Classic Effects

5 things you shouldn’t say to your hairdresser

When you sit down at the salon, here are five things you shouldn’t say to your hairdresser. It’s not about sparing your stylist’s feelings, but avoiding situations that could be disastrous for your hair. I may have made one (or all) of these mistakes in the past, so learn from my experience to improve your...Read More »

Geometry Of The Perfect Haircut: We Ran The Numbers. Now Bring On The Scissors.

Match your hair style to your head shape for the perfect look.

How to Tell Your Barber How to Cut Your Hair

For most guys who aren’t barbers, it can be tough to describe how we want our haircut. If you’re the kind of guy who has trouble articulating the type of haircut you really want, here are a few mens haircut terms that you can use. Mens Haircut Terminology Arch – The arch is the area …

How to Speak Hairdresser: Tips on Getting the Haircut You Want

Bad haircuts: Along with massive acne breakouts, they're one of the most mortifying beauty experiences you can have. To make the most of your crowning...

What a Groom and Groomsmen Should Wear to a Wedding

Wondering what your groom and his guys should wear? Read on!

Jewelry For Men: How to Wear It

How to wear jewelry if you're a man. Really not much to it.

How to Nail Your Hair-to-Beard Ratio

8 new features added to After Effects

After Effects is being beefed up for video pros in a forthcoming update. Here are the highlights.

After Effects CC: Animated Info Graphics & Data Visualization

This 'Animated Infographics & Data Visualization Using After Effects' training course is for beginners. Join instructor Daniel Scott as he shows you how to bring boring data to life using Adobe After Effects CC.

After Effects basics tutorials by Andrew Devis

This author's After Effects plugin turns rose petals into a love heart

The story behind VideoHive author, AndrVlad's After Effects plugin that turns rose petals into a love heart and how he created it.

Make Your Own LUTs With the LUTCalc

Make Your Own LUTs With the LUTCalc - 1D & 3D Cube LUT Calculator v2.1

Draper looks to ultrasound and geometry to reduce CAR-T manufacturing costs

The Charles Stark Draper Lab has developed two microfluidic prototypes to help make the manufacturing of cell therapies cheaper and more efficient.

Fitting After Effects Into A UX Workflow

We all aim to be as agile as possible in today’s fast-paced web design world, while also remaining thoughtful of the end user and those we work with. After Effects is a great tool that enables us to quickly visualize and test robust [animation patterns](www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/05/14/functional-ux-design-animations/) throughout web design, share those with the development team and clients, and even test variants with users to get quick validation…

Side Effects™, Epilogue: 41 hours

During a break in one of the interviews for Side Effects™, I overheard an exchange between two people on set whom I’ll refer to as Adam and Mark because of the sensitive nature of their conversation. Adam told Mark in no uncertain terms that this project was a waste of time because all corporations, even credit unions, […]