Dealing with a snow scene

I am trying to help my wife deal with snow scenes in her greeting cards. I can fine tune a picture with a lot od snow in it so that it looks good on my monitors, but when she prints in on card stock it is not so good. The snow usually has no detail at all.
Has anyone on this forum had success with this?
Any tips would be appreciated.

Stomp the highlights hard with the Highlights & Shadows Brick, then adjust (usually brighten) the overall scene with the Levels Brick central slider (move it leftwards). Adjust to suit. When using the H & L tools, always fine tune using the Width and the Mid-Contrast sliders. Definition, subtly applied with the Quick Brush, will add some sparkle.
Printing snow is hard. First, you need a precisely exposed photograph taken with a camera that has a wide luminance range and that makes this range available to the photographer. There can't be any blown highlights. Then you need excellent white balance. Then you need enough dynamic range to darken the snow enough that details (textures) show in it, while not dimming the overall scene. And then you need a good printer, well calibrated. Be sure to soft-proof your images on-screen.
Keep in mind that our perception of images is always relative: the appearance of brightness is caused by a difference in luminance, not by any absolute luminance.
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger -- added note re: soft-proofing.

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I also don't think you will find reps who work at light speed and utilize a magic wand to fix people's issues at T-Mobile, either, but I guess it never hurts to try.
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How to deal with several itunes users in a house

I will try to be brief but explain what I don't know how to configure.
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I guess then I need to read more about my NAS drive, because it is always on. I read in another thread about the same issue the question was asked, "Is your NAS drive mounted?" I have no idea what that means. There was other ideas of making alias of the NAS iTunes folder and putting in on the laptop's dock, but I didn't quite understand that either.
I thought NAS was a rapper. Well, I have no idea what a NAS drive is. But it should have no influence on iTunes' behavior. If that drive is always on and visible on your Desktop (= "mounted"), iTunes shouldn't change its settings re. its Library.
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Your issue has been escalated to a Verizon agent. Please go to your profile page for the forum, and look in the middle, right at the top where you will find an area titled "My Support Cases". You can reach your profile page by clicking on your name beside your post, or at the top left of this page underneath the title of the board.
Under “My Support Cases” you will find a link to the private board where you and the agent may exchange information. This should be checked on a frequent basis as the agent may be waiting for information from you before they can proceed with any actions. Please keep all correspondence regarding your issue in the private support portal.
If a forum member gives an answer you like, give them the Kudos they deserve. If a member gives you the answer to your question, mark the answer that solved your issue as the accepted solution.

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First of all. Have a good look at the bad performing query. Maybe you can improve it that it will succeed before the http server will timeout.
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Secondly you could increase the timeout parameter of the http server. Although this not the best way.
Maybe it would better if APEX in a next version would release the lock on the table wwv_flow_date earlier or do a rollback just before the moment that the http server is timing out.
regards,
Mathieu Meeuwissen

Hello Shmoove,
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I understand the need for scripts to be used for websites to function. What I don't understand is why my entire computer slows to a crawl, some programs get cut off entirely, and then I have to try to figure out what webpage is causing the problem...slowly. Even when I click the box to stop the script, my computer is still incredibly slow for an unreasonable amount of time. By unreasonable amount, I mean that it is so long that I can't even close Firefox within 5 minutes just to make it stop. By unreasonable amount, I mean I have actually just set my computer to restart so that Firefox will be forced closed and then cancel the restart when Firefox shuts down.
What can Hotmail, Gmail, or any other program be doing that is of sufficient importance that it can essentially take over the computer? Nothing that isn't critical to the functioning of the computer should have this power. There is nothing critical about a script on Hotmail while I'm not even using that should let it take over all of the computer's resources. I would rather have Hotmail crash and shut off than have it let a script take over my computer. I can click on my Hotmail start up button within seconds while a script that won't respond might take 15 minutes to deal with.
So can someone please explain to me why this system exists? Why isn't there a command that says "a script may use up this amount of processing power only" that allows a person to keep using their computer while the script futily whirls away? Why isn't there a way to have an automatic setting like "let a script try to run for X seconds and if it doesn't work just stop it"? Why doesn't a window pop-up on the computer screen regardless of where the script problem is to alert you what webpage is causing the problem instead of making the user guess?
There doesn't even seem to be much purpose to the scripts. If I stop a script that is not responding on Hotmail, I can still use Hotmail when the computer recovers. So why does this happen?
This system seems insane to me. Honestly, I don't understand why scripts are allowed to do this. Can someone at least help with an explanation of why this happens? Why there isn't a way to make it stop? In a world of apps it seems like something that would kill non-responding scripts after a brief time would be a winner. How did we reach this chokepoint in computer functioning and why haven't we figured out how to stop it?
Thank you for any help, whether it be fixing the problem or just explaining the purpose.

Hi auzziewog, a couple of thoughts on long pauses.
In some cases, this is caused by Firefox waiting on content from the server, or loading some content into a plugin. Other than blocking some extraneous content in pages and setting plugins to "Ask to Activate" (click-to-play) on the Add-ons page, this is a hard problem to solve.
If the problem is a script (the eventual appearance of the dialog suggests that possibility), please see the above reference post.
Perhaps it is a combination of those things, since scripts often run after some other elements are loaded...

Since upgrading to Yosemite on my iMac, My Mail app refuses to open, Safari won't load, and I can't upload pictures from my iPad... Please help, any ideas very welcome. I've had my iMac since 2011, and have never had any issues to deal with before..

Since upgrading to Yosemite on my iMac: My Mail app refuses to open, Safari won't load, and I can't upload pictures from my iPad...
Please help, any ideas very welcome. I've had my iMac since 2011, and have never had any issues to deal with before..
Thanks

29/11/2014 20:17:01.315 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (jp.buffalo.NASPower)
Service only ran for 11 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 49 seconds.
29/11/2014 20:17:37.013 com.apple.backupd[616]: Finished scan
29/11/2014 20:17:43.108 com.apple.backupd[616]: Saved event cache at
/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Geoff Lambrechts’s iMac
(2)/2014-11-29-200648.inProgress/9B453663-603F-40B8-AC21-24F05C724E15/.6162AD34- 38F8-30AB-98E0-4A22FB9D311F.eventdb
29/11/2014 20:17:43.207 com.apple.backupd[616]: Not using file event
preflight for Macintosh HD
29/11/2014 20:18:01.561 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (jp.buffalo.NASPower)
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29/11/2014 20:18:16.288 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]:
(com.apple.quicklook[715]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy
launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in():
com.apple.quicklook
29/11/2014 20:18:23.705 com.apple.SecurityServer[56]: Session 100013 created
29/11/2014 20:18:32.046 mdworker[718]: code validation failed in the
process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain
Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"
29/11/2014 20:19:01.662 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (jp.buffalo.NASPower)
Service only ran for 11 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 49 seconds.
29/11/2014 20:19:45.458 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]:
(com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The
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29/11/2014 20:19:59.123 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]:
(com.apple.PubSub.Agent[725]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy
launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in():
com.apple.pubsub.ipc
29/11/2014 20:19:59.123 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]:
(com.apple.PubSub.Agent[725]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy
launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in():
com.apple.pubsub.notification
29/11/2014 20:20:01.138 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (jp.buffalo.NASPower)
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29/11/2014 20:21:01.484 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (jp.buffalo.NASPower)
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29/11/2014 20:21:13.430 com.apple.backupd[616]: Found 4529 files (1.1 GB)
needing backup
29/11/2014 20:21:18.786 com.apple.backupd[616]: 2.82 GB required (including
padding), 1.24 TB available
29/11/2014 20:21:31.775 Console[734]: Failed to connect (_consoleX) outlet
from (NSApplication) to (ConsoleX): missing setter or instance variable
29/11/2014 20:21:34.230 WindowServer[162]: disable_update_timeout: UI
updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00
seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
29/11/2014 20:21:36.898 WindowServer[162]: common_reenable_update: UI
updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 3.67 seconds
(server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
29/11/2014 20:21:36.971 coreservicesd[83]: SFLEntryBase::ListHasChanged
mach_msg returned 10000004d
29/11/2014 20:22:01.817 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (jp.buffalo.NASPower)
Service only ran for 10 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 50 seconds.
29/11/2014 20:23:02.170 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (jp.buffalo.NASPower)
Service only ran for 10 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 50 seconds.
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29/11/2014 20:25:02.168 CalendarAgent[218]:
[Refusing to parse response
to PROPPATCH because of content-type: .]
29/11/2014 20:25:02.233 CalendarAgent[218]:
[Refusing to parse response
to PROPPATCH because of content-type: .]
29/11/2014 20:25:02.236 CalendarAgent[218]:
[Refusing to parse response
to PROPPATCH because of content-type: .]
29/11/2014 20:25:02.284 CalendarAgent[218]:
[Refusing to parse response
to PROPPATCH because of content-type: .]
29/11/2014 20:25:03.059 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (jp.buffalo.NASPower)
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29/11/2014 20:25:12.674 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]:
(com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The
_DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
29/11/2014 20:26:03.464 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (jp.buffalo.NASPower)
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29/11/2014 20:27:03.841 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (jp.buffalo.NASPower)
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On 29 November 2014 at 19:29, Apple Support Communities Updates <

My brand new Macbook PRO crashed completely after it went through the iOS 10.7.4 update, I lost everything and Apple just wants to replace the HD and let me deal with the hassle.

Last Thursday May 10th I received a prompt from the Automatic Update to update the iOS to Ver. 10.7.4, set the start and was watching the progress when it stopped with an error message saying that it was not able to update, right below there was a buttom "RESTART", pressed the buttom and waited to re-boot.....That was the end of my computer, somehow the update crashed my HD beyond recover, it would only show the gray screen with Apple logo in the center and kept beeping, BEEP BEEP BEEP.....PAUSE.....BEEP BEEP BEEP.....PAUSE.....on and on and on and it never past that.
Friday May 11 I took it to a retailer where I received the bad news that the HD was crashed and the teck couldn't even try to copy anything from it as it couldn't locate it. I checked iCloud on a hope that all my stuff would be there but new surprise, iCloud didn't kept all of my stuff as it was programmed to.
Now here is the funny part, the tech from the retailer informed me that the only thing they could do was to order a new HD for my 4 months old Macbook and that the time to have my computer back will be at least 15 days, now that is the funny part, I fail to understand why do I have to suffer the hassle of loosing all my data plus wait at least 15th days to have my computer back (meanwhile loose work) on a problem caused by Apple, PROBLEM, not machine defect, clearly my computer had no problem untill I followed the procedure to update.
On Saturday May 12 I contacted Local Apple Support (I have failed to mention that I live in Brasil) and they informed me that what the dealer said was the only thing that could be done, too bad for me if I lost everything, going to loose several days of work and whenever I receive my computer back will have to re-construct all my life and deal with the forever lost data.....DEAL WITH IT
After a couple of discussion with Apple Support and the Dealer, I made my decision to take the Macbook to the dealer today for repair and meanwhile I'm opening a case with the Brazilian Justice to have Apple honor with all the trouble and hassle that it is causing me, it's said that I have to take this type of action as I'm a very fan of Apple and it's products, have had several iPods, iPhones, Macbooks, Keyboards, Mouses, Apple TV, etc.....This i the first time I have a problem with a Apple product and got a taste of the "Apple Care", it seems like Apple is more concerned on seeling products then keeping long time customers happy.
One last thing, today when I was at the dealer to drop my computer for repair, the Technician informed me that he also had a computer crashed and the HD erase on Sunday May 13th in the same way of mine, after the update everything was gone, also he said that we were not the only ones, iPads and iPhones were going trough the same situation, update causing complete breakdown.
WORD OF ADVISE, BE 1000% SURE THAT YOU HAVE EVRYTHING BACKED UP BEFORE YOU GO THROUGH AN UPDATE.

rvalezin wrote:
If I need to back-up every hour of my life in order to be able to save everything from something like this I won´t do anything else.....at least we should be able to trust that Apple tests this updates so situations like this won´t happen.
That's exactly what Time Machine does for you. It backs up every hour, so you don't have to. While it is backing up, you keep on working. Time Macvhine came with your Mac and you chose not to use it.
The 10.7.4 update did not cause your hard disk to fail. Hard disk fail due to mechanical causes. They are extremely reliable, but that doesn't mean every hard disk will last a long time. Your mileage WILL vary!
If you are dependent on your computer and the data stored on it, then you should make sure you have AT LEAST two copies of all data and probably three or four. You should use at least two means of backing up in case the backup software has a problem. And you should consider having a backup computer if you live in an area where replacement takes too long (whatever too long is for your business).
Apple hardware and software is very, very good. You have documented your experience of this. But NO hardware or software is perfect. You also have experience of this.
It is YOUR responsibility to ensure that your system is set up to protect your data and availability of computing resources.

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