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Sep 16, 2010

Turn a photograph of a regular person into an image of everyone's favorite muscular green psychopath! Using the hue slider, saturation tool and the Iwarp function, you can distort your picture in GIMP ...

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Sep 16, 2010

The lomograph technique in photography involves letting light bleed into the shot. Fortunately, you don't need expensive camera equipment to get this same effect. You can use the free GIMP software to ...

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Sep 16, 2010

Want to capture frames from your movies? GOM Media Player has a built in screen capture feature for the video files it plays. You can even zoom in and out, adjust the brightness and contrast, and even ...

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Sep 16, 2010

Handbrake is a free software program you can use to take video files off a DVD or CD and rip it into a format you can use to watch it on iTunes, your iPod.. or even watch them on your XBox 360! Make s ...

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Sep 16, 2010

Dynamic components, such as a staircase that knows it's a staircase, can add a bit of intelligence to your Google SketchUp 7 project. Add pickets to a fence or shelves to a bookshelf when using Sketch ...

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Sep 16, 2010

Google SketchUp offers a new feature in the most recent version of their program - dynamic components. Dynamic components add a certain intelligence to objects within your project, as well as make int ...

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Sep 16, 2010

This tutorial goes into a few more advanced uses of the sections tool in Google SketchUp. You can use this tool to control the display of section cuts, change the width and color of section planes and ...

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Sep 16, 2010

SketchUp is a free 3-D model you can download from the Google website. This tutorial introduces new users to the basic tools, features and functions in order to get started using SketchUp. This also e ...

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Sep 16, 2010

Import a satellite snapshot from Google Earth to Google SketchUp, then use the 3-D editing techniques and a few 2-D photograph as outlined in this tutorial so you can create your own unique image of a ...

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Sep 16, 2010

A useful tutorial for those who like using the software program 3-D coat. If you have a Ptex file and want to keep your texture format, or use an existing UV map so you can work with your figure in Ph ...