Archive for April, 2008
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
It’s been over a year since the first edition of this post, and since it was by far the most popular BittBox post ever (and also the most ripped off), I thought it was due time for another. So I thought I’d lighten things up a bit and, back by popular demand….25 MORE reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer. These are in no particular order but I gave them numbers so you all could reference them in the comments if you like. OK, here we go..
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You’ve had a client that thought they knew more about design than you.
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
My friends over at Flashloaded have done it again. They’ve just released a new 3D Wall component for CS3, and I have 2 copies to give away to 2 lucky BittBoxers! I’ve had a chance to review this component and I must say, it’s very, very sexy. I can see this coming in very useful for some portfolio sites, or client image galleries. The 3d Wall component is an interactive 3D thumbnail gallery boasting a ton of features and is extremely customizable. Contest rules after the jump…
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
I’ve only been making textures for a while now, but everyone seems to love them. I know I can’t ever get enough textures either. So I’ve been surfing and made a list of sites that offer free textures to download. Some have more than others, and some sites have higher resolution images than others, but they all have one thing in common, free downloads.
1. TextureKing
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
In this tutorial, I’m going to cover several things that effect the way we use Illustrator brushes. Remember, there are 4 types of Illustrator brushes, and this tutorial will be covering “Art” brushes. There are many things that effect the way your brush stroke will take form, and I hope by the end of this tutorial, you have a better idea of what you can tweak to get the results you’re looking for when using your art brushes.
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
Now that I’m on a new server, and I’m done venting, how about some free stuff. I took the camera for a trip around the neighborhood and captured some wood textures that I hope everyone will enjoy. They’re all 2500px wide, and I tried to get a pretty good variety. Download at the bottom of the page ;)
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
If you’ve had trouble accessing BittBox in the past few days, I apologize. I’ve been with GoDaddy for over 5 years, and it’s had it’s ups and downs, but I just couldn’t take it anymore, so I got pissed and switched to (mt) Media Temple over-night. Here’s my story:
A few days ago I submitted a trouble ticket when some software on my GoDaddy server locked up, and a few hours later, they replied stating that they had resolved the issue, and charged me $75. Great……wait, what? My site doesn’t work anymore!
I hadn’t changed a single setting on my server and the BittBox homepage wouldn’t load. So I called GoDaddy again, and another 6 hours go by, and they tell me that it’s my .htaccess file that’s causing the problem. So, in a nutshell, not only was my site down, but I PAID GoDaddy $75 to f*ck it up. Awesome, right?
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
Liquid Resize is a content aware image resizer that allows yo to resize images without the typical restrictions of the aspect ratio. You can download Liquid Resize as a standalone application for product review purposes from onOne Software, but in it’s final form, Liquid Resize is slated to be a Photoshop Plugin. (pricing not yet released) Even if you hate demo versions, the trail period is 3 months, and it’s fully functional, meaning you can save your images without watermarks and such.
[via: PhotoshopNews] [image by: bryce_edwards]
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- New Blog Post: Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Vintage Paper Textures: http://t.co/tDhqAj8C
- New Blog Post: Freebie Friday: 7 Script Handwriting Brushes: These brushes are each 2500px and will be a versat... http://t.co/9FjbOivQ
- New Blog Post: Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Beach Stone Textures: http://t.co/Y8VIPzhp
- New Blog Post: How Web Developers and Designers can Work Together: Within any field of application production yo... http://t.co/Fki9vQ5o
