in the Control Panel anymore. You have to dig deep into the Group Policy Editor to do it. Continue reading to find out how.
How to Straighten Photos in Windows 10
Do you have pictures of neat, straight buildings that look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa? How about a group picture where the ground and people look like they are tilted 10° to the right? Holding your camera perfectly level can be difficult if you do not have a tripod. Fortunately, the Windows 10 Photos app comes with a photo straightening tool that rotates and crops your images by up to 30° to fix your skewed photos. Here’s how to use it.
How to Adjust Highlights and Shadows in Windows 10 Photos
Most lighting edits in digital photography are done by adjusting the brightness (overall light/dark across all pixels in the image) and the contrast (simultaneously making the whites whiter and blacks blacker). Read my article on using the Brightness and Contrast tools in Windows 10 here. If you want finer control over your images lighting, read on.
Highlights and Shadows allow you to target and tweak the light and dark tonal areas of your image. How you use these tools will depend on the image and personal taste. Increasing the highlights could make the light areas of your photo really stand out, but usually comes at the cost of detail in these light areas. Play around with the tools until you strike a balance between detail and pop.
One-to-One, One-to-Many Table Relationships in SQL Server
Database designs are closely related to database relationships, the association between two columns in one or more tables. Relationships are defined on the basis of matching key columns. In SQL server, these relationships are defined using Primary Key-Foreign Key constraints. A link is created between two tables where the primary key of one table is associated with the foreign key of another table using database relationships.
How Do I Change the System Maintenance Schedule in Windows 10?
By default, Windows 10 wakes up your computer automatically at 2 AM to do its daily system maintenance. This maintenance includes tasks like software updates, system diagnostics, and security scanning. While daily maintenance is neccessary to keep your computer running smoothly, your computer waking up at night can be annoying, especially if it makes a lot of noise and you sleep near it. Luckily, you can configure the system to run the maintenance tasks at a different time. For example, you can tell it to wake up the computer one or two hours before you work. By doing so, your system will always run smoothly, and you will be able to sleep well at night. Continue reading to find out how.
How Do I Turn Off Video Auto-play on Facebook
On Facebook, videos that are directly uploaded to the site now play automatically. Because of a feature introduced earlier to mobile devices, users looked for ways to stop videos from playing automatically on YouTube. With the implementation of auto-play on computer web browsers, people will be more inclined to upload videos to Facebook instead of posting links to videos. Although the videos that automatically play are on mute, they can be annoying at times, especially when you consider the unnecessary data and extra RAM they require from your computer.
Luckily, there is a way to prevent videos from automatically playing. This article will guide you through the steps in disabling the auto-play feature on Facebook.
How to Apply Filters to Photos in Windows 10
You can spend hours fiddling with color and lighting settings, or you can use the built-in Enhance and Filter tools in Windows 10 to tweak your photos with a few mouse clicks. You have less control over the final image when you let Photos do the fine-tuning for you, but it sure is a quick and easy fix. I have found that the enhance tool does a good job of producing an image with deeper colors, and I like the option for quickly making a picture black and white. Read on to discover how to use these features.
How to Adjust Picture Brightness and Contrast in Windows 10
Sometimes photos turn out either too bright or too dark due to the camera’s exposure settings. With digital photography, these photo errors can be corrected after the fact using editing software like the Windows 10 built-in Photos app. There are two main settings to tweak when dealing with overexposed and underexposed pictures: brightness and contrast. Editing the brightness will result in all the pixels in your photo becoming lighter or darker. Increasing the contrast will simultaneously make the whites whiter and the blacks blacker, while decreasing the contrast will move them towards equilibrium. The goal is usually to balance the brightness and contrast to make a natural looking image. Using the steps in this tutorial, you can fine-tune the brightness and contrast settings on your Photos app to create impressive pictures.
How to Fix Red Eye in Windows 10 Photos
