Computer Help & Tech Support

[JesseVader08]

Does anyone know how to use Adobe Photoshop to remove red eye from a photo?  I didn't have the red eye reduction activated on my camera when I took this pic:

[Rob]

Jesse, if it were me I'd use the Circular Marquee tool (press the M button (shift + M if you're stuck on the rectangular one), then I'd use it to select the first eye, I'd then hold the SHIFT button down to select the second eye.  (only select the red part)  At this point you have a selection of just the red parts of both eyes.

Then I'd feather the selection just a little bit (Ctrl+Alt+D), maybe 2 or 3 or 5 pixels (maybe a lot more depending on how big your image size is) - if that's the actual size of the picture, I'd think 3 would do it.

Once that's done, I'd hit Ctrl+U to adjust the Hue/Saturation.  Slide the top slider (saturation) around until they look to be the right shade.  You can adjust brightness and saturation here too.  Make sure the 'preview' button his checked so you can see what you're doing as you do it.

The key is getting the selection right.

[JesseVader08]

Sweet, thanks Rob!  I'll give that a try.

The picture is actually 5 times that size, so I guess I'll have to "feather the selection" a few more pixels.

[JesseVader08]

 
Thanks again Rob!

[Rob]

Looks good - nice work.   

[Matt_Fury]

Little update on my home network.  Turned out all I needed was one of these.

All I had in the basement was the wiring tree, so when a computer and the cable modem was connected, there was nothing to regulate them talking to each other and they could not talk at all.  With help from my friend (since I'm out in California still) my wife now has great internet connectivity.   

[Darth Kenobi]

Hopefully someone here can help me.  My desktop computer won't connect to the internet and I get a message down by the time saying that the "Local Area Connection, has limited or no connectivity".  I go into the local area connection status and hit the support tab to see a message about the limiited or no connectivity but also "This problem oocured because the network did not assign a network address to the computer".  I have tried to do the repair option but it dosen't work.  When I try to get only my Timewaner Cable tries to diagnose it but the only thing it does is statw that "... has determined that a network card incorrectly configured.  The card should be able to receive a new network address each time it connects to the internet.  Instead it is setup to usee a fixed address at all times". (I have had this problem before but usually got it fix by following the Roadrunner to try to refresh the IP Addess, but this time it can't do that).  I'm using my sister labtop which is on a wireless network (hookup to my desktop) and the internet works fine.  If I plug her laptop into the moderm it ends up getting the "Limited or no Connectivity" issue as will. 

If anyone knows anything that can help it would be apperciated.
 

[Jayson]

Have you done a power cycle on the modem? (power down computer, unplug your network cable, power down the modem, wait a few minutes then reconnect and boot up modem & computer)

 

[knashdx]

Recently my computer will not let me access the Task Manager. It gives me a message "Task Manager blocked by Administrator.". The neat trick is this is my home computer and I am the Admin. I have no idea how it happened, I just want to reactivate it.

Any one know how I can do that?

[Phrubruh]

Sounds like spyware to me. Do you have spybot and keep it updated with routine scans?

Spybot

[knashdx]

Sounds like spyware to me. Do you have spybot and keep it updated with routine scans?

Spybot

I do, but I will run them all again.

[Rob]

A question for Mac users...

We're going from PC to Mac tomorrow at work, and we're trying to figure out if there's a way to remap the keyboard so that it works more like a PC keyboard.  Basically, I want to take the apple key from the Mac keyboard, and put it where the Control key is on the PC keyboard, so that I can keep using the hundreds of shortcuts that I use the way that I'm used to using them.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?  We were able to get the Apple key to go where the Windows key is, but we don't want it there... we want it one more to the left.

Any help would be most appreciated.

[ruiner]

Basically, I want to take the apple key from the Mac keyboard, and put it where the Control key is on the PC keyboard,

Should pop right off.

[Rob]

Thanks...

[Matt_Fury]

Basically, I want to take the apple key from the Mac keyboard, and put it where the Control key is on the PC keyboard,

Should pop right off.

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