IKEA hack: NOT/BLANDA lamp
Materials: – NOT lamp – BLANDA Blank salad bowl – FIXA hole-cutting thingy Description: This hack is pretty self-explanatory. I have one of the old silver NOT lamps, and after…
IKEA hack: custom CAPITA
This may not look very impressive, but I really wish I figured out sooner that the “feet” of the Capita legs can be removed (by simply pulling them out). The…
IKEA hack: Olunda shadowbox
The Olunda is a shadowbox frame displaying 9 pretty boring pictures of ferns. The back of the frame is stapled on, and the staples are relatively easy to pull out…
Doweling by eyeball
How I doweled my cabinet door parts together on sight for lack of a doweling kit: 1: clamp your wood exactly parallel to the edge of your work surface: 2.…
3D mesh generator
I've tried several free programs to convert a height map into a 3D mesh, and I finally found one that sort of works: Extrudy It's a bit weird to use,…
Perspective – a point of view
Preface When I went went looking for a nice introductory text on perspective drawing that I could recommend to others, I found several excellent descriptions of perspective theory and the…
A quick water effect in Photoshop
How I created the water effect in this bath sequence: I use the "ocean ripple" filter to create the water surface, but one must have something to ripple first. I…