INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Fill a spray bottle with warm water. Saturated the hair with the warm mistyour hair should be damp, not dripping. Use a fine tooth comb to detangle your wet haircarefully remove snarls and knots from the locks. Keep the spray bottle nearby. As the hair dries, re-wet the locks. The five-section part is used on clients with average to thinner hair. Part the hair down the center of the headfrom the top of the forehead to the base of the skull. Part the hair horizontally at the top of the ears. This will create a section on the top of the head, known as the top box and two side sections. Twist each section and secure it with a large hair clip. Part the hair at the base of the ears. This will create a section at the base of your skull. Twist each section and secure it with a large hair clip. Make sure the right sections are even with the left sections. top, right side, left side, right crown, left crown, right nape, left nape, and a inch band of loose hair at the hairline. Begin by parting the hair in a straight line from just behind one ear to the just behind the other ear. Create a part on each side of the head along the parietal ridgeapproximately 4 finger widths above the tops of your ears. This will allow you to section off the hair on the top of the head. Comb the hair towards the top of the head, twist, and secure it with a clip. Comb, twist, and clip the hair on the left and right sides of the head. Part the hair down the center of the crown. To isolate the left and right crown sections, part the hair horizontally from just behind the ear to the center part. Comb, twist, and clip the two sections. Divide, comb, and clip the remaining hair at the nape of the neck into a left and a right section.

SUMMARY: Wet the hair. Divide the hair into five sections. Divide thicker hair into seven sections.If the hair you are cutting is thicker, consider dividing it into seven sections:

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Create a new document by clicking on the the Document icon in the Create New window, and specifying the settings for your new document. From the File menu, select Place. Navigate to the file you would like to import and double click the file name. Move your cursor to the location where you want to place your graphic and click your mouse. This will place the image on your page. Adjust the size of your graphic, if necessary, by selecting the picture using the Select tool (V) and dragging a handle while holding the Control + Shift keys (Command + Shift on a Macintosh). This will adjust the graphic's size proportionally. You can access this from a tab group which is located at the right-hand side of your InDesign workspace, or from the toolbar at the top. Click the Fill button and select your desired background color. This will apply your selected color behind the graphic and extend it to the edge of the graphic frame. Pull from a corner of the image while holding the Shift + Alt keys (Shift + Option on a Mac). Don't like the color you chose? Select the eyedropper tool (I) and Alt-click (Option-click) a color in the image to find a background color that matches your image perfectly.

SUMMARY: Launch InDesign. Place an image. Open the Swatches panel. Expand the graphic frame.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: There's no reason to go straight into professional, expensive tools. In fact: it's best to start off with a beginners set because everyone tools differently and what works for someone else may not work for you. You want to be able to experiment. Good starter sets can be bought at very reasonable prices from stores like Tandy, both online and locally. Modeling tools, while technically designed for clay, can be extremely useful for leather crafting as well. Tools like a stylus are commonly used, as are tools like a modeling spoon. You should never cut your leather on scrap wood or any surface with a texture (and of course you don't want to cut on a surface you want to preserve), because the texture can be transferred to the leather and even make the leather more difficult to cut. You want to use a marble or granite cutting board. These can be purchased or you can ask a local contractor or granite supply company for scrap. A rubber mat underneath can dim some of the sound and keep your cutting board in place. A mallet is a universal tool that you will need for doing almost any style of tooling. You want to to use a poly mallet when you start learning to work with leather. Never use a metal mallet and avoid wood mallets (as they are delicate). Rawhide mallets are good but expensive, so if you want to experiment with these, wait until later. If you have to buy tools individually, focus on buying the most basic, most useful tools. A stylus, a swivel knife, a modeling spoon, a beveler, a mallet, and a few basic stamps (often also called single-action tools) will get you through learning the craft. Tools come in a number of sizes and the standard sizes are usually for large, male hands. If you are younger or generally have smaller hands, getting smaller sized tools will make the tool significantly easier to use. Stamps and the traditional shapes of leather working tools almost have a unique language unto themselves. Most of the tools will have names that do not seem to make sense, but almost all of them refer to the traditional cowboy leather designs and the specific purpose those tools were meant to serve. Learning the names for the tools can be extremely useful, especially for understanding instructions that you find online and for finding the tools you need. Tooling leather is just like traditional sculpting: there are lots of tools and everyone uses them in slightly different ways. You should not feel like just because you use a stamp to get one look when it's really for getting another, that you're somehow wrong. Whatever works for you and looks good is fine.

SUMMARY:
Buy a starter tool set. Consider some modeling tools. Get a cutting board. Get a mallet. Focus on the most important tools. Check to be sure that your tools are the best size for you. Understand the language of leather designs. Don't feel constrained to standard usages.