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How to Turn Your Computer into a Retro Game Arcade. While I've never heard the term "freezes" for save states, they are a very useful feature. However, a word of caution — be careful to not overuse them. They can really cheapen a game if you use them too much. You start out just using them to make saving and loading a little bit faster, but before you know it, you're saving in times you have no business saving, like in the middle of a long RPG battle, just redoing any mistake you make. It's really tempting, believe me, but try not to use them to the point of basically cheating in a game.

I've actually switched over more to emulators on my Wii partially because of the fact that saving and loading save states is slower and less tempting. But yeah, nice guide. I played... a lot of SNES games emulated, far more than I ever did on an actual SNES. Oh, and one last thing — having played on emulators for at least a decade, I don't even know why you put the section in on using a keyboard. Learn to Pick Locks for Fun and an Increased Understanding of Security. How to Break Into a Windows PC (and Prevent It from Happening to You) How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network's WEP Password with BackTrack.

Cameras [pinhole.cz] How To Make a Secret Hollow Book: The first step into making the hollow book is to select a book. Make sure this is a book your own, and not one belonging to the library, or your family. I suggest rummaging through books at yard/garage sales. Make sure it is a hardback; otherwise you will cut all the way through the other side when you are cutting out the insides.You'll also need: Elmer's white gluea container to hold glue solution (I've chosen a film canister)X-acto knife, and/or box cutter.

Mix a solution of white glue and water. Holding the remaining pages together, brush the edges with the glue solution - enough to soak in pretty well, but not too drippy. Allow this to dry, but use a spacer so the first couple pages, and the front cover don't get stuck. When dry, open the book to the first glued page. Draw out a half-inch boarder around the edge on all four sides. Using a strait edge and knife, cut out along the inside of the line. Continue cutting down through the layers. Remember that first page we saved? How to Whistle With Your Fingers.

How to Control Multiple Computers with a Single Keyboard and Mouse. How to Create an Attractive, Customized Desktop HUD with Rainmeter. Mixing Up Illustration: Combining Analog And Digital Techniques. Advertisement In the digital age, don’t forget to use your digits! Your hands are the original digital devices— Lynda Barry People often ask how I arrived at a finished illustration.

Honestly, it’s different every time, but it always starts with a hand-drawn sketch. Sometimes, I paint it completely by hand; sometimes I’ll scan in a pencil drawing. Many of my pieces are 100% analog that I’ll show only at shops or galleries. Sketching It Out Concepting for me always starts with pencil and paper. Researching This is the most underestimated part of the process, but one of the most important. Some artists who always inspire me are Mary Blair, Alice Provensen, Charley Harper, Maurice Noble and Eyvind Earle. Also, if I’m drawing an elephant’s skin, or wood on a camera, or a band on a helmet, I’ll want to take a close look at the real thing. Crafting Your Own Brushes I do this because I want my brushes to be my own.

Scanning It All In Here is a scan of my original sketch. Selecting A Color Palette. Related si galerii inspirationale3D Studio Max – Basics « Cum se joaca Whist. Jocul de Whist este unul dintre cele mai populare jocuri de la noi din tara, se poate juca oriunde atata timp cat dispui de un pachet de carti de joc, o coala de hartie si un pix. Whist se poate juca si online, gasesti pe net numeroase site-uri care ofera platforma de joc.

Numarul de jucatori Minim jucatori: 3 Maxim jucatori: 6 Whistul este un joc individual. Cartile la Whist Se aleg din pachetul de carti cate 8 carti pentru fiecare jucator incepand cu cartile cele mai mari. Ordinea cartilor este standard: A cea mai mare, apoi K, D, J, 10 etc. 3 jucatori - 24 carti- A, K, D, J, 10, 9 4 jucatori- 32 carti - A, K, D, J, 10, 9, 8, 7 5 jucatori - 40 carti - A, K, D, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 6 jucatori - 48 carti - A, K, D, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 Structura jocului de Whist In functie de numarul de jucatori, initial se vor imparti cate o singura carte la fiecare: 3 jucatori => 3 jocuri de o carte, 4 jucatori => 4 jocuri de o carte. Atu-ul Dupa ce se distribuie cartile unei maini, se intoarce o carte.

An In-Depth Study Of Symbols In Illustrator CS5. Advertisement For drawing and painting digital illustrations, Adobe Illustrator is a favorite among designers for many reasons. One of the reasons is some of the amazing time-saving features that come with it. The Symbols feature in Illustrator does just this: it saves valuable time by creating a “symbol,” or copy, of an object.

This means that all of the time you have spent creating a minutely detailed flower does not have to be repeated. Instead, simply save the flower as a symbol for future use. Plus, symbols greatly reduce the size of image files. Illustrator makes it easy to use symbols multiple times within a document as well. CS5 makes working with symbols even easier by adding a few new features, explained below. The topics covered in this article are: Basic Symbol Use Some of the actions for Symbols are quite easy to figure out just by playing around with them, while others take some explanation. Symbols Panel 101 To select a symbol in the panel, click on the icon. Creating Symbols. How To Make 3d images - OpenTutorial. How to Make Your Own Eye-Popping 3-D Pictures Intro Since settling in on the red planet, the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity have sent back a number of 3-D postcards to countless fans outfitted in red- and blue-tinted spectacles.

To some, the realistic pictures of the rocky martian terrain may seem magical, but the concept behind the illusion is in fact quite simple. "Basically, 3-D pictures trick your brain into doing what it does all the time in the real world," says Zareh Gorjian, a graphic artist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who makes 3-D pictures and animations of Mars for a living, both the black-and-white kind and the more advanced color versions. So simple is the trick that, with a little effort, anybody with a camera, a computer equipped with photo-editing software, and a pair of tinted glasses can make their own 3-D pictures of Mars, family members, pets or anything else worth placing in front of a lens. Video Tutorial The Process width:182px;

Create a 60′s Psychedelic Style Concert Poster. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to create a retro 1960s psychedelic concert poster. This tutorial relies heavily on the use of the Warp Tool, but includes a few other techniques as well. Let's get started. Create a new document with a poster-like size ratio. Visualize how you want the document to be laid out and draw some rough guides with the Brush Tool (B) on a new layer called "guides". I drew several different compartments that will each contain a different piece of text and one that will contain an image.

Make a solid color adjustment layer and fill it with a deep purple. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool(U). Now to set the first bit of text. Go Edit>Transform>Warp and warp the text to fit the compartment. Now let's go back in and change the color on some of this text. Many of these old posters were screen printed. The thing that is really going to make this look good and realistic is some texture. Now let's move on to our image that will fill the rest of the poster.