Archive for the Photoshop Category
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](http://www.bittbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ask.jpg "[Ask BB] Saving Patterns in Illy, Pixelated Fonts, and more")
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.
This question has come in through various channels recently, so I thought I’d do a write up on a quick fix. If you’ve ever wondered why your brushes look “pixelated,” there’s a perfectly good explanation. Photoshop isn’t broken, you aren’t missing a setting, and you probably got here because you like keyboard shortcuts.
This is my first Question/Answer post here at BittBox, and I plan on doing this more often. All of these questions came in from twitter, so if you have a Photoshop or Illy question you need answered, you can leave a comment here, or send me a tweet. I’ll save all the questions that come in and try to answer as many as I can. To kick things off I have some answers below, just remember, I can’t answer every single question that comes in because of 2 fundamental reasons: 1) I may not know the answer, or 2) I may not understand what you were asking. Ok, lets try to de-mystify Illy and PS a little, shall we? Thanks for everyone who send in the tweets :)
Last month I published a set of Photoshop brushes called “Destroyed Heraldry” and there were a lot of requests for me to explain how I made them. So here it is, the destroyed heraldry tutorial. It is actually a lot simpler than you might think. It shouldn’t take long, so lets get started…
This one was hard to title, but it’s just a quick workflow tip to save you time. Instead of having to type in demensions and DPI every time you create a new document, you can use a series of keyboard shortcuts to force Photoshop to make a carbon copy of the current document settings. Have a watch :)
This is a very simple Photoshop tip about creating Arrow shapes super fast and easily. This isn’t the only way to do it, but could come in handy for bloggers and tutorial writers. Have a look and see what you think :)
Quick Arrows in Photoshop from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.
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