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How To: Use type hinting in your PHP design patterns

Type hinting in PHP appears frequently in design patterns but can be distinctively confusing unless you are totally familiar with it. This walkthrough from JREAMdesign raises your exposure levels to using type hinting in your parameter functions with objects and arrays.

How To: Style a colorful cheetah print on your hair

You've probably heard of cheetah print nails and even cheetah print eyeshadow (think the eyeshadow "rub-ons" at Sephora), but we can bet you've never heard of cheetah print hair. Your first question is probably whether or not this is even possible, but trust us, with a compressor doing cheetah prints on your hair is as easy as pie.

How To: Color manage & proof prints in Adobe Photoshop

Learn best practices for color management in proofing your prints! 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 proofing prints in Photoshop yourself, watch this guide!

How To: Print from your Android phone

Want to print from your Android smartphone? One of the salient advantages of a Google Android smartphone over, say, an Apple iPhone, is the inherent extendibility of the open-source Android mobile OS. There are a seemingly infinite number of settings to tweak and advanced features to discover and use. This free video tutorial will show you how to print from an Android device.

How To: Screen print your own t-shirt

This great tutorial by BubzBeauty takes us through the step by step process of screen printing your own t-shirts. Materials you will need include Mod Podge glue to make a stencil of your tee design, fabric paint, thin permeable fabric (preferably Organza), a 12 inch embroidery hoop, and a sponge.

How To: Print from Photoshop to the Epson Stylus Pro 3800

Learn the important steps necessary for the best printing experience when printing to the Epson 3800. This tutorial is specifically designed to address some of the issues with the Epson 3800 and the MAC OS X Leopard operating system. Here is a detailed explanation of the changes that were made to the 10.0.1 update to Adobe Photoshop CS3. Remember, having all the current versions of Adobe Photoshop, and the Epson drivers is critical to success when printing.

How To: Use your inkjet to print on a shrinkle

IN this video, we learn how to use your inkjet to print on a shrinkle. To start, you will grab the paper for the shrinkle. Then, you will print the outline out on a normal piece of paper. From here, stick the shrinkle over, frosted side up, on the paper. Then, feel the piece of paper back through the printer and print exactly the same image over again. Don't print anything too dark, or it will bleed out on the back. From here, you can peel off the shrinkle and then cut it out. This will finis...

How To: Make linocut and rubbercut block prints

In this episode of Threadbanger, we learn from Dailey Crafton how to make linocut and rubbercut block prints. They're pretty easy to make, and you can create some pretty outstanding pieces of artwork with just a few simple steps. Just follow along in this video, and you'll be carving out linocut and rubbercut block prints in no time at all!

How To: Silk screen print t-shirts in four minutes

This video, which was made at Peopleprint Community Media in Rochdale, teaches how to easily silk screen print a t-shirt in only four minutes! First, design the artwork to be used for the print, then print it on acetate. Next find a clean screen. Put some emulsion in a coating trough and slowly and steadily coat the screen in emulsion. Then dry the emulsion in a dark room and expose the screen to light. Next wash the screen with water and the artwork should become visible. Mask the exposed ar...

How To: Align the printhead on your Epson printer

Not aligning your printer before you print is like going to a job interview without brushing your hair: Everything else looks right, but you somehow still look unprepared and messy. Aligning the printhead on your printer will help ensure all text prints out where it's supposed to print out and there's no awkward color blurring with pictures.

How To: Set-up an Excel page for print

In this Excel basic video the instructor show how to setup a page in Microsoft Excel. Now you before go to a page setup, first you have to make sure that all the cells are visible in a spreadsheet by extending or contracting the size of different columns. You can also select all columns and make their column width a constant. Now go to the orb and select a print preview to get a preview of how the print out is going to be. Now after checking it out you can make necessary changes in the origin...

How To: Paint cheetah print nails

For a unique style on your nails, consider these cheetah print nails. After applying a base coat, you should simply apply a gold-yellow nail polish as a background for your cheetah prints. With little artistic skill required, you should be able to make a perfect cheetah print using a thin brush with black nail polish. Simply make small C's on your nails that join to make a small oval. Repeat as necessary until you have the desired number of cheetah spots on each of your nails. With this simpl...

How To: Resample an image to print size in Photoshop CS3

This image editing software tutorial covers resampling an image down to an optimal print size in Photoshop CS3 so you can bring it to a lab for printing. It's nice to take pictures as large as possible, but it's not always so easy to get that data out of your computer and into print. If you don't have a nice photo printer at home and need to transfer your images, you may want to watch this video and learn how to resample them down to a good print size in Photoshop CS3.

How To: Use the Print Screen button in Windows

When you press the Print Screen button on your keyboard in any version of Windows, be it 95, 2000, ME, XP or Vista, Windows will take a picture of your display output and put it into your clipboard. Once in your clipboard, it can be pasted into most any image editing program (e.g., Paint). For more information on taking screenshots with Print Screen, watch this helpful Windows tutorial!

How To: Prepare a screen print

Check out this instructional printmaking video that demonstrates how to prepare a screen print. Even though they're brand new, they're contaminated by fingerprints, oil and greases that penetrate as mesh. So follow the simple step by step instructions in this printmaking tutorial to prepare your screen prints.

How To: Convert images to spot colors using Photoshop

In screen printing, Photoshop can be a powerful tool. If you have a jpg, tif, eps, or other type of file in which you can't alter, printing from Photoshop will give you too many separations. Here is a way to take a simple design in Photoshop and convert it to spot colors in order to print solid colors instead of mixing inks.