Before you start applying any product to your eyes, it's important to prime them. Makeup primer creates an even base for your makeup, and it helps ensure that the products will stay in place throughout the day. If you're going to spend the time applying makeup to flatter your wide set eyes, it's pretty important to start it off with a good base. You can purchase makeup primer at your local pharmacy or beauty supply store.

Summary: Prime your eyelid.

If you hear of a competitor who appears to be using your trade secret information, you should gather as much information about that use as you can. Going back to the donut icing example, if you hear of a rival donut shop making a new icing, you can buy one of their donuts and attempt to reverse engineer their icing to determine if they appear to be using your formula. If you determine that the rival donut shop is making an icing identical to your icing and you want to enforce your trade secret rights against that shop, the first thing you'll need to prove is that your icing is, in fact, a trade secret. Factors considered by courts include the following: The extent to which the information is known outside of your company. The extent to which the information is known by your employees and others in your business. Measures you took to guard secrecy. The value of the information to you and your competitors. The amount of effort or money you expended to develop the information. How easily the information could be acquired or duplicated by others. Once you've determined that your information qualifies as a trade secret, you also need to show the court that you took reasonable precautions to protect the information from disclosure, and that the information was misappropriated. Under the law, misappropriation generally means someone acquired the information through improper means or an employee breached his/her confidentiality obligation. Using the donut shop example, the rival shop could be held liable for trade secret misappropriation if you could show that the rival owner broke into your shop after hours and stole the written formula from your locked filing cabinet. Misappropriation does not apply in certain situations Where a trade secret is inadvertently disclosed (if your donut icing recipe fell out of your pocket and your competitor picked it up) If a competitor reverse engineers a trade secret (if your competitor bought one of your donuts and attempted to recreate your icing by tasting your product) If a competitor makes an independent discovery (if your competitor coincidentally managed to stumble on a donut icing recipe that is identical to yours). Typically, you should talk to your competitor and see if you can resolve your differences informally before involving the courts. But if you decide you need to file suit to enforce your trade secret rights, you can consider bringing the following claims: 47 states and the District of Columbia (New York, North Carolina, and Massachusetts are the exceptions) follow the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA). UTSA is a standardized statute spelling out the law of trade secret misappropriation. That means formulating a misappropriation claim depends less on your own state's law and more on the facts of your specific case. Depending on your situation and your state of residence, you may be able to include claims for breach of contract (if one of your employees breached their confidentiality agreement by providing the donut icing recipe to a competitor, for example), unfair competition (if your donut shop rival advertised that his shop is the only one selling donuts with the unique icing), etc. If you prevail on a misappropriation claim, you may be entitled to an injunction (preventing your competitor from continuing to use the trade secret information), a gag order (preventing the defendant from disclosing the trade secret information), monetary damages, court costs, and attorney's fees. However, If you do not prevail, the court may require you to pay the other side's costs and fees, along with your own. Attorney's fees for taking a trade secret misappropriation case to trial can take years and cost tens of thousands of dollars or more.

Summary: Investigate possible trade secret misappropriation. Ensure your idea qualifies as a trade secret under the law. Prove all the elements of a trade secret claim. Bring legal action. Weigh the risks and benefits of a lawsuit.

Negative space refers to the elements of a composition where there isn't an object or subject (like the dark shadows in an alley, or the empty parts of a blue sky). Using a lot of negative space will change the way your viewer interprets the subject of your photo, while avoiding negative space entirely will make your image feel claustrophobic and confrontational. You can always crop your image in editing, so try to start out with more negative space when using your camera. A balance between negative space and subjects or objects results in an even composition, but that's not always what you want! Framing refers to the specific location of a camera when a shot was taken. Framing is used to talk about the order of images inside a composition in terms of a focal point, foreground, and background. When you choose to focus on a particular object or subject and ignore others, you're choosing how you want to frame your photo. When you've decided to photograph something, play around with framing by changing where you're shooting from and modifying the amount of negative space in your image. A focal point is where your eye immediately travels when you look at an image. The foreground refers to the objects in the front of your picture, while the background is a term that refers to all of the objects that are farther away. Look for natural frames, like doorways, windows, and bushes, and use them to play with perspective in an interesting way by shooting around them. The rule of thirds is a common method used for making smart framing decisions. Basically, imagine a 3 by 3 grid of vertical and horizontal lines in your camera. Try to keep important elements and focal points at the intersections between your vertical and horizontal lines.}} Avoid putting your subject dead-center in your image. This is an extremely traditional framing choice and your photograph won't appear unique or interesting. People will naturally change their behavior in front of a camera. They'll smile, look directly at the lens, and stand unnaturally. None of these behaviors make for interesting photos. If you're shooting people, wait for them to relax before snapping your image. Just make sure that you always have permission from the person that you're photographing! Setting the aperture between f/7 and f13 will result in an image with a balanced sharpness between the foreground and background. Use an aperture in this range when shooting landscapes to ensure that you pick up on a variety of details across the entire range of your shot. A tripod keeps your camera from moving or shaking when the lens is open. This is important when you're using a higher aperture, since the shutter speed will need to be higher to compensate for the f-stop.
Summary: Use negative space as a visual element in your photos. Use framing techniques to shift the focus in your photo. Apply the rule of thirds to create balanced images. Wait for your subject to relax when shooting portraits. Use a tripod and higher f-stop setting for landscape shots.