How to Defend Your Choice to Be Childless

Children can be a source of joy for all families. It can be difficult for your relatives to understand if you have chosen not to have any - there can be many reasons. You may have made your decision and feel very comfortable with it - but your family hounds you at every gathering with "When are you going to give me grandkids?" or "What are you guys waiting for - you've been married five years!" But they're your family (or friends). Keeping compassion for your family while standing by your choice can be tough, but hopefully these suggestions will help.

How to Play Skip Bo

Skip-Bo is a card game for 2 to 6 players that is similar to solitaire. The object is to get rid of your cards while blocking other players from discarding theirs. Since anyone over age 7 can play, Skip-Bo is a great game for families. Keep reading for detailed instructions on playing Skip-Bo.

How to Earn Money Through Google Adsense

Money for nothing? Well, not quite—but close! Google’s AdSense is a revenue-sharing opportunity for small, medium and large web sites that places ads for goods and services that are relevant to the content of your site, targeted to the people who frequent your pages. In turn, you get paid a small amount when the ad is either displayed on your page, or clicked on. We'll show you some good ideas that added to your own, will help increase your AdSense revenue.

How to Kill a Process in Command Prompt

The Windows Task Manager is a program designed to help you control processes running on your computer. You can create and kill processes or perform other various actions in Task Manager, but Task Manager might sometimes be insufficient for what you want to do. Some locked processes or frozen programs may not even terminate even if you attempt to kill them from Task Manager. When you encounter problems such as these, you're not out of options. A program in Windows called Command Prompt may help you. Although Command Prompt may seem primitive, it can perform various actions than Task Manager can't such as killing stubborn processes. If you want to kill a process on your computer using Command Prompt, read on!

How to Wash Viscose

Viscose is an easily-dyed, non-static fiber made from wood cellulose. Viscose is often referred to as "faux silk" and goes by the everyday name of rayon. Viscose's high moisture absorbency (13%, as opposed to 8% for cotton) and shade depth allow it to be dyed with deep and brilliant colors, but also can make it a delicate delicate to wash. See Step 1 below to start learning how!

How to Join a Guild in World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is a kind of MMORPG, or massively multiplayer online role-playing game. This means that there are literally thousands of players from around the globe roaming inside the game world. With these numbers, it’s only common that these players form groups among themselves. When players with common agenda come together, they form an alliance, or what is called a guild. Joining a guild is pretty fun and adds to the overall experience of playing World of Warcraft by letting you interact and make friends with other online players. Joining a guild is also really easy; to learn more, scroll down to step 1.

How to Begin an Essay

The first paragraph or so of an essay is usually the most important part of the whole essay to get "just right". Not only is it an opportunity to grab the reader's attention, but also a chance to set the agenda for the rest of the essay in terms of tone and content. Strictly speaking, there is no single "right" way to begin an essay — just as it's possible to write essays about countless subjects, so too is it possible to begin an essay in countless ways. However, most good beginnings to essays share certain qualities which, if taken into account, can greatly improve essay intros that may otherwise be lacking. See Step 1 below to get started!

How to Make Dyed Coffee Filter Snowflakes

Coffee filter snowflakes are quick, easy, inexpensive decorations! They are also a fantastic craft for young children and the young at heart. A few easy steps and materials and you are ready to start!

How to Speed up Your Mac

Is your Mac running slower than usual? Prolonged use can lead to extra files and settings bloat that will slow down the performance of the computer. Follow this guide for a wide variety of tips and tricks, including removing unnecessary files, upgrading your hardware, defragging your hard drive and reinstalling your copy of Mac OS X.

How to Wear Bootcut Jeans

Bootcut jeans were designed to fit around tall or short boots. They curve around the hips and are tight in the upper thigh, and they are looser in the lower thigh, knee and calf. They are especially popular for women because they make the legs look long and lean—a much more forgiving and versatile style than skinny jeans.

How to Diet While Breastfeeding

After 9 long months of pregnancy and weight gain, many new moms quickly begin thinking about dieting in hopes of losing some of that extra weight. Nursing mothers often consider dieting long before their baby is ready to stop breastfeeding. While going on a “diet” is not recommended while nursing, there are several safe and healthy ways for nursing mothers to change their diet without compromising the quality and quantity of breast milk available for their babies. Losing weight while you’re nursing is not as difficult as you may think.

How to Live Cheaply

Life is expensive! It seems like just about everything costs more money than it should and before you know it, your whole paycheck is gone! If you want to find ways to save and reclaim more of your monthly check, then this is the article for you. Below, you'll find out how to save lots of money in all sorts of areas of your life by cutting excess and finding shortcuts. Get started with Step 1 below to learn how.

Create a Cute Television Icon From Scratch

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a cute detailed vintage television icon from scratch using Photoshop. The detailed step by step guide will help you to understand the process of its creation. So let's begin!

How to Create an Electrifyingly Patriotic Manipulation in Photoshop

Learn how to create this intense photo manipulation of a guy shooting lightning from his hands. In this tutorial you will learn various blending and lightning techniques. What you’ll be creating You will create an intense photo manipulaton depicting a guy who has the power of lightning at his fingertips.

22 Easy Steps to Create This Haunted House Scene

22 Easy Steps to Create This Haunted House Scene

How to Create a Magical Christmas Snow Globe in Photoshop

Learn how to create this fantasy Christmas scene with Photoshop. You will use a variety of brushes and images in order to achieve a pleasant final result. Let’s start!

Create a Fantastic Photo Manipulation of a Dark Monk

Learn how to do this dark photo manipulation of monk on a stony landscape with Photoshop. This tutorial will teach you how to merge completely different stock photos into dark-themed composite with matching light. You will also learn how to draw simple items such as a rosary and a cross.

10 Tips and Tricks for Retouching in Photoshop

10 easy ways to give your portraits a pro makeover. Learn how to banish spots, smooth skin, add digital make-up and more with my article. Over the next paragraphs I’ll show you how to take your portraits to the next level with 10 tried and tested techniques used daily by pro retouchers.

How to Create a Fantasy Fire Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a fantasy photo-manipulation using a basic adjustments and some stocks and how to add some textures and make it look like a fantasy fire and show you the way how to use the clipping mask and the mask as a professional and play with the lights.

Amazing Surreal Shark Photoshop Tutorial You Have to Try

In this tutorial we will create an aquatic scene about a fisherman catching a big shark. There will be some blood and some underwater seamless blending.The techniques used here are simple so let’s get started. What you’ll be creating You will create an aquatic scene. You will need Photoshop CS5 or newer in order to […]

Create an Emotional Abstract Photo Manipulation

Learn how to make this abstract and very emotional composite in Adobe Photoshop. You will learn some technical things – as using adjustments for making masks, loading brushes etc – but also you can know some principles in photo manipulation design. I’ll show you, how golden proportion works on this example.

Create a Sunset Landscape Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial I'll show you how to create a beautiful sunset landscape . You’ll learn how to combine different stocks into a cohesive scene using adjustment layers, masking and brush . You’ll also work with lighting, practice retouching and matte painting techniques.

How to Grow Leeks

Leeks are a mild, delicious part of the onion family that taste wonderful in soups and quiches or simply sauteed on their own. They grow well in all climates, though they need extra pampering in places that don't have heavy rainfall. See Step 1 and beyond to learn how to grow and harvest leeks.

How to Move Forward

It's easy to get yourself stuck in a rut, and even if you want to move forward with your life, you may not know where to start. Before you can gain any momentum, you'll need to know which behaviors you have to drop and which you'll need to pick up. Once you gain an understanding of this, you can begin taking the first few steps forward into a better tomorrow.

How to Take Care of Butterflies

Captivating, colorful butterflies make the world a more beautiful place, don't you think? There's something magical about witnessing their life cycle, which is why raising butterflies from the caterpillar stage is a popular classroom experiment. You start with baby caterpillars, feeding them lots of leaves and taking care of the chrysalis they make to protect themselves while they transitions into butterflies. When the young butterflies emerge months later, they need plenty of space to stretch their wings and learn to fly. Finally, adult butterflies can be released outside to enjoy the sunshine, fresh air and flowers. Read on to learn how to raise, feed, and provide first aid for butterflies.

Sports Photographer Shows How He Shot a World Record Breaking Mountain Bike Backflip

The first D4S was set up with a remote with the wide angle lens ensuring Wilhelm was able to capture the shot when Zink was in to his backflip. The wide angle also allowed him to capture the mountains and the crowd in the background. The second purpose of this camera was to capture the sequence shots.

How to Use Strip Softboxes for Dramatic Portraits

In going for a darker, low-pass portrait, Belluso needed to isolate his subject from the rest of the hangar, while still providing the highlights he needed to accent the glider in the background. In effect, he needed quite a bit of control over the intensity and directionality of his light. With the the Dou Discus gilder, this was done by hoisting the wing strip lights far above the wings and aligning them with the contours.

The ABCs of Flash Painting

If you’ve always hated the fact that you have only one speedlight, since that pretty much leaves you under-powered when compared to protogs, think again. You have all the light in the world to make stunning images. You can use just that one speedlight to flash paint a subject, and laugh all the way to the bank.

3 Inexpensive DIY Projects for Photographers

Unless you’re into flying, skydiving, or thoroughbred racing, photography is probably one of your more expensive hobbies. If you’re looking for ways around spending big money on equipment, there’s nowhere better to look than the DIY scene.

How to Freeze Motion In Camera

If you’ve ever tried shooting images of your pet or kids (not necessarily in that order) playing in the yard or fast sports action, you’ve surely faced the dilemma of choosing the right shutter speed.

A Hard-To-Miss Guideline on Building Responsive Drop-Down Menu in WordPress

If multi-level navigation is what you want for your WordPress website then here is a handy tutorial on creation of a fully responsive Drop Down menu in WordPress.

How to Liquify Honey

Honey is often described as nature's perfect food. In its raw state, it contains many beneficial enzymes and offers a sweet treat to those who've grown distrustful of overly-processed foods and candies. Periodically, honey will get hard and form crystals. Although this process is natural and shouldn't affect the taste of the honey, there are several ways to get honey back to its silken and sticky liquefied state.

How to Install a Hard Drive

The hard drive is the primary storage location for all of your computer’s data. If you run out of that storage, installing a new drive may be the most practical solution. If your computer is dead, you may need to replace your old failed hard drive. In either case, you can do it yourself instead of taking your computer into a repair shop. Read on after the jump to learn how.

How to Make Cookie Cutter Appetizers

Many parents are trying to find innovative and creative ways to feed their kids vegetables—from hiding them inside a dish to making them a part of the meal. You probably have not thought that you can also use vegetables to decorate food, and this may be just the thing you need to supply nutrition in a palatable way. Makes 1 serving.

How to Be Mellow

If you're striving to be more mellow, then chances are that you're the kind of person who spends too much time worrying or stressing out about things that don't really matter. You may find yourself getting furious after someone cuts in front of you when you're driving, or after an annoying exchange with one of your friends. You may be up all night, freaking out about a test or an interview that is coming up. You may also know many people who are mellow, who seem to take life in stride and don't get riled up over almost anything. If you want to be mellow like these people, then it's not about not caring about anything — it's about finding a way to manage your stress and to approach life with a calm, rational mind.

Fine Glass Text Effect In Photoshop CS6

In this Photoshop tutorial, You will learn how to create a Fine Glass Text Effect in Photoshop CS6 . The goal is to give our text a special glass-like effect. To achieve this, we shall manipulate the text layer’s styles as much as required.

How to Dress European

Europeans seem to be known for their great style, and for good reason! They tend to dress in upscale, classy clothes that make our casual American styles look drab and boring. Whether you're going to Europe on a trip or you'd like to incorporate European style into life in America, get started with Step 1 below to learn how!

How to Catch a Cricket Ball

Catching is the action of fielders to get the batsman out by collecting the ball once hit in the air by the batsman. Catching is one of the elements of fielding, one of the most important aspects of cricket. The more adept the fielder, the better a cricketer the person is. Following is the article that will guide you on How to Become a Good Catcher:

How to Be Talented

Talent tends to refer to that inborn skill that everyone seems to be born with. It's true that having a talent can help you in life, and that it's good to try and identify and practice that skill. However, try and avoid placing too much importance on finding a talent. Plenty of people go through life perfectly happy, and perfectly able to learn skills, without having one specific and specialized talent.

How to Know if That Person Truly Loves You

There's no guaranteed way to know if a person truly loves you, but there are more than a few ways to read the signs to figure out what is on the mind of your loved one. If you'd like to know if the person you love indubitably loves you, then you have to pay attention to how the person acts, what he says, and what he does when you're together. Though love may mean something different to every person, there are many ways to tell if a person truly loves you instead of just having a crush on you, liking you a lot, wanting your money, or just being momentarily infatuated with you. If you want to know if that person truly loves you, just follow these steps.

How to Find All the Warp Tiles in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

"Those who stepped on the Magical Warp Tiles that served as entrances would be lost to the Dark World, transformed into demons. Link, who possessed the qualities of the hero, did not become a demon, but was instead turned into an animal (in this case, a pink bunny)." -Hyrule Historia There are nine warp points throughout Hyrule, with each one transporting Link to the Dark World. The Dark World is pretty much the same as the Light World, but "warped". Warping to the Dark World may be necessary to gain access to dungeons, find heart pieces, complete quests, or to satisfy your curiosity.

Cheap Camera vs. Pro Camera: Which Ones Which?

How many times have you heard the proverbial quote, “the best part of a camera is the 12 inches behind it”? I bet not enough. If you’ve been complaining that your APS-C camera doesn’t shoot that well and you might need to upgrade to a full-frame, or that your smart phone isn’t a serious camera and you should at least purchase a DSLR, think again.

Create A Simple Wet Material Using 3ds Max

In this tutorial you will learn to create a simple wet material using 3ds max. This material is very useful when you want to create water creature, for example snail, fish, etc.

Make a movie credit roll with Photoshop CC

In this tutorial I show how to make a title roll or credits roll for a video using Photoshop Creative Cloud. There are many video editors out there that have titling plug-ins or built in procedures however I thought I'd make a Photoshop tutorial for amateur video makers to utilize. With this method you can have much control. You can add graphics, text layer styles, filters etc. to enhance the credit rolls.

Exporting 3D Max Models Into Unity 3D Engine: Part 1

Preparing a model in 3D Studio Max for use in Unity 3D.

Understanding Bootstrap 3 Grid System

Bootstrap 3 introduces a new grid system, with four tier of grid classes (phones, tablets, desktops and large desktops). This allows us to create flexible and awesome layouts for each of our target devices. In this tutorial, we will be looking at: Understanding Bootstrap 3 Grid System. Bootstrap 3 introduces the responsive mobile first fluid grid system that appropriately scales up to 12 columns as the device or viewport size increases.

Set minimum order amount in WooCommerce

A handy code snippet which can be used to set minimum order amount in WooCommerce.

Photoshop: How to Carve a Face into a Mountain

Photoshop CC 2014 tutorial showing how to make a face look like its carved into the side of a mountain.

How to get selected checkbox value using jquery

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can grab the value of checkboxes using jQuery and save them inside an array.

Clean up Your Photo Backgrounds in Photoshop

In retouching you see this quite frequently, whether you’re using seamless paper, vinyl, a fabric hanging or a purpose built infinity cove, it’s going to get dirty. You have a couple of options, one is to check out some reviews on Amazon for handheld vacuum cleaners and have your assistant scoot around with it between shots.

How to create a Map Icon in photoshop

ou don't have to use 3D software just to create a simple three-dimensional icon. Photoshop can do that too using some simple tricks with gradient color