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How To: Make French Mille Feuille (Napoleon) for Valentine's Day

Are you ready to taste one of the most decadent, rich, and creamy desserts out there? Then check out this recipe for making French Mille Feuille, a three layer cake made from puff pastry alternating between layers of cream or whipped cream in between. These Mille Feuilles, also known as Napoleons in the United States, are specially shaped into hearts to commemorate Valentine's Day.

How To: Create gradient and layer blend color effects in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn how to create eye-catching gradient and layer blend color effects in Photoshop CS4. This clip will teach you what you need to know. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editing software or a seasoned professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.

How To: Add texture to a reflection in Photoshop

Yanik Chauvin teaches us how to add texture to a reflection in Photoshop in this tutorial. To start, add a basic reflection to the item you want a reflection on. Now, reduce the opacity of the layer and bring it down to 25%. Next, add a new layer and paint in a gradient white to transparent. Make sure your first gradient selection is selected. Now, click and drag and you will see the reflection diffused. Next select the blur option, then click on motion blur and put the distance at 20 pixels....

How To: Make a rainbow in Adobe Photoshop

In this how-to video, you will learn how to make a rainbow in an image. First, open the program. Make a new layer and go to the gradient tool. Change the style to the one that looks like a rainbow. From here, change the sliders that you have the colors of the rainbow selected. Once this is done, slide the rest of the sliders near the last color, which should be red. Save the gradient and click okay. Now, go to the bottom left hand corner until a plus sign shows. Click and drag until you get t...

How To: Use the opacity feature in Final Cut Pro

Plangere Culture Lab demonstrates how to use the opacity feature in Final Cut Pro. The opacity feature is a beneficial tool to use when working with layers. Opacity is an attribute which relates to how much you can see through a clip. To layer clips, create a new video track on the timeline. Make sure that the source tab is in the right position. The track on the top of the stack is the dominant track and will be shown. Select the volume and opacity overlay button. Click on the line over the ...

How To: Make a mini Christmas log cake for a dollhouse

Here is another video by a woman named Angela on how to make a miniature Christmas log cake for a dollhouse. The first thing she does is roll out a sheet of brown clay with a pasta maker on a setting of 4. Then she rolls out a white sheet with smaller setting of 6. Use a razor blade and cut some straight edges. She layers the brown and white layer and rolls them together. Cutting off the ends she has now created a log cake. Use these ends for slices of the cake for dolls. She then uses a pepp...

How To: Use Magic Glos UV resin & polymer clay

Polymer clay has become a very popular modeling material. This narrator uses magic gloss UV resin and a needle tool for this video. A silicone pad is useful for the mixing process. Once a small amount of resin has been squeezed out, you can sprinkle glitter onto it, spread it out and allow it to cure a little. Once this has happened, a pressed flower can be stuck onto the surface and sandwiched between another layer of Magic Gloss. Once hardened, the flower is encased in the clear layers. Thi...

How To: Add a new background to an image using GIMP on Linux

Learn how to add a new background to an image using Gimp. 1 Open the original image and the new background in Gimp. 2 Open the layers dialog and then click on add an alpha channel. 3 On the original image choose 'Select by color' from the menu and then hit delete. 4 Copy the image. 5 On the new background, select 'Add a layer'. 6 Paste on the new background. 7 Save and you are ready to go.

How To: Create an image animation using gradient in Flash

Are you interested in 2D animation in Flash? First import a image in flash. Then create a new layer and choose oval tool and take a radial gradient. In the middle of the shape, we need to have zero alpha value and pick the colors from the background of the image. Create the shape over the image and take another frame at no.10 and increase alpha. Then create another keyframe and convert it to movie clip. Then create shape and motion tween. On the new layer, write a stop command in action scrip...

How To: Bake Spumoni cookies for the holidays

Learn how to make layered spumoni cookies for the holiday season in this simple tutorial. First, melt 1 oz of unsweetened chocolate and soften two sticks of butter. Cream butter together with one egg, half a cup of sugar, and a teaspoon of vanilla. Add in 2 1/4 cups of flour and a pinch of salt. Divide the dough into three parts. Mix candied cherries in one part, 1/4 chopped nuts in the second part, and the chocolate into the third. Press the layers into a loaf pan lined with parchment paper....

How To: Create a cartoon cloud in Photoshop

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to create a cartoon cloud using Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program. In this video, viewers will learn how to use multiple layers, layer options, how to create a lighting effect and use of gradient options. This video provides voice narration and a visual demonstration for viewers to easily understand and follow along. This video will benefit those viewers who enjoy designing and creating cartoon or animation images on the c...

How To: Create the "Sin City" effect in Photoshop CS3 / CS4

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...

How To: Create a jack o'lantern with a pumpkin in Photoshop

Photoshopuniverse shows the way to create a Jack-O-Lantern in Photoshop. At first you need to collect or take a photo of a pumpkin. Make a new layer, with a white background, then mask it. Fill it with black color. Now go to blending option and give inner shadow, inner glow, gradient layer and outer glow. The major color will be yellow. There will be also a thin stroke. Your brush is ready now with all its effects of a Jack-O-Lantern. After following this video, you can use the same effect an...

How To: Make graffiti using Photoshop

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...

How To: Create a simple flash button with sound in Flash

In this video by Task Tutorial we will learn how to create a simple flash button with sound. The first step is to create a text layer in flash, then convert your text into a button, then double click on the button to enter a sub menu and create a new layer for sound. Then simply add some sound files from your library and assign the sound file. Now you can change the color so you can see when the button is pressed. Then finally go back to your main scene and test your Flash movie. Using these ...

How To: Create a stylish text in Photoshop

This video tutorial by tasktutorial shows you how to create stylish text in Photoshop. Launch Photoshop and select the type tool and choose myriad-pro font light. Create a text field and type in the text as indicated. Increase the font size and location as desired. Thereafter open the layer options, choose a gradient and create a new gradient by selecting the color as required. Apply a white color outer glow change the size, range and opacity. If you want to add more text create a new layer a...

How To: Make and cook a perfect baked potato

In cooking, making a perfect baked potato is one of the simplest and easiest dishes to prepare. Most of the people would chip the potato with a fork on its surface and cover with some silver foils and would keep in the oven. But, this should not be done as it could result in dump inside the potato when you cut it with knife. Instead of this keep the potatoes for 10-20 Minutes in an oven without foils, which could give you a better and soft layer inside the potato. But in need to get a crispy ...

How To: Create an envelope icon in Illustrator

From task tutorial.com that how to create an envelope icon on illustrator. First draw a rectangle change the angle to 90 degrees then select gray color, select pen tool draw a shape and then go to layer select duplicate then rotate the shape using left mouse button by selecting the rotate tool. Now using down arrow key move the shape to down ,choose select tool and resize the shape then select the path go to gradient and change it angle to 90 degrees. Finally select the layer and go to effect...

How To: Make a Christmas tree skirt

Looking to make this Christmas a DIY Christmas? Why not make your own Christmas tree skirt, customized to fit your personality and home decor! Nothing says it’s Christmas like a beautiful Christmas tree. Now you can decorate the area below with a handmade Christmas tree skirt that you can be proud of.

How To: Crochet a kingston cap left-handed

In this tutorial, we learn how to crochet a Kingston cap left-handed. Start round one by doing a chain one, then doing three double crochets and a chain one. Then, work a single crochet and then use a chain 1 to join. After this, do another chain one and pull up, then do 3 double crochets followed by chain one in the same space. After this, work a single crochet to join. For round 4, do a chain one, then work 3 double crochets again and chain 1 in the same space. Continue to do this process u...

How To: Shield your pickups cavity on your electric guitar

Single coil pick ups are notorious for being noisy and for having a lot of buzz. One way that you can get rid of the buzz and save yourself from sounding annoying and unprofessional on stage without messing with your volume knob or buying expensive noise gates is putting in copper shielding in your pick up cavities and on the pick guard! In this video you will get a complete walkthrough of how to install the shielding and rewire your guitar back to normal!

How To: Do a single crochet going through back loops only

In this video, we learn how to do a single crochet going through back loops only. First, do your foundation crochet, then start doing single crochets. With the chain, there is two loops, the back and front. To the back loop, you would go through these with your crochet hook, then pull on the yarn to continue to crochet. Make sure you find the difference between these so you know which loop to go through. Start to do back loop crochets and continue until you reach the end of the line. Make sur...

How To: Replace audio in a video clip in Sony Vegas

You can replace the audio in Sony Vegas. To do this first delete the audio which you want to remove by selecting it on the right side and press delete. Now go to the website like findsound.com and download the sound and then import it to the Sony Vegas and drag it to the layers. If your sound file has some blank space you can delete it by just selecting it and press delete. Now drag the audio to the begining of the video. Now you can play the video and hear the sound is better than before. No...

How To: Hack a single-use digital camera for continual usage

In the digital age, camera's have gotten better, more advanced and more expensive. Even those throw-away cameras have taken the leap to digital-ness, which means more money. But you don't have to be confined by the one-time use of these single-use digital cameras anymore. Kipkay teaches you how to hack a one-time-use digital camera so that you can use it over and over again— for only twenty dollars. There is a connector behind a sticker, so you have to peel the sticker off and then you must f...

How To: Do a Vanessa Hudgens smokey eye look

A major Hollywood player since she was a preteen, Vanessa Hudgens knows what looks on the red carpet and what doesn't. And, like most girls, she's found that the smokey eye never fails to make your eyes pop and to the make the eyes of nearby cartoon wolves pop out.

How To: Create multiple constructors in a single class in Java

Want to program your own Java games and applications but don't know beans about object-oriented programming? Never you fear. This free video tutorial from TheNewBoston will have you coding your own Java apps in no time flat. Specifically, this lesson discusses how to use multiple constructors within a single class when writing code in the Java programming language. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this helpful programmer's guide.

How To: Building a landscape retaining wall in a weekend

In this Home & Garden video tutorial you will learn how to build a landscape retaining wall in a weekend. This video is from www.allanblock.com. You can do it by using the Europa collection from Allanblock. Get the installation details and the location of the nearest dealer from the website. Tolls you need are a shovel, hand compactor, wheel barrow, measuring tape, level, hammer, rake, broom and gloves. This project will require the AB Barcelona, AB Palermo and AB Dover blocks. The first step...

How To: Make a trifle like your granny use to

This is a video about to make trifle. First we need sponge cake, fruit, custard, jelly, food color, one lemon, and cream. First we have to make the jelly. So first take the lemon juice in a jug and add 400 ml of boiling water in it. Next add two teaspoons of gelatin in it and mix it well. Next add few drops of food color. Next take the sponge cake into one bowl and pour this jelly on that cake. Next add some fruit pieces to that mixture. Next pour jelly on that mixture again. Next put the rem...