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How To: Arrange around a circular grid when designing CD art in Photoshop CS5

In this video tutorial, we learn how to arrange art around a circular grid when designing a CD cover in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editor or a seasoned designer looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of the latest iteration of the application, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, watch this video guide.

How To: Design a candle centerpiece for your table at home

In this video, The Flowergod demonstrates designing a candle centerpiece for a table at home. The video includes a time-lapse (6 times speed) demonstration of Flowergod actually creating a centerpiece, and lighting the candle afterwards. In this way, you can see how quickly (The video is less than a minute long at 6x speed, so just over 5 minutes) he arranges this centerpiece, as well as how it looks when it is finished. At the end of a video, a website is displayed where you can go to see fu...

How To: Design a home office

In this video series, our expert will show you how to organize and decorate the home office of your dreams. Get expert tips for picking a home office wall color, lighting a home office and considering space when designing a home office.

How To: Work inside Adobe InDesign CS5

Whether you're new to Adobe InDesign or a seasoned graphic arts professional after a general overview of CS5's most vital new features, you're sure to be well served by this official video tutorial from the folks at Adobe TV. In it, you'll learn how to work with documents when designing in Adobe Indesign CS5.

How To: Use Photoshop smart objects to design albums

This Photoshop CS3 tutorial covers the benefits of designing your albums with smart objects. Learn how to use Photoshop smart objects in a flush mount album design scenario. Using smart objects makes it easy to replace images with other images without ruining the layers and layout of the album itself. Perfect for picky clients!

How To: Design for the WordPress blogging CMS

WordPress is a hugely popular blogging content management system, or CMS. This video offers a walkthrough of designing for WordPress. In part one, you will be downloading and installing WordPress. Then you will install the "Starkers" theme by Elliot Jay Stocks to start with a completely fresh slate for our new design. No sense starting with the default theme; it's more trouble than it's worth! In part two, you will go over the theory behind designing for WordPress and how it's much like "work...

How To: Design your own clothes & mix dye your clothes

Eddie teaches the secrets of designing your own clothes & mix dying your clothes. First mix together 1 tablespoon golden yellow, 1/2 teaspoon sunshine orange, 1/2 cup salt and 4 cups of hot water. Dip a piece of cloth to check the color, add more dye to make it darker or some water to make it lighter. Pour the dye solution in a big container with water, add some detergent and batter to mix the dye well. Put you plain shirt in hot water for sometime, squeeze it out and put it in the container ...

How To: Design a vector logo in Illustrator

This software tutorial shows you just how easy it is to design a great looking logo in Adobe Illustrator. As with any other software package, it's all about getting to know the interface; and then from there it's all about developing your design skills. As with most others, I started out designing logos in Photoshop because that's the only program that was available to me. But Illustrator offers one advantage when it comes to designing logos, and that's one of being 100% vector. You want a lo...

How To: Design a flower garden

Get your garden started by brainstorming and plannng out the lay-out. The trick to designing a great flower garden that will bloom all season is matching the plant to its preferred growing condition. Learn how to do this with help from expert, Melinda Myers, a world-renowned expert gardener with a critically acclaimed TV show, Melinda's Garden Moment, and a popular radio program, "The Plant Doctor".

How To: Design an African spur-thighed tortoise habitat

Join Host Israel Dupont with herpetologist Hillary Dupont as they discuss creating a habitat for your African spur-thighed/G. Sulcata tortoise. Hillary explains the tortoise's natural geographic location, its environmental requirements. And she and Israel begin designing the habitat with the substrate (bedding) and décor/enrichment elements.

How To: Draw a biomechanical-themed tattoo sleeve design

Designing a tattoo sleeve is a challenging and important task for any tattoo artist or recipient, as they are huge, expensive, nearly impossible to hide and, like all tattoos, with you forever. This four-part video demonstrates the sketching and inking of a sleeve design with a a biomechanical theme. It is unmeasured and would need to be refined and drawn again before it could go on a body, but is a good place to start.

How To: Draw a surfboard with cool designs

Michael Weisner, professional illustrator and animator, guides you step by step through designing a surfboard. Michael shows us in just a few steps how to draw the basic shape of a surfboard, and then how to add a radical surf-themed design to our creation. Using his example in this video, even the least artistic of us can get a feel for how to design the art for a surfboard. His example includes a moon, a Tiki man and flames. Gnarly!

How To: Design for multiple browsers

James Williamson for Lynda demonstrates designing for multiple browsers. The most frustrating aspects of web design is constantly dealing with the settle and some times not so settle differences in browser rendering. While they moved to a standard spaced, CSS control presentations has made life infinitely easier for web designs. Dealing with bad browser behavior is one of most unfortunate side effects. All browsers render our pages same because each browser reads and renders the HTML and CSS ...

How To: Design an exotic bride's bouquet for a wedding

TheFlowergod teaches you how to design an exotic bride's bouquet for a wedding. You will first need a stand for the flower bouquet, which you can make out of plastic or wood. Place the longer stem flowers inside so you have a working station. For this bouquet you will be working with a few ferns as the base and then flowers with similar colors, like red, yellow, purple. The whole bouquet should say warmth and pleasant weather. Once you are done with the designing, you simply extract the bouqu...

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