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How To: Make scaling circular patterns in Rhino & Grasshopper

In this Rhino 3D software tutorial covers how to make scaling circular patterns based on the distance between points. You will be using the Grasshopper (Explicit History) plug-in for Rhino in this tutorial.

How To: Make NeoOffice documents Microsoft Word compatible

Microsoft Office is the defacto standard for document creation, but you can get that functionality and compatibility without paying a dime. For Macintosh users, use NeoOffice and learn to save your docs automatically in the MS Office formats.

How To: Cheat to produce realistic music in FL Studio

Learn how to cheat like hell to produce realistic sounding piano flourishes, amazing rolls, and perfectly harmonious music in FL Studio. This tutorial uses examples from other FL tutorials on this site so you may have to watch more than just one. Check out this advanced music theory tutorial and get some great cheating tricks to help your music production in FL Studo.

How To: Set up beat grids and cue points in Traktor

This tutorial presents a guide to quickly setting up beat grids and cue points inside Traktor, formerly known as Traktor DJ Studio. In particular, you will look at setting up grids and cue points with hotkeys. Refine your loops with this how-to.

How To: Save, open and render productions in FL Studio

This audio production software tutorial showing beginners how to open, save, and render productions or project files in FL Studio. Opening and saving is easy, but you'll also learn how to render projects as mp3's in FL Studio.

How To: Create a Twisted Wire in Illustrator

This Illustrator tutorial shows you a way to make a double helix or twisted wire. Using Illustrator and the powerful pattern brush, Bert takes us through the steps from a wavy line to a realistic wire effect or double helix.

How To: Create a hologram in Apple Motion

ooking to create your own holographic effect? Let CreativeCOW.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith show you how. This Apple Motion video tutorial will teach you what you need to know to create a hologram effect. Create a hologram in Apple Motion.

How To: Create a radio station with Winamp and SHOUTcast

This tutorial shows you how to create your own radio station with streaming music using Winamp, SHOUTcast plugin, and SHOUTcast server. Learn how to choose your music in Winamp and upload it to your own radio station on the SHOUTcast server.

How To: Bruise Someone in Photoshop

Whether you need to create realistic-looking bruises for a Halloween photo or need to look beaten up for a film project you're completing, sometimes you just need to add a few brown and purple spots to your face.

How To: Use Soundfont Player and FL Keys in FL Studio

Use the Soundfont Player and FL Keys feature in Fruity Loops to create a variety of sounds. Learn how to use the sound generators and plug-ins of FL Studio in this free digital audio workstation tutorial from our music recording expert.

How To: Create a background and watermark in Visio 2007

Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to include your company logo in the background and add a watermark in just a few quick steps with Microsoft Visio 2007. And you can reuse this background on every page in your Visio drawing.

How To: Convert an image to sepia tones in Photoshop

Jordan explains how to turn a photo to sepia toned colors using Photoshop. Sepia toned images are great for creating an old photo or monochromatic artistic look. Learn how to convert your images to sepia images in this Photoshop tutorial.

How To: Create a funk guitar wah wah sound in FL Studio

This video demonstrates a couple of ways to get a wah wah sound. It shows some of the power of FL Studio's Formula Controller as an automation source as well.

How To: Double your kick drum in FL Studio

NFX shows you how to create secondary kicks, also known as doubling your kick drum using FL Studio (Fruity Loops).

How To: Make a Dr. Dre style beat recipe in FL Studio

NFX shows you another beat recipe on a Dr. Dre style beat. Watch and learn how to put together the ingredients for this beat in Fruity Loops (FL Studio).

How To: Create Che Guevara Pop art in GIMP

This is a variation on the Pop Art tutorial, looking specifically at how to make a Che Guevara inspired image using GIMP image editing software.

How To: Use the intelligent scissors in GIMP

If you use GIMP image editing software you may be having trouble using the intelligent scissors tool. There are a few reasons, one being the version of GIMP you are using, and they are all covered in this tutorial. So watch and learn how to solve some of your problems with the intelligent scissors in GIMP.

How To: Create Roy Lichenstein style Pop Art in GIMP

Learn how to produce Roy Lichenstein style Pop Art from your photographs using GIMP image editing software.

How To: Use the F shortcut key in Photoshop

Do you even know what the F key does? or what it stands for? We'll give you a hint - it helps you toggle between the different screen modes like full screen, standard screen, and maximized screen. So check out this Photoshop tutorial and see how to use the F shortcut key.

How To: Change Skin Tone in Photoshop

With Adobe Photoshop on your computer, it's super easy to change or adjust the skin tone of somebody in a digital photo. The process uses some basic selection and color adjustment tools, and it's a fun way to make a friend's face nauseously green or lessen the effects of overly strong, sometimes even orange, makeup.

How To: Export objects from 3ds Max into the game Crysis

This six-part 3ds Max video tutorial will guide you step by step through the process of exporting from 3D Studio Max into the award-winning, science-fiction, first-person shooter, computer game Crysis.

How To: Retouch graduation photos in Photoshop

See how to retouch a graduation portrait in Photoshop.

How To: Remove a double chin in Photoshop

Here's the definitive technique for removing double chins using Photoshop. Based on years of retouching using old fashion pencil and pastel techniques.

How To: Play your movies from iMovie on your TV

There are two ways to play your movies on your television. You can either burn a DVD using iDVD or export your movie to a tape.

How To: Add subtitles to movies with moviesubtitles.org

This video shows you how to add subtitles to AVI or other video files using the subtitles provided by www.moviesubtitles.org.

How To: Create greeting cards using iPhoto

With iPhoto, you can use your photos to create personalized postcards and greeting cards. iPhoto makes this process easy.

How To: Insert joints in a joint chain in Maya

If you are working on characters or rigs, you are definitely working with joints. This video shows you how to insert a join in a joint chain if you need more or happened to miss one.

How To: Model a lizard creature in Zbrush 3.0

This tutorial shows you how to model a lizard and prepare it for texturing in Zbrush. The goals are to remember to pay attention to real life posture and use a good clean poly-structure.

How To: Edit a scroll bar using Flash 8

This tutorial shows you how to customize the look of a scrolling bar from a template and how to make it animated on a mouse over. Edit a scroll bar using Flash 8.

How To: Use undo, redo and history in Photoshop Express

In this tutorial I show you how to undo and redo your edits as well as stepping back through your changes using the history in Photoshop Express. Use undo, redo and history in Photoshop Express.

How To: Add a shake, quake or jitter effect using Sony Vegas

This screencast shows you how to add a shake effect to your video in Sony Vegas. It is also known as Quake, Jitter, tremor etc. It can have an interesting impact on your productions.

How To: Make shimmering glitter in Particular in After Effects

In this After Effects tutorial, Creative Cow leader, Michael Park, demonstrates how to simulate shimmering glitter particles using fractal noise, colorama effect and Trapcodes Particular plugin. Make shimmering glitter in Particular in After Effects.

How To: Create eye effects in Sony Vegas

This tutorial tries to teach you some eye effects in Sony Vegas!

How To: Model a human ear in Maya

In our opinion, human body parts are some of the hardest things an artist can draw. When it comes to parts like hands and ears, we generally settle for a basic, rudimentary rendering because achieving a realistic portrayal seems so hard. If you're looking for quality, though, then Maya modeling software is an excellent way to achieve it.

How To: Model a human hand with perfect edge flow in Maya

This tutorial shows the best way to model a human hand with perfect edge flow. Made in Maya but should work great in any package. This is an advanced tutorial so you should be familiar with the software and interface.

How To: Use the earth cave tileset in RPG Maker XP (RMXP)

In this 3-part mapping tutorial you will learn how to create a map with the cave of earth tileset in RPG Maker XP (RMXP).

How To: Extend a background in Photoshop

All of us know by now that the pictures you see of actresses and models in magazines have been doctored beyond belief. After the initial photo shoot, retouchers quickly work their magic with thigh chub resizing (only in Photoshop do women not have cellulite), wrinkle reducing, and skin spot removing.