Do you find the black and white icons in 3D Studio Max 10 boring and bland? Do you need some color to brighten up the hours and hours you spend modeling in front of the computer? This video will show you how to change the color of the icons and text in the dark UI of 3D Studio Max. It may not make you 3D model look any sharper, but it should help you keep your sanity while you work on it.
It's hard to picture Old Hollywood stars like Marilyn Monroe and Ava Gardner without their cherry red lips and thick black liner. Thanks to these timelessly glamorous stars, the retro pin up makeup look has been prized by women for decades.
Black and brown smokey eyes are so last season. Kick it with the fashion forward elite by injecting some spring in your facial beautifying routine.
This makeup tutorial makes sea dragons - fuzzy, funnily finned fish that are in desperate need of an appointment with a waxer - look like aquatic goddesses.
In this video, we learn how to make spicy potato wedges. The ingredients you will need are: salt, 1/2 tsp dry mango powder, 2 medium wedged potatoes, 1 tbsp olive oil, 2 cloves smashed garlic, 1/8 tsp black pepper, 1 tsp Italian seasoning, 1/2 tsp red chili flakes and 1/4 tsp garlic powder. First, preheat your oven to 350 degrees and cut your potatoes into wedge shapes. Soak the potatoes in water then put into a bowl and add salt. Microwave until the potatoes are half way cooked and strain th...
The Family Circle Test Kitchen brings us this demonstration of how to prepare a delicious Stuffed Flank Steak. The stuffing is made by combining a package of frozen spinach, thawed and drained, some crumbled blue cheese, a jar of roasted red peppers, drained and chopped, some bread crumbs, an egg yolk, and some garlic salt and black pepper.
In this video, we learn how to make fried green tomatoes. First, grab several green tomatoes and cut them into 1/2 inch slices. Put the slices onto a rack, let them sit for 15 minutes. Now, in a bowl mix your breading mix. Add 1/2 cornmeal and 1/2 breadcrumbs and add black pepper, cayenne, 1/2 tsp of salt and mix it together. In a separate bowl mix two eggs and a tbsp of milk together. To coat the tomatoes, put them into a bowl of flour, then the egg mixture and then finally the corn meal/bre...
Chef Keith Snow demonstrates in this video how to make a quick and healthy recipe using broccoli. Blanched broccoli is used, that is, it is dipped in boiling water to tenderize it. A wok is heated and flavorless pure olive oil is added to it. Finely chopped shallots, ginger and garlic are tossed around in the oil and the heat is turned up. The broccoli is added when the ingredients release their flavor. A pinch of salt and black pepper can be mixed to the wok. A tablespoon of toasted sesame o...
Before beginning to tape your hockey stick, take your desired cloth grip tape and score it in half with a knife making sure to not cut through the cardboard core. The purpose of this is to make thinner strips of tape. To begin the taping process, start at the top of the stick and go down the stick in a diagonal for about six inches. Then, back at the top of the stick, wrap with white (shin guard) tape around and around to make a knob. Now, we focus attention on the blade end. Run a thin strip...
Is the battery life on your Ipod diminishing? Watch this video as the folks at Repairs Universe show you how to replace the battery on your 1st generation Ipod. First you need some tools to pry open your Ipod. Flathead screwdrivers and razors work well. Take the razor and slowly inch your way around the opening to pry it open. Then take off the back cover. The battery is black and has a serial number and the Apple symbol on it. Don't confuse this with your hard drive. Watch the video for the ...
This is a great instructional video on how to make sauteed garlic asparagus. The main ingredients required to make this wonderful food are three table spoon unsalted butter, two cloves garlic chopped,one bunch fresh asparagus, quarter teaspoon kosher salt and quarter teaspoon ground black pepper. First melt the butter in a big skillet over medium-high heat. Once the butter is melted add the garlic. Then add asparagus spears and salt. Finally add pepper to it. Now cover it and cook stirring oc...
How to prune small trees
The Digital Chef shows how he makes Masala Chai Tea, also known as Indian Spice Tea.
This video shows you how to make compost from organic debris in the garden and leftover food.To make compost, you must add organic debris or scraps of food to such as pine needles, leaves or fruits to your compost bin. You should use horse or cow manure to speed up the process. You can also use nitrogen fertilizers as long as they do not contain herbicides. Then add water to the whole mixture.It is recommended that the compost bin should be about 3 feet high and 3 feet wide in order to insula...
To do this sausage you are going to need some venison meat and, preferably, pork, the fat in it helps to bind the sausage. Cut all meat in smaller pieces. Blend tender quick, ground black pepper, garlic powder and ground mustard in a bowl and ad it to the meat before you grind it up. This will mix it better with the meat. After you have grounded the meat, you stuff it into a fiber casing that has been soaking in hot water for about half an hour. Once the casing is stuffed and tied up at the e...
If you are in the wild and have nothing to do, just to play around with your knife , then you should surely watch this video. First, you have to find a knife. After that you must find a good branch or piece of wood that's the same size as a spear. After that you must take the branch or piece of wood and sharpen one of the ends. Then , you must put the sharpened end in the fire so it begins to turn black. After that cut it again and this time cut it so it will be sharp enough to cut. It can se...
In this video, we learn how to fix and iPod touch LCD screen that is too dim/won't light up. First, open up the back case of the device and take out the battery. Make sure not to disconnect the battery that is attached to the battery. After this, take a tool, which you can purchase at ifix, and remove the LCD connection button, then snap it back on. This is located at the bottom left hand side and is black. Replace your battery and case your back light will now be back up, without having to p...
This video shows us the method to rotate a video clip using iMovie HD. Go to iMoviePlugins and download Turn Clip from it. Also make sure you have iMovie HD installed. Now add the video clip to the timeline. Go to the editing tab and choose Video FX and CFX enhancements. Choose Turn Clip from the resulting window. Now set the rotation angle. This can be configured to 90 degrees or 180 degrees. Click on 'Apply' and the software will render the rotation on the timeline. When everything is done,...
This video shows how to synchronize our blackberry smartphone with MS outlook. First open up the Blackberry Desktop Manager. Let us start by synchronizing the blackberry. Double click the synchronize button to load the synchronization settings. Here we can specify what we want to synch and where we want to synch firm. Click the configuration tab and select configure synch. Our device configuration menu let us pick which application on the black berry to synch and where to synch. Today we are ...
In this two part electric guitar lesson teaches you how to play "Nothing Else Matters" by the great Metallica off "The Black Album". In the video, instructor Bobby Crispy breaks down the song cord by cord, from beginning to end. This is great for both expert and beginner guitarist, of course with lots of practice and this video you'll be mastering Metallica in no time.
Whether you're new to Adobe Photoshop or a seasoned digital photographer after a general overview of CS5's most vital new features, you're sure to be well served by this official video tutorial from the folks at Adobe TV. New Photoshop CS5 helps you achieve the visual and emotional effects you’re after with re-engineered features for reducing and adding grain, performing post-crop vignetting, and sharpening. CS5 reinvents HDR imaging with Exposure Merge, which makes it easy to preserve the fu...
This video shows the viewer how to make Halloween style lanterns using commonly available items. The base lantern is a Chinese style paper lantern; these can be purchase from home retail stores. The general principal is too cut out the shapes of insects from black paper. These can then be fixed to the lantern to project the image. Additionally holes can be cut in the insects and covered with red tissue paper. The light will shine through the red tissue paper giving the appearance of blood. Th...
Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza demonstrate the way of making medieval candles using tissue paper transfer technique. Steve asks you to first take a piece of tissue paper and a square-shaped chunky stamp. Then you should load the stamp with black pigment. Once the loading is completed, you should cut the tissue paper in square shape and place the shining side on the stamp and give a nice light press with your fingers. Then once you get the stamp image on the tissue, gently take it out and pl...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to reset a frozen iPod Touch after jailbreaking. iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, and Wi-Fi mobile platform. Begin by holding in the Sleep and Home button at the same time. Hold it until a black screen appears. After it appears, let go of the buttons immediately. Now connect you iPod Touch to your computer. Then open i-Tunes and Restore the iPod Touch. Now users are able to try to jailbreak their iPod Touch once again...
Everybody loves burgers and everybody loves sandwiches - so why not combine them? In this tutorial, Betty makes square shaped sandwich burgers from scratch. This recipe is not difficult to make and is incredibly tasty. But, make sure you remember the napkins because this dish sure is messy!
Skip Steele and Terry Black of the award winning Super Smokers BBQ Team share their method for making championship barbecue ribs.
If you've ever wanted to do card magic tricks or just want to know how a certain magic card trick is done then watch and learn how to perform the slip cut sandwich card trick. This is a simple card trick can be done by anyone regardless of experience, you want to being by stating that the two jacks are going to assist you in finding the card. Then have a spectator tell you when to stop when your riffling through the deck. When told to stop just pull two cards out as one and place at the top o...
To create a winged out eyeshadow look you first take a paint pot as a base. Apply to the eyelids and under the bottom of the last line. Blend with finger after you're done applying with a brush. Next, take a brush and place black eyeshadow above the lash line on the eyelid, while doing this, brush outwards in the corner of the eye to make a cat-eye. Don't place the eyeshadow too high on the eyelid or it will change the shape of the eye. Make sure to place the eyeshadow in the corner creases o...
The chefs at the food channel are going to show you how to do a crab boil the best way possible. First, you are going to need a large pot connected to propane gas and to fill it up with 8 gallons of water to boil. Next, you want to add the seasonings to the pot which are, 2 cups of salt, a healthy amount of black peppercorn, 4 bags of seafood pickling mixtures, 3 small bottles of cooking oil, and a nice amount of hot sauce for some kick. You want to add the top back to the pot and let that si...
This video tutorial by photoshopuniverse teaches you how to blend two images seamlessly using Photoshop. For this you need two or more images that need to be blended together. Using the move tool in Photoshop move one image over to the other image. Open the layers window and make a layer mask as shown and select the gradient tool making sure the colors are white on black and connect the two images as shown. Using the brush and the opacity at 50% reveal the parts of the image that need to be c...
Learn how to simulate snow in your photograph in this video tutorial by photoshopuniverse. For this you'll need a photo depicting winter scenery. Add a new layer, fill it in with black, go to filer noise and add noise as shown using the given amounts. Go to filter effects and add blur to the layer. Go to images and adjust the levels to reduce the snow-flakes as shown. And add some motion blur to it. Change the blend mode to screen, duplicate the layer, rotate the new layer, apply the filter c...
This video demonstrates the split tone effect in Photoshop. A split tone effect makes a picture look more rustic by changing the tones. First, add an adjustment layer to the picture by opening the channel mixer window. Select Monochrome and adjust the RGB values to create a black and white image to your own personal preference. Next, add another layer by opening the color balance window. Here you can change the colors of the light areas by selecting Highlights and changing the color sliders, ...
Photoshopuniverse teaches you how to use the Dodge and Burn tools in a non destructive manner, in Adobe Photoshop. Dodge makes things lighter. Burn does the opposite. The problem is that this is destructive operation. Use the Brush tool at 20% opacity. Create a new layer with 50% grey. Change the layer's mode to Overlay. With the black color you will make things darker and with the white lighter. To view the changes, review the overlay layer. To correct a mistake on this layer, use a brush wi...
A combination of red and gold eyeshadow is great for emphasizing green eyes - this is because red and gold are complementary colors to green. For the base, apply a clear or skin-colored base to the entire eye area. Use a highlight base just beneath your eyebrows. Blend it in. Use a black liquid base on the upper eyelid. For eyeshadow, start off with a shimmery gold by putting it in the inner corners of the upper lid. Take your red and start off slightly in the middle of your eye, where you le...
This is a video from Derrick Schommer of Everyday Drinkers: Common Man Cocktails. He describes how to make a "Sunday Snuggie," which has 2 oz Jagermeister and 2 oz Bourbon whiskey. This also contains cranberry juice, grenadine, and a mix of 1 oz of lime, 1 oz of lemon, and 1 oz of simple syrup which makes a sour mix. Use 2 oz of that. Once he explains all of the ingredients he goes on to a demonstration of how to make the drink. After he makes the drink he goes on to sip and describe it. He s...
This is a great instructional video on how to make Indian food called chicken kebab. The ingredients required for this dish are chicken pieces, soaked chana dal, garam masala, onion, pepper, red chillies, cumin seeds, black cardamom and salt. first take bay leaves, ginger and garlic in a pan. Now add chana dal and chicken pieces. Now place the vessel inside a pressure cooker and heat the cooker until you get the sound. Now you can add salt and pepper. Now you can serve this dish with other fo...
This video tutorial, by photoshopuniverse, shows you how to reduce the depth of field after a photo is taken using Photoshop. This enables you to ensure that your main subject is clearly in focus while the background is out of focus or blurry. First duplicate the layer using the short cut that was mentioned and apply the filter lens blur to the new layer and adjust the radius so that an adequate amount of blurring is achieved. Add a layer mask and bring the subject to focus by selecting the b...
In this video we learn how to make it seem like your photo is torn in half using Adobe Photoshop. The first step is to decide how you would like to have your photo "torn" up. The second step is to select the lasso tool and draw the tear line through the photo. The third step is to select the rest of the image you want to keep. The fourth step is to go into Quick Mask mode and select Filter, Brush Strokes, then Splatter. This creates the jagged edge torn effect. Finally select a smoothness bet...
This video is about using a luminosity mask in Photoshop. The luminosity mask is used to enhance the color and contrast in photos that lack each of these. The color is enhanced or punched up. Choose the manipulation tool: channel and RGB. To choose RGB, touch control and then select RGB. Select the 100 % white or light parts of the photo, it will not select the darker or black images. Copy the light parts of the image by using control J. Choose to copy the lightest parts by selecting overlay ...
This video explains how we can have a smooth skin in the pictures using Photoshop tools. The healing brush tool is used to delete all blemishes, red spots or black marks from the skin in the photo. While doing this it is important to select smaller portions and then go ahead instead of selecting bigger portions of the skin. Later the median filter is used so that the smoothing is just optimum. This actually helps in getting the right image specially for close up photos.
