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You may have noticed that BittBox looks a little different! In the spirit of the redesign, I’ve got some free stuff! I’ve got 3 copies of some premium Photoshop Brushes (72 Distressed Paper Brushes) and premium textures (50 Grunge Metal & Rust Textures) from Photoshop Island to give away.Be sure to read the rules and good luck!
I found these vintage book cover textures laying around on my hard drive the other day, going unshared. I think they were leftovers from a previous set a couple of years ago, but I thought they are useful enough to share with you guys. Hopefully they’ll help add a little vintage flair to your designs. Enjoy!
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Today’s freebie comes from our fine friends at VintageVectors.com. They’ve provided us with an awesome set of vintage balloon and airship illustrations that were carefully converted to vector format. They perfect for illustration work or adding a little vintage flair to your website.
Make sure you check out more of the quality vintage vectors over at VintageVectors, they’re free and ready to be utilized in your designs. Enjoy!
Bokeh textures are some of the most beautiful and rare resources out there. If you’re in need of a good bokeh image, it can pay off to make your own rather than using a pre-made one. In this tutorial I’ll go over creating bokeh using both a digital camera or photoshop. Let’s get started!
Creating Bokeh using a DSLR
Have a camera? Awesome. Photographing bokeh textures is super easy, all you need is a suitable light source. Here I’ve used a small set of christmas lights, but other things will work too: city skylings at night, streetlights, stars, just have some playing around with it.
I’ll be using an older model Canon Rebel with a stock lens to shoot these. First, I set up the lights in front of a black curtain. It helps if you can isolate the light source as much as possible.
For this image, I used the following settings: zoomed into 55mm, shutter: 1/100 sec, F5.6, manual focus set to blur the image.
Today’s textures came from an old abandoned one room school around here. I love how old crumbling buildings like this have the ability to tell their stories through the textures I can capture. I need to go back and shoot the rest of the building sometime, but that’s another post. These textures will work perfect for adding some vintage mood to your designs or photos. Enjoy!
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One of the most oft questions I get asked on my blog Lost & Taken isn’t about the textures, it’s “How did you create your subtle background image?”. It’s actually a pretty quick process in Photoshop, but I’ve taken the liberty of putting together 9 different seamless noise-y patterns to help save you guys a little extra time. The patterns are a combination of noise and grunge, with some of them coming from photographs and others being generated by the computer. They’re perfectly seamless and will work great for website backgrounds and many other projects.
If you’re looking for a good way to put them to use check out what’s tagged with “noise” on Dribbble. There are all kinds of awesome designs on there that utilize patterns just like these.
I’ve included nine high-res .JPG files that you can edit/modify to your liking. I’ve also included a Photoshop .PAT file if you’re in need of a quick pattern fix. Both the .JPG and .PAT files are included in the download at the bottom of the post. Enjoy!
Today we’ve got a rad set of paper textures that have been overlayed with images of blue skies and clouds to give the overall texture a unique feel. These images were made by designer Callum Chapman for me a long time ago and they’ve been lying dormant on my hard drive until now. We hope you find them useful, enjoy!
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