Want to access a website without using bookmarks or, heaven forbid, typing its URL into your address bar? This video tutorial offers instructions for creating a desktop shortcut to a given website while running any version of the Windows operating system and running any browser. Take a look!
This tutorial covers installing the WAMP (that is, Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP) all-in-one package and creating a MySQL database using the import function of phpMyAdmin. For step-by-step instructions on the WAMP installation process, or to get started installing your own WAMP serve, take a look.
Celtx is an application for creating scripts for podcasts, videos, stage plays, screenplays, or any other visual (or audio) media. This podcast shows you how to mark up your script so that you can easily create a scene breakdown sheet in CELTX.
This 3D software tutorial shows you how to use the displace modifier in 3ds Max. The displace modifier allows you to create perfect materials and realistic shadows in 3D Studio Max. Proper materials and shadows are key to creating a realistic 3D scene. See how to work with the displace mod in 3ds Max to achieve more realistic models. This video is best viewed full screen.
In this week's episode of PixelPerfect, Bert delves into the world of glass. Many useful techniques are used in creating a detailed bottle of nail polish in Photoshop. Watch and learn how to create and work with glass surfaces in Photoshop.
Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to create quick and easy copies as well as repeated copies, or arrays. As arrays are so easy to create, don't worry if you make a mistake. Simply undo the array and recreate it. This tutorial covers how to make one copy, creating multiple copies or arrays, changing the number of copies, the difference between external and internal array, and how to Create circular arrays.
There are many ways to create starfields or add a star field to an image within Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial shows you one method of creating starfields in Photoshop CS3.
Peter Erskine is best known for his versatility and ardent love of working in various musical settings. In this installment from his video lesson series in which he covers basic brush skills on the drumset, Peter will guide you through creating a smooth legato sound while playing with brushes.
You can paint your plaster blue and coat it with a gloss, but there are easier ways to make artificial water for miniature dioramas, architectural models and war game terrain. Easy Water is a product made up of small plastic pellets that need to be melted and poured onto the model. You cannot use this on styrofoam, obviously. This instructional video provides some alternative methods for creating water effects on miniature dioramas.
Photocopy art transfers are created using high-contrast photos and acrylic medium. Make a photocopy transfer with this free arts and crafts video series.
Check out this instructional cello playing video to learn how to create short cello notes. When creating a short note on the cello, divide the note into two sections. This tutorial recommends practicing with a few martele exercises until you're comfortable making short notes on the cello.
An After Effects tutorial on creating a pond surface effect and simulating an underwater video. Start with footage of a person looking down at the camera and then "touching" the water, then follow along with this tutorial and you'll have rippling water in no time.
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In this tutorial you will learn how to create a pretty decent looking water shader in Maya without many nodes. Water materials are a great and fast way to get around creating real 3D water effects so watch this Maya tutorial and create your own water shader.
This tutorial takes looks at the selection tool as a drawing tool and also covers how to convert paths to selections and vice-versa when creating vector art in GIMP.
Bill Myers gives a quick guide to creating lower thirds for video using Photoshop Elements.
This is not that kind of kissing technique. This is an effect that can be used when making paper arts and crafts for creating nice designs. Your friends will probably like this kissing technique better, anyway.
Bill Myers shows how to quickly extract an image and paste it on a transparent background in Photoshop Elements.
This Bill Myers tutorial is a quick and easy guide to creating a scene or chapter menu with DVD Architect.
This kite's cool rectangle shape and easy assembly will have you flying high in no time!
In this video tutorial, Chris Pels will demonstrate how to create a custom user control in ASP.NET that can be used throughout a web site or across many web sites. Start out by learning the basics of creating a user control that will be used in multiple pages including validation, controlling formatting using style elements, and loading/saving data for the user interface elements. Throughout the video considerations for building user controls that can be easily maintained and used across mult...
Become a director by creating cameras and moving them through your scene for that perfect shot with the help of this 3ds Max video tutorial. Especially helpful to digital animators and modelers who don't know how to create a scene.
Check out this 3ds Max video tutorial on a detailed look at creating shapes and lines. Autodesk's 3D Studio Max is a customizable and scalable 3D modeling and rendering solution for games, film, and television, so don't miss out you digital animators.
This video covers creating terrain layers, Ground cover, foliage, factories, Speed Trees and sky using the Unreal Engine for Gears of War.
From email to online banking, you never want someone poking around in your personal information. Learn what to avoid when creating passwords, and try these tips to keep your passwords safe and secure.
This tutorial shows you how to create holes in a terrain surface in Unreal Tournament 3. This is helpful for creating caves, pits and bunkers etc. You will be using the visibility brush.
Easy as 1 - 2 - 3! Watch this video to learn the quick steps to creating a perfect rainbow using sponge paints!
Be your own artist! Smashbox pros Lori Taylor & Hank Hoffman give you a step-by-step guide for creating the most gorgeous, runway-ready smokey eye ever!
Creating an engine exhaust glow is a very useful effect. You can use this for spaceships, cars and more. See how to create one in 3D Studio Max.
Creating different borders and backgrounds for pages within a single Word document.
Gary Rosenzweig answers viewer questions about saving Web pages, sharing a network connection and creating a podcast playlist.
Why would you want to have an action just for creating a 500px size image? Well, that's the perfect size for posting images on a forum, and if you create an action in Photoshop to do this, you'll never have to manually resize an image for the web again! Learn how to create, and customize this action.
This tutorial is a guide to creating authentic looking lomographic effects on your images in Photoshop. Remember, it's artistic so you'll need to experiment and find the right vintage look for yourself. Photoshop CS3 is used in the video, but it should be almost exactly the same since version 7 (with the exception of the Shadow/Highlight tool, but that's an optional step).
It's nice to add "depth" to a project -- generally by making something look 3D (or 3D-ish). This is a really easy tip for creating a 3D button in Flash and further goes into adding sounds and scaling the button.
John demonstrates an easy way of creating an out-of-body special effect.
Branon presents a step-by-step tutorial on creating montages in Adobe Premiere.
A PHP programming tutorial on creating a User Login and setting cookies.
How to manage user logins by creating a MySQL user login database with PHP. Part 1 of 3 - How to Create a MySQL user login database with PHP.
A Java programming tutorial on creating a graphic user interface (GUI) using Java's Swing interface. This tutorial uses Netbeans 5.5.1 & Java 1.6.
This tutorial demonstrates how to create charts and diagrams with Microsoft Excel by walking you through creating a seating chart in Excel.
