![]() ![]() In the same manner, with fine-grained control, you can color grade your photo. Pick a certain lightness level for that hue / hue range:Īdjust feathering to smoothen things out: Pick a certain hue / hue range to replace: Have you tried Monochrome Except One Color A quick example how to let one color through in an otherwise monochrome image. You can target multiple channels with the same parametric mask instance for a fine-grained control of replacement.Įxample (turn blue skies with a specific level of lightness into red): ![]() Replace colors using the parametric mask to reach desired harmonies. Match colors as per the color grading lesson.ġ instance of color balance: Give matching tints to shadows, mid-tones and highlights However, in its default state, it changes saturation globally, while we need to target only pixels that are below a certain level of saturation. Selective saturation method 2 - Color balance module:ĭoesn’t have the same issues Velvia has. So we have 3 variants of velvia (normal, blend mode chroma, blend mode HSV color) with different effects on hue and lightness. In contrast to blend mode “color” this mode does not involve clamping.” “Only available with modules that work in the RGB color space this blend mode mixes color from the input and output images, while lightness data are taken only from the input image. Workaround attempt 2: blend mode HSV color You did not do that, and even discovered a few of its gems, like Color Zones. Lightness and hue are taken unaltered from the input image.” Most reviews of Darktable merely scratch the surface and dismiss Darktable as a bad Lightroom clone. “This blend mode mixes chroma (saturation) from the input and output images. Use the color picker (to the right of the color patch) to select a neutral color from the image or, if one is unavailable, select the entire image. “What it’s doing is changing the saturation (which is its intention), but at the same time it also changes the hue and brightness (which becomes awkward).” Its effect is tailored to increase saturation less on lower saturated pixels than on highly saturated pixels.” “The velvia module enhances image saturation. ![]() Selective saturation method 1 - Velvia module: We don’t want to oversaturate pixels that are already well saturated, else our photo will look like a coloring book. Parts of our photo are well saturated, but others aren’t. Since we covered sharpening, lets quickly cover color balance / grading now. ![]()
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![]() ![]() You could use Excel’s Shrink to Fit Text menu for this. There’s also a way to fit your texts in cells without changing the cell size. In the Alignment section, click on Wrap Text. Keyboard Shortcut: Alt, H, WĪlternatively, if you want to use the Excel Ribbon, select Cells and go to Home Tab. Meaning, you do not need to press keys together. ![]() Keep in mind, if the shortcut starts from Alt, it’s a Ribbon Shortcut. Wrap Text will automatically adjust the cell size such that the contents will fit in the cells.įor this, you can select the cells and enter the shortcut keys given in the box. To deal with long texts or paragraphs, you can use Excel’s Wrap Text menu. After increasing the row height and column width, our cells look like this.On the Column Width window, type in the Column Size and hit OK.Again, click the Format option on the Home Tab and choose Column Width.On the Row Height window, enter a Size and click OK.From the Cells section, click on Format > Row Height. Now, click on the Select All icon at the upper-left to select the entire cell ranges.Right-click on any one Sheet and pick Select All Sheets.On your Excel sheet, press the Ctrl key and select Multiple sheets.You can enter your preferred measurement. You’ll have the default size when you add a new sheet to your workbook.Īs an example, we have entered size 30 for both columns and rows. Remember the changes will apply to only selected sheets. ![]() The best part is you can do this for multiple sheets at once. If expanding the cell size is a part of your day-to-day job, you can change the default column or row size beforehand. Under cell size pick AutoFit Row Height or AutoFit Column Width. Firstly, select the entire cells and head to the Home Tab. If you’d rather prefer to change the cell size from the Excel Ribbon, this method is for you. AutoFit Column Width: Alt, H, O, IĪutoFit Row Height: Alt, H, O, A From Excel Ribbon This is because the given shortcuts are Ribbon shortcuts. Then, press each of the keys one at a time. Shortcuts can basically become a part of your routine as you find yourself resizing cells almost every day in Excel.įirstly, select all cell ranges with Ctrl + A keys. Every time I need to extend the column size, I immediately press the Alt H O I out of habit. So, you could try out the keyboard shortcut.Īs for me, I love using keyboard shortcuts because it saves a lot of time. While the double-click method could be the simplest, it isn’t possible to use that approach for huge spreadsheets. As soon as you see the resize cursor, Left-click on your mouse twice. Similarly, to expand the Row size, select the Entire cells. Then, once you see the resize cursor, Double-click on your left mouse button. Hover your cursor in between the Column Header you want to expand the column. In this method, you just need to press Ctrl + A to select the entire cells. The good news is that there’s a way that’ll automatically expand the cells to fit text in seconds. Double-click Resize Cursorĭon’t we all Excel users look for the easiest and quickest way possible to do our tasks in worksheets? So, today, I will guide you through different ways that’ll automatically expand the cells to fit the texts perfectly. But, with this approach, you may stretch the cell size too far or too less than required. To expand the cell size, most beginners tend to drag the resize cursor to stretch rows or columns. This way, you could also keep your data clean in the worksheet. To address this issue, you can always expand the cell size to fit the text. You might as well encounter the # error in the cells. This is because Excel’s default cell size ( 8.43 column width and 15-row height) cannot fit lengthy contents. Whenever you enter longer texts, it is normal for contents to spill to other adjacent cells. ![]() ![]() ![]() I mention that only because of the similarity of creating worlds. I mean, I did Rome for HBO and that was a huge world that we were creating there. James Purefoy: I mean when you’re trying to create a world, I think that’s a big deal for me. ![]() And so this really is a bit of a grand experiment, because it’s like filming a giant budget film, but we’re doing a ten to 13 day episode of television. I knew that this was going to be one of Netflix’s biggest budget shows, and we’ve all done enough television to know how that looks when you’re filming, what a two million dollar budget feels like, what the pace of a television show feels like when you need to be efficient and lean. And to know the players that were involved, it meant that, yes, they were gonna really put their money where their mouth was. Kristin Lehman: The thing for me that’s very interesting is, yes, I did, because the property itself that they’re basing this on is extremely successful, so from a business perspective it makes sense that they’ve invested in something that is a money maker and is an excellent property. And then when I saw it, like I said before, lit with all the extras, all the background players, and it felt like you’re in the world in a way that I’ve not really experienced in my life. The first time I walked on set when I first got here and I saw the street, I couldn’t believe it. ![]() I mean I knew they had to spend some money, but then I don’t even know the figures, I can’t count that high. What’s the point otherwise?Īto Essandoh: I just didn’t realize how much money. If you’re gonna do it, you’re gonna green light something like this, do it properly. What are you talking about? If you try and do this on the cheap, it’s just going to look like shit. James Purefoy: I don’t really do cheap shows. ![]() ![]() ![]() (See Check-Mate Shipping and Returns FAQ for more information). ![]() or other government authorization required to ensure compliance with applicable export laws. 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This isn’t really an issue until you consider that RV batteries can only supply power directly to appliances that require direct current.įor anything else, you’ll need to choose the best RV converter for your rig. ![]() They will either run on direct current (DC) or alternating current (AC) power. The appliances in your RV require one of two different types of electricity. ![]() ![]() The release burst of the (which I pronounced as released for the purposes of this spectrogram) Right at the end of the vowel, you can see F2 and F3 start to approach one another in a formant transition pattern (often called the "velar pinch") that usually marks the onset phase of a velar consonant. The aspiration (delay of the onset of voicing for ) The above spectrogram is of the English word attack. The period of aspiration (which only some voiceless plosives have) is much longer than the very short release burst (which all released plosives have). NB: Aspiration is not the same as the release burst. (Recall that the tongue body is in position for the following vowel and that aspiration is just a delay in the onset of voicing.) The formant transitions (if you can see them) look like the formants have been distorted away from the frequencies they have during most of the vowel.Īspiration will look like a period of between the blank gap and the vowel - specifically, a voiceless version of the following vowel. On a spectrogram, the release burst looks like a very, very thin fricative. ![]() To tell the difference between plosives, listeners rely on the release burst and on formant transitions. (But very often you won't see anything there, either because the voicing got lost in the background noise or because the recording or computer equipment cut off frequencies that low.) The quiet vocal fold vibrations in a voiced plosive will sometimes appear as a faint band along the bottom of the spectrogram at the frequency of f0. On a spectrogram, this will appear as a white blank. The medial phase of a voiceless plosive is complete silence. It will have a lot of random noise that looks like static, but through the static you can usually see the faint bands of the voiceless vowel's formants. On a spectrogram, it looks a little like a cross between a fricative and a vowel. is really a voiceless version of the preceding or following vowel. Voiced fricatives show aspects of both regular vocal fold vibrations and a randomly turbulent airstream. has a higher average frequency than does and both are higher than or. While each momentary burst of energy occurs at a random frequency, there are tendencies in which frequencies the random bursts cluster around. The result sounds much like static noise, and on a spectrogram it looks like the kind of static noise you might see on a TV screen. The turbulent airstream of fricatives creates a chaotic mix of random frequencies, each lasting for a very brief time. In, F2 and F3 also often appear merged together in a single wide band.) Fricativesįricatives are easy. In, and sometimes other back vowels, F1 and F2 are often so close together that they appear as a single wide formant band. (There are some especially common difficulties in identifying formants. But the existence of formants is usually obvious enough that you can at least be sure you're looking at a vowel. unless you already have a good idea of where to expect them. You can't always tell reliably which formant you're looking at - F1, F2, F3, etc. In dipthongs, you can see the formants change frequency as the tongue body moves through the mouth: Vowels usually have very clearly defined formant bars, as in the following: Let's look at how various kinds of sounds appear on a spectrogram. ![]() Identifying sounds in spectrograms Identifying sounds in spectrograms ![]() ![]() With Atlas you can extract data from different sources and combine that in one clear report. Atlas is – after a short instruction – directly applicable and far more understandable for everyone and that increases the effectiveness of an organisation. A quick overview, tailored to your specific needs, is quite a challenge in Power BI. ![]() For ad hoc information, directly available in the understandable format that helps you to do your daily work, Atlas is a much better alternative. Nancy: “Power BI provisions another type of information. Power BI is a state-of-the-art product of Microsoft, but it is positioned and meant for the management level. So not just for uploading, but also for downloading to extract data out of the system in a very user-friendly way. “Atlas is not only intended for consultants, it is also an outstanding product for daily use for end-users. As I said before, Microsoft is making steps forward as well so the latest version – Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Enterprise Edition – also has a framework that supports the upload of multiple tables in one go.”Ītlas is for consultants and for end-users In that case you will have to upload every table separately and that is very laborious, it is a missed opportunity because a lot of data is interrelated. If you want to do the same kind of action with the Microsoft solution – so without the use of Atlas – this is much more complex. I just have to make a script and after the final test I can upload thousands of records at once customer information like addresses, the invoice history, opening balance and so on. It has been enriched with new features year after year, but in the basis it still is the ideal tool for me as a consultant to upload data – during a conversion or an implementation project – to the ERP-system. ![]() Furthermore I instruct the people for a running start and I take care of the after-live support. “The installation is done by my technical colleagues, my concern is the functional design, organise and implement the software according to their needs, set the parameters and optimise the business processes. Over the years Microsoft ERP-consultant Nancy Hobeck has been responsible for numerous successful implementation projects. The user-friendly interface of Atlas gives you the possibility to address all the various tables in Dynamics AX, but you can also customise your own tables in Dynamics AX and connect these with Atlas.” You are also able to upload data – like financial budgets and diary and stock journal entries – from an Office-environment to Dynamics AX. With Atlas you can make powerful reports with real time data from the Dynamics AX environment in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Atlas is fully integrated in the ribbon bars of the well-known Microsoft Office-products. It is like a race where Microsoft chases Atlas and forces Atlas’s developers to come with new functionality to keep the lead. “Microsoft constantly picks the newest features of Atlas and makes it a fixed component of its new release. It is a game of cat-and-mouse that results in a never ending further development of the product That combination is still undoubtedly the best there is.” As I started at Dynamic People in 2007, we were already using Atlas as the connecting link between Microsoft Office and Microsoft Dynamics AX. We make well-considered decisions and this decade proves that we are right most of the time. ![]() This way we are able to safeguard the availability and development of knowledge and that is of great importance to our customers. We build long-lasting relationships, not only with our customers but also with our staff. For every upgrade and so on, I am in the lead and this way we grow together. Nowadays I still support customers where I did the implementation ten years ago. “One of our strengths is that we are able to bond. “Not the least because the management members – two at that time in 2007 – were consultants as well, so in that role we were equals and we have been teaming ever since,” says Nancy. Nancy Hobeck was the very first employee on the payroll of Dynamic People and it feels to her like home from the start. When using your familiar Microsoft Office applications, Atlas helps you to make powerful reports from different databases ![]() ![]() Neither simulated nor actual past performance are reliable indicators of future performance. The value of investments, and any income from them, can fall and you may get back less than you invested. Sign up to our newsletter for expert insights on investing for the future, saving for retirement, passing on assets to the next generation, and much more. Get financial planning tips straight to your inbox An adviser will build a portfolio that has the right mix of asset classes for your individual needs, and works hard to preserve your money’s purchasing power and grow your investments over the long term. Managing a diversified investment portfolio on your own isn’t easy – and that’s where getting some smart advice can help. This is because each asset class may perform differently in a range of market conditions some will lose value, while others will make gains. Spreading your money across a range of asset classes – including equities, bonds, property and cash – can help to limit losses in your portfolio. It is far better to maintain a well-diversified portfolio and focus on the long term. Attempting to second-guess market movements is pretty much impossible – even for the experts. Otherwise, you may feel an urge to act on a sharp downturn and end up crystallising losses you would otherwise have made up over time. Limiting how frequently you check your portfolio is generally good for your financial and emotional wellbeing. If you are prepared to accept the risk that comes with investing, and have time on your side, you give your money the greatest chance of growing and beating inflation over the long term. Remember that investing beats cashĬash savings accounts typically struggle to keep pace with inflation, resulting in savers losing value in ‘real’ terms and risking falling short of their goals. By leaving your money invested in the stock market, you increase the chances of it growing and building a substantial pot for your future. History has shown that no matter what challenges the global economy has faced, markets typically recover from downturns and go on to deliver impressive returns over the long term. The world has endured plenty of huge shocks – from wars to deep global recessions. Try to remember that it is time in the market, not timing the market, that is key to long-term returns. Focusing on these can help to ensure you aren’t distracted by current events and that they don’t prompt you to veer off course. If you are investing, you most likely have long-term goals for your money – such as saving towards retirement or your children’s education. Here are some tips to help you stay calm. Learn how investing helps your money work harder in our jargon-free guide. Yet while this may temporarily calm your nerves, doing so could put a significant dent in your long-term finances. The fear of incurring major losses could make it tempting to sell your investments. ![]() Watching the stock market swing up and down is unnerving for most investors. ![]() ![]() ![]() God provided other warnings as well – Methuselah’s name means, “He dieth, and the sending forth will come.” He was so named by his father Enoch to give it as a prophecy of the flood. The wicked that perished clearly deserved to be destroyed by their perdition, and have no excuse. Of course, these evil and wicked men did not repent, and would not by their wicked nature, but that does not make God unjust – indeed, God’s longsuffering and justice are demonstrated by His delaying of the flood during the 100 years of Noah’s labor. Noah preached this message of the upcoming certain destruction and judgment, both by his words and by his building of the ark. The Bible tells us that Christ through Noah preached warnings to the people prior to the flood. By this God afforded a space for the wicked men to repent prior to this destruction. ![]() ![]() God says in Gen 6:3, “My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” This may be a reference to a shortening of the lifetime of men which occurred after the flood, although I believe a better construction is that God is announcing a coming judgment that will take place in 120 years from that time. Peter reminds the readers of the way that God dealt with the world in the time leading up to the flood – God was angry with the wickedness of the world, promised destruction would come, and yet delayed. Peter is telling the disciples not to be discouraged by this criticism, but indeed to expect it. These scoffers do not appear to be members of the church so much as critics of it, whether inside or out. Peter is writing prophetically by the Spirit to address both his time, and the time in the future (“last days”). Peter in this section of his letter (2 Peter 3:1-13) addresses scoffers who, motivated by their own lusts, mock the promise of the second coming. When examined in context, it can be seen that this verse instead teaches a special atonement, which means that Christ died for his particular people (the elect of God), and none of these shall perish or be lost. According to this view, Christ died as a general offering for the sins of the entire human race, and God is now delaying the final judgment, hoping that some of these lost sinners will repent and thereby escape the fires of eternal damnation. This verse is often used by many to teach a universal atonement by God. “ The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 ![]() |
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