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How To: Make Youtube channel backgrounds using Photoshop

People are really into customizing their Youtube channel pages these days. Despite this, most people's Youtube channel backgrounds are poor-quality images, poorly sized, and don't look very appealing. This video will show you how to make cool Youtube background for Youtube channels using Photoshop, creating something visually appealing that won't send viewers running and screaming from you channel page clawing at their bleeding eyes.

How To: Record and use macros in Microsoft Excel 2007

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 52nd installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to record and use macros in Microsoft Excel 2007.

How To: Make a mini milk carton birdhouse

In this how to video, you will learn how to make a mini milk carton bird house. You will need a mini milk carton dye for this. Use the template to fold the paper. There will be score lines to help you with the folding. Once this is done, fold in the paper and take a punch to create a hole in the paper. Punch another hole in the paper. Next, apply adhesive to the two sides. Once this is done, fold the paper up along the lines to create the basic shape of the bird house. Next, take the green pa...

How To: Paint tears on a model car

Brian from thetoyz.com and ProLineRacing.com will show you some painting techniques in this video. He is decorating his Revo truck with a special paint design. Brian is painting tears on various shells of vehicles and he got his design idea from the label of a drink can of Monster beverage. Brian suggests using "liquid" masking to mask the base vehicle and then it will be this "shell" that you draw on, which in this case is a design of tears, tear like in air. Draw some tears on the body's sh...

How To: Customize the checkmark in a Silverlight checkbox

Steve White demonstrates how to edit the default template of a CheckBox control and use text instead of graphics to represent the Unchecked/Checked/Indeterminate states. This demonstration uses the Expression Blend 2.5 Preview. This is a step by step, extensive tutorial on exactly what you'll need to know when using Microsoft's Silverlight. This is a detailed, easy to follow video, to help you use the program, and all it entails.

How To: Create a full width header and footer in XSitePro Ver2

In this web development software tutorial you will learn how to create a full width header and footer for a website using XSitePro 2. Starting with a blank template that's 800 pixels wide, you'll learn how to add a black stripe running along the top and bottom of the website page. If you are building websites in XSitePro 2, this tutorial will show you how to create 100% wide headers and/or footers.

How To: Get up to speed in Microsoft Access 2007

Check out this tutorial and learn how to get up to speed with the latest installment of Mircosoft Access 2007. Microsoft Office Access 2007 brings you a new look and new features designed to help you get your work done more easily than ever. You'll see differences right away, starting with the Getting Started with Microsoft Office Access page where you can open a blank or existing database, download a pre-built database template, and check out the offerings on Microsoft Office Online.

How To: Make your own paper envelopes

If you enjoy scrapbooking, card making, and making personalizes stationary, you'll love this new paper design idea: do it yourself envelopes! Give you envelopes as much style and originality as the card inside with these tips and techniques! These are made with a template, but they can easily be made free-hand.

How To: Make a Super Cheap Pinhole Lens Filter for Your DSLR Camera

There are tons of ways to make your own pinhole camera out of everything from a juice box to a pine nut. If you have a DSLR, you can make a DIY pinhole lens for it for just a few bucks. David O'Sullivan over on DIY Photography made this one using a cheap body cap and an aluminum can. Here's how to make your own. David put up a template you can follow to make things easier, so start off by downloading it, then use a ruler to draw a line directly through the center of the body cap. Cut out the ...

How To: Replace and install an exterior door with Lowe's

To replace a door, refer to Lowe's do-it-yourself for a step by step guide. Replacement is not very difficult. To replace just the door, tools and material required are: a new door, hammer, screw driver, tape measure, pencil, combination square, saw horses, clamps, chisel, a door lock installation kit, a drill with bits, circular saw, level, work gloves, dust mask, safety glasses, plane, shims, cardboard, and a utility knife. Before removing the old door, take a few measurements like the widt...

How To: Make a 3D Baby Duck Cake with Fondant

This adorable 3D duck cake cake is a great way to celebrate your baby's birthday, while amazing the whole family! In this video, you'll learn about carving a cake, covering it with rolled fondant, and decorating with polka dots. You'll also learn about modeling a 3D duck with fondant and gum paste. All the details are included—head, eyes, and beak. Download the wings template here.

How To: Make 300 Spartan greaves or leg guards

The first part of the video shows examples of completed Spartan leg guards. The materials needed for this project include boxes of cardboard, two liters of soda pop, gold paint, masking tape, scissors and wire. you must first print out the template shown by the narrator and use it to cut out the leggings to the appropriate size. Now use the two liters to fold the cardboard around the two liters to give the legs their shape. Once the cardboard has shape use the wire to hold to the paper in it'...

How To: Create custom Yoshi loot bags

In this video, we learn how to create custom Yoshi loot bags. First, take some lime green paper bags and cut the top of them so they resemble the shape of Yoshi's eyes. After this, print out lots of Yoshi's eyes on a white piece of paper. Cut out the eyes from the paper and then put glue on the back of them. After this, glue the eyes onto the paper where they belong. When finished, let this dry and you will have a cute Yoshi bag to put little treats in! You can follow the template as well if ...

How To: Make a slit flower frame card

In this tutorial, we learn how to make a slit flower frame card. First, gather all your cardstock together in the colors that you would like. Then, take the first one and cut a circle window in it using a blade and a template. Then, punch slits on the outer frame of the window. From here, shade the petals and pull them out from the card to stick out. Then, place a rubber stamp with hearts on the other place of card stock. Then, turn the flower frame over and apply foam tape to the back. From ...

How To: Create a Photoshop layout in GIMP

In this video we learn how to create a Photoshop layout in GIMP. First, open up GIMP and then add a new tab. From here, you will open up the brushes tab and choose the brush that you want. After this, create the template size that you want for your page. Then, open up the preferences section and choose what you would like. Then, show the layer boundary on the page and fill it in with the color of your choice. Create toolboxes and add in the text that you would like. Use preferences whenever y...

How To: Make an emotional anime beat in Fruity Loops

In this tutorial, we learn how to make an emotional anime beat in Fruity Loops. Start out by playing the different keys on the side of the screen where the keyboard is. After you have found a combination of keys that you like, start to add in different effects to this. You can also use a template that has an emotional beat already created on it. Use piano, drum, tempo, and anything else to change the sound of the beat as you would like it. Edit small parts of the beat as you continue through ...

How To: Create a brochure with Microsoft Publisher 2007

In this video, we learn how to create a brochure with Microsoft Publisher 2007. A brochure says a lot about your business, and you can make them yourself easily! Find the brochure templates first in the program. Choose a design and a color scheme along with the page size, font, and information you want to include. Once you do this, add in pictures and images to your template after clicking "create". Then, you can create a range of publications that adapt to different form functions. Click the...

How To: Render HD widescreen in Sony Vegas and Movie Studio

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to render high definition videos in Sony Vegas Movie Studio. Begin by clicking on File and select Render As. Then select the file type. Now click on Custom. In the Audio tab, set the mode as CBR, format as Windows Media Audio 9.2 and attributed to 128 k-bps. In the Video tab, set the mode as Bit Rate (Peak), format as Windows Media Video 9 and image size as High Definition (1280x720). Now save the template. This video will benefit those viewers who en...

How To: Make Mario Party star coin decorations

In this video, we learn how to make Mario Party star coin decorations. First, trace templates for the star coin onto a large piece of gold paper. You can get these templates from CoolPartyBlog. After you have traced the entire outline, retrace using a permanent marker, you want your lines dark and full. Continue doing this for all of the coin stars. Now, take the star template and trace it into the inside of the circles with the permanent marker. When finished, add glitter paint or loose glit...

How To: Make window cards

In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to make window cards. Supplies needed are trimmer with scoring blade, Fiskars templates, Fiskars ultra shape xpress, glitter, cardstock and embellishments. Take a 81/2 x 6 inch cardstock , score the center at 3‚Äù mark and fold it. Take a colored paper about ¬O‚Äù smaller than the card, cut out a 2.5 heart with the help of the template and glue it on the card. Then open the card and cut out a 1.5 heart from the center of the 2.5 heart. N...

How To: Make a clay Christmas stocking for the holidays

To make a Clay Christmas stocking you need to slice a slab from a block of wedged clay using a wire and two rulers. After you slice the slab trace the shape using a needle and a template. If you want you can add the child's name using stamps. Add decorative stamping. Using a clay extruder, squirt out a clay rope to accent the opening of the stocking. Glue down with slip. Punch out two holes with a straw for hanging. Now you are almost done with your Clay Christmas stocking. You can vary the p...

How To: Paint a guitar body using spray paint

In this video Teddy Zane shows you how to paint a guitar with spray paint. It begins by painting the whole guitar with one color of flat paint, and then creating a panel where you want the picture, out of tape. Next lay your picture on top of the tape and use a scalpel or razor to cut out the design as a template carefully ensuring you do not cut the guitar, only the image and the tape. Once the entire image is cut, pull off the tape to expose the guitar beneath. Cover the rest of the guitar ...

How To: Make custom Christmas reindeer decorations

This video shows you how to make your own home made Christmas reindeer decorations. You need some floral fabric, scissors, a few feathers, and some artificial eyes. Draw a reindeer template on some cardboard, using a cookie cutter if you wish, and cut it out. Paint some glue thinly on the reindeer shape. Lay the fabric on the glue and spread it out with your hands. You can use anything for this, even wrapping paper. This crafty look is very fashionable at the moment. Attach the plastic eyes a...

How To: Make a Yoshimoto cube

FK describes how to make a Yoshimoto cube. First, print out the template. Then, trim the paper with scissors along the perimeter and glue the edges into a 3D pyramid. Repeat these steps until you have 48 cubes. Fix 3 pyramids together 16 times. Arrange pyramids in groups. Repeat 2 times and color 8 of the pyramids. Place adhesive on the joints of the cubes. Arrange the pyramid groups into a cube. Now, you can perform neat tricks with the cube, like changing the cube from white to colored with...

How To: Create a search bar in Photoshop

This video shows how to create a search bar in Photoshop. To begin creating a search bar you must select the template and start with a black page. The following step include choosing the color you wish to apply. The instructor explains that you must manually make your tool bar by hand and the pixels set to option five. The final step includes turning on grade in to show the program that what you are creating is an actual tool bar.

How To: Drywall an archway

Watch this video learn how to drywall an archway in five quick and easy steps. Measure and cut drywall to fit your arched opening. Score the back of your drywall to help it bend to your archway. Place drywall into opening. Tack or nail to hold the drywall in place. Screw drywall into arch. Mark and cut the drywall for the face of the archway. Place drywall over archway and use as a template to cut the drywall. Nail/Screw drywall to the face of the archway. It is now ready for corner bead, tap...

How To: Make a brochure in Microsoft Word

Have you ever wondered how to make a brochure in Microsoft Word? Is your job requiring you to learn how to create a brochure in Microsoft Word? This tutorial will teach you step by step how to find templates online, transfer them into Word, and how to open the blank template in Word. This will enable you to create a successful brochure with a highly professional look to give to your clients. This step-by-step tutorial is guaranteed to tell you everything you need to know about creating brochu...

How To: Airbrush your eyebrows

Looking to use an airbrush to do your eyebrows? According to makeup artist, Koren, "Brows are easy breezy". In this video Koren shows how there are two methods to using your airbrushing tool to get the brows you want... Either with a template or by freehand. WIth a stencil and some skill, you'll be sporting all new brows!

How To: Airbrush eye liner

Attention advanced makeup airbrushers! Looking to move onto learn how to line your eyes? Here's a tutorial hosted by makeup artist, Koren on how to use an airbrushing tool to line your eyes, as if you were using eyeliner. Koren uses a template to make this process easier and the line clean.

How To: Create a 3D blood spatter effect for Halloween

Etsy is the place to get all your handmade needs and wants met. Etsy encourages personal connections between sellers and consumers. On Etsy you can connect with the handmade and crafty communities, and learn more about the process of making handmade goods like soaps, candles, invitations and more.

How To: Draw a cool optical illusion

Optical illusions don't require fancy techniques; this one relies entirely in the details. Gather up a pen/pencil, paper, and a pair of scissors. Draw a parallelogram to be used as the template for both tabletops in this sketch. By varied angling, leg lengths, and color, the table top takes on a different appearance. Watch this video drawing tutorial and learn how to recreate this cool, artistic optical illusion.

How To: Use master page inheritance in Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft ASP.NET is a free technology that allows programmers to create dynamic web applications. ASP.NET can be used to create anything from small, personal websites through to large, enterprise-class web applications. All you need to get started with ASP.NET is the free .NET Framework and the free Visual Web Developer. This video tutorial uses a web template from oswd.org to demonstrate the use of Master Pages and how they are supported in Visual Studio 2008. Specifically, this Visual Stud...

How To: Decorate a cake into a NASA rocket ship

In this video, we learn how to decorate a space shuttle cake. Make sure before you begin you have a chilled yellow cake and the template from www.bettycrocker.com. Once you print out the diagram, cut your cake according to the shapes. Now, frost all the pieces and then arrange pieces to make the space shuttle. Once arranged, decorate the shuttle with different colors of frosting and different candies. You can use a pastry bag to frost lines and outline the tip, wings and back of the shuttle. ...