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Do you want to make your special flowers last a little longer? Maybe you want to preserve a keepsake from your wedding or a loved one’s celebration of life? I’ve been on a flower pressing kick lately, so I thought it was high time I shared techniques on how to dry flowers, especially when only a 3-D effect will do.

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Letting flowers dry out naturally is perhaps the easiest (but not quickest) way to preserve your blooms. If you’ve followed the tips above for selecting good flowers, that’s half the battle.

Simply tie a piece of jute rope or string around 5-10 stems, removing any unwanted leaves or foliage as you go. You can also use a rubber band for this purpose.

If the stems are the dainty kind, you can insert florist’s wire through the base of the bloom (calyx) and down around the stem to secure them.

Hang the flowers upside down in a dark, well-ventilated space like a closet, attic, or utility room. Just make sure the room doesn’t have high humidity. I like to secure them to a hanger or rod in our laundry room…so much more fun than doing laundry in there!

After 1-3 weeks, your flowers should be completely dry, unless the blossoms are particularly thick. Roses or mums may take longer depending on the size of the flower.

For reference, the bouquet featured in this tutorial was completely dry in about 5 days or so.

Once your flowers have dried, you can spray them with a fixative like unscented hairspray to better retain color.

According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, flowers with a small calyx work well. The Almanac also talks about a “flash drying” method of sticking fresh blooms in your car trunk to dry in the sun for better color preservation.

Knowing me, I’d probably forget and have potpourri floating around in the back of my car all year!

To dry flowers in the oven, first trim the stems off to leave only the blossom and calyx. Leaves won’t tend to dry very well in the oven based on my experience.

For roses, you will likely want to remove the individual petals, since the center of the bud is difficult to dry out completely without a lot of browning. You’ll also find that multi-petaled flowers like mums and daisies may tend to shrivel.

Next, spread your flowers on a baking rack placed on a cookie sheet. Bake at 200°F (about 95°C) for about 2 hours.

Smaller flowers will take far less time, so keep an eye out after about 45 minutes to 1 hour. You can always air dry the flowers for the last stretch.

As you can see from the photos, flowers with bright blue or purple colors tend to retain their color extremely well, while bright red flowers will darken to a wine color and yellow blooms may tend toward brown.

I love using the oven drying process when making homemade potpourri.

The flowers have a crispness that looks romantic, and you won’t fret as much when petal pieces break off in the bowl. It just adds to the charm!

Generally, the same rules apply in terms of picking the freshest, most unblemished flowers to start. Larger flowers with spherical shapes (e.g., roses, peonies) don’t lend themselves well to pressing, but you can always separate the petals to press them individually.

There are trade-offs in time and quality for each method of flower pressing. Overall, my favorite method is using the microwave for the speed and ease of creating DIY pressed flower art.

However, the good, old-fashioned book press creates gorgeous paper-thin petals and does a great job of maintaining color. If you have a heavy book and 2-4 weeks to spare, it’s a great summer project for the kids!

If you want to use a microwave to dry flowers, you can buy a microwave flower press (for flat flowers) or use silica gel in a microwave-safe dish. Assuming you want to preserve the shape and body of the flowers, I’ll cover the latter option.

Once again, you’ll create a blanket of silica gel in your container and spread out your flowers before placing more gel on top.

Unlike the conventional method, you will not cover the container but instead, place a glass of water in the microwave with it. Follow the microwaving directions based on the flowers you’ve chosen (typically 1-3 minutes total in 1-minute increments).

Of course, like most time-saving techniques, you’ll face a slight loss in color retention versus the conventional method.

1. Press the Windows + X keys simultaneously;
2. Click on the Device Manager option;
3. Click the arrow that points to USB Controllers;
4. Right-click on the installed device and click Properties;
5. Click on the Driver tab> Update Driver> Search Computer for Driver Software;

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If you have a green computer, you have two ways to download the drivers.

The easiest method is through the app. We can do a lot of things in this program, but also update drivers.

The company's official website is where you can download them.

You have to enter the data of your graph, your operating system and the options for the driver in the main search engine. To update the system, you will have to download an.exe file.

There are two special options that are not essential, but also not very well understood. We are talking about the two types of drivers.

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These two options are the most recent to join the team of questions, but what do they mean? Is they useful for anything in particular?

The easiest section to explain the type of download is the one about it.

The Game Ready Driver and the Studio Driver are available. You can see where the shots are coming from if you are a bit sharp.

Game Ready drivers are patches that are released on the day of a video game or major update.

They prepare the graphics to support new games and older games.

These drivers can be patched, broken or unstable. It can be useful for users who only play, but there is another type of user.

The other type of driver is called a studio driver, it is designed for people who do graphic design. The operation of the graph needs to be stable for users like this. Game Ready drivers are inefficient and annoying for them.

Between the releases of Drivers Studio, they release dozens of Game Ready patches.

The topic we will focus on today is the types of Windows drivers we have.

Windows drivers are similar to the set of rules, commands and things that are installed on top of the base of the operating system. In the case of Nvidia, it serves to offer functions, actions and others so that the graphics work.

What is the point of having two options? The change that Windows has been making to be a more cohesive environment has led to the existence of the two types of drivers.

Standard drivers were the first to be known as international drivers. We are gradually transitioning to the Universal Windows Platform.

It's better to install the DCH drivers, but why.

The drivers that we know today as "DCH International" are the adaptation of the drivers for the Windows platform.

It used to be common to require certain data packages, libraries and so on, so it could be chaotic at times. Windows has made it simpler and more generalized for users and developers.

The company wants to allow developer programs to be compatible across different platforms. It will not be necessary to have auxiliary libraries, or to wait for certain data to be installed in certain operating systems, but everything will be in the same program.

This may be a challenge for some developers, but it will make Windows a better place to live in. Universal Windows Platform apps will be easier to port to other formats and users will be less constrained.

A DCH International driver can't be installed in standard equipment. You can find out what type of drivers you use by going to the control panel.

Drivers belonging to the Universal Windows Platform go beyond the DCH International.

We will take the same definition from Windows to have a more solid one.