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HowTo : DIY Home Photo Booth

We love the photo booth. Inevitably the best pictures from any wedding come from, not the professional photographer, but the photo booth stationed in the far corner where tipsy guests act very very silly. Brett Ratner, director of Rush Hour and X-men, has a photo booth install ...more

News : Fingerpainting for Baby Cyborgs

Did you ever, as a know-nothing kid, push against your closed eyelids for the pleasure of the resultant light show? LCD bending takes the low-tech fun of physical retinal stimulation and updates it for the 21st century. And, as the title suggests, the end result looks very muc ...more

How To : Develop black and white 120 roll film

This four-part video describes, in great detail, how to develop black-and-white 120 film. With photo labs becoming rarer by the day, knowing how to do this yourself will become increasing important if you want to continue to take and develop pictures with film. Developing 120 ...more

How To : Create a vector RSS icon in Illustrator

In this Software video tutorial you will learn how to create a vector RSS icon in Illustrator. Open illustrator and open a new document. Select the ‘rounded rectangle tool’ from the rectangle menu. Click and drag to draw a rounded square. Select the gradient fill on the le ...more

News : Ca-Ching. LEGO Brick Bank Dispenses Real Cash

100% functional LEGO ATM by Ronald McCrae. This bonafide brick bank performs the following functions: Bill scanner can be calibrated to accept any type of banknote Machine accepts only the type of bill for which it is calibrated Tolerances for bill acceptability are adjustabl ...more

How To : Add glints to your images in Photoshop CS4

In this tutorial video, YouTube user "inteltuts" discusses ways to use Photoshop CS4 to help make better looking product pictures, as a way to attract costumers to your online products. Using a black telephone as an example, he first shows how the opacity, linear dodge, and br ...more

How To : Set up a 4x6 Profoto softbox

Mike Wallace is going to show you how to set up a softbox in order for a photo shoot. First, you are going to need an 1200 watt generation and with the Profoto one it comes with a pocket wizard built into it so it allows the photographer to meter and trigger with a pocket wiza ...more

How To : Make a claymation video

In this Film and Theater video tutorial you will learn how to make a claymation animation video. This is a Zappos how to video. The equipments that you will need for this are a camera on a tripod, a trigger so that your camera stays steady, constant source of light and clay. M ...more

How To : Make an LCD viewing hood from a slide viewer

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make an LCD viewing hood from a slide viewer. This hood will prevent any shining or glaring of light when looking at the LCD screen. Most LCD covers are expensive or just get in the way. This viewing hood is inexpensive and only cos ...more

How To : Give yourself that flawless skin look

Do you want to achieve a nice, clean look? Flawless skin is the first step in achieve just that. This video will show you exactly how to achieve that flawless look you've always wanted. hahah im sure you will love my picture examples with pink doodles! so this is just some st ...more

How To : Change text alignment & formatting in MS Word 2007

In this video tutorial, viewers will learn how to change text alignment and formatting in Microsoft Word 2007. To format or align the text, you must high light it first. Once highlighted, users are able format the text in many ways. The formatting options are: font type, font ...more

How To : Draw Spongebob Squarepants on your computer

1985rey teaches you how to draw SpongeBob Squarepants on your computer, using Paint. To start with an existing picture of the character to get the look and feel, use the brush tool, using black and make a large spongy head. Add circles on the side to make it look like 3D. Draw ...more

How To : Draw daffodils

The first step is to draw the daffodil's outer parts carefully. The second step is to draw the circle shape for inner surface of flower. The third step is to draw the cubical surface for the flower outside. The fourth step is to draw the cylindrical and rectangular parts of fl ...more

How To : Use the Droid Multimedia Station

WirelessZone shows you how to use the Droid multimedia station. The dock station comes with the cord and the plug. When you load your phone into the dock it goes into multimedia mode. On the multimedia home screen you have the time, the date, the temp, and the ability to play ...more

How To : Draw manga/anime girls

In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a manga girl. He uses a Photoshop-like program on the computer to generate this character. He starts off the picture by starting off with a basic shape for the body and face. He uses light sketching, before using more thick lines to creat ...more

HowTo : Write in Midair with LEDs

Hacked Gadgets recently featured Csaba Bleuer's LED wave display, a device that projects LED messages midair. Bleuer had also previously created a similar device that spins on a fan motor. "Csaba Bleuer sent in some pictures and a video of his new creation. It is a LED Wave D ...more

How To : Use green screen software PhotoKey

This video is about the use of PhotoKey. It is surely an excellent sales pitch. The video clearly depicts the benefits and advantages of PhotoKey. The easy and short ways to edit background, delete objects and also adjust light to make the photo look more real. PhotoKey is ver ...more

How To : Hang things on hollow walls

This video demonstrates how to hang things on hollow walls. From the people who brought you the Dummies instructional book series, brings you the same non-intimidating guides in video form. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to hang things on hollow walls, For Dummies. Th ...more

How To : Record good audio with your video camera

Are you an aspiring filmmaker? If so, you might not have made it to Steven Spielberg status just yet, which means you could learn a thing or two. Eos Lighting has made this video to help teach you a little bit about sound on a video camera. Watch this video tutorial to see ho ...more

How To : Make your own scratch holograms

Holography is the scattering of light from an object, which is recorded and reconstructed to create the hologram. As the viewer or viewing mechanism moves, the image appears three dimensional. This instructional video shows how to craft 3 dimensional holograms using scratched ...more

How To : Make a Mini Accordion Fold Scrapbook

An accordian fold scrapbook is a great way to make use of minimal space. If you've got a bunch of pictures you'd like to organize all in one album, expand your spatial possibilities by creating accordian fold pages rather than regular turnable pages. This accordion fold style ...more

How To : Paint a rose in watercolor

In this 'How to Paint a Rose' tutorial video you'll learn one of the most popular subjects for painting in watercolor. You'll see how to get the delicate transitions from light to dark in the petals and the deeper colors of the leaves and stem. Two round brushes were used - a ...more

How To : Retouch portraits using Photoshop

This is one of the longer Photoshop tutorials but it goes over a lot of good tricks to enhance portraits. Some tools included are Liquify, adding catch lights, and skin tone adjustments by the numbers. See how to make every school photo or family portrait picture perfect! You ...more

News : Technology of 3D

Technology RealD 3D cinema technology uses circularly polarized light to produce stereoscopic image projection. Circular polarization technology has the advantage overlinear polarization methods in that viewers are able to tilt their head and look about the theater naturally ...more

News : Magical Orbs of Graffiti Light

We've seen several examples of light graffiti on WonderHowTo (1, 2, 3), but this one is truly eerily beautiful. Australian photographer Denis Smith pushes the envelope with his project Ball of Light. "The Ball of Light is a mysterious portal into my world. It, and its friends ...more

How To : Make wood out of polymer clay

This tutorial shows the viewer how to make polymer clay look like wood. Begin by using a pasta machine and roll out ecru on a number four and rolling out brown on a number six. Stack the brown on top of the ecru and cut the stack in half. Then sandwich the two stacks so it goe ...more

How To : Enhance sunshine in a landscape in Photoshop

1)Open image, go to channel. Look for the channel that gives the most contrast by going through them one by one. 2) Right hand click and duplicate channel. Select the duplicate. 3) Go to Image - adjustments - levels, Change left box to 176. 4) Click command on the channel. 5) ...more

How To : Simply use a flash on a Nikon DSLR

There are a lot of things that a flash can do for you when you are taking pictures. It can be used to fill shadows, light up subjects, and much more. The video demonstrates the various tilt and pan settings that the flash can be used in for bouncing light in various circumstan ...more

How To : Make a dramatic film

This tutorial covers some of the basics of dramatic filmmaking. A drama is a film that is character-driven, using the characters' emotional responses to situations to move the story along. Epic and historical dramas put their characters in historical events. Crime dramas are s ...more

How To : Darken an over exposed image in Photoshop

This how-to video is about how to darken an over exposed image in Photoshop. Sometimes the pictures gets washed out because they get over exposed and we are really confused over this problem, here is solution for this overexposed photographs, by using the "blending mode" opti ...more

How To : Take a family portrait

Looking to get your family together somehow? Why not a family portrait? It's both a great keepsake and as an excuse to get everyone together. In this video, learn how to snap a great family portrait. You Will Need: • A large group of family members • A camera • A tripod • ...more

How To : Feng Shui your workspace

Lure luck your way at your workplace by arranging things according to the ancient Chinese design philosophy known as feng shui. De-clutter your desk and workspace, which is the most important thing you can do to balance the _chi_—or energy—in your office. Repair or get rid of ...more

How To : Carve Polyhedral Pumpkins

Halloween is coming up, so many of you may have a need or desire to carve a pumpkin and turn it into a Jack O' Lantern. This week we are going to explore carving our pumpkins into interesting geometric shapes. In this post, we will carve the pumpkins into spherical versions of ...more

News : Marouch

Looking for frog legs or authentic Armenian and Middle Eastern cuisines? Then Marouch is the ideal place for you to go. Marouch is in the center of a strip mall next to a 7/11 and a fast food Philippine restaurant. Marouch is a restaurant, which one might not consider fancy, b ...more

News : Tactics for Using Stairs in Minecraft

The stair is considered by many people to be one of the, if not the most, versatile blocks in Minecraft. They can completely change the look and feel of a build and increase its quality. In this post, I will highlight just a few of the options you have for using them. The fir ...more

News : DIY Origami Christmas Tree

This is how my version of an origami Christmas tree turned out based on the instructions I posted awhile back. Cory also made a version from white glossy paper, which looks great. I opted for the green and brown look, but it wasn't easy. I tried making a really small version ...more

News : Google+ Venice Skate Park Photo Walk

The Google+ Venice Skate Park photo walk was a lot of fun. We got to hang out with +Brian Rose, +Dave Cohen, +Vincent Mo, and many other Googlers and photographers, taking pictures, learning all about Venice and its colorful history. I admit to feeling a little bit intimidate ...more

News : X-Men - Shot with Technicolor Cinestyle

I shot this X-Men: First Class Spoof with the new Technicolor CineStyle picture profile (it was a 5d, as well). I had done some initial testing, when the profile first came out, but never shot a real project on it. This X-Men short is my first real world experience with the pr ...more

How To : Download and Play Flash Games

This has been something a few people have been messaging me about on my Youtube account so this tutorial shows you how to download Flash games. It is really easy and requires no coding. Just follow the steps and you will be on your way. Warnings This tutorial uses the Firefo ...more

News : 2011 Oscar Nominations - Complete List

We Care About This: Oscar Noms Are Out!! Best picture: Black Swan The Fighter Inception The Kids Are All Right The King’s Speech 127 Hours The Social Network Toy Story 3 True Grit Winter’s Bone Actress Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole Jennife ...more

News : Color Your Life

Want to be happy every day? here is some tips and techniques to help you keep the good mood using some Colors =). Step 1 The Green House Have you ever felt happy when you go out to nature, watching trees and flowers, smelling good , adding to that the fresh air. Im not going ...more

News : Everything Is Beautiful Under the Microscope

Below, a selection of images from the Nikon International Small World Photomicrography Competition. The Big Picture reports: "The competition began in 1974 as a means to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope. Peerin ...more

News : What we see is Natural ... But also Fake

It is amazing that when you go out at night, the world is so full of colors and lights and everybody is dressed in certain way, also you can watch every big commercial image for 5 seconds, but in the end, you realize that your eyes can understand the fake and also the natural ...more

ultimate : prank all audiences and theater employees

the ultimate: prank all audiences and theater employees: the lights dim, "please put on your 3d glasses now" flashes across the screen. jackass 3d begins with a ridiculously expensive and inspired opening setpiece. the audience is immediately confused, because despite wearing ...more

News : What if Your Face Was Covered in 50,000 Bees?

Every year in Ontario, Canada, the Clovermead Bees & Honey, Bee Beard Competition is held. Categories include squeezing honeycomb, lighting smokers, suiting up quick, and building bee boxes, and catching bees. The category highlighted in the name of the competition, Beebeardi ...more

How To : Cast magic spells

Magic. Does it really exist? Can you really put a hex on somebody… or a love spell? Can you really cast supernatural spells? Believing is up to you, but anyone can be bewitching with the help of a little black — and white — magic. Step 1: Burn a candle Get a candle whose colo ...more

E3 2010 : Kinect Workout Game

A demonstration of Ubisoft's Your Shape: Fitness Evolved for the Xbox 360's Kinect. This was probably the best demonstration for Kinect out of the whole conference. The game will come out around the same time of the launch of Kinect in November. Here is a blurb from Everybody ...more

How To : Perform a simple levitation trick using Photoshop

This video tells us the method to perform a simple levitation trick using Photoshop. Take the photo of the background and the person sitting on some object posing as if he or she is levitating. Select the 'Move Tool' and hold the 'Shift' key down. Drag the picture on to the ba ...more

How To : Make a reflection in water using Photoshop

In this how to video, you will learn how to make a reflection in water using Photoshop. First, open the image in Photoshop. Select the crop tool and select the whole photo. Click and drag the lower part down. Select the rectangular marquee tool and select the picture. Click on ...more

How To : Crop, brighten and align photos in Google Picasa

Begin with starting the program Picasa. If the program has been opened, choose an image for editing. Double click on one of the images and it will open. On the left of the screen there is an editing toolbar. The next option after this is to Crop the picture. Click "Crop Pictur ...more

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