How To: Make Indian upma sooji with Manjula
Watch as Manjula prepares Indian upma sooji. This popular dish is great for breakfast as its similar to cream of wheat.
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How To: Strengthen the weak chess squares f7 and f2
Remember to take care of the squares f2 with white or f7 with black, in the opening face, so that you don't lose the queen or get checkmated early in the game.
How To: Trap the queen with a knight to win endgame chess
Here is a combination of Troitski's play. See how to outsmart Black by using the knight to trap the queen and win the game.
How To: Defend the king in the corner during endgame chess
It's 1912, and Lazard has got quite a mess on the board. White is stuck in the corner, and Black will surely win. See how to stop that from happening and create a draw.
How To: Use the king's gambit declined trap in chess
This video looks at a possible trapping line, played by black, in the King's Gambit Declined. The trap offers up a free pawn to the white player that has devastating consequences if taken. The video also covers white's best option to avoid the trapping lines and create a comfortable position from which to work from.
How To: Cook jumbo sea scallops Latitude 41 style
Chef Tony Miller walks us through making his Seared Jumbo Sea Scallops with Black Thai Rice, Spinach, Mushrooms, in a Coconut Curry Sauce in the kitchen at Latitude 41 in downtown Columbus, Ohio.
How To: Make a blown glass baby penguin
Learn how to make a small black and white penguin with the technique of lampworking.
How To: Create an earth mother makeup look
"Green is the new black" is this leading earth-mother-lady's mantra. She cares just as much about what she puts on her body as she puts in it, and stands behind the all-natural products that are as easy on her skin as they are on the environment. And, oh, does it show!
How To: Make Brazilian feijoada
Feijoada is a typical Brazilian dish dating back to the time of slavery. A rich black beans stew with pork, dried beef (carne seca) and spicy Portuguese sausages. Feijoada is an ideal dish to prepare for big parties as all the ingredients are just mixed into a large pot. There's no way to go wrong - in fact the longer you boil it for the better it tastes!
How To: Be safe when hiking in bear country
The advice from this video by the National Park Service is: 1. Make loud noises so you don't sneak up on them
How To: Twist a big balloon spider
Watch balloon twister Michael to learn how to make a really big spider with eyeball print balloons (or you could draw eyeballs on white balloons). Use four black balloons for legs/
How To: Survive spiders, snakes, & scorpions
Watch Ray Mears from the BBC explore the most dangerous threats in the desert--spiders, snakes, and scorpions--with a desert ranger. Learn how to avoid black widows by observing an area before you sit down! Do not "mess with any animals you know nothing about." If stung, stay calm.
How To: Use color exclusion in Photoshop
Learn to create color exclusion effects (ie a colored object surrounded by black and white objects) in Photoshop.
How To: Exclude color In Photoshop
An easy tutorial on how to selectively color parts of an image. For example, making one part black and white, while the rest in color.
How To: Do selective coloring in Photoshop
This is a Photoshop tutorial from NewDarkROom.com This tutorial will show you how to make selected areas of your images color while the rest remains black and white.
How To: Tie-dye your clothes with a punk flare
This week, the Thread Heads teach us how to punk rock tie-dye our clothes. Punk rock means you don't use hippy colors, but hard core greens and blacks. Yeah, punk rock is hardcore.
How To: Create a blur in Final Cut Pro
You can learn how to create a blur to hide someone’s face in Final Cut Pro. The travel mat luma merges the top layer with the bottom layer and the black area is transparent.
How To: Make a frozen Pana (green mango drink)
Pana is a very popular frozen drink from Northern India made from peeled, boiled, green mangos. Just add equal parts of salt and sugar to taste. Chill and serve with Black salt for that Indian taste.
How To: Customize emitter objects in 3ds Max
You can learn how to customize emitter objects in 3D Studio Max. When you turn the omni off, your screen will become completely black. By changing the face reduce, you can adjust the amount of emitters.
How To: Create Sin City effect using Photoshop
In this video tutorial you will learn to create the Sin City effect where one portion of the image is in color while the rest is in black and white. Learn how to use layer masks to do the job. You could have as many layer masks as you want as you add in more colors to your images.
How To: Prepare Ethiopian tea
Ethiopian tea is a delicious blend of black tea, spices, and honey. Try brewing a glass for yourself.
How To: Prepare Thai beef broccoli
Beef broccoli is a very popular dish. To prepare this dish you will need flank steak, soy sauce, ground black pepper, fish sauce, oyster sauce, cornstarch, sesame oil, cooking wine (optional) cooking oil, garlic cloves, water and broccoli.
How To: Color adjust in Photoshop
You can learn how to color adjust in photoshop. You can select one color and let the rest of your picture be black and white. First, you select the picture and make a duplicate layer for the background.
How To: Use the sepia effect in Adobe Photoshop
There's a quaint and beautiful look to older, black-and-white photos. With Adobe Photoshop, you can mimic that sepia-toned, antique appearance for your images in just a few easy steps.
How To: Make fried chicken
Watch this instructional video to make a basic recipe of this all-time favorite dish, fried chicken. All you need to make this dish is chicken, vegetable oil, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, milk, egg, and flour.
How To: Draw an image on open canvas
You can learn how to draw an image on open canvas. In this video, a man's face is drawn and the artist begins by drawing a large circle which becomes the head. The original sketch is in black and white, but then the background becomes red.
How To: Create a jellyfish environment in Photoshop
Pixel Perfect is the "perfect" show to help you with your Photoshop skills. Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and treats it as Monet and Picasso do with oil and canvas. Learn the tips and tricks you need to whip those digital pictures into shape with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. In this episode, Ben shows you how to create a jellyfish environment in Photoshop.
How To: Tag like a real graffiti artist
Graffiti— do you have the guts to get out there and tag some property? There's a whole lot more than just spray paint involved. To be great, you'll need things like a sketchbook, pencils, pens, markers, spray can tips, latex gloves, legal (or illegal) wall, and most importantly… creativity. If you think you’ve got what it takes to be an urban graffiti artist, follow these steps to become da ’hood’s next da Vinci.
How To: Build a model DeLorean & train from Back to the Future
Who could forget the spectacular conclusion to the "Back to the Future" trilogy? The scene where Marty and Doc Brown use a train to push the DeLorean to 88 miles an hour so Marty can return to the 1980s has become iconic. With this tutorial, you can recreate the scene in miniature using fairly inexpensive props.
News: 5 Truly Last Minute Halloween Costumes
It's already Halloween and the night is fast approaching. You swore to yourself last year that you wouldn't wait until the last minute again for a Halloween costume, yet here you are on Samhain without a costume… again. All of the costume shops are sure to be crammed with last-minute shoppers, and you don't feel like spending a lot of dough anyway, so what are your options?
How To: Make a squared-style friendship bracelet
Kiwua demonstrates how to make squares friendship bracelets. There are 3 pink threads on the left, 2 black threads in the middle and another 3 pink on the right. First, you take two from left and make a knot from left to right. Then, with the same threads, another knot from right to left. Now you take the next two, a pink one and a black one and makes a knot from right to left. She repeats this action, the same way. After that, she takes the next two threads and knots them from left to right....
How To: Apply makeup to be "scene"
Scene style makeup is in, and in this video we are given the essentials in creating this sort of look. Beginning as you begin with any makeup, we are advised to apply a base, consisting of either a general foundation or a powder. As we go, the video author offers specific brand recommendations and shows the results, via pictures. Now, after our base, the steps are as follows.
How To: Make turkey noodle soup
Learn how to make some casual, traditional, and unique dishes with tutorial help from myrecipes.com. In this video recipe, learn how to make turkey noodle soup. This simple, 35-minute recipe from Cooking Light magazine gives turkey leftovers a fresh start in soul-satisfying soup.
How To: Convert a Photo into a Line Art Drawing in Photoshop
If you're not much of a drawer, you can still get the look of a detailed drawing simply by taking a picture and using Photoshop's tools and filters to transform it into something that looks drawn by hand.
How To: Find gold and sapphires
Do not discount the "pretty" rocks found along with gold. The sapphires you see are worth many times more than gold. Sapphire (& Ruby, (corundum), is like garnet, a relatively high specific gravity that will catch in a sluice readily. These gems act as gold, they will drop behind a boulder, in bedrock cracks, and set up in the stratiform layers of a bar on the inside bend of a stream. In a perfect (laboratory world) a river bar sets up from front to back: Gold, Platinum, Lead, Iron Ore (black...
How To: Frame a wall for your house
Walls don’t last forever, be prepared. Building a house from scratch, a room add on or if it’s just time to turn one room into two you will need to make a sturdy wall frame to ensure the proper construction of your new wall.
How To: Mount your Chinese painting or sumi-e ink drawing
Since sumi-e ink paintings or any sort of painting on rice paper warp the surface and create waves, they can be quite complicated to frame. The fragility of the paper is also something to take into consideration, and requires a special technique that won't tear the painting. Learn how to mount a Chinese painting or sumi-e ink drawing by watching this video framing tutorial.
How To: Frame a basic deck
Check out this video to learn how to frame a basic deck. Get ready to put the footings on. Start with the beam, which holds the deck up.
How To: Make a trestle frame for a pioneering project
Make a trestle frame for a pioneering project. Woooohooo!
How To: This iPhone Setting Instantly Improves Video Quality When Shooting in Low Light
If you shoot videos with your iPhone in low-light situations, you may not always get the results you want. And that applies when recording video in 720p, 1080p, and even 4K resolutions. But there's an easy way to maximize your video's quality when filming in dark environments.