Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
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!
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
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!
Preview
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
Typography plays a key part in many kinds of design. Some would even say it’s the most important element of web design, in order to correctly portray your message you have to invite the user to read what you have to say. So how do you make your type stand out? In today’s tutorial I want to cover some of the basics of modifying text using Layer Styles in Photoshop. We’ll learn how to create the “letterpress” look, how to overlay textures and patterns, and how to use tools like Stroke and Bevel. Let’s get things started.
Preview:
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
For our inaugural “Freebie Friday”, I’ve got some useful Photoshop Custom Shapes for everyone’s downloading pleasure. These should save you time if you need them, as you won’t have to go into Illustrator to make your own sunbursts on the fly. Just use the custom shape tool, in PS and blam, sunburst. Sunbursts can make I nice background element in a variety of ways. :) (Download after the jump)
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
I’ve got a highly useful set of blue grungy textures for you guys today. I created these in Photoshop by combining paper and grunge textures in various blending layers to achieve the final effect. Let me know if you guys like them and enjoy!
Preview
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
Everyone welcome Caleb Kimbrough! He’s coming on board as the new BittBox Editor. Caleb is the creator of Lost & Taken (among others), a blog full of high quality textures that many of you are probably familiar with. Caleb and I have been collaborating for quite some time now but we’re stepping it up a notch. He will be running the site from now on and will be joined by some other guest writers as well. I’ll still be around with the occasional post, but managing FontDeals.com, and my software, Brush Pilot™ will be where most of my time goes.
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive
Hey everyone, I just launched FontDeals.com, the world’s first font bundle site. For the inaugural bundle, we are selling 15 font families (29 fonts total) for only $49. That’s $506 worth of fonts at a whopping 90% discount ($1.68 per font), and it will only be on the market for 15 days. The first 2000 customers will receive a free Giga Vector Pack 3 from Designious.com. You can see a brief preview of the fonts in the bundle after the jump.
Twitter: bittbox
- New Blog Post: The Reality of Cloud Computing Infographic: The reality of cloud computing infographic by Rackspa... http://t.co/8hNzW0G2
- New Blog Post: Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Antique Postcards: http://t.co/uuuDmWMK
- New Blog Post: Freebie Friday: 4 Chipped Concrete Brushes: Preview Download .ZIP http://t.co/ueiSMgT8
- New Post: Tips for Prototyping Successful Web and Mobile Products http://t.co/5CtU23ud
