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How To: Make fabric backgrounds in Photoshop

Want to digitally add a fabric background to a photo after the fact? With Photoshop, it's a breeze. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from the folks at Britec Computer Systems. This video offers a step-by-step guide on how to generate fabric backgrounds within Adobe Photoshop.

How To: Fix a blown-out sky in Adobe Photoshop

Looking for a guide on how to fix an overexposed sky? With Adobe Photoshop, it's easy. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from the folks at Britec Computer Systems. This video offers a step-by-step guide on how to repair a clipped sky.

How To: Remove color cast from photos in Adobe Photoshop

Looking for instructions on how to remove color casting when restoring photos in Photoshop? Look no further. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from the folks at Britec Computer Systems. This video offers a step-by-step guide on how to get rid of color (or colour) cast when restoring scanned photographs.

How To: Create edges and borders in Adobe Photoshop

Want to add a border to your digital image? With Photoshop, it's an easy process. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from the folks at Britec Computer Systems. This video offers a step-by-step guide on how to add borders and edges to digital images.

How To: Remove photo paper texture from old photos

Want to digitally preserve an old photograph without also preserving the imperfections of the physical photo paper? With Adobe Photoshpo, it's easy. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from the folks at Britec Computer Systems. This video offers a step-by-step guide on how to remove unwanted physical textures from your digital images.

How To: Create a digital photo montage in Adobe Photoshop

Create digital photo montages in Adobe Photoshop. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from the folks at Britec Computer Systems. This video offers a step-by-step guide on how to generate simple montages with digital photographs.

How To: Make studio portrait backgrounds in Photoshop

Want to add a studio portrait background to a photo after the fact? With Adobe Photoshop, it's easy. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from the folks at Britec Computer Systems. This video offers a step-by-step guide on how to digitally add portrait backgrounds to your images.

How To: Colorize a black and white image in Adobe Photoshop

Can't get enough of the colorized version of It's a Wonderful Life? Bring the same technology to bear on your own digital images. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from the folks at Britec Computer Systems. This video offers a step-by-step guide on how to add color to B&W photos.

How To: Adjust levels and curves in Adobe Photoshop CS4 or CS5

Maximize dynamic range with Photoshop's levels and curves tool. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from the folks at Britec Computer Systems. This video offers a step-by-step guide on how to adjust levels and curve of a digital image.

How To: Search table arrays in Microsoft Excel 2007

New to Excel? Just looking for a few new tips and tricks? Whatever the case, you're sure to enjoy this free video software tutorial, which will walk you through how to sesarch table arrays within Microsoft Excel 2007. Learn how to dynamically search table arrays in Microsoft Excel 2007 using the built-in VLOOKUP function.

How To: Block a sword lunge with a melee attack in Halo Reach

Geoff and Jack from Achievement Hunter, show you how to deny a sword lunge with a well-timed melee attack. The tip is to time your block just right because if you get hit with the sword, you're dead, so if you get the timing right it'll still cause you to lose your shield but you could get some shots in between blocking, especially if you're out of other weapons.

How To: Remove a DeWALT miter saw armature bearing

Removing a miter saw armature bearing on a DeWalt miter saw armature can be a bit tricky if because even if you have a bearing puller, you probably won't have enough space to get it in the armature to be able to get it out. You will get a great tip on how you can use a vise to hold down the armature so you can use both hands to work on getting that bearing out.

How To: Average rank scores given a tie in Excel 2010

New to Microsoft Excel 2010? Looking for a few good tips and tricks? In this free video tutorial from everyone's favorite MS Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the very first installment in his series of Excel 2010 video tutorials, you'll learn how to use use the RANK.AVE function to average rank scores in the event of a tie. See the new Excel 2010 RANK.AVE and RANK.EQ functions.

How To: Draw a tree in detail

Drawing a realistic tree can be difficult: The branches, the leaves... There's a lot of detail going on within the workings of a tree. In this dawing tutorial, learn how to take on the task of drawing a realistic tree and how to master the task. Get tips and learn tricks with help from this video.

How To: Use the TRANSPOSE & FREQUENCY array functions in Excel

hether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 38th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the TRANSPOSE & FREQUENCY functions.

How To: Calculate subtotals in Microsoft Excel

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 18th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to calculate (and sum) subtotals in Excel. See how to do subtotaling with the SUM function.

How To: Work with date functions (TODAY, NOW, DAY) in MS Excel

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 12th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the TODAY, NOW, DATE, YEAR, MONTH, DAY and EDATE functions.

How To: Record absolute and relative macros in MS Excel 2007

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the nth installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how (and when) to record absolute and relative macros in MS Excel 2007.

How To: Find and use VBA code in Microsoft Excel

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 54th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to find, download and use VBA code in your MS Excel projects.

How To: Force a function to becom an array in Microsoft Excel

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 39th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how if an array or range is put into a function argument that is expecting a single value, the function becomes an array and delivers an array of values instead o...

How To: Work with Microsoft Excel's order of precedence

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 24th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn see exactly how Excel calculates/evaluates formulas including things like intersections, unions, negation, text operators and comparative operators. Knowing the o...

How To: Value assets & analyze cash flows in Microsoft Excel

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 50th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to value an asset as well as perform discounted cash flow analysis with the Excel functions PV, NPV & XNPV.

How To: Run advanced VLOOKUP queries in Microsoft Excel

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 40th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to perform eleven VLOOKUP tricks including how to use VLOOKUP with the TRIM function to remove spaces from first column of lookup value.

How To: Set data up for sorting & filtering in Microsoft Excel

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 14th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to set up data in Excel so sorting, filtering, subtotals and PivotTables (Pivot Tables) can be done easily.

How To: Fix common Excel spreadsheet problems & errors

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 25th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to interpret and resolve the nine most common Excel formula errors — namely, ####, #NAME?, #N/A, #REF!, #VALUE!, #NUM!, #DIV/0!, Circular Reference, and #NULL!.

How To: Import different types of data in Microsoft Excel

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 23rd installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to import data into Excel from text files, web sites, Excel files and Microsoft Office Access files. Also see how to import currency rates and major indicies from ...

How To: Work around the 1-rule data validation limit in Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 144th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to work around data validation's one-rule limit by creating a second shrinking list that looses values as they are used in the data validation area.

How To: Update inventory records by formula in Microsoft Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 348th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to build a formula that will take invoice information for inventory quantity sold and update inventory records to show correct amount on hand (in stock).

How To: Use the UPPER & EXACT functions in Microsoft Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 82nd installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the UPPER & EXACT functions to create a TRUE/FALSE formula to determine whether or not uppercase text has been entered into a cell.

How To: Average with the MONTH function in Microsoft Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 90th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll see a complicated average calculation with multiple criteria using the MONTH function on a date field. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Apply conditional formatting to a row in MS Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 80th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to highlight an entire record (row) in a database that matches a bounced email addresss. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Calculate monthly sales with Excel's SUMPRODUCT & TEXT

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 45th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT & TEXT functions together in 1 formula to sum the month's sales. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.