Hey everyone, before you blow up the comments about how you already knew this, let me say one thing. Not everyone is an avid user and these little tips are meant to help rid people that are learning Illustrator of some daily frustration with simple answers to simple problems. Today’s question was sent in by Morgan, and it has to do with rulers. Have a watch.

Illustrator 101: Reset Your Rulers from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.

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I’ve been experimenting with panoramas lately and as a result, I found a very nice free program for stitching multiple images together. It’s called Hugin, and its available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. You don’t need a fisheye lens to make panoramas, all you need to do is take a bunch of overlapping images and let Hugin do the rest.

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Hey everyone, I’ve partnered with Alex from Designious.com to give away 5 free Vector Packs to 5 lucky BittBox commenters. Designious is a design studio that creates great vector illustrations and design elements. All their work is hand drawn and most of all, its original. Their studio creates designs for web, print and apparel like t-shirt templates. Check out the Vector Packs Section to see what’s up for grabs. Rules and Details after the jump.

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I have a time saver for you folks. I have a keyboard shortcut I’d like to share it with you. I could have done this with screenshots, but I’m playing around with video these days, so here it is, my first video tutorial. I hope is saves you some time :)

Hidden “Reset” Button in Photoshop Adjustment Palettes from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.

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As many of you know, I’m all about free stuff here at Bittbox. I’d like to bring to your attention Vectorstock.com’s latest re-design, and the addition of a new “Free Vectors” button on the homepage. I’m not entirely sure if the button itself is new, but it’s clearly easier to locate the freebies all in one place. Vectorstock regularly releases free vectors and it’s even better to have them all in one place. As for the re-design itself, you’ll probably agree that its a great improvement on the old site. It’s peppy, responsive, easy to navigate and a new popup preview/zoom script has been added as well. Overall, I say the redesign is a success, especially 1 click access to the freebies! :)

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