Make your job a little easier by setting presets in After Effects. This will allow you to save time while you add visual effects to your film. Having custom presets makes it much simpler to achieve consistency is your VFX.
Would you like to record your PC screen? Download CamStudio and watch this video to learn how to capture video of your PC, perfect for making tutorials and let's plays. This video explains all you need to know about CamStudio: what to download and how to use it.
Sometimes, in the case of a guacamole emergency, you just need to peel an avocado in a hurry. This video will teach you how to do. Using only a knife and making just four cuts, you can peel an avocado in less than two minutes. Your cinco de mayo party won't be without guacamole for long!
Keep your tracks organized by color coding the mixer channels when using FL studio. You'll have a much easier time making beats in FL studio with color coded mixer channels. You've got the tools, make sure you know how to use them properly.
Follow this recipe and learn from the video to make a delicious, authentic Louisiana style gumbo. This video takes you all the way from making roux to the final gumbo. Chicken and andouille sausage add delicious hearty flavor to the gumbo.
What makes this apple pie punk rock? It's probably the addition of pumpkin pie spice to the apples. In addition to the apples, you will also need: cinnamon, cloves and lemon juice for the filling. The crust recipe calls for flour, butter, baking powder and water - or you can buy premade if you want.
Don't resort to a mix! Brownies are so much better when they are made from scratch. This video shows you how to make delicious, chocolately brownies using: butter, baking chocolate, eggs, white sugar, vanilla extract, salt, baking powder and flour.
Ick, ironing. It's just one of those boring chores that still has to get done. Especially if your clothes have strange bits, like cuffs, darts or stiff collars. Here are a few good strategies for making sure all your clothes are perfectly ironed.
One of the basic recipes - the hard boiled egg. If you are making a dish such as egg salad or deviled eggs, you will want to make sure that your eggs are well boiled before starting. Here's how you can tell when your egg is done.
This video shows you how to make a single serving of Chex Mix for a snack in the microwave. Of course, if you're making snacks for a party, just increase the quantities of all the ingredients. Delicious, quick and easy!
This is a great centerpiece for any pirate or nautical themed birthday party - a pirate ship, complete with pirates, made entirely out of bread dough! This creative baking tutorial gives you the recipe and shows you how to construct your own ship mold at home.
The trick to getting a 100% on this level is to not lose more than a single block of health while doing it. Since there are no enemies in this level, it all comes down to making sure you don't fall!
Extreme crochet is when you bring multiple strands of yarn together and treat it like one big strand. You will definitely need a size P hook to be able to work with this much yarn. Here is how to use single crochet stitches when making something with extreme crochet.
Pop superstar Gwen Stefani needs little help looking cool. She did, after all, singlehandedly bring back rasta prints and made Japanese Harajuku prints and designs popular in the mainstream.
The Maraudon dungeon can be difficult to navigate, making finding the Elder Splitrock exceptionally difficult. This walkthrough for the Lunar Festival in World of Warcraft shows you precisely where you can go to find it. Make sure to go armed!
Remember when you were a wee little kid and you used to spend entire afternoons staging epic wars between your T-Rex action figure and the rest of the dinosaur kingdom, making them go "Rawr!" at every lash?
Cake pops, popularized by bite sized goddess Bakerella, are a food fad that you should definitely sink your teeth into (literally), but to make sure your cake pops appear professional and uniform you have to consider your sizing.
Photo Booth is a fun application bundled with Mac computers that makes it easy to take photos with the built-in camera on the laptop. This tutorial shows how to take still pictures and video with Photo Booth, and add effects to the picture or video.
You don't need to invest in fake hair - AKA hair extensions - to look like you have a head full of enviable voluminous, thick hair. In fact, all you need to do to create buxom hair looks is a few tricks, and a few hairstyles targeted towards making your hair look fuller.
You probably remember Jessica Simpson best from her "mom jeans" fiasco when she gained a bit of weight, wore unflattering jeans, and looked like - gasp! - a real woman, but what the girlfriend lacks in the fashion department she makes up for in her great taste in hair.
Valentine's Day sweets can be made even sweeter when they're packaged in delightful way. Martha Stewart herself would approve of this red and pink gift box, which features Valentine's Day hearts on the front.
The biggest complaint of most people listening to the bodhran is, "is that ALL the sound it makes?" Well, this video will help you put all those drum doubters in their place, by teaching you how to play the bodhran with dynamics.
This is a very specialized guide for players of World of Warcraft, especially the Cataclysm expansion. The video shows you how to construct an elemental shaman as the perfect DPS machine, making you a valuable addition to any raid or instance.
The Vigorous VanCleef Vindicator achievement is currently one of the most difficult to earn when you're playing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. But this video has figured out a relatively painless way to earn it! The trick is making sure there's a shaman in your party.
There's nothing that makes us feel more like the flowers are a bloomin' outside and the weather is sunny and warm than baby animals. During the spring, they herald the return of life after a long and frigid winter.
Google just makes everything easier! This video shows you how you can find a theme for your copy of Google Chrome, download it and install it in less than twenty seconds. It's incredibly easy, and there are so many themes to choose from!
Fishtail braids are like the grown-up, far more sophisticated older sisters of regular braids. Whereas regular braids are chunky, thick, and usually not seen much outside of an elementary school playground, fishtail braids have a bohemian quality that makes them cool and sexy.
Weddings are super expensive these days and can cost as much as a new car - seriously. The average wedding costs about $27,000, so you want to save money where you can, right?
A corset is not necessarily a difficult thing to sew, but it does require a lot of precision. Here are a few good tips you'll want to learn and follow when you're trying to teach yourself sewing and corset making at home.
If you've made any donations to charity this year, there are several important rules about deducting charitable contributions on your tax return. Most importantly, the correct paperwork is needed to document the transaction for the deduction. Find out in this informative video from IRS.gov.
Melting chocolate is the first step in making a delectable chocolate bunny, heart, or other shape of your desire. Chocolate must be melted in order to pour into molds to create these fun shapes, which can be used on their own or to adorn cakes.
On average, a wedding will cost you $27,000. If you want a designer gown, that'll probably rack up to about $30,000. So it's advisable to cut costs wherever you can.
Baking soda is like a miracle in a box. Whether you need to clean a doggy doo doo stain on your carpet, need to deodorize your refridgerator, or need an all-natural face scrub, baking soda has a cure for it all.
Time to trade in that rainbow guitar strap from something that fits your rock n' roll attitude. Well, nothing screams grunge louder than a guitar strap made out of duct tape. This simple tutorial shows you how to wrap it up, then strap it up. Rock on!
Sewing by hand can actually go quite quickly if you don't have access to your sewing machine or if it's broken. Hand sewing can also be useful if you're working with especially delicate fabrics, attaching an applique or making a small repair.
This is a quick little tutorial that shows you a good finishing stitch for your crochet project. If you're down to the end of your thread, here is how you can easily tie off a short tail, no matter what you're making.
Spring is baby season, so if you know a friend who's expecting rather soon, make sure both she and her baby are welcomed with a fond, handmade sentiment.
A stylesheet helps keep the design elements for your website consistent - such as making sure all your headings and links are formatted exactly the same way. This tutorial shows you how to set up an external stylesheet for your own HTML based website.
Interested in making your own tutorials? You'll need some good screen capture software if you want to do a screencast, and one of the best programs for that is Microsoft Expression. This video goes over the basics of the program so you can get the most out of it.
So you've already mastered variables and functions - now it's time to progress to strings, substrings and slices when you're working on a program using the Python programming language. Python strings are much less complex than in other languages, which makes them easy to use.
