The HV20 comes with a manual focus roller, which is a good thing. However, it is a bit awkward to operate. Here is a minimalist friction tool that can be used to accomplish the same task (well, perhaps with enough practice). It is small, portable, cheap, and light-weight. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to build a manual focusing stick for a Canon HV20 video camera.
Get started with stitching in the ditch by attaching the "Zip Bind Tool" and mitering the 1st corner with the "Minute Miter." This instructional quilting video demonstrates how to sew a neat binding onto your quilt using a few innovative tools.
Do you have wallpaper in you'd like to remove but aren't sure how to go about stripping it? In this tutorial, you'll learn in a few easy steps how to remove it using a wallpaper steamer (available at your local DIY or tool library), a six-inch drywall knife, a scoring tool and a sponge. Watch this video to learn how you, too, can easily strip wallpaper.
See how to easily animate raster images and vector graphics using Adobe After Effects' Puppet tool. This
Learn how to create the finest cocktails from Francesco LaFranconi, Vegas Master Mixologist and Bartender Extraordinaire! The right tools will make a big difference in the quality of a drink. Likewise, picking the right bourbon to suit the drink being made, or a mixer to suit the bourbon base is essential for making the best taste cocktail. Watch this video bartending tutorial and learn how to choose the right bar tools for a bartending kit, the right bourbon for a cocktail, and the right mix...
In this software tutorial you will learn how to sculpt geometry using the sculpt geometry tool in Maya. The sculpt geometry tool is like a paint brush that allows you to paint the surface of an object in 3D. It is best used for creating terrains and other organic geometry. This tutorial will cover all the basics of learning to sculpt geometry in Maya.
Not only must you stock your bar with the and most useful tools, you need to be able to take your act on the road. In this episode of "The Cocktail Spirit," Robert Hess shows how to be a traveling bartender. Watch this video beverage-making tutorial and learn how to choose the right cocktail tools.
Learn how to use the sculpt geometry tool to make modeling polygon surfaces much easier when doing 3D modeling in Maya.
This tutorial takes looks at the selection tool as a drawing tool and also covers how to convert paths to selections and vice-versa when creating vector art in GIMP.
Learn how to produce Roy Lichenstein style Pop Art from your photographs using GIMP image editing software.
Check out this very basic tutorial on removing backgrounds by cutting out an image in GIMP using the eraser tool and selection tool.
A basic tutorial for the GIMP software showing you how to use the Scissors Select tool to remove a background.
This tutorial video will teach you how to use a stamp-a-ma-jig, a useful tool for extending the use and life of your stamps. This is a wonderful tool that will help you make the most of all your stamps.
This tutorial shows you how to splice up an image with the slice tool in Photoshop so that you can use it for a web layout in Dreamweaver.
This tutorial shows you how to use the replace color adjustment tool in Photoshop. This is used to change an entire certain group of color.
Learn what the patch tool is and how to use it in Photoshop. This tutorial is geared towards beginners.
This video tutorial shows you how to use the Clone Stamp tool in Photoshop. It is a beginner level tutorial.
Check out this SEO video tutorial on how to create and submit an XML sitemap with some free tools from the Internet. You'll find out about using an XML sitemap as a substitution for a robot.txt file, whether submitting an XML sitemap will increase your page rank, and more. You can't get a better search engine optimization tutorial than this.
Okay, make some bones with no orientation and watch this Autodesk Maya 8.5 video tutorial. This video will show you the industry standard IK Handle tool and how to use it with your character's animated bones. So, if you're a wannabe 3D modeler, then you should probably watch this Maya video.
Using Maya you'll learn to produce an alpha to use in Zbrush. Very easy method to make a controlled alpha without using Zdepth tools in Zbrush. In part two, Using Zbrush tools to make a tileable texture. Texture sculpting techniques and the 2.5d tools within Zbrush. Part three covers setting up the Maya render for the texture and attaching maps to the node.
Watch this video to learn how to whip finish a fly without a tool.
This one minute Photoshop tip covers using the Clone Tool - aligned and un-aligned.
This tutorial covers joining models together using topology tools. You'll join a head with good topology with the body from another model.
Jason Welsh shows you how to make a human face in Zbrush 3.1 and gives easy steps for roughing out form. This tutorial is more about process than specific tool movements so you should be familiar with sculpting tools already.
In this tutorial you will be learning the basics of the pen tool in Photoshop CS3.
My first tutorial on Valve's Map Editor: This is just a quick guide to get started creating maps for Counter-Strike:Source, Half-Life2, Garry's Mod, or any other game using the Source Engine. In this tutorial, you learn the basic tools of Valve's Map Editor: Hammer.
If you've ever written up a lab report or done a math project then you've probably either used the equation editor before or would like to learn how to use it, since writing the equation in yourself is a pain (and doesn't really look professional).
Watch to learn how to say the names of gardening tools, like a watering can and a spade, in French. For intermediate French speakers--no English translation.
Photoshop Mama continues editing an image to remove, replace, and blend different elements of the image using more super tools in Photoshop!
Hand soldering a QFN component is almost impossible unless you have the right tools. Among these tools is the SchmartBoard|ez prototyping board. Here we hand solder a .5mm QFN component.
There are many ways to add or subtract saturation from images using Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial takes a look at how the Sponge Tool works, and how to get the best results when using it.
Watch this video to learn how to use three different crimp tools and different crimp beads.
Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Berklee Professor Jeff Baust illustrates different ways for using the panning automation in Pro Tools software.
Learn some techniques using Photoshop CS3's Dodge and Burn tools for touching up photos.
You can learn how to change hair color with Photoshop. You can turn a brunette into a redhead. You use the brush tool over the area you want to colorize.
In this video tutorial you will learn to make smooth wires in Photoshop. The trick uses the pen tool and strokes. If you have always wondered how the pen tool works, then you have to watch this one!
Want to select an area of an image using a quick and easy way? In this video tutorial you will learn the basics of using the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop. Learn to use the Contiguous option to make the selection you want.
In this video tutorial you will learn to use Photoshop to create one of those popular forum signature images seen at many places. Learn to use tool such as Transform to resize images. You will also see how to use Polygonal selection tool to select image areas.
In this video, Dr. Brown, a senior art director at Adobe, shows you how to use the auto blend tool in Photoshop CS3. It's amazingly simple and yields great results.
InDesign's Eye Dropper Tool offers more than meets the eye. With InDesign CS2 you can sample just about anything thing and re-apply it over and over again. In this video we'll learn how to sample colors from images and apply those colors to text, and we'll also see a neat trick that allows you to sample frame attributes and apply them to other frames.
