How to Merge Two Backgrounds in Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop CC is the world’s most advanced digital imaging software, used by photographers, designers, web professionals, and video professionals. Photoshop CC is the professional standard in image editing, used worldwide by people who want to create and edit photos with superior results. As we all know, each element of the image usually has its own layer. Here is the instruction to tell you how to merge two backgrounds in Photoshop by using layers.

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1. Download and install Photoshop from here:

http://www.filepuma.com/download/adobe_photoshop_cc_15.0-6386/

2. Open the image with Photoshop and open the Layers palette by pressing “F7”.

3. Click “Layer” to insert a new layer. You could keep the two original layers by placing the merged background into this new layer.

4. Click the eye icon in front of it in the Layers palette to make a layer invisible.

5. Right-click the new layer and select “Merge Visible” to merge all visible layers and all invisible layers remain intact.

6. Click “Alt”+ “Merge Visible” quickly to merge the two background layers and place them into the new layer.

7. Click the eye icon to hide two background layers, and keep the rest layers unhide.

8. Backup in case something goes wrong.

How to speed up your download in BitComet?

BitComet is a BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download management software, which is powerful, fast, very easy-to-use, and completely FREE. The advanced features it contains can accelerate your downloading speed up to 5 – 10 times faster, or even more. However, the download speed can be very slow if your Bitcomet listen port is blocked. Here is the instruction to tell you how to open a listen port BitComet by turn the yellow circle to green.

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Log in to Your Router & Set up a Static IP Address

 

1. Open the Internet address of your router with your browser. You can find this on the back of your router.

2. After it prompted, enter your username and password from the back of router.

3. Look for “Domain Name Server” and note the two sets of numbers next to this.

4. Go to “Start—- Control Panel—-Network and Internet Connections”, right click on Internet connection and go to “Properties—-Internet Protocol—-Properties ”

5. Click on the “Use the Following IP Address” radio button.

6. Enter “192.168.0.X” into the “IP Address” box, replacing “X” with a number except 1.

7.Enter “255.255.255.0” into the “Subnet Mask” box and “192.168.0.1” into the “Default Gateway” box.

8. Enter the two sets of numbers you’ve just noted down. Select “OK.”

 

Find and open the Listen Port

 

1. Open Bitcomet, go to”Tools—-Options.” Note down the number in the “Listen Port” box.

2. Keep “Enable UPNP Port Mapping” unchecked.

3. Click OK and quit this program.

4. Click on “Services—- Add Custom Service.”

5. Set the “Type” option to “TCP/UDP” and name it.

6. Enter the number you just noted down from Bitcomet into both the “Start Port” box and the “Finish Port” box. Select “Apply.”

7. Click on “Firewall Rules”, click on “Add” in the “Outbound Services”. Choose the “Service” you created..

8. Set the “Action” option to “Allow Always” and the “LAN Users” option to “Single Address.”

9. Enter the IP address you created into the box provided. Set the “WAN Users” to “Any” and select “Apply.”

10. Click “Add” in the “Inbound Services” section. Then repeat the last two steps.

11. Click on the “Apply” button, then choose “Log Out.”

How to Disable the Comodo Firewall

Comodo Firewall is a simple, effective and discrete personal firewall. It’s easy enough to use – no matter what your computer skills are – and displays very informative notifications. Comodo’s award-winning firewall provides users with prevention-based PC protection that slams the door shut on viruses, malware, and hackers. Firewall is also a part of Comodo Internet Security Pro 2011, which gives you the most robust defense and includes other components like WiFi security, live 24/7 expert assistance for numerous computing needs. But once you are trying a new antivirus program but want to keep Comodo for now then you should disable it from running on your PC. Here is the instruction to tell you how to disable the Comodo Firewall.

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1. Go to the “Start” menu, type “msconfig” in the search box and press “Enter” to open the System Configuration window.

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2. Click the “Startup” tab in the window.

3. Uncheck the “Comodo Firewall ” from the list and click “Apply” and then “OK.” Save the settings and restart your computer.