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Kudos is due, though, for the glimmers of LGBTQ+ representation, which is something of a rare commodity in mainstream horror.īut of course, depth and nuance aren’t really the point when it comes to Seance. It would’ve been nice if the other students were anything more than archetypes, but Barrett’s script doesn’t really give those minor players room to breathe. The supporting cast are equally underwritten, with only Alice, Helina, and Bethany (Madisen Beaty) given any semblance of depth. Waterhouse isn’t an acting newcomer any more, but her performance here is quite flat, with unconvincing line delivery and an accent that oddly tows the line between British and American. This clear adulation for horror canon is what holds Seance together, as the writing and performances aren’t quite strong enough to gel everything together. The only time Seance will really shock you is the last ten minutes or so, which leans on influences like Scream to turns your expectations of the plot on its head. But that’s not always a bad thing, as it makes the film quite strangely comforting to watch: you broadly know where it’s going to go, so it becomes a turn-your-brain-off slasher affair. The structure is awfully contrived, and the ultimate killer reveal totally unsurprising. Unfortunately, the plot alone may not be enough to keep horror sceptics entertained. ![]() It’s rare that a film truly earns its 18 certificate, but Seance certainly makes the cut. These kills are genuinely enjoyable, and the imagery itself is rather freaky, with buckets of blood to give the violence a really visceral feel. Once the eponymous communication with the undead is complete, director Simon Barrett takes it down a relatively familiar route, with the girls slowly picked off by a masked, eyeless spectre. 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I’ve taken to using multiple shades of similar colors to blend together highlights and shadows on my basecoat, giving me a much more interesting surface to add detail to. Through an airbrush, however, techniques really open up with Contrast Paint, which behaves more like an artist-grade ink than a paint. This Space Marine Heavy Intercessor was painted using Citadel Contrast Paints applied through an airbrush, using a technique shared on the Cult of Paint YouTube channel. The long and the short of it is that with clever brush application, it can save you time and improve your results. Applied heavily, it also forms its own highlights and shadows - especially when used with a highly shaded black-and-white undercoat (also known as a zenithal undercoat). That makes painting some highly detailed miniatures a lot easier. But Contrast Paints also tend to stay where you put them, sort of like the opposite of a wash. That feature allows you to build up opacity on 3D models a bit like using watercolor on paper. ![]() While traditional acrylic paints have a very thick formulation with lots of viscosity, Contrast Paints are much thinner. The first retail samples are just now making it into the hands of YouTubers, and the results are very exciting.Ĭontrast Paint is a proprietary formulation, so only Games Workshop knows for sure what’s inside each pot. Now The Army Painter is getting in on the action with its own version, called Speedpaint. 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For instance, this function will help when you need to visit a website that won't work when an ad blocker is enabled. ![]() The previous Assistant version had a menu option "Do not filter for 30 seconds". But despite it’s good in many aspects, some users drew our attention to one feature from the old version that was missing - pausing protection. In v7.4 we introduced new Browser Assistant - more independent, autonomous and less bug-prone. Certainly, some people will find this authorization method more convenient. You don't have to use this feature, but having more options is always better. Now, if the email address your AdGuard personal account is attached to and the email you use for authorization in Google or Facebook are the same, you can simply authorize via these social networks. ![]() Previously, to activate AdGuard you had to log into your AdGuard personal account or to manually enter a license key. So we decided to add it to AdGuard for Windows too. This function has already been available in our Android app, and it proved to be quite useful. You can learn what other new options do in the tooltips right next to them. If you, as a user, have privacy concerns (which is completely understandable and even expected in this day and age), we’ll help to disable telemetry nice and easy. Those assistants help, but they also gather a lot of personal data. Its feature set is enabled by default and Cortana periodically sends usage and performance data to Microsoft. To illustrate the significance of disabling system telemetry, let’s take Cortana, a virtual assistant similar to Siri, but developed by Microsoft. Disable WAP push message routing service.Disable Windows Defender automatic samples submission.You'll find four options under "Windows Tracking": To the point that we felt it was justified to dedicate an entire section of Stealth Mode to it. Windows 10 is known for many good changes compared to predecessors, but notorious for its aspiration to track your activity. This is the newest addition to Stealth Mode. Check out the tooltips next to each DNS server to learn more about it. Some DNS servers also have additional features, like ad blocking or protection from malicious websites. We strongly recommend using one of those, as it greatly improves your online safety. Many DNS providers support safe protocols like DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS. First of all, using a non-default DNS server will help protect your DNS traffic from the ISP’s and fraudsters’ interception. Why would you want to do that? A few reasons. From the list of DNS providers in our Knowledge Base, where we have collected the most popular DNS providers and added a quick setup option.From a list of recommended ones (including AdGuard DNS).DNS module allows you to select any DNS server you like. This feature has been long present in some other AdGuard products, like AdGuard for Android. Let's start with the headliner of the v7.5 update: DNS moduleĬheck out this article to learn more about DNS and how it works. What more could we possible add there? Quite a lot, as it turns out, and you'll be able to make sure of it yourself in just a minute. It's been around forever and has seen countless updates. 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Everything that has happened in the image can be found by going to File -> File Info (ALT+SHIFT+CTRL+I) and going to Photoshop on the left side of the panel. If you have forgotten which brush (or other settings in your image for that matter) you used for painting and have gone past the last 7 brushes shown in the Brushes Panel or are coming back to the document later, so this. This is very handy when filling in colors especially. When a layer needs to have its layer transparency locked, instead of going to the Layers Panel and clicking on the first Lock icon under the blend mode drop-down, just highlight the layer and press the forward slash (/) to toggle lock and unlock for transparency. For more info on this, check out his recent video called My 6 Steps to Digital Painting which does a good job explaining his technique.ĭuring the past several weeks a few new digital painting tips came up in some of my resources being used so here is a list that hopefully will help some of you or at least learn a different way of doing something. This workflow followed Aaron Baise’s basic workflow which I really like. Thanks for your questions.I drew this Sumatran Tiger from an image taken at the Jacksonville Zoo a while ago. I recommend you get a free trial of one of the plugins and try it out to see how it works. When you’re finished, the altered image will be in Lightroom for you. But a lot of people simply go from Lightroom and open a photo with one of the plugins. In that product, you’ll be able to use all of the plugins within one interface. Topaz also has a new product that is in Beta right now called Topaz Studio. You can do this without using layers though. ![]() Sometimes I will then make a copy of that layer and apply a second Topaz plugin to that layer. What I usually do is all the processing I can in Lightroom, then I open the photo in Photoshop Elements, make a copy of the background layer, and then use one of the Topaz plugins on that layer. I actually hardly ever use Photoshop unless I’m using it for the purpose of the topaz plugins! I am just in the habit of using photoshop elements with plugins because I like how the layering works in PSE. ![]() I wouldn’t say that Topaz is a replacement for Photoshop, but you can do things more easily in Topaz because of all the built in presets. But these are all things that you either cannot do in Lightroom at all, or you can do it a lot better and more efficiently with the Topaz plugins. Hi Allan, that’s right, if I could do it in Lightroom, I probably would because I love Lightroom. 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And there’s need for such a bridge, because for decades blues-rock has hogged center stage and shoved the rest of the blues to the margins. ![]() After an extended paroxysm on a cover of Michael Burks’s “Empty Promises,” which at some point stopped being a song and became just an excuse to throw down chorus after chorus of guitar solo while he walked into the crowd and took a seat among them, Kingfish returned to the stage and said, “I’d like to apologize for the flurry of notes on that last one.” This drew a laugh from the audience, most of whom were there for the flurry of notes.Īll of this suggests that Kingfish, whose second album, “662,” came out last year, can perhaps become a bridge between blues-rock and the rest of the tradition. Then, as the band swelled to full strength behind him, he would step on a pedal and chuck the damped strings with his pick to make a preparatory shooka sound, as if chambering a sonic round, and cut loose at high volume with a barrage of distorted bent notes way up high and spectacular runs up and down the neck. This happened a dozen or more times over the course of the evening, a recurring sequence that began with him playing straight-up blues, churning out a shuffle groove or picking out sweet single-note licks - his own volume down low, the band on simmer. He showed versatility as the set went on, working in jazzy chromatic flourishes and switching for a couple of songs to Delta-style acoustic guitar, but the crowd went wildest whenever he built to a climax of blues-rock wailing. 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Just seconds into “She Calls Me Kingfish,” the opening song of his set at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston in March, fans were already well on their way up the stairway to guitar-solo heaven, nodding and smiling and shaking their heads in that mmh-mmh-mmm way that guitar freaks fall into when potent stuff starts flowing into their systems through their ears. Eyes shut and head thrown back in the emblematic pose of the guitar hero in ecstasy, he wrung screaming bent high notes and dense, fluid runs from his purple-and-black prototype Kingfish-model Fender. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram was wailing on guitar. |
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