Tag: How To
Want to Generate Color Schemes from Your Photos?
Here is a cool application that can extract color schemes from an existing photo. Color Suckr. is a good tool for web designers and for those who want an easy way to get the colors from a favorite photograph or website. FireFox add on is already available. Check it out. Real helpful and really h ...
How to Make a Baby!
Here is an interesting way to make a baby! Found this interesting video of a couple and how they made a baby. The video was made using a technique called "pixilation", which is a fancy term for stop-motion animation done with real people instead of puppets.
Here are notes from Cassidy Curtis a ...
How To | Make your WordPress Hack Proof
Today there is more and more security breaches than ever before. Web browsers seems to fall behind faster than they can spell to themselves and this really makes an online business or venture quite hard work. Always staying up to date with all new updates, security issues and fixes is somewhat of a ...
HOW TO:Create Luscious Lips in Photoshop
We once again hit the self refining tutorials with this "Luscious Lips" tutorial. This one is a technique used by retouchers to enhance the models lips so they look more "sexy" if they don't have those luscious lips that the contractor of the model is looking for. Just like with the "Virtual Weight ...
How to Create A Profile Page on FaceBook
Created a profile page for Mistygirlph on FaceBook so that I could interact and share what i learn and what others have shared with me on a more extensive basis. People create their profile page for a lot of other reasons, it can be to promote their site, their business, their band, their products ...
How To: Create a Fire Effect | Photoshop
Fire is one of the hardest elements to create in Photoshop and several designers and artists have tried to experiment with different tools and plug-ins in order to create the very best and believable effect yet portrayed. There are some really expensive plug-ins that you can use to create realistic ...
How to Design/Print your own T-Shirts
This has become a huge topic nowadays. What could be cooler than having your own printed t-shirt with your own graphic on it. I thought I'd check up on this topic to stay updated with it and I actually found 2 different ways of doing it. While some really want that rough, grungy, home made kind of r ...
How To: Eat Rice with Chopsticks
I’ve been eating with chopsticks my entire life and it has always been second nature to me, except when it comes to eating rice. I usually try to pick up a few grains, unsuccessfully, then put my tail between my legs and reach for a spoon. I finally decided it was time to learn how to eat rice wit ...
How To: Tie a Cherry Stem With Your Tongue
It was a holiday weekend in the States, and I decided to try some new things. I’ve always wanted to get a tattoo, taste tequila and learn how to tie a cherry stem with my tongue. I chickened out and didn’t get a tattoo or try the tequila (they are still on my list), but after several hours and a lot ...
How to Remove Red Eye using GIMP
Don't you just hate it when you take pictures and then when you upload them you see that the photo you took has the red eye problem? Don't fret there is a solution to that and here is a video tutorial on how one can correct the image via Gimp.
What is Gimp? GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipul ...
How to Create Tileable Textures | Photoshop
I use a ton of textures when I design a website or a more elaborate design. Even when I am working in 3D (Lightwave) I am of course using a boatload of textures to wrap my models in. Creating the right kind of texture usually takes a lot of time if you don't know the trade or the secrets behind some ...
HOW TO: Develop into a Leader on Twitter
A tweet from @GuyKawasaki last week included a link to a Forbes magazine article with this quote: "Leaders are increasingly thinking of how they can build the strengths of their teams." Real Twitter leaders are also constantly thinking of how they can build the strengths of their team (also called f ...
How to Create a Flash Cartoon Animation
Working in Flash can be a real joy sometimes but also very time consuming if you don't know the basic tools well enough to make the work flow progress smoothly. There are lots of benefits in working with Flash and one of them is the simplicity of creating complex animations, There are a ton of Carto ...
How to Calibrate Your Monitors
Calibrating your monitors is quite necessary when working with graphics. As a designer you can't leave this one to chance. Nor do you have to as there are several ways to achieve a great calibration. Some like to download or even buy some fancy software to help them do it. However, calibrating your ...
How to Professionally Retouch a Photo
As a designer we often get the question if we can enhance the photo's that we sometimes have to add to the "About" section on a new website. The process sometimes seems tedious and unnecessary for us but make all the difference to the client that of course wants to look her/his best on a photo that ...