How to Make a Paper Origami Fox

Learn to make a paper origami fox following these simple instructions. The numbered corners may make it easier for you.

How to Glaze Pottery

Pottery glazes are complex mixtures that fuse to pottery when placed in a high temperature kiln. Glazes are responsible both for decorating the pottery and for creating an attractive glossy surface that protects the pottery from wear and water. While glazing can be a long and involved process, it is not too hard to learn, and results will improve with practice. If you don't have access to a kiln, try to find one before you begin, as described within the Firing section below.

How to Entertain a One Year Old

Whether you're babysitting your niece or you want to get your new baby happily across the state to grandma's house, you're going to want to keep your child entertained! There are lots of great ways to do this, depending on what you have available and what you're trying to do. In this article, you'll find that wikiHow has covered all the bases, giving you great ideas whether you're going in well prepared or you have absolutely nothing to work with. Just get started with Step 1 below or check out the sections listed above to find the help that you need.

How to Grow Poppies

Poppies are versatile, show-stopping plants that include several varieties, from the big, bold Oriental poppy, which can grow as tall as 4 feet (122cm), to the demure Alpine poppy, topping out at about 10 inches (25cm). Poppies are tough plants that can thrive in any well-draining soil, although these tips will teach you how to grow them to encourage a healthy, blooming flowerbed. Once you have flowering poppies, you will likely have enough seeds to plant new poppies year after year.

How to Remove Permanent Pen from a Whiteboard

If someone used permanent marker or pen on your whiteboard, you may have to try several methods before the stain is removed. Fortunately, most ink marks can be removed with household products or with ingredients easily obtainable from drug stores.

How to Create a Stylized Portrait Made From Newspapers in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a stylized portrait made from newspapers in Adobe Photoshop.

How to Automatically Remove Objects from Photos in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to automatically remove objects from pictures in Adobe Photoshop.

How to Use the Refine Edge Tool in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to the refine edge tool in Adobe Photoshop.

How to Channel

With practice, channeling transmissions from the unseen world of the subconscious can be a moving and powerful experience. Whether you want to deepen your insight into your own nature, or you want to reach outward for communications from beyond, you can learn to limit the scope of your investigation, achieve a trance-like state, and locate a guide to aid you in your journey, helping keep that journey safe and productive. See Step 1 for more information.

How to Turn off GPS on the iPhone

Turning off GPS on your iPhone is very easy, and if you aren't using it, it may help improve your phone's battery life, and also making sure that hackers or someone can't view your location, aswell as other apps seeing where you are!

How to Overcome Fatigue

It's a simple fact of life: from time to time, almost everyone has to perform when they're feeling tired or unmotivated. However, if you consistently feel like you lack the energy to perform your daily duties, you're not dealing with ordinary tiredness — you're dealing with full-blown fatigue. Fatigue can have many causes, but the good news is that with a few simple lifestyle changes, most people can reverse the effects of fatigue in a matter of days or weeks. For cases of fatigue with a medical cause, however, more serious treatments may be needed. See Step 1 below to start overcoming your fatigue!

How to Crochet a Triangle

As long as you know a few basic crochet stitches, you should be able to crochet a triangle without much difficulty. You could use a triangle stitch if you want to create a triangle pattern throughout a larger work, or you could create individual triangles using both row and round methods.

How to Make Cinnamon Bun Bread

This version of cinnamon bread is perfect for a side breakfast treat or dessert. It goes along well with coffee, tea, or any hot drink. Here is how to make cinnamon bun bread. Serves: 4-6

How to Entertain People

Entertaining people is an art. To truly entertain people, you don't need to juggle, tell knock-knock jokes, or do back-flips. Though these things can work in small doses, the best thing you can do is to be attuned to what the crowd needs and to keep people interested in what you have to say. Whether you're entertaining guests in your home or just cracking people up at a bar, the most important thing is to have confidence that what you're saying is worth listening to, and to make people want to hear more. If you want to know how to entertain people, see Step 1 to get started.

How to Remove Glare from Glasses in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to remove glare from glasses using Adobe Photoshop.

3 Steps to Creating Holiday Portraits With Christmas Lights

Christmas is in the air, so don’t be surprised if some of that festive spirit bleeds into your creative psyche and you find yourself wanting to do a portrait project with Christmas lights.

Interesting Photo of the Day: Pomegranate Still Life

The still life is a genre that has endured over many centuries, from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings and Mediterranean mosaics, to Rennaissance and Impressionist oil paintings, to high-tech digital photography.

How to Make an Angry Face Online

If you want to express emotions online, look no further than your keyboard. Emoticons use punctuation to express emotion and emoji are more sophisticated pictures and faces that express emotion. If you want to let others know that you're angry or upset about something, there are a wide variety of angry emoticons and emoji to choose from.

How to Make Tart Cherry Juice

Tart cherry juice has recently been deemed one of Mother Nature's most effective pain remedies. In addition to being tasty and natural, it can increase total antioxidative capacity, reduce inflammation and lipid peroxidation and aid in the recovery of muscle function. You can buy versions in stores, but why bother when you can make it yourself? See Step 1 below to get started on making a batch on the stovetop or blending it up quickly for an instant fix.

How to Become an Astrophysicist

Astrophysics is a demanding field, but if you have a passion for the stars and love unraveling the mysteries of the universe, it can also be a highly rewarding career path. You will need plenty of education and formal work experience before you can land a permanent position, though.

How to Retract a Resignation Letter

Regardless of your reasons for submitting your initial resignation letter, you might find yourself in a position where you've rethought the matter and really want to stay at your current job. Retracting a resignation letter does not always work, but there are ways you can go about it that will improve your chances of success.

How to Stay in a Good Mood

It's typical to feel your mood starting to fade, whether you're in the middle of a long work day or finding yourself stuck with someone who constantly annoys you. Or sometimes, you can just start feeling the storm clouds hovering over your head for no apparent reason and may wonder how you can bring back the sunshine. If you want to be able to stay in a good mood, then you have to cultivate habits that will keep you feeling happy -- and in addition to that, it never hurts to try a few "in the moment" quick-fixes to make you feel happier no matter where you are or what you're doing. See Step 1 to find out how to stay in a good mood whenever you want.

How to Get Baby Soft Skin

Is your skin rough and dry to touch? Are you tired of harsh skin? Follow a few simple steps and you could be on your way to baby soft skin in no time!

How to Detach

When a relationship or situation becomes too much for you to handle, you might need to detach from it emotionally. Emotional detachment is not done as a means of running away from your problems or tolerating abuse. Likewise, it should not be used as a weapon against others or an excuse to hate someone else. Detachment simply allows you to calm down and put your troubles into a more helpful perspective.

How to Get Rid of a Beer Belly

Beer bellies are common, occurring in both men and women, often around the age that metabolism rate drops. This causes fat to collect from a calorie surplus, often around the midsection, and often as a result of a few too many brews. While beer is not the sole culprit of the beer belly, if you suspect that your love of hoppy, malty, yeasty delicious beers might be the cause of your expanding waist-line, you can plan for how to cut the fat by changing your habits. Learn more about the calories in those beers you drink and learn how to changing your drinking and eating habits, introduce exercise into the equation, and start losing pounds the safe way. See Step 1 for more information.

How to Create Cosmic Photos and Timelapses with a Sheet of Glass

What do you get when you combine condensed milk, food coloring, and hydrogen peroxide? No, not your favorite holiday cookie recipe, but rather a stellar way to make cosmic effects.

How to Take Better Photos of Christmas Lights

Here is an article describing how you can get better photos of Christmas lights. I’ve focused on the tree, but these concepts will work for most any lighting display.

Capturing Motion – A Guide to High-Speed Photography

Perhaps you’ve tried quite a few times to take a picture of a fast-moving car or motorcycle, and you’ve ended up with just a blurry image. But, behold, here we tell you how to capture an incredible high-speed image outside a studio.

Long Shadow Effect with Snap to Collisions Tool and Extend Path Tool

In this tutorial we will cover a technique for creating a Long Shadow effect using the ColliderScribe and VectorScribe plug-ins, which will allow us to make it easy and quickly. Long Shadow is a popular trend today that is why I think this tutorial will be useful for you.

How to model a bicycle in 3ds max 2015.

This tutorial will show you in 8 different parts how to model a bicycle.

“Imperfection” Abstract Photo Manipulation in photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to create an emotional, abstract photo manipulation. You’ll learn how to combine abstract elements, work with groups, create depth of field and more.

Introduction to MySQL

With well over ten million installations, MySQL is probably the most popular database management system for web servers. Developed in the mid-1990s, it’s now a mature technology that powers many of today’s most-visited Internet destinations. One reason for its success must be the fact that, like PHP, it’s free to use. But it’s also extremely powerful and exceptionally fast-it can run on even the most basic of hardware, and it hardly puts a dent in system resources.

Beautiful Grunge text effect Photoshop Tutorial

An Easy step by step grunge text effect tutorial in Photoshop. Grunge text effects are loved by people as they give sense of reality. learn to create one.

10 Tips For Candid Wedding Photography

Nowadays, most couples don’t just want the formal shots at their weddings. Frequently, they’ll ask for ‘reportage’ shots, by which they mean more candid shots of themselves and the guests enjoying themselves without being lined up for the camera.

Count characters remaining with jQuery

A tiny amount of jQuery code which helps you to count characters remaining.

Photoshop: Caffè Mocha, Latte Art!

Photoshop CC 2014 tutorial showing how to add your own chocolate syrup art adorning the foamy top of Caffè Mocha.

Create a Polar Bear Christmas Scene in Illustrator

I decided to write a tutorial on how to create a polar bear Christmas scene in Illustrator to get you all in the festive spirit. We’ll be using mainly basic shapes, making this tutorial perfect for beginners.

How to Manage Your Finances

Personal financial management is a subject that is not taught in many schools, but is something that nearly everyone has to deal with in their lives later on. Here are some statistics: Some 58% of Americans do not have a retirement plan in place for how they'll manage their finances when they get old. While people generally believe they'll need about $300,000 to support themselves in retirement, the average American has only about $25,000 saved at the time of retirement. Average household credit card debt among Americans now stands at a distressing $15,204. If these facts are alarming to you, and you want to reverse the trend, read on for specific, targeted advice geared towards giving you a better future.

How to Get a PhD

A PhD, short for Doctor of Philosophy, may help you secure a position as a college or university professor, a researcher in a government or industrial laboratory, a consultant, or an independent practitioner. If you have the curiosity to explore a subject in depth and the tenacity to do so for many years, applying for a graduate PhD program may be an excellent step in reaching your full potential. By learning the steps necessary to complete your prerequisite education, apply to graduate schools, and complete the work, you'll be well on your way. See Step 1 for more information.

How to Be Consistent

Consistency is one of those vague attributes that everyone wants, but few people actually manage to gain. Don't worry! As long as you set specific goals and boundaries to be specific towards, you'll find that you'll be more likely to actually be consistent. See step 1 to get started.

How to Read Your Chinese Horoscope

The Chinese Zodiac consists of 12 animals that represent certain years. The year of your birth is represented by one of these animals, and according to the Chinese Zodiac, you will have particular personality traits that resemble your assigned animal. But did you know it goes much, much deeper than that? The Four Pillars of Destiny get down to the hour your were born. See Step 1 to start a blueprint of your fate!

How to Grow an Orange Tree

Orange trees are now grown all over the world for their delicious and nutritious fruit, and can be grown indoors or in a greenhouse if you don't live in a warm climate. The best way to grow a healthy tree that produces fruit is to purchase a young tree or seedling. However, you can plant an orange seed directly into the soil if you want the experience of growing it from the beginning.

How to Stop Liking Someone

We all have been there -- crushing on someone we should not be crushing on. Sometimes for days, sometimes for months -- either way, for too long. But with a little mind power and a bit of time, you'll stop thinking about him or her and begin to wonder why you ever did.

How to Make a Marshmallow Catapult

Lazy summer days means trying to find something fun and perhaps not so educational to do for the kids. Here’s something that will occupy the kids’ time and while may appear (to them) to be a total time suck, it will teach fine motor skills, ingenuity and possibly collaborative play.

How to Be on YouTube

Want to get in on the YouTube craze and maybe even become famous? Uploading a video on YouTube is a simple process, but uploading a good video takes a little more thought and creativity. If you want to learn how to make the most out of YouTube, and potentially make some money, see Step 1 below.

How to Become a Doctor

Many people have dreams of becoming a doctor and saving lives, but the training required to accomplish this goal is extremely rigorous. It will take nearly a decade and be incredibly stressful. Are you up to the challenge?

Cool CSS3 text-shadow effects.

In this tutorial you will learn basics of text-shadow property and create many cool CSS text-shadow effects in the meantime. You will create Retro, Blur, Emboss, Inset and beautiful 3D text effect. You will also learn about browser support and other necessary details.

Animated CSS3 Neon Glow text-shadow

In this tutorial you will learn how to use CSS3 text-shadow in advanced ways by creating animated neon glow text effect. You will also learn about key-frame animation and :nth-child selector. Everything has been explained in great detail.

How to Disconnect

The Internet has absorbed the task of organizing work and social relationships and commitments. However, sometimes your online life can feel like it’s taking over your waking life. If you want to disconnect from devices, messaging and social media, you can use these tools and strategies to feel more directly connected to the world.

How to Crochet a Star

Crocheting a star is pretty easy if you know a few basic crochet stitches. Here are a few different patterns you can try out.

How to Breathe Deeply

Belly breathing, also called diaphragmatic breathing or abdominal breathing, is the process of breathing deeply so that your body receives a full supply of oxygen. While shallow breathing can cause shortness of breath and anxiety, deep breathing slows the heart rate and stabilizes blood pressure. It's a great technique to use when you want to decompress and lower your stress level. See Step 1 to learn more about how to get in the habit of breathing deeply from the belly.

How to Keep Roses Fresh

Roses are beautiful, fragrant flowers that come in a variety of colors and sizes. Given the right care, roses can stay fresh for a week and a half or more after being cut. To keep your roses from wilting, be sure to change their water every few days, use a very clean vase and keep them in a cool spot. See Step 1 to learn more about how to keep roses fresh.

How to Glue Plastic

There are many types of plastic and many types of glue, and choosing the wrong combination can result in a weak bond or, rarely, damage to the object you meant to repair. Read on to learn how to select the correct glue for your project, then follow these steps to give your plastic the best chance to permanently bond to another object. If you're gluing lengths of plastic pipe, you can skip straight to that section; it includes instructions for selecting the proper adhesive in that situation.

How to Open a Wine Bottle Without a Corkscrew

Imagine a beautiful day, a perfect picnic, a special someone, a loaf of bread, some cheese and a bottle of wine and... wait, no corkscrew?! No problem. Here are a few ideas to get that bottle of vino open and the wine flowing.

How to French Kiss

You've seen it done in the movies and probably even in public — the French kiss, a timeless and passionate gesture of romantic affection where partners kiss while using their tongues. Whether you live in Paris, France or Paris, Texas, you can learn how to kiss like the French do without an embarrassing faux pas! If you want to know how to French kiss, see Step 1 to get started.

How to Love

Love is expressed as an action and experienced as a feeling. Yet, love has an essence that resists defining in any single way — it encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support, faith, and much more. If you're in the dark about how to love, this article should give you some food for thought, and perhaps teach you a little bit about how to love yourself, love the world, and love other people just a little bit more.

How to Be Ambitious

Elvis Presley once said, "Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine." Having dreams is essential to achieving success, but you won't get there just by dreaming. Being ambitious is a skill you develop over time and requires hard work, persistence, and most importantly, a strategy. Follow these steps for successfully chasing down your dream.

How to Be a Gentleman

A true gentleman is respectful to everyone in his orbit, from women he'd like to date to elderly people who need help with their groceries. He takes impeccable care of his appearance, is polite to everyone who deserves it, and is kind to women regardless of whether or not he thinks he has a chance with them. To be a true gentleman, you need to be self aware, mature, and courteous. Though chivalry isn't dead, you can make an effort to bring more respect and care into the world.

How to Plan a Romantic Dinner at Home

Having a romantic dinner at home can be much more special than eating out -- not to mention less expensive. If you want to plan a romantic dinner at home with your date, all you have to do is thoughtfully prepare a menu and set the mood before the dinner date starts. Follow these steps to find out how to have romantic night in with your special someone.

How to Improve Your Personality

Your personality changes many times during your life. Although you may not notice it happening, as you grow older behaviors become ingrained. The key to improving your personality is changing behaviors to reinforce good personality traits and limit negative personality traits. Grab your pen and paper and get ready to be introspective.

Expert Techniques for Beautiful Insect Macro Photography

Nature is amazing–and it’s possible to discover so much about the natural world with macro photography. Photographer Thomas Shahan explains that “with relatively modest inexpensive equipment, you can share with others things they previously would not have been able to see with their own eyes.”

How to Create Natural Looking Snow in Photoshop

Aaron Nace offers us another great tutorial that is incredibly helpful. It’s actually possible to create natural-looking snow from scratch in Photoshop. And, it’s easy; you just need to make a custom brush and use some blurring methods.

Stop JPEG image compression in WordPress

A tiny PHP code which allows you to stop the automatic image compression performed by WordPress on the uploaded images to reduce its size.

HTML5 script charset attribute Tutorial

Learn how to specify the character encoding set of the external script file linked to your HTML document.

Photography Lighting Techniques: Not What You Think

We see a stunning portrait—maybe hanging on a wall somewhere—and we think, “Wow! My work doesn’t look like THAT!” Then we run out and spend thousands of dollars buying the latest equipment, books on photography lighting techniques, and so on.

How to Apply Color Theory to Your Photos

Sometimes the colors in a photograph just don’t mesh. You may not be able to notice it right away; the photo just seems off for some reason. But it could be as simple as the fact that the colors don’t complement each other.

How to Calculate Inventory Turnover

Inventory turnover is a way of measuring how many times a business sells its stock of inventory in a given time period. Businesses use inventory turnover to assess competitiveness, project profits, and generally figure out how well they are doing in their industry. Unlike employee turnover, a high inventory turnover is generally seen as a good thing because this means that goods are sold relatively quickly before they have a chance to deteriorate. Generally, inventory turnover is calculated with the formula Turnover = Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)/Average Inventory.

How to Type a Euro Sign on a Mac

The euro sign (€) is the European currency that is used in money in European countries such as It is also used on computers when writing and working with money on documents. If you want to find out how to type one of these, read ahead and enjoy!

How to Make Chicken Stir Fry

Chicken stir-fries are healthy, delicious and quick to prepare. Great for single servings or for feeding the whole family, chicken stir-fries can be adapted to suit all tastes. Here's a recipe for an easy chicken stir-fry, along with some general stir-fry guidelines.

How to Split an Atom

Atoms can gain or lose energy when an electron transits from a higher to a lower orbit around the nucleus. Splitting the nucleus of an atom, however, releases considerably more energy than that of an electron returning to a lower orbit from a higher one, energy that can be put to destructive use or peaceful and productive purposes. Splitting an atom is called nuclear fission, a process that was discovered in 1938; the repeated splitting of atoms in fission is called a chain reaction. While most people do not have the equipment to do this, if you've ever been curious how it's done, here's an overview.

How to Scrimshaw

Scrimshaw is an American folk art form once perfected by New England sailors. They would etch designs onto whale ivory with needles or knives and color it with ink or soot. While the whaling trade is no longer viable or legal, the art of scrimshaw lives on.

How to Blanch Beans

Blanching fresh beans is an essential step prior to freezing, but it is also the method professional chefs use to prepare the beans for sauteing, stir frying, or using in salads. Blanching involves boiling the beans for a short time, then rapidly cooling them by placing them in chilled water. When done correctly, this process destroys the enzymes and bacteria in the green beans that will alter the flavor and color when frozen or if there is a delay before serving them. Read on to find out how to perform this process correctly.

How to Light Paint With Your Smartphone

Light painting is an interesting way to shoot creative photos of ordinary objects. The best thing is you don’t need a lot of fancy stuff to do light painting. In fact, you probably already have everything you need.

A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Exposure

I’ve explained this so many times over, and every time it’s for the same reason: people dive into technical stuff way too early on and get confused to the point of quitting. It’s hard for somebody who doesn’t do well with electronics to understand sensor sensitivity or how the lens opening affects the depth of field. That is understandable because most of us are artists not professors in physics, after all.