Make your own flag overlay for profile pics using Inkscape (Part 2) In 2015, flag profile pic overlays were very popular for virtue signalling , especially when tragic incidents happened (French flag for Charlie Hebdo , Syrian flag for the civil war). I was not satisfied with the readily available overlays offered by Facebook because most of them darkened the colors. So I made my own using Inkscape (version 0.48 back then) and posted a howto (which I later reposted here in Blogger). My earlier method was to use overlay colored shapes with 'lighten' blend mode (and lowered opacity for the light-colored areas). That original method also involved cutting out parts of the underlying colored areas if the overlying parts are white or light-colored, otherwise the white will be tinted with the underlying color. Here's the newer method that does not involve tinkering with blend modes, opacity, and cut outs. Step 1. Import your profile pic Preferably one with dramatic lighting (hi...
Windows Spotlight Ever since Windows 10 introduced Spotlight—the backgrounds that you see on the lock screen when you log in to Windows 10 (and above), I've wanted to get the ones I like and put them in my fave wallpapers folder. Thing is, getting these images and their info can be a bit of a challenge. The simplest way is, before logging in, you can try hovering your cursor over the "Like what you see?" text on the upper right of the screen. If you're lucky, you'd be shown a clickable info like this: Click on that link and, once you're logged in, Microsoft Edge browser will take you to a Bing image search results page where the image can be (if you're lucky) and you can download from there. End of story. But this is a hit-or miss thing (in this case, the result wasn't the exact image but it looks better though). Also, depending on your windows set up, you might not see this link. If you don't have this link, don't worry, you can hunt down for ...