This tutorial goes over the various methods and techiques you can use to alter images using Adobe Flash CS3, such as extending the edges, trace bitmapping, patterning your images or shapes, and even set your bitmap as it's own fill color.
Using separate knitted squares in five different colors, this tutorial shows you how to lay out each square on the floor of your craft room in preparation for creating a seven by seven granny square blanket. End the tutorial with a beautiful and colorful blanket!
When you've mastered the single crochet and have gotten a hang of the double crochet, it's time to really step up your knitting game and start the triple crochet, a more difficult but rewarding type of stitch that creates a very tightly woven fabric.
Making your own dress saves you enough money as it is, and you'll be double the frugalista if you make that dress reversible. Though creating a two-sided reversible dress sounds hard to do, by adding a few tie straps it's about as easy as sewing an apron.
There's no getting around it: if you want to get good at playing the ukulele or any other instrument, you'll need to practice. Fortunately, the Internet is awash in free uke lessons, like this one from Ukulele Live, which make the task not only easy but fun. This clip, in particular, demonstrates how to chuck when playing the ukulele.
Learning how to dance can be a fun and exciting experience that teaches you not only how to dance, but a little about another countries culture as well. In this tutorial, you'll be finding out how to foxtrot. It's a ballroom dance that is done in a pattern of slow, slow, then quick, quick. Like any dance, it takes time and practice. So good luck, pay attention, and enjoy!
This clip offers instruction on how to find, download and install free brushes for Adobe Photoshop. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular graphics editor or a seasoned design professional looking to get better acquainted with the industry-standard app, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, watch this designer's guide.
After creating your own custom Photoshop brushes, you may want to share them with the world. This guide from Brusheezy will show you how to do just that. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular graphics editor or a seasoned design professional looking to get better acquainted with the industry-standard app, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, watch this designer's guide.
Curls are one of the most effective pass patterns used in football. When done properly they are deceptive and create tons of space between receiver and defender. This video features NFL wide receiver Drew Bennet doing curl drills with young players and explaining to them the advantages of the curl route. Watch this video, then get out there and run some drills!
If you live in an area where snow is a common part of the weather pattern, it's important to make sure when you're driving that the view is clear. There are some cars that have a windshield wiper de-icer that makes life easier. So in this tutorial, you'll find out how to use the windshield wiper de-icer on a 2010 Kia Forte. Enjoy!
In this video, learn how to design a super easy friendship bracelet. In this clip, you will learn the square-knot pattern, which is one of the most simple ones. Your friends will love receiving these bracelets as gifts and you will love making them for everyone you know.
Learn how to play the Boys Like Girls song "Two Is Better Than One" with this free guitar lesson. This video guide presents a complete, step-by-step breakdown of the pop song including chords and picking patterns. For more information, and to get started playing this popular Boys Like Girls & Taylort Swift number on your own acoustic guitar, watch this tutorial.
Learn how to play Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" with this free guitar lesson. This video guide presents a complete, step-by-step breakdown of the song including chords and picking patterns. For more information, and to get started playing this popular southern rock anthem on your own acoustic guitar, watch this tutorial.
Learn how to play Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah" with this free guitar lesson. This video guide presents a complete, step-by-step breakdown of the pop folk ballad including chords and picking patterns. For more information, and to get started playing this popular tune on your own acoustic guitar, watch this tutorial.
Learn how to play Neil Young's "Old Man" with this free guitar lesson. This video guide presents a complete, step-by-step breakdown of the pop-folk ballad including chords and picking patterns. For more information, and to get started playing this popular Neil Young tune on your own acoustic guitar, watch this tutorial.
Learn how to play the Beatles' "Blackbird" with this free guitar lesson. This video guide presents a complete, step-by-step breakdown of the pop folk ballad including chords and picking patterns. For more information, and to get started playing this popular McCartney tune on your own acoustic guitar, watch this tutorial.
This handy video for the DIY duct tape enthusiast teaches you how to make a fun, quick, easy flashlight holder out of that most versatile of materials: duct tape. The presenter in this video uses the flash new zebra-patterned duct tape, but you can use the more basic grey if you want to save money and go with a more restrained look.
Making a delicious cake base is only part of the equation for the high-end pastry chef. Icing the cake in a really attractive pattern requires immense attention to detail and precision. This video demonstrates both in teaching you how to decorate a cake with buttercream frosting in the image of a Calla Lily with a blue background. Delicious and artistic.
This easy acoustic guitar instructional video demonstrates how to play the popular song "Live Like We're Dying" by Kris Allen. It breaks the song down into very simple terms, including descriptions of the picking and chords, but if you want the tabs, they can be found here.
Gina Trapani explains some clever ways to come up with a large number of passwords while keeping them easy to remember. She says that this is possible by coming up with a pattern in which you combine words or phrases that you can remember easily with the names of the services that you need the passwords for to create a wide variety of easy-to-remember passwords.
Just getting started with Photoshop? In this tutorial presented by Yanik's Photo School, learn how to use the patch tool in Photoshop instead of the healing brush. The patch tool retouches images using sampled pixels or pattern and comes in handy when trying to touch-up a photo.
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 48th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll see comparison of Chebyshev's Theorem and the Empirical Rule (bell curve) and learn when to apply which.
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 46th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn about Chebyshev's Theorem and how to apply it in three different ways.
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 43rd installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to use the Excel Data Analysis add-in descriptive statistics tool.
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 42nd installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to calculate the coefficient of variation.
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 30th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to create a scatter diagram for 2 quantitative variables.
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 51st installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to understand, work with and find simple probabilities in Microsoft Office Excel.
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 93rd installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to use the NORMSINV and NORMSDIST functions to complete a hypothesis test about a population proportion.
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 83rd installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to construct confidence intervals when the sigma (population standard deviation) in NOT known using the TINV function.
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 29th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to create quantitative data cross tabulation using a pivot table (PivotTable).
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 11th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to work with, and create charts for, cross-sectional and time-series data.
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 13th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to install the Excel 2007 Data Analysis add-in.
Creating customized brushes is really useful when using Photoshop and is not difficulat to do at all!
This tutorial video shows how to make an origami bird base. As you might guess from the name, the bird base is used when making the traditional origami crane; however, it can be used as a starting point for other origami patterns as well, so it's good to learn how to make this fold. Follow these steps to learn how to fold an origami bird base.
This acoustic guitar video lesson, brought to you by Aaron from Free and Easy Guitar, will teach you how to play "Everybody Knows" by John Legend. Before you begin you will need a capo to play this song the way he performs it. As you follow along with him, he breaks down the strumming and chords used in the song, calling out the chords and explaining the strum pattern he uses to play the song, going into detail on how to finger the chords he uses.
In this electric guitar video lesson, brought to you by JustinGuitar, host Justin Sandercoe, will teach you how to play "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks. This is a great song for those of you wanting to learn how to put your power chords to use. As you follow along with him, he teaches you the chords you need to know, and their progression through the song, breaking down each part of the song, explaining the strum pattern of the guitar riffs.
In this acoustic guitar video lesson brought to you by Ways Linn, she teaches you how to play the song "Where Is My Mind" by The Pixies. As always, she starts you out by showing you the chords you need to know to play the song, taking the time to break them down and demonstrating their fingering on the fretboard. She also breaks down and shows you the strum pattern she uses to play the song to help keep you in time.
This how to video describes how to solve a Rubik's Cube by using a variety of methods. This is perfect for the puzzle solving game addict or anyone clueless about Rubik's Cube. The author observes different crosses and patterns on the Rubik's Cube and uses them to complete algorithms that solve the cube in lightning speed! Soon you will be able to solve a Rubik's Cube in under a minute just by watching this five minute video.
Patti Behan shows us how to make this beautiful giraffe prints to create an amazing card. You will need:
This how-to crochet video offers a simple pattern and instruction for stitching your own cute and easy crocheted hat. Knitted hats don't have to be for winter. While a cozy hat will protect you from the cold, a lighter yarn can add some style in warmer months as well. Check out this video d.i.y. arts and crafts lesson and learn how to crochet your own brimmed hat.
