High blood pressure affects more than 1 in 3 people worldwide and is a major cause of strokes, heart attacks and heart failure. This film, made in association with the Blood Pressure Association, will show you how you can lower your blood pressure. Lower high blood pressure.
This video shows you how to properly do the front crawl when swimming. It's a great video for beginners and just getting the strokes down correctly. Swim the front crawl.
In this pool shooting video proper stance is demonstrated, from angle of approach to follow through. First visualize the impact line from the object ball to the pocket, then create an aiming line, take some practice strokes, and finally shoot, keeping your head down. Adopt a proper stance when playing pool.
Justin Rose shows us an easy exercise to improve hitting a fade and a draw. The strokes are very similar only the take away is different for each shot. Do an exercise to improve hitting a fade & a draw.
Painting in Final Cut Studio can be a lot of fun without the mess. This tutorial by Contributing Editor Stephen Smith showcases Motion's new paint feature. Learn how it can be used to create a brush stroke across your video. Paint with Motion.
In this video tutorial you will learn to edit symbols in Macromedia Flash. Please note that if you modify a symbol stored in your library, all the instances of that symbol will be changed too. An example of changes you could perform is to modifiy a fill color and stroke appearance. Edit symbols in Flash.
Want more control of your transparencies? This video shows you how to apply independent opacity settings for objects, fills, strokes, and text in InDesign. Check out this video by Anne-Marie Concepcion now! Set opacity with InDesign CS3.
This video shows you how to apply opacity effects to an object in InDesign, such as drop shadow, directional feather, and gradient feather. You learn how to separately control the opacities of stroke, fill, and text in an object, and create an object style from you transparency effect. Apply opacity effects with InDesign CS3.
Play super fast triplet drum fills using double strokes. The sticking for those alternating sticking triplets is: R(snare) L(snare) R(snare) L(rack tom) R(floor tom) L(floor tom) R(crash cymbal). Play super fast triplet drum fills.
Tennis professional Francis Ribeiro demonstrates three drills you can do to improve your speed, accuracy, and agility: ground-stroke rally, volley volley drill, and killer put-aways. Volley volley drills help develop reactions and control. These drills will dramatically improve your tennis game. Improve your speed, accuracy, and agility for tennis.
This video demonstrates a shot from the film "Pool Hall Junkies" and involves hitting the cue ball off center with a medium stroke. The object ball then banks off the rail into other balls, deflects off those and goes into the pocket. Make a double bank shot.
Corey Barker demonstrates a technique for animating text using the stroke effect in After Effects. For more Adobe software tutorials from Layers Magazine, search Layers Magazine on WonderHowTo. WonderHowTo indexes all Layers Magazine tutorials for Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver and Flash.
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In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the popular effect in which a colored stroke is placed around a keyed or rotoscoped subject. This example outlines an actor, but you can use it on anything. Create an outline around an actor in After Effects.
James Hickman, world short course champion, shows his guide to swimming the butterfly. This is a difficult stroke made much easier with proper technique. Do the butterfly.
The back crawl is different to most strokes because you cannot see where you are going. It is a good idea to count how many strokes it takes you to swim a length so you will know when you are getting close to the end of the pool. Try and swim with all of your body close to the surface of the water, almost like you are lying on your back in bed with your head on a pillow. Follow along with this swimming how-to video and learn how to do the backstroke if you are a beginner.
Front crawl is the fastest stroke and gives you the feeling of being powerful in the water. It is often hard to get the hang of at first because fitting in the breathing can be difficult. Follow along in this swimming how-to video to learn the basics of the front crawl.
Check out this instructional swimming video that demonstrates how to get comfortable swimming using these 3 drills to develop a feel of putting your head underwater and exhaling. These are 3 great drills for the very beginner swimmer. These drills will particularly give you the sensation of having your face underwater, exhaling and coming up to breath - without actually swimming.
In this Blender 2.5 video tutorial, you'll see how to do some fairly intensive sculpting on creating a rock face. This tutorial makes use of a technique very similar to sketching by layering large numbers of stroke over one another to automatically create much of the detail. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular open-source 3D computer graphics application or are a seasoned digital artist merely on the lookout for new tips and tricks, you're sure to be well served by this fre...
Our feet take a beating in daily life. Who wouldn't want to lay down at the end of the day and receive a foot massage? Follow this three part, professional style tutorial and learn how to really take a load off those aching toes. This tutorial covers everything from ankles, to stroking the whole foot and down to the individual toes. Practice makes perfect and I'm sure your partner will appreciate the effort! Give a professional level foot massage to your partner - Part 1 of 3.
In this After Effects tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern takes you behind the scenes and show you how he created the background animation for his DVD Promo using Trapcode 3D Stroke and Shine. Part two continues to show you how he designed the 3D Titles for his DVD Promo using Zaxwerks Invigorator Pro and how the final composite was made. Make sure you have all the necessary After Effects plugins before trying to follow this motion graphics promo tutorial. Create a promo in ...
Start with a platform (just wide enough for someone to stand on) about ten feet in the air. This is our jousting area. Underneath the platform is an inflatable kiddie pool filled with...you guessed it...poo. Not bad enough already, Knoxville and the rest of the crew are standing on ground level with pee filled water guns to add insult to injury. Who wouldn't want to see Steve-O knock Danger Ehren into a pool of poo? Not to mention the great 3D effect you can get with the water guns. A stroke ...
Number One and Number Two Go 3DSet up a platform, just wide enough for someone to stand on, about ten feet in the air. This is our jousting area. You know, the kind of jousting with the giant Q-tips. Underneath our jousting platform is an inflatable kiddie pool filled with...you guessed it...poo. Too make things worse, on the ground surrounding this jousting match are Knoxville and the rest of the crew with water guns filled with pee. Try and tell me you wouldn't love to see Steve-O knock Ehr...
Need help getting started on this week's WTFoto Challenge? Look no further! In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create simple chalk symbols and writing in Photoshop. So read through this post and try it out yourself—or I'll tell your cousin what you said when you were drunk that one time. Keep in mind that the steps are similar for other programs, such as GIMP.
This is a two-part video where Al Ward teaches you to use custom patterns with layer styles. Learn to turn off Gradient Overlay, and apply Pattern Overlay. Then use custom patterns with layer styles and turn them into textures and play with Stroke setting in the layer style. Use custom patterns with layer styles in Photoshop - Part 1 of 2.
This video demonstrates good technique for planning and executing a pool shot, beginning with the 90 degree rule or the 30 degree rule. First visualize the aiming and impact lines, then the tangent line where the cue ball will go. Decide how fast to shoot depending on how far the ball is from the pocket. Select your hand position then execute the stroke, keeping your head down. Plan a shot in pool.
There are many different putting styles and techniques. So many, in actual fact, it's easy to get confused and wind up a worse putter than you were before. Jeremy Dale believes it doesn't matter how you go about holing your putts, all that you need to focus on is keeping the blade of the putter square as you make your stroke. It's that easy! Learn to keep your putter square.
Buddy Mason demonstrates how to play the straight drive for the game cricket. You should play a straight drive to a full delivery on middle or off stump. You have to lean forward and keep the bat straight. The straight drive is one of the key attacking strokes in cricket, hitting the ball back down the wicket and hopefully to the boundary! Play the straight drive.
You Want White Teeth Without Expensive Over-The-Counter Products? Here's An Inexpensive, Effective Solution.
The sun moon stroke in yoga massage helps the body relax after an active work out. Learn how to administer the sun moon stroke with tips from a yoga expert in this free yoga video Do the sun moon stroke yoga massage - Part 1 of 7.
First, we'd like to congratulate Marek Antozi, the winner of our very last Giveaway Tuesdays! Photo Challenge. Thankful for Dialogue is a concept most family members can relate to—the occasional stressful Thanksgiving bickering and inevitable resolution is not uncommon, after all. ;)
We've got a creative server and we're looking for players now! All slots are available! The server is set up to be the official playground for our tutorials, how-to videos, community contributions, contests, and even the occasional PvP. Whether you're interested in a place to build your personal projects or looking for tutorials and ideas, we're here to help you grow creatively.
Nope, it’s not the McDonalds menu, but close enough. Jim Blackhurst has mapped 11 million deaths onto a 3-dimensional point cloud for video game Just Cause 2. The result is an amazing virtual heat map of a world where every white dot represents a death on impact: The millions of deaths formulate a detailed outline of major structures and roads in the game, visually mapping "extractions" at every square inch. In most traditional games, this would not be possible—players more often than not sta...
The New York Times reports on the perks of opting for digital TV antennas vs. paying for cable TV. With the exception of the occasional spotty signal, young viewers are finding antennas are the preferable choice, considering savings add up to half the usual cost for cable TV and internet access.
Dress weeman up in a baby costume, put him in a buggy, and dress somebody up as an old lady ( maybe Spike? ) Walk around the town doing with the old lady having terrible accidents with the baby such as letting go of the buggy down a hill, smashing the buggy into certain things, falling on the curb etc. It could be called " Grandma and Baby " as opposed to " Daddy and Baby ". Also, as the baby is weeman, when people try to stroke the " baby " He says things like " do not fu*king touch me lady!...
I guess this leaked a couple days early. *edit* Looks like they just deleted the news post off the website, but I managed to save a copy (see below). Wow, such a solid lineup. You do not want to miss this! If I was only able to go to one San Francisco festival this summer and had to choose between this and Outside Lands, Treasure Island would be the easy winner. Even though The Strokes are one of my favorite bands and are headlining OL, I would choose Treasure Island because this line up is j...
High blood pressure (hypertension) is a common medical condition that can eventually cause serious health problems such as heart disease, kidney failure, vision problems, stroke, heart attack, and more.
We've all heard that deep breathing exercises, calming music and a good night's sleep help relieve stress, but what are some other unconventional tips to help you feel more calm and relaxed during hectic times?
Need to find some directions? No problem, use Google Maps. Want to find some spy photos of yourself? No problem, use Google Street View.
Just like magic - incredible new project from Sweatshoppe in which video is "painted" onto a wall. Video demonstration below, (don't miss it! absolutely visually amazing).
