Get some tips on using oil pastels for your art drawings. This video tutorial will show you how to use oil pastels in a nature journal. If you're new to drawing nature with oil pastels, this will help you out.
Thoreau said, “Water is the only drink for a wise man.” Here’s how to purify yours when you’re out in the wild. To purify water, you will need a camp stove or campfire, water purifier, water purification tablets, and a container to collect the clean water. Learn how to make safe drinking water while camping or out in nature by watching this video nature safety tutorial.
Add some pizzazz to your yard with some decorative edging. Watch this video tutorial to learn about the various garden fencing/edging options from Nature's Garden Magazine's editor James Baggett.
There are three different ways to either speed up or slow down the rate of your animations in Cinema 4D. This tutorial shows you how to use keyframes, time scales or the remapping feature in After Effects to change your speed of render.
The CS4 version of Adobe Flash has altered the appearance and layout of your screen. If you draw often in Flash, this tutorial shows you how find and use the Smooth and Straighten functions efficiently and add them to a menu using the history and saving as a command.
In this clip, learn how to alter your vinnegarette so that it is not as greasy and heavy. Average dressings contain a lot of excess oil and in this quick tip from CHOW you will learn how to be healthier by cutting some out.
In this tutorial, learn how to use Logic Pro to alter the sound of the World Cup games so that you filter out the vuvuzela. The vuvuzela is a South African horn that is blown for 90 straight minutes and to those of us that are not from South Africa, sounds more like an annoying swarm of bees. Follow along with this quick tutorial and learn how to lessen the bumble bee sound if you are streaming your games online.
Remove blemishes, repair damage and otherwise alter your digital images using Adobe Photoshop's patch and clone tools. Whether your new to Photoshop or just new to retouching your digital photographs, you're sure to find something of value in this free lesson. For detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started touching up your own photos, watch this handy how-to.
Changing the text that appears on your iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad is fairly easy once you've jailbroken it. With the help of the 'Springtomize Cracked' app, you'll be able to alter the words that show up on the unlock screen for your iOS device.
This fun and funky tutorial can be altered to use whatever kind of hemp or beads you prefer. Make it longer to create a choker or a necklace, or keep it short to create a fun friendship bracelet or ankelet.
In this clip, we learn a basic digital photography workflow, one which will enable you to enhance your favorite digital photos with both ease and speed. (Note: To follow along, you will need to have the application installed. Learn how to download and install the Mac App Store here.)
This is a quick and easy tutorial that shows you how to add better looking shadows to your projects in After Effects. The video takes two basic spheres and shows you how to alter Drop Shadow to make it look exactly how you want it.
Start with a basic photograph, and then use the various image effects to subtly alter it until it's precisely how you want it. This tutorial also goes briefly into layer styles, and some easy and effective ways to work with layers in Adobe Photoshop.
Learn how to create layer and text animations in After Effects CS5 by altering position, rotation, opacity and scale parameters.
You can use the free software program Cheat Engine to hack nearly any game, whether online or off, to alter your scores, inventory and experience points. Always make sure you are using the most current and up to date version of Cheat Engine!
Want to be the master of your domain? Make zombies and other monsters spawn where you want them. This tutorial shows you how to use the free software NTB edit to hack MineCraft and alter the spawn points for monsters.
Want to change the stats or skins for any item in Fallout: New Vegas? If you have the mod manager for the game, you can open it up and use it to alter the stats for any item in the entire game.
Tailoring isn't just for fabric! To have the best chainmail shirt, that doesn't pull or hang too losely, you'll want to tailor it. Tailor your shirt around curves by slightly altering the pattern of your weave, and this video demonstrates how.
Pro Tools is extensive enough that you can actually delete individual notes from tracks that you don't like. This tutorial shows you how to go into the built in MIDI editor and delete or alter notes for your own music projects.
Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, is a disorder that involves a several symptoms related to altered bowel habits and abdominal pain. In this medical-minded how-to from the folks at ICYou Health Videos, you'll learn how to avoid the most common triggers of IBS and be apprised of treatment options.
Start with a toy bullhorn that alters the sound of your voice when you speak into it. Then mod it using a few potentimeters and a few resistors as demonstrated in this video. Now you have a toy with an even crazier pitch!
Here's a creepy weekend project! Take an old analog rotary phone (which you can easily find in an antique or vintage store). Unscrew the earpiece and then alter the parts according to the tutorial so you can start 'talking to ghosts'.
In this clip, you'll learn how to block a site on an Apple Mac OS X computer by altering your DNS settings. With a little know-how, it's easy. So easy, in fact, that this video guide can offer a complete overview of the process in a matter of a few minutes. For more information, including a complete demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this home-computing how-to from MacMost.
Rooting (also called jailbreaking) a phone grants you superuser access, which allows you to download third party applications and otherwise alter your phone. This tutorial shows you how to give yourself root access on a T-Mobile G1 cell phone. Be careful, because rooting will often void your warranty!
Color correction is a color adjustment you can take advantage of in Adobe Photoshop to alter the balance and contrast of color in a photo or other image. This tutorial shows you how you can take a shaded image and bring out the color and detail in your project.
In this clip, you'll learn how to access and alter isolated storage quotas when working in Silverlight. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular web application framework or a seasoned web developer merely looking to improve your chops, you're sure to find benefit in this free MS Silverlight programming lesson. For more information, including a complete demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
If you want the mouse pointer in StarCraft II to act more like the pointer from Diablo, here's a tutorial which explains how to alter your user interface in the game to create this mod. You'll start by going into the game's map editor and then distributing invisible drones throughout the map to give your cursor a plethora of reference points.
Make it look like your camera is shaking and add in a flashing, color-changing light (great for music videos!). You can create this effect (without losing any video quality) using the software program Premiere Pro using this easy technique and by altering some of the color filters.
Want to alter the look and feel of your Google Sites website? It's easy. And this brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started managing your own web pages with Google Sites, take a look.
Looking for instructions on how to add or alter personal details on Pandora? You're in luck. This clip will teach you how to do just that. It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this video guide can present a complete overview of the process in just under three minutes. For details, and to get started updating your own Pandora profile, take a look.
You can alter the lighting (general ambient, specific spots, color/warmth) of a video using compositor nodes within Blender. This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular 3D modeling program or a seasoned graphic artist just interested in better acquainting yourself with the application, you're sure to be well served by this free video tutorial. For more information, including detailed instructions, take a look!
In this tutorial, learn how to root your HTC smartphone for super user access. With a rooted phone, you will be able to tether for free, install and create new ROMS, alter the CPU and much more. Follow along with this instructional video and get started with you new "jailbroken" EVO 4G.
This tutorial is helpful for those who enjoy the old fashioned way of sending mail. The video focuses on making your own envelopes using a variety of different papers including wallpaper, regular paper, and even designer paper. You'll also find out how to make pre-made envelopes to fit card. Enjoy!
This short Final Cut Pro tutorial shows how to export a still image from Final Cut Pro and then deinterlace it, and alter its aspect ratio in Photoshop. This is a great tutorial for learning how to work with still images from Final Cut Pro.
Get bent with this instructional circuit bending video that provides a short introduction to circuit bending for the beginner. Circuit bending is taking any existing electronic device that is capable of generating audio signal and manipulating it and altering the schematics to produce some sort of sound other than the original intended sound. There are endless possibilities for the devices that can be used to experiment with your own circuit bend sounds.
Try a quilting experiment to make a radical change to your hand crafted quilt. In this video, the original quilt was much larger, and has been cut down to groups of 9 blocks. See how a different swath of fabric is sewn right through the center of the quilt.
Is it your pet parakeet's birthday? Here are some tips and techniques on how to make a hand stamped birthday card using Stampin' Up!'s Pun Fun stamp set. You can make up your own puns, or alter this card to suit other pets and other holidays. Make greeting cards for all occasions with stamps and unique hole punches.
In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, Bert Monroy from PixelPerfect shows you how to use the Gradient Mesh tool, which lets you divide pretty much any shape (like an apple) into a mesh. Wish a mesh created, you can alter the color of an intersecting point of the mesh with a solid color. This tool will help give your Illustrator objects more dimension and realism.
World fusion drumming combines the energy and feel of rock, Latin, and world music with the technique and improvisational skills of jazz. In this installment of his video tutorial series on the rudiments of world fusion drumming, Berklee College of Music professor Skip Hadden demonstrates how to modify the feel of a samba groove by changing up the hi-hat pattern.
In screen printing, Photoshop can be a powerful tool. If you have a jpg, tif, eps, or other type of file in which you can't alter, printing from Photoshop will give you too many separations. Here is a way to take a simple design in Photoshop and convert it to spot colors in order to print solid colors instead of mixing inks.
