Archive for June, 2008

Found Freebie: Hi-Res “Acrylic” Photoshop Brushes

June 27, 2008 | Posted in Freebies | 27 Comments »

BittBox reader Jeffrey Gardner has offered up some of his Photoshop brushes over at his site, TheShoreways.com and asked me to help get the word out. There are 25 brushes in the set, and they are super high resolution, all around 2500px is size. Thanks Jeffrey, and everyone else, Click Here or on the image below for your downloading pleasure :)

Found Freebie: Hi-Res

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Photoshop: How To Make An Awesome Grungy Paper Texture From Scratch

June 25, 2008 | Posted in Photoshop | 36 Comments »

Many of you might remember my Free High-Res Grungy Paper Textures I gave away a while back. I had a lot of requests for a tutorial on how I actually made those textures, so I here we are. Fire up good ‘ol Photoshop, have a scanner handy, and let’s dive in, shall we :)

Photoshop: How To Make An Awesome Grungy Paper Texture From Scratch
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Fix A Broken Photoshop Without Re-Installing

June 18, 2008 | Posted in Photoshop | 43 Comments »

I want to share a very useful tip with all of you who have ever wanted to throw your computer across the room because of Photoshop for one reason or another. It’s inevitable, every once in a blue moon, software can just make your day a living hell for no obvious reason. It can be anything from the Layers palette won’t show up, to menu items grayed out when they shouldn’t be. I want to show you a quick way to put your problems behind you without having to re-install Photoshop.

Fix A Broken Photoshop Without Re-Installing
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Congratulations to the Swift3D Winners!

June 18, 2008 | Posted in News | 14 Comments »

The contest is over and the winners have been notified! Congratulations to The Agile Badger, Jessica, and Brian, the 3 lucky winners of their very own copy of Swift3D v5, made possible by Electric Rain Software. It was a great contest with over 700 entries making it the second biggest contest to date. If you didn’t win, but you just have to have a copy, remember that you can get 15% of Swift3D with the discount code of ‘BITTBOX. ‘ Again, congrats to the winners, I hope you enjoy the software, and I hope it makes your life a little easier :)

Free Stuff: 3 Copies of Swift3D V5 Up for Grabs, Comment to Win
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Free Stuff: 3 Copies of Swift3D V5 Up for Grabs, Comment to Win

June 12, 2008 | Posted in Freebies, Software | 721 Comments »

Its time for some more free stuff everyone, and I have a good little giveaway for you! The kind folks over at Electric Rain have offered up 3 copies of Swift3D V5 ($249 value each) to 3 lucky BittBox commenters. If you’re not familiar with Swift3D, it’s a very powerful 3D modeling/animation software that makes it super easy and fast to create stunning 3D animations and import them directly into Flash without writing a single line of code. Even if you don’t win, enter the promotional code “BITTBOX” to save 15% off the regular price. Details and more on the software after the jump.

Free Stuff: 3 Copies of Swift3D V5 Up for Grabs, Comment to Win
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