Lux is an After Effects plug-in that simulates the "visible light" phenomenon of light in a dark or foggy environment. Use Lux to create incredibly realistic visible light sources for spotlights, flashlights, headlights, or stage lighting of all kinds within After Effects. This tutorial will show you how to get started with Trapcode Lux in After Effects. Get started with Trapcode Lux After Effects plugin.
Make a very neat lava-like lamp for less than $10 in parts. Uses only soap and water. No chemicals, easy, fun, and the results are incredibly neat! Make a cloud lamp.
Have an older car with nowhere to plug in your iPod? Rather than paying to have one installed, you can mount your iPod nano on your car's dash like Redditor hyeinkali did in his 2001 Honda Accord. Normally, there's just a boring digital clock between the air vents, but it's perfectly suited for a nano-mod. This is a great hack if you plan on getting one of the new nanos or iPod touches, because it gives you a chance to get some more use out of your old nano and its old school 30-pin connector...
When you need pastry or pie dough in a hurry, frozen puff pastry is the king of supermarket convenience foods. It's incredibly versatile and can be used to make a huge array of hors d'oeuvre, main courses, and desserts. Frequent Fine Cooking contributor and cooking teacher Jessica Bard demonstrates some tricks for getting the best results when working with frozen puff pastry. Work with frozen puff pastry.
Well, this is my first article on WonderHowTo, and is only going to be short because it's an extremely easy and effective method for removing a painful sunburn. This method was recommended to me by my friend's mother, who is a nurse and therefore MUST know what she's talking about. Turns out she did. I hope this helps many painful sunburns to recede or disappear.
Monty Don demonstrates the most effective method for harvesting carrots, with advice on companion planting and deterring carrot root fly.
Sarah Raven demonstrates the most effective method for picking tulips from the garden to ensure the best display indoors, without inhibiting next year's growth.
Dovetails are an extremely old and effective wood joint. There are three types of dovetails, through dovetails (the most popular), half blind dovetails, and sliding dovetails. In this woodworking video tutorial, you will learn how to do a machine cut through dovetail. Cut through dovetails with a machine.
Creative Cow contributing editor Grant Swanson will take you step-by-step through the easiest and fastest (and extremely effective) way of creating the popular Sin City effect - colorized objects in a black and white world. You will learn basic techniques when working with color, and some useful masking/rotoscoping techniques in After Effects. Create a Sin City effect in After Effects.
An easy to learn trick with just one card! Kipkay performs and the reveals the secret behind the warped card magic trick. Simple but effective. Do the warped card magic trick.
Why buy chemically made or synthetic air fresheners that only mask smell or can be unhealthy? Watch this video and learn how to make safe and effective air fresheners at home using baking soda, vinegar and whatever scents you choose like cloves, cinnamon or lemon. Make your own air fresheners.
Players have been soaring through the skies in the popular Ace Combat series of games for a long time. The latest title, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon comes complete with several different unlockable trophies and achievements including the incredibly impressive, "Checking In." The achievement will require you to fly through a hotel in order to unlock it.
As previously reported here, CryTek's immensely powerful CryEngine is now free and available for all. CryEngine is, however, incredibly complex and powerful. If you need a little help using it, and if you've tried to you probably do, check out this excellent series of tutorial videos.
Rajo shows off his new favourite iPhone app, the incredibly cheap and easy to use Stop Motion Recorder from bitween. Holy cats is it ever cool...Watch this quick and easy tutorial!
An incredibly kind & helpful WonderHowTo-ian, Samuel FU, has translated the Chinese instructions for the amazing Lightercycle into English.
Brian Chan is an engineer who creates beautifully folded origami. Some of the pieces are incredibly complex; view a selection of his work below, click through for more.
We've seen it before, but India's Wall of Death never ceases to awe and amaze. Below, taken from the Guardian's Eyewitness photo series, a man performs the incredibly dangerous stunt during Jhiri Mela, in India ("a fair held every November in memory of a farmer who killed himself in the face of unjust demands from a landlord").
Incredibly artfully done, KlairedelysArt's SFX Terminator makeup look creates the illusion of peeled back skin to reveal the Terminator beneath. Amazing Halloween look for a chick.
OMG.... tis incredibly footage from a SUP at San O. Two whites swarm his paddleboard. I know they're there.... but so close? This guy is one swift knock away from lunch.
Man, I'm kinda jealous of this car's hair. It's blowing in the wind so nicely (mine just doesn't flow like that)!
Oh, where would young hooligans be without the internet classic, the Coke Cheat HowTo? Ingenious and incredibly time consuming (why not just use the time to study?!) instructional via Eat Liver.
Chris Del Moro is an incredibly versatile surfer. Photo courtesy of Surfer Magazine.
In this video, Jason "Bellyeyes" Hanson gives you detailed instructions on how to apply an arrow wrap or fletching to an arrow. This tutorial will shwo you how to maintain your arrows, step by step to make sure they are effective. Happy hunting! Fletch an arrow and apply an arrow wrap.
The full-back position in the soccer field is complex: while technically a defensive post, a full-back must also be ready to pass the ball to a teammate and score a goal.
Papercraft website, AXM Paper Space Scale Models, offers a whole library of incredibly detailed, realistic space shuttle paper models. Some free, some pay. Perfect weekend activity for the outer space lovin' geek.
My stomach is doing somersaults just watching this. Looks fun, albeit incredibly dangerous. Take it down a notch (or fifty) and build an indoor swing this winter. Previously, Deeply Trusting Female Volunteers Bod to Redneck Science: First Human Slingshot.
Joshua Allen Harris' work is ingenious. An incredibly simple, common household item (garbage bag) makes use of disgusting subway toxins (exhaust) to create inflatable street monsters.
Incredibly odd (not to mention anal retentive) PC casemod: a teeny, tiny living room constructed with dollhouse furniture. From Russian casemod site, unknown origin. Bizarre!
At WonderHowTo we've drowned and revived a fly, we've flown fly-powered aircrafts, and now we are inspired to make our own Dead-Fly-Art.
This how-to video shows a powerful and effective hack to turn any dust vacuum into a water vacuum. You will need a rubber band, tissue paper, a set of four straws, a pen knife, a soft drink bottle, and a vacuum cleaner. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to modify a regular vacuum into a water vacuum. Hack any vacuum into a water sucker.
Pressure washing is the easiest, most effective way to remove grease, oil, dirt and salt that’s been ground into concrete driveways, walkways, and patios. Most of the time, a high-pressure wash is enough to clean concrete. Learn how to clean concrete areas with the use of a pressure washer by watching this how-to video. Clean concrete with a pressure washer.
Pressure washing alone is enough to clean most surfaces, but for stubborn stains or mold and mildew, the use of cleaning detergents can help make cleaning easier and more effective. Watch this how-to video to learn how easy it is to use cleaning detergents with your pressure washer. Learn to use the soap storage to load pressure washer detergents. Use cleaning detergents with a pressure washer.
This tutorial will show you what you need to get started with acrylic painting and how to quickly produce some simple but effective paintings on a wide variety of surfaces - and not just with paint brushes either! Paint different things with acrylic paint.
This video shows you how to work with independent timelines, specifically the main timeline and movie clip timelines. You learn about how multiple timelines can interact, and how to navigate using the edit bar when you have multiple timelines. You nest movie clips and learn how they interact, and nest instances to create effective animations. Use multiple timelines in Flash CS3 Professional.
During the winter, cold, blizzard-y conditions outside make for quite a freezing soul. Warm yourself up while taking your taste buds for a flavor trip by baking these simple and delicious apple cinnamon cider donuts.
Plan an Italian-style dinner tonight with these authentic and traditional meatballs, straight form Italy! This meatballs recipe is a family treasure, which Jane happily shares with us. There's some great meatball-making tips in this video, so pay attention, because you won't get them anywhere else! And learning the secret to making them so incredibly moist is something you'll take with you for life. They're perfect for spaghetti or any other pasta dish. Make moist and authentic Italian meatba...
Watch this video to learn how to make a special type of julep. It's a more springy, more refreshing cocktail, perfect for the hot summer months. Matthew Coughlin will walk you through all the steps of creating a vanilla bean gin julep.
Mike and Rajo from the SubStream's "Film Lab" have some tips regarding pre-production and development for proper script format.
This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA's insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe and non-invasive .
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