Archive for April, 2009

[Ask BB] Saving Patterns in Illy, Pixelated Fonts, and more

Here’s round 2 of the Ask BB series. Some of these questions came in via email, and others via twitter (@bittbox), so If you have a question, let me know. When I get enough questions that I can answer, you might see your question here next time around :) Thanks to everyone for sending in your questions. Let’s get started.

[Ask BB] Saving Patterns in Illy, Pixelated Fonts, and more

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Free Texture Tuesday: Concrete

Exciting news: this marks the 100th texture we’ve given away here on Texture Tuesday! Hopefully you’ll enjoy the next couple hundred as well ;) This week I thought I’d do some concrete textures since I get requests for them all the time and they seem to be pretty popular. Enjoy!

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Free Texture Tuesday: Concrete
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Free Stuff: Designious Vector Packs – Comment to win

Hey everyone, I’ve got some more free vector packs from Designious to give away this week. Like always the winners will be randomly chosen from the comments. 3 winners will receive a megapack of their choice. Remember to read the rules, and good luck!

Free Stuff: Vector Packs

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Free Texture Tuesday: Cracked Dirt

Originally, I was going to do some grass textures this week to help usher in Spring. Then I realized that there just isn’t that much grass around here this early in the year so I though I’d take the idea in the opposite direction. Hopefully we can get to the grass textures soon, but in the meantime enjoy some cracked dirt ones instead!

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Free Texture Tuesday: Cracked Dirt
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Photoshop: Rasterize Shape Layer + Layer Effects (Video)

This is a quick Photoshop tip for the layers palette for rasterizing shape layers combining layer effects at the same time.


Rasterize Shape Layer + Layer Effects in Photoshop from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.

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