Minimalists are the opposite of pack rats. Whereas pack rats thrive on the philosophy of "more is more," minimalists belive emphatically that "less is more." And if you're a decorating minimalist, that means using the fewest decorative objects possible to achieve a satisfying and cohesive room.
In this video, we learn how to make your synths pulse & pump in Reason. If you want to achieve the pulsing sound when you are playing your song. Then, go into the beat and add in different drum, snare, beat sounds, etc. Once you add these into your beat, you will be able to play around with them. Change the effects by twisting the knobs and changing up the reverb, chorus, and more. Move the effects around until you end up with a beat that you like. Once you are finished, save this and use it ...
When it comes to losing weight, cardio is your BFF. When you combine cardio with strength training you achieve what is known as solid gold fitness: The perfect combination of sweating (and fat loss) and muscle building so the fat slides off and your toned muscles come out.
For all of the amateur film makers at home with a Windows PC looking to make movies, one effect that seems to be really popular in the YouTube community is slowing down a video to half-speed, specifically for nut shots and the like. If you're wondering how to do it in the new Windows Live Movie Maker, or like the older version of Windows Movie Maker 2.6, this video will give a quick over view of how to achieve the effect. Although, be warned that if you export it at a slower speed it will not...
Betty Draper may have a lot of drama in her hands - three kids, a cheating husband - but she somehow always manages to look breathtakingly perfect without a single hair out of place. Of course, she does have the help of Hollywoo'd top stylists, aestheticians, and hair stylists.
To do the Presto Printo Card Trick, you need to begin with a deck of standard cards and a deck of plain white cards, which have been cut to the same size as standard cards. You will need to print the effects that you want to achieve on the cards in advance. You will need extra blank white cards to conceal.
Even, natural-looking foundation that covers up redness and flaws but doesn't look caked on or fake is the desired basis of any makeup look. But it just so happens that the rudimentary skill of applying foundation evenly is one of the hardest for most women to master.
In this video, we learn how to get started using strala yoga with Tara Stiles. This type of yoga combines different poses to help you achieve better health. Start off in the plank position on a flat surface, keeping here for several minutes while breathing deep. Keep your belly lifted, lift through the top of your head to the rest of your body. Doing these exercises can keep you healthy and motivated to do workouts and eat healthy during the week and weekend. This will help you relax and feel...
To spray paint graffiti, you will need the following: 2 cans of spray paint and a mask. You will need to have an idea of the design you want to paint, before you begin this project, because you will need to work quickly. Put on your safety/protective gear. Paint an outline of your design, first, with one can of spray paint. Then, you will want to strategically fill in the design. One can is primarily for filling it in and achieving light and shadow. Therefore, you will need a dark shade and a...
Kiss-proof lipstick sounds like an oxymoron. Lipstick that stays for more than an hour after drinks, kissing, and eating is the expected route for most of us, but what if there is a way to make your lipstick last through all of that without losing too much color?
Even the best potters don't always get a perfectly finished vase, pot, or jar immediately after throwing. In fact, it's actually quite common for a potter to go back over his work and trim off or reshape the uneven parts to achieve a balanced finish. This is precisely what master potter Simon Leach does in this pottery video.
If you like homemade light shows, this is one hell of a way to do it. AP Digital light shows you how you can hack a small fan into a special mirror used to create a poor man's PIC-based laser show. It's an experimental method of balancing a fan-mounted acrylic mirror for spirograph project.
Disney's "A Little Mermaid" was one of our favorite childhood movies. It had suspense, a strong heroine, and lots of cute little sea critter friends, but we have to admit one of the biggest reasons we were crushing on the flick was because of Ariel's drop dead gorgeous beauty. With pouty red lips, a soft flush and gigantic eyes that were always interested and responsive, Ariel had brains and beauty; the whole package.
Attention achievement hunters! In this next tutorial, you'll be finding out how to get the Crackshot achievement in the game Dead Space for the Xbox 360. To get it, you must achieve a perect score in the Shooting Gallery in the game.
In this Sports video tutorial you will learn how to take away your slice in golf. Pam explains the potential causes and cures for the shot that goes to the right. A lot of people take the club too early to the inside thereby taking all width and circling to the right side. When you take the club inside, you will have to compensate to get back to where you want to be. To correct this, you can do a simple drill. Place another ball one and a half to two feet behind the target ball. The goal is t...
For those of us who aren't blessed with full lips, here's an easy way you can achieve big pouty lips with just a little make-up. This tutorial allows you to get those gorgeous beestung lips naturally...sort of. Well, using natural cosmetics.
This gorgeous crescent moon hairstyle consists of loose hair braided behind your head into a twisted chignon, the rest of your hair on the other side let loose for a novel take on the idea of a half up, half down hairstyle.
In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to tie a Padlock style decorative knot. Padlock knot is a clever way to achieve the look and function of a padlock without having to bother about the key. Take a piece of rope, bend it in the center and make two loops on either side of the rope. Ensure the working end is over the rope in the left side loop and under the rope in the right side loop. Now overlap both the loops so that the left side loop is over the other loop. Now pass the...
It's pretty common to see gals these days walking around with bows pinned in their tresses (Blair Waldorf copycats, anyone?) but an actual bow made of hair in your hair? Now that's new (and more complicated to achieve).
This trick works great in pretty much any bar or restaurant. All you need is a cloth napkin to achieve this funky trick. Bet someone that they will not be able to tie a napkin in a knot without crossing their arms or lifting their fingers. Those suckers will tie themselves in a pretzel before they are able to accomplish this and you can laugh and laugh because you know the secret!
In this video, learn how to use perspective in your drawings. You will discover how to use Photoshop to draw an image with a two point perspective. This process is not difficult and in this three part series you will get expert advice on how to achieve it.
Sarah Jessica Parker is most well known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on "Sex and the City". Sarah, thanks to her stylist Patricia Field, is one of Hollywood's biggest trendsetters. Ms. Parker never leaves the house without an incredibly innovative and beautiful look.
Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you're in the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 21st installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to add conditional formatting to data bars and icons to show relative size, icons to show relative size, to highlight values within 1 standard deviation, to highli...
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"Blah, I vant to suck your blood!" One of the most common and overused vampire lines out there! But who could blame them? Vampires are pretty interesting and cool creatures that have been around for centuries. What makes them so unique and different is that instead of preying on victims during the day, they use the night to hunt and attack its prey, feeding off their fear of the dark. Well at least in movies. In real life vampires don't exist. But it doesn't mean you can't dress or look like ...
This video will show you how to take advantage of one of Apple's iMovie advanced editing feature, picture-in-picture effect. This feature allows you to embed either another video, or images into a base video. To enable this valuable tool in iMovie, go into the iMovie preferences by clicking on "iMovie" in the top left hand corner of your screen. Under the General tab make sure "Show advanced tools" is selected. Import a video from your event library by dragging it into iMovie and selecting pi...
In this video, we learn how to make a milk, egg and honey facial mask to help achieve younger looking skin. First, take a whole egg and break it into a bowl. After this, place 2 tbsp of powdered milk into the same bowl. Next, place 1 tbsp of honey into the bowl. Now, mix together with a fork until they are all well blended. Make sure you have a clean face, then apply mask to your face. Leave for around 10 minutes or until mask is completely dry. After this, rinse your face with warm water and...
Shoo Rayner demonstrates how to draw a realistic bat that can be scary, funny, or friendly for children's books. You will need a pencil, pen, and eraser to help you achieve texture. With a light pencil sketch, draw a round head and an oval body. But don't worry too much about accuracy, because there are many types of bats that look different from each other. Your bat needs large ears, a tail, a short forearm and a long upper arm. But most of the bat's wing is its three fingers and a thumb. Th...
Nichole Young demonstrates how to hand color using layer masks in Photoshop CS4, which also works in Photoshop CS3. The procedure can be summarized in two stages: turning the picture you would like to edit black and white and then bringing color back into it to give it a hand-colored look. The black-and-white effect is achieved by creating a new layer over the background layer. The next step is to give the picture a warm look by adjusting the layer’s respective color balance. Then bring the c...
Making cold brew coffee can be done simply with only a jar, water, a coffee filter, and ground up coffee. Though it seems like it would be more complex, the procedure to making cold brew coffee can be easily achieved in just a couple basic steps. The steps do not require too much work and can be done in a matter of minutes. Simple measures are taken to making cold brewed coffee, such as by mixing the coffee and water through shaking up the jar. Using a coffee filter, just pouring the mixed gr...
You can't be dumb to pull off this ventriloquist dummy look. This is a perfect look for any Halloween party or event, or even if you just want to scare a couple of friends. In this video Youtube user goldiestarling gives us an instructional video on how to emulate a ventriloquist dummy look for any occasion. To achieve this look you will need a number of colored matte shadows, your application brushes, and about 15 minutes to get this awesomely spooky look.
Attention ghost hunters! Capture your ghostly findings on film with help from this video tutorial on how to photograph ghosts. Ok.... Yes, they aren't real ghosts, but merely physical people looking transparent and lucid. Nonetheless, this is a great technique to learn for beginning photographers who are looking to get started experimenting with their cameras. This instructional video hosted by Click Here Photography goes into depth about what equipment was used and how to adjust your camera ...
Everyone should enjoy great memories from vacations for years to follow. Taking beautiful photographs is a wonderful way to document extraordinary experiences, other counties, different cultures, stunning landscapes, jaw-dropping architecture and more. Tap into your passion for photography on your next holiday vacation and capture a moment in time with help from this four-part photography tutorial on how to enhance your holiday photos. In this three-part video tutorial, take your photos from ...
Learn how to use depth of field with help from this photography tutorial. Although it may seem that depth of field is a confusing factor in photography, it's actually quite easy to understand & adjust once you've gotten the hang of it. Depth of field (or, DOF) is a great way to experiment with your photography & improve your skills as a beginner photographer. When taking your photograph using DOF, it is imperative to remember that the shutter speed and aperture (or F-stop) need to change at e...
In this video tutorial the author shows how to stretch objects and text in flash. To do this open the flash tool and select the radial gradient. Pressing shift key draws a shape. Go to frame 30 and create a key frame by pressing F6. Now similarly do it at frame 15. Now at frame 15 select the free transform tool and stretch the image. Now create the shape twins in the locations shown in the video. Repeat the same process for a text starting with adding some text to the scene. Finally convert i...
This video tutorial by VvCompHelpvV gives you two methods to achieve the Sin City effect in your photos using Photoshop. The Sin City effect is making the main subject of the photo appear colored while the rest of the photo looks black and white. In the first method the subject should be selected using a pen-tool using the settings mentioned. After that right click on the selected areas and make the feather radius 3, inverse the selection and go to image > adjustments and de-saturate and your...
Aspiring makeup artist demonstrates how to apply nonpareil sprinkles to achieve a candy-inspired look Purchase rainbow-colored nonpareils (tiny round sprinkles). These can be found in the baking aisle at your local grocery store. Apply sprinkles using a clear sticky lip-gloss. Create unique patterns, such as this swirl from the corner of the eye to the collar bone. Pair with candy-inspired jewelry and a chunky bun positioned high on the head to finish the look. Follow these suggestions to tur...
Walagers helps us learn how to make graffiti in Photoshop. First, go to "Select" and click on "Color Range". Use the eye dropper tool to select the color of the background, then press delete. Next, press "alt" and double click on the background layer to convert it to a normal layer. Using the brush tool, select the type of brush you want and the brush's size. Brushes can be downloaded from Brusheezy.com. Use the eyedropper tool to select part of the graffiti. It is recommended to use the same...
In this video, Chef Vah teaches you how to make a delicious paneer tikka masala. Full of spices and tons of flavor, this is a great dish to please all your vegetarian cravings. This is very similar to the chicken masala, with a few alterations. Chef here gives you a play by play of everything you need to know and do to achieve this great dish for an authentic Indian meal. Full of tips, and thorough instructions of how to make this, your mouth will be watering before you even begin your own pr...
In this video, Agnes Rose turns an old t-shirt into a gorgeous halter top. It is obvious to the viewer that only a little bit of ingenuity, apart from the regular tailoring equipment, is needed to achieve this goal. Each and every step in this process is clearly mentioned and it is very easy to follow. Agnes has included every little cut and stitch in this video and nothing is left out. The result is that one can make a halter top out of an old t-shirt while watching this video, needing to pa...
