How to Make an Origami Bat

A bat is a traditional decoration during the Halloween season. By using these instructions you can make your own Halloween bat decorations. Origami, the art of Japanese paper folding, can be used to make many different animals and objects. Some items are harder than others to construct. This bat is a rather easy design to follow.

How to Water Orchids

Orchids are becoming popular as houseplants, and many wonderful varieties can be found in nurseries and garden centers. In the wild, orchids often grow on trees, and their roots are exposed to sun and air as well as water. Potted orchids require a special watering technique that mimics their natural environment. Water orchids only sparingly, when their potting mix is almost dry.

How to Be a Role Model

Role models are meant to inspire, instruct, and to set a good example. Whether you're trying to teach your children core values or showing your students the proper way to conduct themselves in a learning environment, the most important thing you can do is to be honest, thoughtful, and consistent. Role models don't have to be perfect, but they do have to show that everyone makes mistakes and that it's important to be accountable for them. You can be an inspiring and instructive role model as long as you are about the people who look up to you.

How to Swim Butterfly Stroke

The butterfly stroke is one of the most difficult swimming strokes, as it requires a very exact technique, in addition to strength and a good sense of rhythm. The butterfly stroke is often simply referred to by swimmers as the fly. It does requires a lot of practice to perfect it, but when you have it down it is one of the most rewarding, respected and aesthetically pleasing swimming styles currently used in competition.

How to Be Honourable

To be honourable is to be kind, genuine and empathetic without expecting a reward for your behaviour. It’s a rare combination of virtues, but with practice anyone can be honourable. Do you want to be the type of person who stands up for your beliefs instead of cowering, who rescues your friends when they need you, and who’s known for being an upstanding citizen? Start by doing little things, like showing up when you say you will or asking someone if they need a hand. When you practice living honestly in everyday ways, and letting people know you have their backs, being honourable will start to feel like second nature.

How to Make Chili

It seems as though every region of the United States has its own spin on how to make chili. As is evidenced by the popularity of chili cook-offs around the states, home cooks have strong feelings about what kind of chili is best. This article provides recipes for three popular types of chili: chili con carne, Texas chili, and chili con queso.

How to Tie a Fisherman's Knot

This article is for anyone who needs to learn a quick and easy way to tie a fisherman's knot.

How to Measure Centimeters

You would usually use a metric ruler or meter stick to measure centimeters. There are also ways to estimate length in centimeters and to convert length measurements made in other units to equal values described in centimeters.

How to Melt Butter

Melt butter on the stovetop if you want to end up with perfect, evenly melted butter, or if the recipe calls for browning. If you want to save time, use a microwave oven instead, but follow the instructions here to avoid heating it too quickly and unevenly. Finally, if you are only trying to soften butter that was kept in the fridge or freezer, many possible options are provided.

How to Hook a Shrimp

Dead or alive, fresh or frozen, shrimp are one of the best baits for inshore saltwater fishing. Black drum, bonefish, flounder, grouper, jackfish, pompano, redfish, snook, sea trout, sheepshead, tarpon, and whiting are among the species you can catch with this crustacean. There are also a number of ways to hook a shrimp, depending on whether you’re fishing it live or dead and how you’re presenting it.

How to Perform Poetry

Performing a poem is about communicating how that poem affects you personally, so you get to add your own interpretation on top of the author's (if you didn't write it yourself). Here are instructions for each of the many steps to a poetry performance, from choosing a style that fits the poem to staying calm on stage.

How to Feel Awesome

If you want to feel energetic, outgoing, generally happy, and be that person who lights up everybody else, half the battle is over. Now all you need to do is work on your positive mindset, conquer your body, and start living that awesome life you're destined to live.

How to Control Cholera

Cholera, which is a disease caused by vibrio cholerae bacteria, can be treated if its detected early enough. For the most part, cholera can be controlled by treating its main symptoms--dehydration, diarrhea and vomiting, and muscle cramps. Scroll down to Step 1 to learn about ways to control cholera, as well as ways to prevent it in the first place.

How to Keep Broccoli Fresh

Though delicious and nutritious, broccoli has a well-earned reputation as being somewhat tricky to keep fresh. Stored improperly, broccoli can go from crisp and refreshing to unappetizing in just a day or two. However, with smart storage techniques, you can keep your broccoli fresh for as long as five to seven days (and if you're willing to freeze it, much longer). To start making the most of your broccoli and cutting down on waste in your kitchen, see Step 1 below to get started!

How to Motivate Staff

When the work seems trivial, it's hard to keep employees going. Whether it's because they're bored, they're not invested, or they just don't like their work, you're up against the same beast: a lack of motivation. However, it's not about the work: it's about the environment you create. Create the right one, and you'll have happy, motivated employees, who find it easy to be productive and content.

How to Apologize

An apology is an expression of remorse for something you've done wrong, and occasionally serves as a request for forgiveness, as well. Apologizing for a mistake might seem like an impossible task, but you can get through it by swallowing your pride and putting your best foot forward.

Create a Complete Image Slider with jQuery and PHP

In this ultimate tutorial I will explain, from scratch, how to create a complete and advanced jQuery image slider with thumbnails, active bullets for every slide, navigation arrows inside the big preview image and a slideshow timer that will change everything automatically inside our slider. This will also contain descriptions for images!

Create a Text Portrait Halftone with Phantasm

In this tutorial we will learn how in just a few minutes you can create a text portrait using Phantasm Halftone and Phantasm Levels effects. For enlightening of certain sections of the portrait create and apply custom Art Brush. Let’s get started!

9 Tips for Photographing Kids

We all know that working with kids is as tough as it gets. They’re energetic, fast, and often don’t pay much attention to what is going on around them.

How to Use Your Camera to Detect Eye Cancer in Children

When asked how to diagnose eye cancer, the first things that come to mind are usually lots of lab work, trips to doctor’s offices, and sitting nervously in waiting rooms. Few of us ever imagine that we might hold the key to early detection of children’s eye cancer right in our hands! Check out the innovative campaign the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust has put out showing parents perhaps the simplest test ever for finding cancer.

Portrait Photography: A Basic Guide to Posing

Posing is as integral to portrait photography as the right lens and the right camera angle. A lot of photographers learn this the hard way. If you’re a portrait photographer or do family and wedding photography you know how important posing can be.

Intro to DSLR Cameras for Absolute Beginners

Today, if someone’s getting into photography, it’s almost definitely going to be digital. It’s a great place to start, since you can afford to take as many photos as you like until you get the shot you like. And, it’s not as hard as you may think.

Stop Motion Photography Tips

Stop motion animation has been used as far back as the original King Kong film. King Kong was simply a stiff metal skeleton frame that was then covered in a moldable material and sculpted to look like a gorilla. Because the skeleton of the sculpture was stiff, this allowed the artist to make small and deliberate changes to the sculpture that could be photographed frame by frame.

How to Detect an Exoplanet with Your DSLR

Pointing a DSLR at the sky is a popular past time for many photographers, but detecting an exoplanet with anything less than a telescope is a bit, well, unusual. If you’re a photographer with a fascination for space and a love of DIY projects, this tutorial from IEEE Spectrum might be right down your alley.

Celebrity Portrait Photographer Demystifies His Lighting Setup

Have you ever looked at some of the amazing portraiture on the cover of Rolling Stone or Vanity Fair and wondered how it was done? You may not have heard of Mark Seliger, but you’ve certainly seen some of his work.

How to Make a Polaroid Style Photo in Photoshop

We all know that certain photography techniques die out when better and newer technology replaces them. That’s what’s going on with the film at the moment. There are fewer and fewer manufacturers producing film, and even fewer shops developing it.

5 More Tips for Taking Pictures of Christmas Lights

When shooting Christmas lights, the time of the day when you make your exposures is critical. The best pictures of Christmas lights turn out when the ambient light is of the same intensity as the Christmas lights themselves.

Photoshop: Personalize Your Photos into Fun, Memorable Images!

Photoshop CC 2014 tutorial showing how to create fun, memorable images of your photos and add personalized text to remember the moment.

How to Create An Illustrative Winter Seasonal Greeting Card

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a beautiful, snowy greeting card in Adobe Illustrator. This includes creating a Pattern Brush of tiny houses, to text warps, drawing simple-shaped holly berries and making two fills; as well as learning how to use the Symbol Sprayer Tool.

How to Paint a Fantasy Woman Portrait with Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to paint a fantasy woman portrait with Photoshop. You’ll learn how to use brush to paint properly as well as take care of details. A graphic tablet is highly recommended for this tutorial.

Add/Remove Input Fields Dynamically with jQuery

In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to add and remove the dynamic input fields by using jQuery.

Picture-Taking Tips for All Kinds of Christmas Situations

This is a time of year that presents unexpected places, setups and ideas for you and your camera. So put on that Santa Claus hat and start singing some Bing Crosby tunes because here are some killer tips for capturing the essence of the holidays.

The Importance Of Tuning Your Camera’s Diopter

A photograph, like most everything, is often only as strong as it’s weakest point. How do you know your are perceiving a scene through your camera as sharp as possible? The shockingly simple answer is by adjusting the camera’s diopter. Here's how!

Photoshop: Transform Yourself into an Animal!

Photoshop CC 2014 tutorial showing how to realistically blend an animal’s face onto a person.

How to Make a Nakamura Lock Paper Airplane

This is how you make an amazing paper airplane called "The Nakamura Lock." Don't throw it too far. You just want to give it a slight, light push straight ahead of you. Then let it go. If your folds are exact, your plane will go up to .

How to Calculate the Dividend Payout Ratio

In finance, the dividend payout ratio is a way of measuring the fraction of a company's earnings that are paid to investors in the form of dividends rather than being re-invested in the company in a given time period (usually one year). In general, companies with higher dividend ratios tend to be older, more established companies that have already grown significantly, while companies with low pay out ratios tend to be younger companies with high growth potential. To find a business's dividend payout ratio for a given time period, use either the formula Dividends paid/Net income or Yearly dividends per share/Earnings per share — both are equivalent.

How to Kill a Tree Stump

If you have a tree stump in your yard that’s producing new shoots, you’ve got to kill it or it may just keep growing. A half-dead tree stump is an unsightly obstacle that won’t go away on its own. There are four main ways to kill a stump: you can soak it with a salt solution, burn it, shield it from the sun or chop it up. After it’s dead, you can remove the stump and fill in the hole.

How to Get That Guy to Fall for You

Do you get butterflies when that certain someone comes your way? Are you looking to show that guy that you're a great catch? Never fear! There are some good ways to get him noticing you through flirting, wearing the right things, and listening to what he has to say.

How to Make a Butterfly Origami

Origami, the Japanese art of paper-folding, dates back centuries. Origami creations range from simple and delightful to complex and astounding. Origami butterflies are an easy beginner project, making them a perfect children's activity. All you need is a piece of square paper, and with a few folds, you'll have an ethereal paper creature! Give your butterfly as a present, attach one to gift wrapping, or simply use it to brighten up a room.

How to Create a PowerPoint Presentation

No matter what the topic, a PowerPoint presentation can help you communicate an idea to an audience. Learn the basics before proceeding. These methods will teach you how to create a presentation from a PowerPoint template or create a fully customized presentation. Here are some steps to get you started.

How to Make Lavender Oil

Long loved for its delightful fragrance and beauty, lavender oil may also be used to soothe injured or itchy skin, aid sleep, or simply create a pleasant massage oil. The lavender-infused oil or balm below are excellent choices for home recipes, as they are easy to make, can be used with any amount of lavender, and result in a ready-to-use product. You may choose to make a lavender essential oil instead, but be aware that the process can be difficult, and results in a much smaller quantity of highly concentrated oil that may need to be placed in another oil anyway before use.

How to Be the Best Student in Your Class

Do you want to impress your teacher? Maybe you just want to get the most out of your school year. Whatever your reason for wanting to be the best student in your class, there are a couple of different ways you're going to want to improve yourself. Being a great student is about more than just making the grade; it's also being a good person and showing your teacher that you take their class seriously.

How to Make a Fluffernutter

A fluffernutter is a sweet and delicious sandwich that you can have for lunch, dessert, as a snack, or really whenever you're having a craving for some peanut butter and marshmallow goodness. All you need to make one is some peanut butter, marshmallow fluff, and two pieces of bread.

How to Forget a Person

At the end of a relationship, it often seems like life is incapable of moving forward. This person is everywhere and moving on right now just isn’t an option. However, that’s not how things have to be. By modifying your environment, taking a hold of your thinking, and busying your life, they can easily be a thing of the past. Follow the steps below to forget this person and move on to a happier, healthier, complete you.

How to Crochet a Shell Stitch

Essentially, a shell stitch consists of any stitch pattern in which multiple double crochets are worked into the same stitch. There are both simple versions of the shell stitch and more complex ones. Playing with a few different types will give you the opportunity to find the look you like the best.

How to Grow Avocados

Avocados — the smooth, creamy, nutrient-filled fruit that is essential to dishes like guacamole, can be grown from the pit that is leftover after eating the fruit. Though avocado trees grown from a pit can take quite some time to produce fruit of their own (sometimes as long as 7-15 years), growing an avocado tree is a fun, rewarding project that leaves you with a great-looking tree in the meantime. Once your tree is grown, you can wait for avocados to begin growing or jump start the process by grafting or budding productive plant limbs to your tree. Regardless of the method you choose, learn how to grow your own avocados from scratch by starting with Step 1 below!

Image into Drawing using Photoshop | Video

In this tutorial, you will learn how to turn your image into a drawing using filters, blending options and your other basic Photoshop tools.

Behind the Scenes of a New Zealand Timelapse

I asked Williams if he could share a few details about his process for PictureCorrect readers, and he kindly provided lots of background information for aspiring timelapse photographers.

Getting started with Bootstrap

For any front-ender or coder, sooner or later the time comes to create his/her own small framework. It usually consists of those rules and functions that had to be repeated in every recent project.

Brain text effect.

Realistic "Smart Idea" 3D letters. Learn how to create realistic brain text effect. This Adobe Photoshop tutorial will show how to apply gray cells, blood vessel texture and light reflections to the 3D shapes.

How to Create Cinematic Headshots Using Natural Light and Flash

Most photographers aren’t fortunate enough to have a permanent studio setting where they can spend time developing a personalized lighting setup that provides them with a consistent body of work. Rather, most professionals travel to photo shoots and have to work with the light and backgrounds that are available on site.

How to Fold a Hexaflexagon

Hexaflexagons look like standard hexagons from the front, but they hide many more surfaces within. Folding a hexaflexagon is a fun, quick craft that can trigger a higher appreciation of geometry. There are a few different hexaflexagons you can fold, among which the trihexaflexagon and hexaflexagon are the easiest to master. Keep reading to learn more.

How to Make an Origami Spaceship

The following steps will help you create your own origami spaceship. The design is popular in Singapore and is inspired by Crush Gear, the Japanese racing car series.

How to Be Environmentally Friendly

By now it’s clear that if we want to live on a planet with clean water, fresh air and a diversity of plants and animals, we have to do everything we can to protect the earth’s health. Being environmentally friendly means having a lifestyle that helps the earth more than you hurt it, and speaking up when you see the world around you being harmed. Conserving water, driving less often, gardening, and sticking up for animals are all good ways to start helping. See Step 1 to learn more ways to make caring for the environment part of your daily life.

How to Fire an Attorney

The relationship between an attorney and client is intended to be professional and, ultimately, beneficial to both parties. You always have the right to fire an attorney, especially if you feel he or she isn’t acting in your best interest. However, before you do, you should carefully consider the costs and time you’ll need to spend on finding another attorney. To learn more about how to make the decision to switch attorneys and fire the one you have, see Step 1.

How to Tell if a Guy Is Interested in You

So you've met this great guy, and you've maybe been flirting a little bit, how do you tell if he's actually interested? While these signs are not an exact science, it's pretty likely if he's exhibiting more than a couple of these actions and signals that he's interested in you. So pay attention, he'll probably give you some good subconscious clues to how he's feeling.

How to Disable an Application in Android

These days, Android phones are loaded with lot of applications. But some we may find useless and we don't want them to occupy memory. These applications cannot be deleted permanently but can be disabled so that they do not acquire much space.

How to Keep a Food Diary

Keeping a food diary gives you an accurate picture of what you eat every day. It's a good way to gain more control over your diet, since without recording what you eat you might not notice how many calories you're consuming. If you have indigestion or another medical issue, keeping a food diary can help you figure out what ingredient might be causing the problem. See Step 1 to learn how to track what you eat and analyze your findings.

How to Understand Yourself

Sometimes you find yourself doing things and you have no idea why. Why did you yell at your son? Why did you choose to stay with your current job instead of taking a new one? Why did you argue with your parents about something you don't even care about? Our subconscious controls a huge amount of our behavior and thus the reasoning behind many of our decisions in life can be shrouded in mystery. However, if you know how to look, you can gain a greater understanding of yourself: why you make the decisions that you do, what makes you happy, and how you might change for the better.

How to Control Stuttering

Most people have experienced dread of public speaking, or severe anxiety before an interview. While stuttering and stammering is a physical speech impediment, one of its major effects is to cause this fear in everyday conversation, and this fear in turn makes the stutter worse. While there is no way to cure a stutter completely, breaking this cycle of anxiety and stress can reduce the severity of the stutter and minimize its effect on your life.

How to Make Pasta Primavera

While the term "primavera" is defined as the spring season, in culinary terms, it's typically referred to crisp vegetables in the spring. The possibilities and vegetable combinations are endless. Primavera sauce is usually an olive oil and garlic base, but is also commonly an Alfredo or heavy cream base. Here is how to make a simple pasta primavera version using Alfredo sauce.

How to Plan a Date

You worked up the nerve, asked out your crush, and the answer was “Yes!” — now what? Whether you go with the classic and reliable dinner-and-a-movie date or choose something more adventurous, the main goal is to plan something fun with a romantic element. As long as you put some thought into your date partner’s preferences, you’re bound to have a good time.

How to Graft Plants

Grafting is a technique of combining two plants or pieces of plants so they grow together. This allows you to combine the qualities of a strong, disease-resistant plant with the qualities of another plant, usually one that produces good fruit or attractive flowers. While there are many methods of grafting, the methods described here should allow you to graft almost any vegetable or fruit seedling, flowering bush, and even certain trees such as citrus trees. For information on grafting larger branches or different types of trees, see the article Graft a Tree.

How to Face Challenges

Everyone faces challenges in their life. Even people that seem like everything comes so easily to them. So how does everyone cope? How to you keep from just giving up and moving to Antigua? We'll help you change your outlook with a few coping skills and strategies and we'll walk you through the steps you need to take in order to tackle that challenge like a champ.

How to Play Sky Block in Minecraft

Have you gotten bored with playing MineCraft in Survival or on a Server? Or do you want to play a challenging custom map? Well Sky Block can provide a truly challenging and unique game mode to MineCraft.

10 Ways To Boost Your Photography (Even If You're a Beginner)

Are you just starting out in photography? If you are, then here’s a helpful list of pointers pertaining to digital photography basics. These pointers will give your images a massive kick start in terms of quality, and it doesn’t matter what camera you have.

A Fascinating Look at the Tintype Photography Process

Interestingly, Shindler says that the creating the plates is a quite simple process (they aren’t manufactured anywhere) and the processing afterwards is also quite simple. This begs the question: why aren’t many people doing it? It is obviously cool and unique. And it brings you back to the roots of photography. I’ll certainly try it out, if I can manage to find the ingredients.

Light and Motion Combine for Beautiful Photographs of Kayakers

The above album shows the movement of a kayaker’s paddle through the water. Orlando’s calls these types of images “motion exposure.”

How to Set Custom White Balance with a Gray Card

Steele says that if you want accurate color in your photographs, you need to know how to set white balance. He gives us two ways to do so: setting white balance directly in your camera while shooting, and altering white balance in post-production.