Photoshop Image Generator Tricks

If you have any questions regarding the tutorial, feel free to leave a comment.

How to make Nit Pick's Guacamole

This is my recipe for guacamole, you can adjust accordingly if need be.

What you need:

• 1 small avocado
• Optional: 1 Cocktail Tomato (looks like a regular tomato but larger than a grape and a lot smaller than a regular tomato)
• Smoked Paprika
• Cayenne Pepper
• Garlic Powder
• Molly McButter or Powdered Butter
• Salt and Pepper
• Knife, spoon, fork and a bowl
• Optional: Steak burger seasoning

Cut along the whole avocado length wise, twist the avocado along the edges where you cut.

Use the spoon to dig the seed out then throw the seed away.

With the same spoon, dig the green pulp out into the bowl.

---

If you do not want tomatoes, you can skip the tomato preparation.

Cut the tomato on it's side

Gut the tomato's seeds with a spoon.

Tomatoes are easier and less messy to dice after when you do.

It is up to you if you want to cut the pit out, it makes it easier for me to dice the tomato.

Dice the tomato into small bite size bits. Then put it in with the avocado pulp.

---

These are the particular brands of ingredients that I use.

When I say 'taps' as a measurement, it is a good medium pressure tap on the shaker.  If the shaker pours out too much or too little; adjust accordingly.

5 one second squirts of lime juice
5 taps of paprika
3 taps of Molly Mcbutter
3 turns of a pepper grinder or pinches of ground pepper
3 taps worth of cayenne pepper
Optional: 2-3 taps of steak burger seasoning
2-3 taps of garlic powder
A pinch of salt

If you have a steak burger seasoning, put 3 shakes into the mix.

Squish, mash and mix everything together with a spoon and fork.

Lime juice will keep the guacamole from going brown for a long while.

How to Make a Good Video Tutorial

For the free budget:

Stuff you need

1. Camstudio to record
2. Microphone or Notepad
3. Windows Movie Maker (or Macintosh equivalents) and Audacity or other free audio editing programs.

Camstudio is a freeware screen recorder.  When running the installation file from the zip file, it will try to trick you into installing things that you do not need. Click the first button that says 'next' in the installer, then click on every 'decline' button and it will start installing only Camstudio.  It will install on the default path (usually the C drive or where you installed your Operating System of choice).

Install Audacity, it's for fixing and leveling the audio of your recording.

A good microphone is important but all microphones distort when you say p or w words when you talk into it, an easy fix is to not directly into it.  Do some test recordings to see if the audio is loud enough when you talk away from it.  You can fix it after.

It helps if you know the program.  So write the steps down to complete the task in your tutorial.  Cross compare other people's tutorials to see if they have the same idea.  It is up to you if you want an intro and an outro. If you do not have microphone, you can show the steps on screen that you wrote down.  Make sure it is clean and legible.

If you do have a microphone, have a clean recording with no ums, uhs, coughing or throat clearing. Speak slowly and clearly.

SET UP

It is best to set up Camstudio before pressing the record button.  Once you launch the program, a little window will pop up showing this.  ↓

Click on Options, then Video Settings.

These are good settings for mostly lag free recording.  Match the settings then click on OK.  Go to options again and check "Record audio from microphone"

Go to Audio Options and click Audio Options for Microphone.

Change the Audio Capture Device to your microphone that you have plugged in.  If it is not listed, restart the program.

RECORDING

Have your script and what you are teaching ready to go.  Before you press record and start reading the steps; have what you are teaching like a program for example, ready on screen, bring CamStudio up then click on record.  Have a bit of extra silent still footage in the beginning and end so you can trim where you start and stop the recording.

When you are done recording, go to Windows Movie Maker (if it is not already installed) then click on Add Videos and Photos button.

Drag the edges of the clip that is imported to the beginning and ends where you start and finish talking.  When you are done editing, save the movie under "Youtube Settings"

For a small budget:

Litecam HD is $38.  It is an easy to use program and has a higher framerate.

The rest of the equipment is pretty much the same.

If you want a good microphone, a Blue Microphone Snowball is a great for a tight budget.  Scroll down to "Frequently Bought Together" and buy a pop filter.  You can buy the mic and the pop filter together for $50.  Everything for $90.

Button in center / Reload the page

↓  Copy the HTML into your choice of web editing software (don't highlight the long lines)  ↓

---

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<title>test code</title>
<head>
<script>
function myFunction() {
location.reload();
}

</script>
<style>
body {
background-color: hsla(185,50%,44%,1.00);
}
.wrapper {
text-align: center;
}
.button {
position: absolute;
top: 50%
}
</style>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
  <button class="button" onClick="location.reload();">Reload</button>
</div>
</body>
</html>

---

The script highlighted in yellow is the function to cause the page to reload.  You can rename myFunction to whatever you want.

The style highlighted in blue is optional CSS code.  It centers the button in the middle of the page with a blueish background.  Delete the stuff highlighted in blue and the button will be in the upper right corner.

The 'div' class highlighted in blue connects with the CSS code and it centers the button.  Class="button" is what makes it dead center in the page.

The '<button' tag highlighted in yellow is what creates the button.  Onclick is what happens when you click the button.  In the quotes that says location.reload() is what happens when you click the button.

Just before </button> is the text on the button.  You can make it say anything you want, but it helps if it makes sense.

What is Derp Tutorials?

The basic concept of Derp Tutorials is video or text tutorials that it either gets straight to the point or just lists the steps to accomplish the task.  No fluff, just the needed task.

↓ Here is an example video ↓