Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Select the Lasso Tool from your tool palette. Increase the feather to between 1 and 3 pixels. Zoom in on your subject(s) so that you can see the edges clearly. Click or drag the Lasso tool along the edges of your subject. Copy the foreground selection by pressing Ctrl-C. Paste the foreground selection over top of the existing image. Select the layer that contains the original image. Go to Filter > Blur > Blur More. Make sure your foreground doesn't appear too sharp. Use the Blur Tool to soften the edges of your in-focus foreground. When you're completely satisfied, go to Layer > Flatten Image.

Answer: You'll use this to select the image(s) in the photo that you want to distinguish from your blurred background. Choose the selection type based on what is most suitable for your particular image. Ex.: If the image you want to emphasize has very straight edges, right-click to change the lasso to Polygonal, which will create straight lines between the points you click. If there's a sharp, clear edge between the background and the image you want to emphasize, change the lasso to Magnetic, which will find the edge for you. Feathering your edges will make them softer and subtle and much more forgiving. This will help you freehand-select more accurately. Be sure to "close the circle" by ending up back where you started and clicking on your origin point. You'll know your selection is complete once a dotted "marquee" line appears around the edges. Make sure you're working on the top layer when you lasso. To add to an already-completed selection, hold down the Shift key while you continue to select. This is a great way to either modify your current selection or simultaneously select a separate subject. To subtract from an already-completed selection, hold town the Alt key and select the area you wish to remove, which will then become unselected. This will create a new layer on top of your original one. Usually, this will paste the copied image directly on top of the original one, which means it might not look like anything has changed. Look at your Layers tab (usually in the bottom right-hand corner) to see if a new layer has appeared. If this "Layers" toolbar is not visible in Photoshop, go to Window and select in Layers the drop-down list. If necessary, use the Move tool, which looks like a cursor arrow, to drag the newly pasted foreground on top of the existing image so that they match. This is found in the Layers toolbar. This will blur the background but not the duplicated image of the subject. Repeat this Blur More command until you achieve the desired effect. In Photoshop, the Ctrl-F keyboard shortcut will repeat the last filter command. Alternately, use Gaussian Blur and play around with different blur radii to create the background effect you want. The larger the radius, the blurrier the image, so if you're going for a subtle effect, aim low. For example, if you want the background to be very soft and only somewhat identifiable, try a radius of 10. If you want your background just barely blurred, use a radius of .5 or 1. The easiest way to do this is to look at the History toolbar and undo some of your Blur More commands. Alternately, changing how your layers combine can produce nice effects. To do this: Try changing the newly copied foreground layer's Opacity. This is visible in the Layers toolbar. A good opacity level to start at is 50%; move up a little at a time until you find a good blend. Try changing how the layer combines with other layers by changing its property, also available in the Layers toolbar. For example, try Darken instead of Normal for an artistic sketch effect. This should be on the same toolbar as the Lasso Tool. Set the blur tool's strength to somewhere around 33%. Set your brush size to a comfortable level such as a radius of 5 to 15 pixels. If you don't see a brush size option, select Brushes from the Window menu in Photoshop. Use the blur tool to touch up the outside edge of your foreground, especially where the image seems pixelated. This will help to create a sense of transition between your foreground and background that is easy on the eyes. This will combine your various layers into one.

Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Identify your symptoms. Learn the unexamined effects of porn addiction. Avoid beating yourself up. Learn your triggers.

Answer: Is your use of porn relatively normal or getting into serious addiction territory? Look for these signs and symptoms to get a clearer sense of how much porn dominates your everyday life: You cannot stop watching porn or doing behaviors associated with porn, despite attempting to leave them behind. You feel angry or irritable if you are asked to stop using porn (even when you ask yourself). You keep all or part of your porn use secret from family and friends. You feel like you lead a double life because of your hidden porn use. You continue to view porn despite negative consequences, such as suffering relationships or trouble in school. You have lost track of large chunks of time because you've been absorbed in porn use. To better understand what you're going through, learn what could be at stake. It can be easy to convince yourself that everybody watches porn and that maybe you don't have a problem after all. Knowing the following potential effects of porn addiction shows you the real dangers of the problem: Broken or troubled intimate relationships Difficulty staying interested in relationships and dating prospects Feelings of shame and/or guilt Problems with work or school, like dropping grades High risk of engaging in dangerous or unhealthy sexual activity, with an increased risk of sexually transmitted diseases Eventual inability to become aroused in non-pornographic situations Because the addiction involves lewd material, you might be tempted to think of yourself as impure, perverted, or morally in the wrong for having ever developed the problem in the first place. However, adding blame and guilt to the mix will only make it more difficult to find the confidence needed to resist temptation and throw yourself into other activities. Popular methods like pinching yourself every time you look at porn will create a forbidden fruit effect which makes it all the more difficult to give porn up. What's more, you'll come to have negative associations with your own sexuality, which can make getting to the root problems of the porn addiction more complicated. A trigger is anything that makes you feel like you want to watch porn. A trigger could be a certain moment in your routine, like getting ready to go to sleep, or it could be a pop-up ad of a scantily clad actor. Knowing your triggers is important because you will learn when to ramp up your efforts not to watch. You can then replace watching with something that will successfully divert your attention until the urge goes away on its own. For example, if you see an ad that makes you want to watch porn, train yourself to play a round of your favorite video game instead. You may not be able to avoid the ad entirely, but you can begin to replace porn with a less harmful habit. After a while you may not need to take such strong efforts to avoid certain triggers or rigidly replace porn watching with the same alternative behavior every time. When you're trying to kick the habit initially, though, be very diligent about diverting yourself in moments of temptation. If there are triggers you can avoid entirely, you may want to do so. This could make the initial decrease in use easier. Just be careful that you don't spend so much time avoiding, say, certain music or friends that get you in the mood to watch. If you try to let these triggers back into your life after intense avoidance of them, you run the risk of relapsing into porn use.

Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Open Start . Open File Explorer . Go to the file's location. Select the file. Click the Home menu item. Click the "Properties" icon. Uncheck the "Read-only" box. Click Apply, then click OK.

Answer:
Click the Windows logo in the bottom-left corner of the screen. Click the folder-shaped icon near the bottom-left side of the Start menu. Click the folder in which the file is located on the left side of the File Explorer window. You may have to navigate through additional files after doing so to find the file. Click the file for which you want to disable write protection. It's in the upper-left corner of the window. A toolbar will appear at the top of the window. This red checkmark is in the "Open" section of the toolbar. Doing so opens the "Properties" window. It's at the bottom of the Properties window. Both options are at the bottom of the window. Doing so saves your changes to the file and closes the Properties window. You should now be able to edit your file.