An ajisai flower is the Japanese term for a hydrangea, a flowering plant which is native to eastern Asia and North and South America. These softly colored shrubs are the inspiration behind Fast Origami's tutorial for making an origami ajisai flower.
Replicate the incandescent, floaty colors of a forest fairy by watching this makeup tutorial for getting an eye look composed of translucent pastel greens, pale pinks, and lilac purples.
Part of your image too dark? The solution might be a few clicks away. Learn how to use the new color dodge tool within Adobe Photoshop CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or a seasoned graphic design professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the unique features of Photoshop CS5, you're sure to find something of value in this free video tutorial.
Polish your watercolor painting skills with this tutorial, which features tips on how to create several watercolor painting effects.
The right handed version of the Catherine wheel stitch creates a fabulous pattern of pinwheels and undulating borders, but be warned: the crochet pattern is for intermediate to advanced crocheters only.
There are different types of Scene girl hairstyles, and in this video you will learn how to make your's extreme. Extreme Scene style is usually made up of crazy colours, and funky spikes and layers. You will be the hit of every party with your new, totally awesome Scene style.
Consider a normal and ideal height for a girl in 5feet 8inches in height. The book of Andrew Loomis is a good guide for drawing realistic human figures. It explains the body proportions, techniques, drawing the parts, human movements, and poses of the body.
Nick from Greyscale Gorilla gives a great tutorial on not only how to adjust the hue and saturation of various objects in Photoshop, but he also demonstrates how to select and isolate these objects for better chromatic keying.
How to make a creative card. You can use different colors of paper and decorative embellishments. This is a great idea for a scrapbooker that has supplies already on hand and wants to give a special gift to a friend or relative. This activity is a great idea for someone who needs a cheer-me-up but if you change the paper and embellishments, you can make any kind of theme card.
In this video tutorial brought to you by photoshopuniverse, you will learn how to apply mood lighting to images in Photoshop. This is achieved by applying an adjustment layer, called a gradient map, which allows you to adjust the color of the light in an image. You will learn how to access the gradient map from the adjustment layers menu, how to apply the gradient map, then overlay the new layer and fine tune the gradient to create more dramatic looking images.
There are a lot of recipes for fake blood online. This one is one of the simplest, and one of the grossest-looking. Just take some white corn syrup, red and blue food coloring and corn starch, mix them all together and you'll soon have an appalling concoction that will terrify your audiences and leave a stain on your rug that you'll never, ever get out.
This stunning look is done by xsparkage. It's a mix of black and violet, a real eyecatcher. Watch this makeup tutorial and try it out yourself! Products used:
Lava lamps are as easy to make as they are fun to look at. Watch this video to learn how to make your own lava lamp at home.
In this video tutorial from 8BITches, 8BIT Ché explains how he uses Little Sound DJ, or LSDj,—the Game Boy/Game Boy Color tool of choice for amateur & professional musicians and composers—to make hot beats! Big Pick Zel expounds on his knowledge of Gameboy history, and Li'lBIT eats dinner. For more information on making beats with LSDj and a Nintendo Game Boy, watch this video tutorial.
Introducing a new script from the notorious pirate, Dr. Brown! This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to use Dr. Brown's Background Remover Photoshop script. Discover amazing video compositing treasures when you use this script to remove a selected background color. Beware maties! This script works best, if you be use'n high quality video files. This script will only work with Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Studying to be a nurse? Then here is a nursing how-to video that teaches you how to collect and label a urine specimen. Every nurse should know the basics of this technique, follow along and see how easy it is to do a urine collection and label it properly. These medical tips are sure to help you pass your nursing exam with flying colors.
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, Bert invades Tinseltown. Create your own movie poster simply by using a few Photoshop tools - colorize, hue/saturate, and gradient color levels. It's show time. Create your next blockbuster movie poster in a flash.
Cat Morley and her charming Scottish accent show you how to knit in this video crafting tutorial. Learn how to cast on, hold the knitting needles, knit stitch, pearl stitch, change a ball of yarn (great for changing colors, or even when running out of yarn), decrease stitches, take back a stitch, increase stitches, and bind off. Watch this video and start knitting your own socks, scarves, mittens, and other wooly things.
Life is not always a walk in the woods, but when it is, make sure you don’t step in the poison ivy. Leaves of three, don't touch me or Leaves of three, let it be is a pretty good rule of thumb as poison ivy comes in many colors and varieties. This video nature safety tutorial shows how to look out for and prevent the uncomfortable burning that results from any contact with poison ivy.
This is a cool optical illusion that makes your business card appear to be blank on both sides but then you print color onto it with your hand. A magical way to hand out your business card.
One of the best ways to spice up your movie is to apply a visual effect to it, such as speeding up your clip, reversing the direction, or adjusting the color.
When you want to remove red-eye in a photo, simply use the iPhoto red-eye removing tool. iPhoto provides tools to correct other defects, as well.
This is a timelapse of a salt crystal garden growing on a toilet paper roll. You need salt, water, food coloring, ammonia and a dish with a pourous stiff object.
This instructional video explains the basics of Chroma Keying in Final Cut Pro. This is used when you want to remove or key out a specific color from a scene. Created as a component in the Temple University Instructional Video Database.
Learn one very simple way, using the mask of the Black & White Gradient Map Adjustment layer in Photoshop to conceal or reveal parts of the image in color and other parts as a black and white version.
Kipkay shows you how to make play dough. You use two cups of flower, two cups of water, one cup of salt, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, and one tablespoon of cream of tartar. Stir over low heat until the dough clumps, knead the dough, separate the dough into four balls, and then add food coloring.
With KipKay, you can learn how to build an underwater camcorder housing and you need 5200 Marine adhesive sealant. You can use industrial primer to color the box grey which would be a nice finishing touch. He says it'll only cost $10, but find out for yourself.
Learn how to draw the human body and what supplies you will need to get started in this free video series of art lessons.
There are many different things you can make out of duct tape. Take key chain dangles and lanyards for example- with the proper tape colors, you can craft highly stylized and cool looking duct tape creations that are an awesome fit for your keys or as a lanyard to carry various badges or objects.
Tired of carrying around a boring makeup holder? This video will show you how to make an awesome compact out of duct tape. You can customize your compact with any color duct tape. Watch this video to learn how to make a truly unique makeup compact.
A tutorial for the Harry Potter fan who likes to play with eyeshadow! This will look great on skin tones that do well with green (of course). Give yourself a green and golden look inspired by the colors of Slytherin house.
Pick a pansy for your love - one that will last longer than a few days, as a real pansy would - by folding this easy origami pansy. It can be made in any color you'd like, and you can even craft a bouquet to give to your sweetheart this Valentine's Day.
We know it feels like you're surrounded by a wall of pink and red on Valentine's Day, especially when you enter any retailer, but you have to admit these two colors evoke quite the aura of romance.
British bombshell Kiera Knightly loves wearing her chestnut colored strands in an updo. But since the lean actress is a fan of indie-inspired, bohemian chic, she never makes her hair looks overdone or overstyled.
The 2010 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was filled with a plethora of smoky and nude eyes, buxom, pillowy lips, and clearly more hairspray than Joan Collins inhaled in the '80s.
During the holiday season, we're surrounded by naturally vibrant, jewel-toned colors. From your robust evergreen Christmas tree to the sparkling purple and red ornaments on it, bright and bold make the holidays beautiful.
Like a mixture of Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj is a woman of very confident and sometimes brash style. Whether it's her multicolored wigs, colored contact lenses, or pin up girl makeup with a neon streak, she knows what looks she loves and rocks them.
Many adults lose sight of what a fun holiday Halloween can be for them as well as their kids. Does dressing up in costume and drinking brightly-colored sweet cocktails ever get old? Watch this video to learn how to mix two delightful Halloween cocktails, a Brain Hemorrhage and a Pumpkin. Drink up!
It stretches, it squishes... it's silly putty! You can make your own toy putty at home, using a simple recipe of school glue (don't get the washable variety), borax, water and food dye to add a bit of color. Mix and then let it dry out a bit. Silly putty!
Start with a regular plastic toy gun, like a squirt gun or NERF gun. Then, spray paint it a matte black. Once it dries, take several different colors of rub'n'buff and apply with your fingers. Now, you have your own steampunk style ray gun! Or, High Velocity Electrochemical Propellant Device!