Article: Taking care of your own schedule should be fairly easy, but the hard part is figuring out how to make sure your partner is free. If you plan the trip for a weekend, you may have less interference from work. If you plan it on short notice, you should be able to find out if they have plans already. A good trick you can use is to get a friend of your partner to make plans with them for the same time that you are planning the trip. Tell the friend that you need them to make fake plans. Your partner should end up keeping their schedule clear. For example, call your partner's best friend and say, "Hey, I want to take John on a surprise trip this weekend. Would you make some fake plans with him so he'll keep the weekend open?" If you're planning a multiple day trip, you may only need the fake plans to be for part of that time, as long as your partner keeps the rest of the time open. If you are willing to give away part of the surprise, you can simply tell them, "I'm making plans for us for this weekend, so keep your schedule open." It accomplishes what you need, but it does not give the whole surprise away. So many people travel around holidays that it can be a little tricky to take your romantic getaway at those times. Tickets and housing can be a little more expensive, and travel can get more hectic. All of this can add some stress to the situation which can easily take away from the romance of your getaway. If you want to make the trip part of the holiday experience, you can plan the trip for a weekend before or after the holiday time. Sitting in traffic, walking through crowded airports, and dealing with packed hotels will most likely cause stress, not romance. For these reasons, holidays are best avoided. A great way to surprise someone is getting tickets to an event they would enjoy. You could pick a concert, a stage play, or a convention of some kind. If you find a fun event, this will determine the date of your trip and you can work the other details out around it. Most events are scheduled pretty far in advance, so this will help you with planning. Focusing on an event will also help you narrow down where you're going to travel. You could also start with a location that you want to visit and find out what events are going to be in that area. This will most likely give you a good number of specific dates to choose from.
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Clear your schedules. Avoid holiday weekends. Plan the trip around an event.
Article: Double-click the icon of your preferred browser found on your desktop. If the icon isn't on your desktop, look for it in your programs list and click on the icon there. Once the browser opens, type in drive.google.com on the address bar and hit Enter. Type in your account username and password on the fields provided and click "Sign in." Click on the red "Create" button on the top-left corner of the web page and click "Presentation" from the drop-down list. You'll then be redirected to the Google Presentation page. Click on "Insert" from the menu toolbar located on the upper left portion of the web page. Select "Video" from the drop-down list, and the "Insert Video" window will open. Click "Video Search" from the left menu panel on the "Insert Video" window, and you'll see a search bar that you can use to search for videos on YouTube. Type in any item relevant to the video you'd like to add, and click the magnifying glass icon to start searching. Click the video that you'd like to add from the search result list to select it. Click the "Select" button to add the selected video to your slide.
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Open an Internet browser. Go to Google Drive. Log into your Google/Gmail account. Create a new presentation. Open the Insert Video window. Search for a video. Select a video to add to your slide. Add the video to your slide.
Article: Usually, this is an image that you want to enlarge, but it is too pixelated or low-resolution to use in its current form. You can also scan an image or drawing onto the computer using a scanner. If you are scanning an image into your computer, increase the contrast, so that it will be easier to trace. Select "File" and "Place" to bring your photo or image into the program. Make sure your image covers a majority of your screen, so that you can work on it in detail. Lock the first image layer by clicking the little square lock. The image will stay in one place while you work on it. Click on your Pen tool. You are going to trace your image, so that it will create a sharp, vector image. Choose the weight of the line that fits the line you are going to draw. Lines that are in the foreground should be thicker, while lines in the background should be thinner. Always use black outlines and white backgrounds during this process. You can change the colors later. Click the second point at the end of a straight section to create a straight line. Create curved lines by clicking a second point and dragging the line until it matches the smooth curve of the image. Use the handles to adjust the Bezier curve. They can be adjusted indefinitely. Remember that you want to create as few points as possible, while remaining as true to the shape as possible. This is a skill that will improve with practice. You can group these elements together later on. Fill in the colors when you are finished. You can add colors on the same layer or different layers. Save your file as a vector image, such as AI or EPS. Use this new vector image for scaling.
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Find an image that you want to vectorize. Download that image to your computer desktop or into an image folder. Open a new Adobe Illustrator file. Add a new layer on top of your image using the Layers palette. Return to your top layer. Choose a starting point to begin drawing or outlining your image. Click the starting point with your cursor. Press "Shift" to remove the Bezier Handle when you are ready to continue your outlining or drawing. Continue in the same clicking and adjusting until your outline is complete. Make each separate section into a different element. Return to the first layer, unlock it and delete it when you are finished making changes.