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Hello everyone. thanks for tuning in again. I'm going to take you through

what's called Ambient Mode with the Lenovo Smart Display. So google's Ambient

Mode was released some time ago for Google Chromecast and other Chromecast

style devices, but what they've done since is they've allowed it to go out to

devices like the Lenovo Smart Display, and I'm going to show you how to use it

here today.

Google Home has created Ambient Mode and what they did initially with the Google

Chromecast was they allowed you to look at kind of historical paintings, big

landscapes, and other kind of big pictures like that on your TV that had

Chromecast. So if you had either a Chromecast enabled TV or you had a

chromecast on your TV, these images were basically downloaded and rotated through.

Now what you can see going on on my display here is a lot more personalized,

so you can see pictures of me, my family, other pictures that were important to me,

showing up here on my Lenovo Smart Display. That's what I'm going to show

you how to do here, so I'm going to bring up my iPhone, and we're gonna start

rolling through the different settings here. So the first thing you have to do

is actually go into the devices section of the Google Home application, that's up

in the top right of your screen and then you're going to scroll down and you're

going to find your device. Now mine is called basement office display and you

can see right now that the pictures are synchronizing between the two devices so

that's what's going on we're rolling through the pictures here and that is

actually ambient mode so I can either tap on the three dots and tap on ambient

mode settings or you can see down below I can tap on edit ambient mode now

editing ambient mode gives you four options so there's the Google photos the

art gallery the fullscreen clock which I'll show you and then you can see I'm

using the experimental mode and that's how I'm getting these kind of

personalized pictures on my Lenovo smart display no more than that I can show and

hide whether the time I can show personal photo data so for example it

says on my device that I took the picture any time I took the picture and

it's uploaded to my account the other thing you can do is actually change the

slideshow speed so you can range from about 5 seconds all the way up you can

see to ten minutes so this gives you a pretty wide range of how often you're

going to switch that picture and really changes the functionality quite a bit so

now again I'm going to roll through some of the different options so you can

go into google photos now this is the Google Photos application so if you have

an Android phone you're much more likely to be using Google photos if you have a

Google Drive account again you're much more likely because you have the storage

space but ultimately what you can do is go in and pick from any of your albums

you can see as I picked that it's changing the picture on my device so

going back I can go to the art gallery which was the initial way that this

feature worked and you can see it switching right away again to all those

different pictures that Google basically curates

they create that list now heading back the full screen clock is a nice feature

if that's all you're looking for really if you really just want to see the time

on your device and I can see why there's a number of different clocks here that

you can choose and from there there's not much else to talk about now heading

to the experimental mode this is where I think this feature really changed for me

you can see that you can connect your Facebook and your Flickr account so if

you haven't already connected that you simply tap here it will ask you for the

login settings and you're basically all done at that point but for now I'm

already connected so I'm just going to tap in to there and then you can see I

could turn on and off my Facebook account I could remove my Facebook

account if I wanted to ever in the future and then I can also go in and

again here's all my different albums from Facebook that I can scroll through

and I can switch between so I can remove the cover photos album if I'd like to

simply by tapping on it and that will no longer show up on my Lenovo smart

display the other thing that's really great about this feature that's about

where I'm going to leave the actual work here on the phone but the other nice

thing about this feature is you can switch this per device so that's a big

differential you can have certain photos on certain devices and you can have

other photos on say the Lenovo smart display just

illustrate that Here I am using my upstairs TV which is a true chromecast

here I'm going to tap on edit ambient mode and then you can see that I have

some more features here you can see I can change the weather from Celsius to

Fahrenheit or show both if I'd like that's different from the Lenovo smart

display which was just showing show or hide on weather I can also choose the

art gallery and you're noticing that my Lenovo smart display did not change to

the art gallery it stayed with my curated Facebook content or my Facebook

content there so I think that's a pretty good run-through of ambient mode here

for your Lenovo smart display I think it's a great feature

you guys can always let me know down in the comments below but I have one thing

to tell you about here before you get going we actually have a giveaway here

on automate your life for this Lenovo smart display now this is an 8 inch

Lenovo smart display we actually have a 10 inch smart display that we're giving

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so thanks for watching everyone we'll see you next time

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Let your ideas flow with digital ink in Microsoft Office - Duration: 0:53.

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Finetune Digital Testimonial - Robert Neckelius - Duration: 2:28.

Hello Robert here and I just wanted to shoot a quick

testimonial video for Charlie and Finetune Digital

He's helped me out and my company with some SEO

We basically started from nothing and I wanted to share some of the results with you. So we started tracking this on

I'm sitting in front of the computer here checking our stats. I'll put a screenshot up for you to see

June 23rd, we started tracking

And I'll give you some interesting information here the organic keyword

so the amount of keyword said I was actually ranking for on Google at the time were 50 and

Today, which is about three months later. We're at 1200. So you do the math on that one the organic traffic

On June 23rd when we started was estimated to about four clicks a month

And now we're looking at 1,100 clicks a month and the traffic value meaning if you were to purchase these clicks on

Google AdWords

When we started our clicks were about were valued at six dollars a month

Okay, so not a whole lot and three months later. Our traffic is valued at $1,200

I don't know what the percentage is on that but that is a huge huge increase and I'm so thankful for the work that

Finetune Digital team has done for us and

The really cool thing is apart from you know, looking at these numbers

Specifically, there's one article which is an affiliate article that we implemented

So obviously there's a bit of a investment to do SEO

But the absolute beauty the thing that I love about this that I don't have when I do paid advertising

Is that once you get something working with SEO, it's paying off every single month.

So we have this one article and it's paying off month after month after month and I keep sending

Charlie

updates because I'm so happy about the results that this one article is bringing in and I'm

purposely keeping it secret because I don't want people to come in and compete with me

but I just could not be happier with the results and

If you got any interest in, I guess having stats like this for your business

you should not hesitate to jump on a call with them and see if they can help you out

so thanks a lot to the Finetune Digital team and

Specifically to Charlie, so thanks a lot.

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Digital nit nat segment - Duration: 2:28.

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Digital Speed Paint | Gryffincore by FairyNerdy [CC] - Duration: 17:38.

Hello hello fairies and nerds and welcome back! It's finally here the

fourth ser - or the fourth piece in my Hogwarts Punk set. This is Gryffincore!

Before I get into it, let me just say that if anyone has a better idea for a name for this piece

than Gryffincore that

stays in line with the names of the other pieces

please let me know in the comments because

I'm just really - I don't - I don't feel like that name is quite right. So if you have a better idea

that sticks with the same parameters of

Ravenclash, Hufflepunk, and Slytheriot,

please let me know and maybe I'll change it. Then again, maybe not!

So in today's video

while you watch the speed paint, I want to talk about what to do if you don't like a piece.

Because overall I am NOT

very happy

with the way this piece turned out, which is kind of a letdown after I was so thrilled with the way

Slytheriot turned out.

I feel like this one just sort of fought me from the very beginning.

Which I think is why

this video is so much longer. Like I did a lot of editing to

increase the time lapse speed and I cut some stuff and yet it's still a fairly long video.

So if you watch the whole thing, I really appreciate that!

But yeah, I felt like this piece it just fought me um

You know and

like

I drew one initial sketch, one initial pose and

I was just like this is not right because it was a very awkward pose. It was awkward to draw

I did not render it very well.

So I scrapped it and picked another pose and one problem I had - I used reference

for all of my poses so that I can hopefully get the proportions and everything correct.

I had a really hard time finding a pose for this piece.

Because

because it is a series, you know, there's a

set of four images. I want them to have a unity in the way they look so I wanted the poses to be similar

I.E., they're all standing poses, you know, nobody's sitting, nobody's crouching. They're all standing poses.

But I also wanted there to be enough

differentiation between each of the poses

that

you could see that they were different characters. They were different

iterations

and Gryffincore just gave me a lot of problems. So after the initial

pose that was very awkward and didn't work out, I

decided to do it again find a different pose and it took me a long time to find a pose

that I felt worked even a little bit.

So, yeah, I drew the initial sketch twice

and when I got

this sketch that I'm working on here into Photoshop,

I looked at it and I was like, yeah, I'm still not really that happy with it.

I just I - I picked up on a lot of details that

when I was drawing yet didn't really pick up on and I was just like, okay

I'll have to try to fix them with the digital paint.

One thing I do like about this pose

is the way her jacket is sort of draped over her shoulders.

It sort of looks like a cape and I think with the

traditional

Gryffindor

characteristics and the values I think that's pretty on point.

Another thing that I fought with on this one was just like figuring out the right colors.

I don't know, I'm just not thrilled with some of it.

I mean you basically have two options: you can either

just scrap it and say forget about it

I'm not gonna work on this anymore or you can sort of power through and finish it and because

this was the last in a set, I wanted to finish it. I wanted to have a completed

four piece set

you know, to go with this theme of "Hogwarts Punk".

So I didn't want to give up on it I also didn't want to draw it again. I was just -

I mean I like this pose, like I said the cape

sort of aspect I think fits really well with

the idea of Gryffindors.

So I do quite like that.

But yeah, that's I mean that's your basic options when you're working on something and you're just like

Eh, I'm not sure how I feel about this.

You either give it up and do something else or you power through it.

And I wanted to power through because I wanted to have this set complete.

Because I really like it as a whole.

When I was - when I started the painting

one thing I noticed that I really didn't like was the way her face had turned out. It looked

it just did not look right. It didn't look proportional. It didn't look - the positioning wasn't right. And so I

had to manipulate that a lot in the digital painting portion

in order to make it look more

appropriate, more

realistic.

I'm still not thrilled with it. I feel like it's just not quite right.

A lot of what I don't like about this piece are like the details.

So like for example

after I finished, I realized her sunglasses

on the side of her face away from the viewer

the perspective is not quite right and that bothers me.

Other details like her hands bug me. I'm not great with hands.

It's one of the areas I struggle with and you'll notice

when we get closer to it

Initially the wand was in her left hand

but because I like the way that hand turned out better than the right hand,

I moved the wand to the right hand to sort of mask some of the

difficulties I had with that hand.

Another area where I felt like

sort of this painting was just like fighting me

was when I started working on her top.

Not the jacket, but the actual shirt, um, when I started doing the shadows and highlights

I mean

I really struggled to blend those out and they just did not want to blend out the way that I envisioned.

So I struggled with that and I fought with it for a while.

Side note: if you see my volume control every so often, while I was painting this I was listening to the soundtrack from Hamilton!

I actually got to go see Hamilton!

As I'm recording this voiceover, it's been about a week since I've seen it and if you get the opportunity

I absolutely recommend going to see it. It was so good and

the

performers should get the highest props because Hamilton is

almost literally non-stop

musical performances. There are only a small handful of spoken lines in the entire show.

So, I mean they literally go from song to song to song to song and it's just it's so good!

And so yeah if you get the opportunity

absolutely, take it and go see it. I want to go see it again. I will probably not be able to get tickets

Well, I KNOW I won't be able to get tickets even though it's here for another couple of weeks

because all the shows are sold out. So yeah, I

know that that will not be happening. But if it comes, when it comes back, I plan to

do what I can to see it again. So I absolutely recommend that!

I also really struggled

finding the right

color balance for the Gryffindor colors.

Especially as you can see, I'm really messing around a lot with the plaid trying to get the right color and

and when you see the background, I'm not totally thrilled with how - with what colors I picked for that.

Not because they're not the right colors, I just

something about this piece, it's just very

the colors are very hard to

balance.

As you noticed

in the beginning I started out making her top red

and I was going to make the jacket black or like a black leather jacket.

And that was like no. Oh!

Her jacket should be red. I just felt that. And I really like the way her jacket turned out. I think it looks really good

but trying to

find the right color balance between

the different reds and you know staying true to the Gryffindor color palette

was difficult.

Again I had issues for some reason blending out certain colors.

Like in the pants once you put the plaid back over it though it helped a lot but like in her top

I feel like it sort of looks like she has a stain on it.

And that bugs me, but I don't -

I can't really figure out how to make it any better

so I just went with it and sometimes you have to just

Embrace what is finished.

And you know it's like that saying the opposite or the enemy of

perfect - no, it's perfection is the enemy of good.

You know you you can work on something and

it can be good, but because you think oh, it's not perfect, then you don't share it and

that's a struggle I've had. I am a perfectionist and so

sometimes I just have to go, you know what? It's good enough. And that's the thing as an artist

we are definitely our own worst critics.

I've had pieces

that I've done and I'm like, ugh this isn't that great, you know

nobody's gonna like it and then show it to someone and I don't I don't tell them my particular

feelings, you know. I don't try to like

talk them out of liking something I've made and

they'll be really happy with it. And they'll be like wow, this is so good. This is, you know, you're so talented and you

have to realize that

if you're creating art for

the consumption of other people.

You know

if you're not creating art in a vacuum, I.E., if you're not creating art only to look at it by yourself, for yourself,

alone in a room

then you have to realize that

most people will not see the imperfections that you see unless you point them out like I'm doing in this video so

yeah [laughter]

You know, you don't have to tell me like, oh this isn't working. This isn't working.

Believe me. I see all the imperfections. I know

exactly what isn't working.

Since we're at this point, I'm not thrilled with her hair either.

I don't know what happened. I don't, I don't have a reason it just, ugh.

I just sort of did something with it.

I don't know. I think it's - I think my problem was

the initial shape of the hair just wasn't right, and I didn't fix that and I should have.

So

I went with this

shape of the hair the general - when I say "shape of the hair" I mean the whole body of hair as a single shape.

It just wasn't what it should be and I didn't fix it and I should have. That's on me.

But like I was saying

when you're creating art that will be

seen by other people

the majority of those other people are not going to see the mistakes that you see.

And even if they do they're probably not going to bring them up to you.

I've found that the people

who

look at your work and bring up the mistakes to you are -

They fall into a few different camps.

One camp is they're just incredibly ballsy

and

they just you know think they have the right to critique your artwork.

One camp is they just aren't

aware

that maybe this is not a good thing to do.

And you know the the other camp is

They are know-it-alls and they think they know better.

And so I try to not

listen to those kind of critiques of my work and just

you know

do my own critique. And again, I am my own worst critic and you will find that to be true

with most creators. They will

you know, tear themselves down a million times more harshly than anyone else can.

But you know, the important thing is I finished it!

And

I finished the whole set and you can check out the other videos and you know see the different

characters I created for this set.

And if you like it, let me know in the comments!

If you don't like it, I really don't care because I don't like it either [laughs]

Which is ridiculous to say, but it's true.

Please don't forget to like this video, leave a comment,

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Be sure to hit the notification bell so that you can get a

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We'll see if I can keep up that pace.

So thanks again for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope I

helped you not be so hard on yourself if you're an artist.

It's very easy to be hard on yourself if you're an artist so

be nice to yourself.

You're not perfect and you don't have to be and

people will look at your work and think it's perfect even if you don't.

I'll see you guys next time.