This technique is very similar to the one used for removing dark circles beneath the eyes of of people in your pictures. This shows you a simple technique where you can reduce the amount of gray in a particular area of your photo to get rid of the dark circle look.
Rim light is the light in the background or immediately surrounding your figure. Using a black and white drawing, this tutorial shows you a few techniques in Photoshop you can use to play around a little bit with rim light to make your picture really pop!
Maybe it's just us, but this city reminds us a lot of the dreamscape Parisian city from Cristopher Nolan's mind heist movie "Inception," aside from the whole city folding back over itself thing and whatnot.
Looking for an easy way to apply effects to your profile picture online? With the BeFunky image processing tool, it's simple! So simple, in fact, that this home-computing how-to from the folks at Britec can present a complete overview of the process in just over four minutes. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, watch this video guide.
The iPhone 4 is unique because it comes with not one, but two cameras. The front facing camera on your phone can be used to take your own picture, for games or to use the new FaceTime app to video call your buddies. This tutorial will walk you through how to use this fun new feature and how to make the most of it.
This video demonstrates how to draw a a somewhat oddly shaped seaside town with a dock located at the bottom of a pit surrounded by buildings. The picture is very pretty and original, although what sort of land could support this particular town is left to the imagination.
If you've got T-Mobile as your carrier, and you have an unlimited texting plan, check out this video to learn how to enable MMS on your iPhone. Assuming you have this plan, you should be able to send multimedia messages.
Many people are having trouble getting ChickHEN R2 to work on the PSP 1000/PHAT, so this video will show you how to get it working. There are many little tricks to getting ChickHEN working after installing it. Try scrolling around for a bit and heading into your pictures.
This video provides information on how to install the ChickHen firmware on your PSP. The first part of the video shows how to install it using pictures, while the second half shows a video of the PSP installation.
Check out this "Juicy Tutorial" to learn how to create an angelic effect in Paint Shop Pro 8. Paint Shop Pro (PSP) is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. Paint Shop Pro 8 was published by Jasc Software.
Check out this video tutorial to learn how to design a photorealistic tree with Blender. To make this tree with Blender, you will be using textures and mesh transparency. To start off, you'll first need to find a picture of a tree and save it as a transparent PGN file.
When choosing camera film, use slow film for bright day light, medium speed film for a cloudy day and high speed film for low light conditions. Choose the right speed of film for a particular camera with the tips in this free instructional video on photography tips from a professional photographer. The speed of the film is essential in determining what type of environment you will be taking pictures, so listen up!
Ever wanted to create your own picture slideshows? With Google Picasa, a free picute management application, you can. In this video tutorial, you'll learn to create a quick and easy slideshow from your photos using Google's Picasa. To get started, watch this video how-to!
Photo ornaments use a combination of applique fabric and stitches to create a great frame for pictures. This project is fast, fun, and made entirely in the embroidery hoop! This instructional embroidery video will take you through all the necessary steps - Soon you will be embroidering all of your Christmas ornaments!
The Crayola Cutter makes cutting as easy as tracing a picture. The safe, easy-to-use cutting wand handles like a pen, so you can cut out intricate shapes anywhere on the page. Designed with safety in mind, the punch-tip action cuts paper by perforating it. This tutorial teaches you how you and your children can use the Crayola Cutter.
With Crayola Recoloritz markers you can color and recolor for endless coloring adventures! These unique wet-erase markers wipe clean quickly and completely. These markers are a great way to teach your children to color between the lines. With this how to video you and your children will learn to use Crayola Recoloritz markers.
Do you access either Flickr or Facebook from a home computer running Mac OS X? In this video tutorial, Gary Rosenzweig of MacMost.com looks at two useful extensions for iPhoto that will allow you to upload your photos directly from iPhoto to Flickr and FaceBook.
This is a software tutorial of how to import two separate photos into one composition in Photoshop easily. This is a basic tutorial for beginners only. Once you understand the concept, you can import multiple pictures into any comp in Photoshop.
Ruth from Stuff.tv goes retro to show us how to process a black and white photographic film. Film isn't dead, maybe because there's nothing quite as satisfying as printing out a set of negatives to make photographs. Watch this video photography tutorial and learn how to process pictures from black and white film.
A thrift store picture frame is the basis for this easy tabletop DIY Zen garden. This little Zen garden is a great way to decorate a bathroom or living room. Learn how to make a cheap and easy Zen garden watch this video home decorating tutorial.
This video tutorial shows how to make your own rough and ready headcam/helmet camera for shooting videos or taking photographs at work. To do this project, you will need a helmet, mounting plate, and a video camera. Start taking pictures and footage hands-free. Watch and learn how to make this simple headcam.
Turn off the flash on your Canon PowerShot SD600 digital camera and love the way the world looks. Watch this photography tutorial to learn how to do it. This how-to video will teaches how to easily shoot without flash on your Canon SD500 camera and take better pictures.
Time exposure photos are easy with a Nikon digital SLR, creating great special effects, night scenes, and cityscapes. Watch this photography tutorial video to learn how to use creative time exposures on your Nikon D80 camera to make your pictures more interesting.
Turn off the flash and say goodbye to washed-out faces and shadowy backgrounds. Watch this photographpy tutorial to learn how to shoot without flash on your Canon A550 and improve your pictures. Your photos will look great if you use the techniques explained in this instructional video.
Flash photography isn't just for dark scenes; sometimes you need to battle the sun with 'fill flash.' Watch this photography tutorial video to learn how to use flash in bright light. Once you've mastered the tips on fill flash in this how-to video, you'll take much better pictures.
Give yourself a sexy look with luscious lips in all your pictures using Photoshop. This tutorial shows you how to retouch portraits and give your subject some great looking lips.
Transform piles of pictures into entertaining slideshows with custom music and comments using Apple iDVD.
Want to add still photos to your iMovie video project? Find out how you can feature your pictures in iMovie with this tutorial.
Learn how to use the low key lighting technique to take darker pictures.
Learn about the type of shots and light you need to take nice pictures in the forest.
The extract tool in Photoshop is one of the most frequently used - and useful - tools you'll ever learn to use. Extracting allows you to remove a picture from its background or even filter away flyaway hair.
This is a video tutorial on how to spray paint a picture of steps by scratching the paint away.
See how to add grungie borders to your images to give them a cool effect in Photoshop. If your borders are white and the background of the background of the website or page you are uploading them to is also the borders will blend in giving it an even cooler look. This is a great Photoshop picture effect!
Think 1940s/50s pinup magazine pictures! Jayne Mansfield, ya know.
Learn the best kept secrets of photography professionals so you can take your own great commercial pictures.
John explores some ideas on how you might use VoiceThread, a newcomer in the diverse Web2.0 space, that allows you to post pictures and video online and get input from others through voice-enabled comments. VT has some really cool possibilities for the educator. For now, at least, you can get a Pro-account as an educator and set up identities to use for students in your classroom. Teachers can also use VT to post presentations with narration.
Hack a car photo to be a really awesome decorative object for your home or office at a very low cost. It's also really fun to make! All it takes is a few LED lights and a 9V battery.
How to create Picture Bullets, Page Borders, and Backgrounds in Microsoft Word 2007.
Pin cushion and barrel distortions? It may sound funny but many cheap cameras take pictures with these distortions - basically concave and convex stretching. This tutorial shows you how to fix both of these problems using Photoshop and right your camera's wrongs.
Build a DIY display case with from a bookshelf and old pictures.