Like the marvelous and awe-inspiring stained glass windows at Gothic cathedrals and churches, staine glass cookies offer a beautiful glimpse into history and tradition. With see-through tinted windows and intricate designs, these cookies are as interesting to look at as they are good to eat!
We've all heard of dying paper with tea dye for an aged, vintage effect. But did you know you could use tea (and coffee) to dye other things as well, including T-shirts and yarn?
Learn about skin softening techniques and the controlling of color and tones when working in Adobe Photoshop! Whether you're new to computer graphics, new to Adobe Photoshop CS4 or a seasoned design professional just looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're certain to like this free video software tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started managing skin tones in Photoshop yourself, watch this designer's guide!
Muzzle flashes are basically firing and explosive effects that come out of the pistol or barrel of a gun. These firing effects can be created on Sony Vegas using a masking technique.
Float fishing is one of the most popular types of fishing, and the art of casting the pole properly as a part of it is much debated. This video features a professional fisherman demonstrating the techniques he using for casting properly while float fishing. Master these and you are sure to catch more fish and have much more enjoyable days on the water.
Check out this tutorial for some awesome techniques for the latest edition from Fight Night Round 4. In this clip, master some counter punch skills and it might mean the difference between holding the belt and holding your teeth.
With stores like Lush Cosmetics and Bath and Body Works churning out soap rife with rose petals, glitter, and pretty designs, soaps are no longer just designed for getting clean.
Fancify your digital images in three easy steps! In this installment from his series of free Adobe Photoshop tutorials, Justin Seeley shows you how to take any ordinary photograph and spice it up with three-step processing. For detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using this technique yourself, watch this video lesson.
Fast-pitch softball is fast becoming one of the most popular youth sports in America. This video features softball coach Cirssy Rapp demonstrating some advanced techniques for developing athletes fast pitch softball skills. These include learning how to throw hard before working on accuracy, and once the accuracy is there down the middle, giving corner assignments regularly to improve the athlete's accuracy further.
No matter what sports you play, multi-directional explosiveness, or the ability to change direction and run in that direction quickly and explosively, is vital. This video demonstrates some techniques for training this ability into young athletes, including resistance training and keeping proper form.
In this tutorial, learn a new technique that will help you color comics much faster while still allowing for a lot of color variation. This method saves a lot of time and allows you to get your art out to the masses faster.
Go out on the beach with confidence this summer, even if you haven't had the time to hit the gym. In this tutorial, learn a cool shortcut to six pack abs using makeup! These techniques are exactly what the stars do whenever they wear something revealing, so try this out and look like a celeb in your bikini this year!
If you're a fitness guru/weight training buff finding your normal weight lifting routine a bore, watch this video for a challenging way to increase resistance for an up-tempo workout.
Rick van Man of Container Gardening For Food details his techniques for making a solar-powered food dehydrator out of such household debris as scrap wood and old pint cans. The finished product looks amazingly professional! Truly a must-watch for any DIY-inclined gardening enthusiast.
Whether you're a guy or gal, six pack abs are always preferable to a family pack, even if you think some squishiness in the tummy is cute.
Polish your watercolor painting skills with this tutorial, which features tips on how to create several watercolor painting effects.
After Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," it seems miniature is in. Shrink art is a way of crafting with sheets of plastic that shrink in the oven. The technique - which involves stamping and punching plastic sheets - creates everything from earrings to pins.
Get in shape and tone your body by getting in that pool for a swim! There's nothing better for your body than swimming and there are numerous techniques and avenues for the swimmer who wants to get in better shape. In this video, get expert tips and advice on how to get in shape with the help of swimming!
This guitar lesson video shows you how to play "Hey Julie" by Fountains of Wayne on acoustic guitar . In the tutorial your learn, the chords, strumming technique and style. This video is geared towards beginners but of course the more advanced student is welcomed to give it a whirl. It's a fun great song, and your in good hands with instructor Erich Andreas.
Nick from Greyscale Gorilla shows you great techniques for getting professional quality textures in Cinema 4D. He also talks you through the update of HDRI Light Kit v. 1.1 to v. 1.1.
Oftentimes, a photo may not capture the true vibrancy of color in real life, but Photoshop can fix that. Photos with lots of color can be given even greater hue saturation by adding extreme contrast in Photoshop. By using multiple effects, including overlay blend modes and noise across multiple layers, a picture's color intensity can be made more bold with these techniques. By following the steps in this video, colors can be made more vibrant using extreme contrast with Photoshop software.
Cable knits are sometimes considered too complex for hobbyist knitters to attempt, but this video tutorial from the folks at Make Magazine will introduce you to this classic technique. Pioneered in Ireland by the wives of fishermen, the look of cable knits actually reflects fishermen's ropes and other aspects of their lives. While cable knits look complex, in this video you will see that they really don't have to be that much more complicated to create then the patterns you're used to working...
If you find yourself in a tricky situation, such as your hands being bound together by handcuffs, you might be wondering how to get out of them. Well, with merely a bobby pin, you can pick your way out of most handcuffs using the technique shown in this video. Your bobby pin will need to be properly shapen for this to work. The handcuffs used are single and double lock handcuffs.
This is an NBA Fundamentals video with Richard Hamilton teaching "Moving Without the Ball" techniques.
This technique drill video shows you how to hit a backhand corner drive in squash. 1. When you're moving into the backhand corner
This is an instructional video of the backhand lob technique in squash. 1. Prepare your racket early to the ball
This video will show you a few techniques for removing stuck pixels from an LCD screen. This is not a guaranteed fix. Please only use these as a last resort, as some of them can cause more damage to the LCD. Only attempt these if you are experienced and know what you are doing.
Learn how to draw from a professional artist! This drawing video tutorial will teach you how to draw a back view of a nude woman. This drawing demonstration will help you in the art of sketching and drawing naked women for your art projects. This is the Reilly technique for a back nude pose.
Learn how to draw from a professional artist! This drawing video tutorial will teach you how to draw a reclining view of a nude woman. This drawing demonstration will help you in the art of sketching and drawing naked women for your art projects. This is the Reilly technique for a reclining nude pose.
Learn how to draw from a professional artist! This drawing video tutorial will teach you how to draw a side view of a nude woman. This drawing demonstration will help you in the art of sketching and drawing naked women for your art projects. This is the Reilly technique for a side nude pose.
Watch this video tutorial to learn how to perform a "one face up" false cut card flourish. A card flourish is something a magician uses, a technique for handling playing cards, mostly during magic card tricks. Is it magic though? No, just a little sleight of hand a fancy showmanship. See how to do the OFU (one face up) false cut.
A demonstration of the technique of recrystallization used in Organic Chemistry labs. This organic chemistry demonstrations are conducted by Dr. Scott Allen, Assistant Professor, Chemistry/Physics, University of Tampa.
The foundation of most fine arts educations begins with the drawing of the human figure. These human figure drawing tutorials are brought to you by Cy Porter of solomation.com. Search WonderHowTo for more figure drawing tutorials by Cy.
Starboard made this video in order to make an intro to windsurf. It's a windsurf academy video that goes over the start to windsurfing. It covers basic techniques like equipment setup, tacking, gybing and getting up.
A short demonstration of using an electric chainsaw to split a large block of ice used for ice carving. This is a basic technique in ice carving. Boston-style ice tongs are also used. Demo by Dawson List IceCarvingSecrets.com He gives you the steps to making a block of ice the size you need to start carving ice sculptures.
Learn to cross country ski with a focus on diagonal stride with this 3 minute video by Keith Nicol, Level 4 CANSI instructor. Brought to you by Rossignol and Infinity Poles and Sir Wilfred Grenfell College. This is a technique used in classic XC skiing. It is like the Nordic Track. Try to glide as long as possible to move down speedily the track.
Brian Brushwood reveals the techniques used to make super-realistic fake tongues, like those used in last year's Halloween Horror Nights show. Brian Brushwood on The Road shows how to make fake tongues to use for the magic illusion 'Sword through the Tongue' trick. He's performed this in his stage show at Universal Studios in Orlando.
Learn how to score with Free Kicks in Fifa 09 (PS3/Xbox 360). Mastering all of the different techniques takes practice but it's well worth it! Learn methods to spin, curl, adjust power and distance.
How to wrap your presents in Furoshiki (cloth) to avoid using wrapping paper. Unlike wrapping paper (which usually can't be recycled) Furoshiki can be used again and again. This is an eco-friendly Christmas solution that comes from folding techniques used in Japanese art similar to origami.
Ian Beckman of Azerothian Super Villains fame introduces the third installment of How 2 Machinima. This series of tutorials is aimed to introduce both the fundamentals and advanced techniques of WoW machinima-making. Use Adobe Premiere to model machinima and create proper machinima or video game films. Change the lighting to diffused, specular or ambient lighting.
