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 magical enchanted dagger in Photoshop.
Check out this overclocking tutorial from HotHardware.com! Intel's Core i7 processor offers a significant performance increase over previous generation Core 2 processors. In addition, like the legacy Core 2 architecture, the new Core i7 also has a bunch more headroom for wringing upside performance out of the chip, maximizing value, power and return on your investment with overclocking. In fact, Intel actually built-in a predefined overclocking feature called "Turbo Mode". We explain how not ...
Remember those old vinyl records? Remember jumping on the 8-track bandwagon? Switching over to cassette tapes? How much money you spent converting your music collection to compact discs? To MP3s?
This step-by-step video tutorial shows you how to install CHDK onto your Canon digital camera. CHDK is a firmware enhancement that operates on a number of Canon cameras. CHDK gets loaded into your camera's memory upon bootup (either manually or automatically). It provides additional functionality beyond that currently provided by the native camera firmware.
In this video tutorial, we learn how to use PreSonus StudioLive to record or augment a live performance. Whether you're new to PreSonus' DAW or new to digital recording more generally, you're sure to find much to take away from this free video software tutorial. Take a look.
In this video tutorial, we learn how to set an old TV up to receive an analog signal. For more information, including a complete overview and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this home-theatre how-to guide from the folks at CNET.
In this clip, you'll learn how to create movies with Windows Movie Maker on a desktop or laptop computer running the MS Windows Vista operating system. For more information, including a complete demonstration of the process and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this home-computing how-to.
Want to take notes on your Android cell phone? 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 creating, storing and sharing digital notes on your own Android phone, take a look.
Looking for an easy way to apply effects to your profile picture online? With the BeFunky image processing tool, it's simple! So simple, in fact, that this home-computing how-to from the folks at Britec can present a complete overview of the process in just over four minutes. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, watch this video guide.
Looking for an easy way to create a color scheme that jibes well with a particular digital photo or image? With ColorSuckr, it's simple! So simple, in fact, that this home-computing how-to from the folks at Britec can present a complete overview of the process in just over three minutes. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, watch this video guide.
This clip offers a general introduction to using VBA within MS Excel. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular digital spreadsheet application, new to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) or merely new to using the two in tandem, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from the folks at Lynda. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
Ash Davies teaches us how to Photoshop digital bokeh with this tutorial. First, open up Photoshop and create a new canvas with your width at 1920 and your height at 1200. Now, create a new layer and set your background layer as invisible. Now create a medium size circle and reduce the fill to 50%. Now enter blending options and add a stroke of 10 pixels to the inside with the color set to black. Now define the shape as a brush and then click "edit" and "define brush preset" name this, "bokeh"...
Everyone who has ever seen Star Wars wants their own Lightsaber. Now you can have one! Or at least a 3D digital rendering of one. This video will show you how to create a 3D model of a Lightsaber using the Blender 3D modeling software. The force is with you.
Creating a 3D object in Blender is just a small part of the 3D graphics process. Now it has to move! This video will show you how to animate a 3D object in Blender, in this case a Star Wars Lightsaber. Without the benefit of having Mark Hamill to swing the thing around, you'll have to make your digital Lightsaber move all on its own, which shouldn't be too hard after watching this video.
Create digital notebook paper in Adobe Photoshop! Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from the folks at IT Stuff TV. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on how to create a notebook paper-style image in Photoshop, watch this graphic designer's guide.
Want to design a playing card logo? With Adobe Photoshop, the process is simple. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from the folks at IT Stuff TV. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on how to generate your own digital playing cards in Photoshop, watch this graphic designer's guide.
Clank, the loveable robot sidekick of Ratchet from the Playstation games Ratchet and Clank, is the subject of this art tutorial video. Learn to draw the iconic robot in Paint on your computer, improving your digital art skills and indulging your love for these video games at the same time.
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 14th installment in his "Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to set up and solve and write conclusions for simple word problems in Excel.
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 199th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to apply conditional formatting to a vertical histogram based on a frequency distribution in Microsoft Excel 2007.
Ever hear of Swag Bucks? It's an online portal dedicated to helping you earn digital dollars called "Swag Bucks", which can be redeemed for exclusive swagbucks.com merchandise.
Everybody is going digital these days, so everybody has a reason for software like HandBrake. You can save your entire DVD collection on your computer in digital files, and you can convert videos into different formats. Check out this video tutorial on how to rip DVDs and convert videos on Ubuntu Linux, Windows, and Mac.
A guide to hunt the Yian Garuga on Monster Hunter Freedom 2. Walkthrough for Monster Hunger Freedom 2.
Achieve your goals by breaking them down into bite-sized pieces, and use digital shortcuts to track your steps towards success.
Backing up your digital photos with Apple iPhoto while running Mac OS X can give you peace of mind of knowing that you will not accidentally lose your precious photos. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how. For more, or to get started backing up your own photos in Apple iPhoto, watch this how-to.
Has your Windows PC grown increasingly sluggish over time? In this how-to, Digital Connector James Vargas (recalling a young Jean-Pierre Léaud) guides users through speeding up and optimizing a Windows PC. Take a look. Whether you run XP, 2000 or Vista, you're certain to benefit from this tutorial.
This tutorial will show you how easy it is to create panoramic images from your photos in Windows Live Photo Gallery for Windows XP or Vista. All you need is a digital camera and a PC.
Check out this Blender video tutorial all you wannabe digital animators out there to see how to use paths and dupliframes in your 3D modeling.
This is one of the ways that artist Merrill Kazanjian makes his caricatures. He shows the viewer how to make a traditional/digital hybrid (tradigital) collage portrait. Look for interesting eyes, noses and mouths from different photographs. Make an oval for the head and paste down the facial features. Watch to learn more.
Learn how to get started in Photoshop Elements by importing digital photo files from your files and folders or off of CDs.
Learn how to paint digitally in Photoshop over a sketch.
Bre Pettis explains and shows you different microphones and lets you listen to them too. From lavelier mics to shotgun mics, you'll learn the tips to get the best sound you can.
This video gives you a tour on the NRV10 by M-Audio. It shows you how to use it as a mixer, an interface, and to use it in a studio or live. It is also compatible with ProTools M-Powered 7.3.
This tutorial shows you how to create a 3D sketch using points and then how to use the sweep tool to create the final shape in Autodesk Inventor, a digital prototyping software. Knowing the interface of the software will be helpful so you can find the exact tools being used.
Hand coloring black and white photographs was a common process prior to the advent of color photography and created a unique visual aesthetic. This video demonstrates how to digitally create this style for digital black and white photography.
iMovie allows the average computer user the ability to quickly make movies out of your digital video footage or home movies. This is not the most professional way to color correct your footage, but it should be sufficient for the average Mac user. Follow along and see how to adjust color using iMovie.
Are some of your most precious memories stored on pictures that look too dark? This video demonstrates how to brighten digital pictures and photos using Adobe Photoshop.
Thanks to the COVID-19 virus, the whole country is staying home. That means no dining out, no going to bars, no live music, and, sadly, no movie theaters. While you might think that means you'll have to wait to see movies like "The Invisible Man," "Emma," and "The Hunt," think again. Because of the pandemic, you'll be able to watch these movies on your phone earlier than ever.
Here at Next Reality, our typical approach to all things augmented reality involves vision combined with remote control, either via a handheld device, gaze control, or hand/finger tracking.
Amazon Prime Video is undoubtedly one of the best services out there for streaming and downloading movies and TV shows to your iPhone. If you try to buy or rent a movie or show in any of Amazon's iOS apps, however, you'll notice that there's no apparent way to do so. No buttons, no links, nada. What gives, and how can you buy and rent content from Amazon on your iOS device?
Welcome back, my neophyte hackers! Digital forensics is one of the fields often overlooked by aspiring hackers. In a rush to exploit every and any system they can, they often ignore learning digital forensics—the field that may lead to them being traced.
