Archive for November, 2007

Holiday Savings: 20% Off GoMedia Vectors

My affiliates over at GoMedia (Arsenal) have announced a sale that is definitely noteworthy. All you have to do is enter the code “holidayfun” during checkout, and you save 20% off your entire order. On top of the 20% discount, GoMedia is now offering Gift Certificates (the 20% doesn’t apply to Gift Certificates). Talk about [...]

Get More-Natural Adjustments with the Illustrator “Reshape” Tool

A hidden gem in my opinion, Illustrator’s “Reshape” tool can come in very handy in a variety of situations. In a nutshell, the Reshape tool allows you to drag a single point on a path and it tries to retain the overall shape of the entire path, while you only move the one anchor point. [...]

Found Freebie: Monthly Free Vectors from iStock

I knew iStockPhoto.com gives away a free (high-res) image each week, but I was completely unaware that they also give away a free vector each month (and video, if you’re into that). I’m not sure how long this has been going on, but I stumbled onto the vector freebie in one of the latest iStock [...]

Workflow: Preview Fonts in Finder [Leopard Only]

A very welcome new feature in Leopard is the ability to view fonts directly in the finder (Yay!). You can get a full-alphabet-preview in two places: Column view, and Quick Look. The rest of the views display an icon with the letters “Ag.” Hitting spacebar from any view will give you and alphabet preview (in [...]

Free Vectors: Paper/Notepads

For those of you that read BittBox via RSS, I’m dropping the “Random Free Vectors - Part X” and simply shortening it to “Free Vectors.” This gives me more room for description, and you probably don’t care which set it is anyway. You’d probably find a description much more useful. As for this set of [...]