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Freebie Friday: 10 Abstract Duct Tape Brushes

Dustin Schmieding — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:55:31 +0000

This Friday’s freebie is a set of 10 maximum resolution (2500×2500) duct tape Photoshop brushes. They will provide a fast and easy way of adding some unique surfacing to your project. If you like these brushes, check out my duct tape texture pack over at Valleys In The Vinyl. Enjoy!

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Free Texture Tuesday: Vintage Book Covers

Caleb Kimbrough — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:28:33 +0000

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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Freebie Friday: Vintage Balloon Vectors

Caleb Kimbrough — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:25:09 +0000

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!

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Free Stuff: Strata Design 3D SE + Strata Foto 3D SE Bundle (3) – Comment to Win

Jay Hilgert — Mon, 02 May 2011 23:47:33 +0000

Ive got some more awesome software up for grabs. My friends at Strata have recently launched some new products that I think you guys (and gals) will love. Strata Design 3D SE and Strata Foto 3D SE. It’s my job to give 3 copies of both in a bundle from the Mac app store to 3 lucky BittBox commenters. Be sure to read the rules, and good luck :)

Contest Rules:

All you have to do to enter is leave a comment. (tweeting is appreciated)
Only comment once.
3 winners will be randomly chosen from the comments.
You must leave an email address in order to win.
Comments will remain open for 1 week.

Excellent Resource: Photoshop Style a Day

Jay Hilgert — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:37:53 +0000

Talk about a priceless time saver! John over at Photoshop Style a Day contacted me recently about his new site. They give away a new Photoshop style each day and we’re talking top quality stuff here. I’m sure I’m not the only one that has downloaded styles in bulk, but I think the idea of having a new style each day is nice. You can keep going back and get something new each time. Photoshop Style a Day is a new launch, so the collection isn’t huge yet, but like I said, top quality stuff. I can’t wait to see this resource grow, and I thought there would be plenty of BittBox readers out there that would enjoy this site as well. You can also submit your own style to be featured and shared with the world if you like :)

Free Stuff: 3 Copies of Swift3D Photoshop Plugin (Windows Only) – Comment to Win

Jay Hilgert — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:54:52 +0000

This week I’ve got a treat for 3 lucky Windows users. My friends at Electric Rain have just released a new Swift3D plugin for Photoshop CS4 Extended, and to spread the word, I’ve got 3 copies to give away! It’s WINDOWS ONLY, (sorry Mac users) so please only comment if you have a Windows machine. If you aren’t familiar with Swift3D, its a 3D modeling and animation software. The plugin aims to add more 3D functionality to Photoshop and it’s packed with features. Some examples can be found here. Good luck everyone :)

Contest Rules:

All you have to do to enter is leave a comment.
Only comment once.
3 winners will be randomly chosen and will receive a free copy of the Swift3D Photoshop Plugin (WINDOWS ONLY) from Electric Rain.
You must leave an email address in order to win.
Please only comment if you have a Windows machine.
Comments will remain open until Monday, March 30th.

35 Stunning Hi-Res “Public Domain” Astronomy Images

Jay Hilgert — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:29:38 +0000

In the wake of Shepard Fairey’s debacle with the AP over the rights to the image he used as reference/inspiration for his wildy popular Obama poster, I wanted to share a list of Public Domain Licensed images, in this case, astronomy. Fairey’s situation should hit home with all pixel junkies out there and remind us that we have to pay close attention to the licenses associated with the images we use in our design work. I’ve compiled a list of beautiful, inspiring astronomy images that all have a Public Domain License.

Astronomy intrigues me. I’m a regular APOD surfer. I love reading about space, and the images of the universe, I find inspiring. Here’s a list of “Public Domain” astronomy images that I put together, all of which I found on Wikimedia. If you aren’t familiar with Wikimedia, it doesn’t have a stellar (pun intended) selection, but it’s a very good source of Public Domain and GNU licensed images. So here we go, let’s start off the list with none other than our very own blue marble.

Earth

Full resolution: 3,000 × 3,075 pixels

Full resolution: 2,048 × 2,048 pixels

Full resolution: 3,000 × 3,002 pixels

Full resolution: 1,696 × 2,074 pixels

Full resolution: 2,458 × 2,458 pixels

Full resolution: 2,400 × 2,400 pixels

Full resolution: 3,097 × 3,000 pixels

The Moon

Full resolution: 1,280 × 978 pixels

Full resolution: 2,560 × 1,920 pixels

Full resolution: 1,986 × 1,986 pixels

Mars

Full resolution: 2,000 × 2,000 pixels

Full resolution: 1,552 × 1,552 pixels

Mars’ moon Phobos

Full resolution: 3,374 × 3,300 pixels

Saturn

Full resolution: 2,766 × 1,364 pixels

Full resolution: 4,000 × 2,527 pixels

Full resolution: 8,888 × 4,544 pixels

Saturn’s moon Rhea

Full resolution: 4,920 × 4,820 pixels

Venus

Full resolution: 4,096 × 4,096 pixels

Jupiter

Full resolution: 2,260 × 3,207 pixels

Galaxies

Full resolution: 6,200 × 6,200 pixels

Full resolution: 1,730 × 1,428 pixels

Full resolution: 5,302 × 3,805 pixels

Full resolution: 4,014 × 3,865 pixels

Full resolution: 3,000 × 2,016 pixels

Full resolution: 6,637 × 3,787 pixels

Full resolution: 6,000 × 4,690 pixels

Full resolution: 3,915 × 3,885 pixels

Full resolution: 11,472 × 6,429 pixels

Full resolution: 8,952 × 6,213 pixels

Nebulae

Full resolution: 6,000 × 2,906 pixels

Full resolution: 3,601 × 4,004 pixels

Full resolution: 4,806 × 3,364 pixels

Full resolution: 3,182 × 1,282 pixels

Full resolution: 18,000 × 18,000 pixels

Free Stuff: Flash Eff Premium Component (x3) – Comment to Win

Jay Hilgert — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:58:55 +0000

I’ve got a some killer free stuff this week folks! Up for grabs are 3 copies of the Flash Eff Premium Flash Component from Jumpeye. What is the Flash Eff Component? Only the most kick-ass animation tool you’ll ever need. It runs in CS3 or Higher (because it requires AS 3.0) and you can literally make killer animations like the one below in SECONDS. The hardest part is choosing which one of the dozens of different transitions to use.

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.bittbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/eff.swf" height="250" width="485" /]

Oh, and Flash Eff isn’t just for text. There are lots of patterns for images and movieclips as well. Check out the Patterns Showcase here »

The Prizes:

3 Commenters will be chosen randomly and will receive a free copy of the Flash Eff Premium Component from Jumpeye

The Rules:

Leave a comment to enter.
Only Comment Once.
You MUST enter an email address while commenting in order to win, because winners will be notified via email.
Winners will be chosen randomly.
Comments will be open until Monday, December 8th.

Good Luck everyone !!!!

BB Free Vectors: Birds in Flight

Jay Hilgert — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:04:22 +0000

On Election Day, I asked everyone what kind of freebies you wanted the most, and the majority of you voted for vectors. So, naturally I made a free vector set for everyone, and here it is. Birds in Flight, 12 vectors available in EPS and SVG formats. Hope you like ‘em! Tweet Tweet :)

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Best of BittBox Part 1: High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Jay Hilgert — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:34:47 +0000

I’ve been making high quality freebies here at BittBox for a little over a year and a half (19 Months). There are 94 posts in my Freebies section, and I thought I’d make a list for people to see all of my stuff in one place. I know how people love lists, so I’m making some of my own. These aren’t all of my freebies, just the cream of the crop. We’ll Kick the series off with my High Resolution Photoshop Brushes. Happy Downloading, here we go :D

Free High-Resolution Photoshop Brushes:

Watercolor Photoshop Brushes »

I am happy to announce BittBox’s first set of Photoshop Brushes (Free). I’m constantly going back and forth between Illustrator and Photoshop in my projects, and I’m starting to pretty much make everything from scratch. I often have trouble finding brushes…

Watercolor Photoshop Brushes – Set II »

In this set of brushes, I went a little more crazy with the strokes. These brushes are more complex than the previous set and were painted on a higher quality paper, so the end result is in fact, much better.…

Leaves Photoshop Brushes »

I actually took leaves from my own back yard and scanned them to make this Hi-Res Photoshop Brush set. There are 10 brushes in the set, and most of them are 2500px in size…

Splatter Photoshop Brushes »

This is my second set of brushes, but my first set made in CS3. My first set (Hi-Res Watercolor Brushes) was pretty popular, so I thought I would keep making more. The smallest brush in this set is 2457px. Hope you like them.…

Floral Photoshop Brushes »

I took a trip to the store, got a bouquet of flowers with a nice variety (I can’t grow flowers to save my life), whipped out my Nikon D-80, and went to town + a few hours of Photoshop tweaking…

Grungy Texture Photoshop Brushes »

In this set you’ll find grungy textures, as well as some rocky cracks. There are 12 brushes in the set, and they are all 2500px. Available for CS3, CS1, and in PNG format for everyone else…

Messy Spraypaint Photoshop Brushes »

These aren’t traditional spraypaint brushes, so “Messy Spraypaint” is as close as I could get to an accurate name. Most of them are 2500px, and I also included PNGs for anyone not using Photoshop…

Grungy Wings Photoshop Brushes »

Believe it or not, but I made these with a sketch pad, a can of spray paint, and a kitchen sponge. It was actually quite fun. I was inspired by a t-shirt I bought recently and decided to churn out a new brush set…

Grungy Watercolor Photoshop Brushes »

These are, as always, super large brushes. There are 10 in the set, and I also included a zip file with PNGs for non-Photoshop users. I’ll be releasing the actual textures themselves in…

Free Stuff: Flashloaded 3D Wall PRO Components (3) – Comment to Win

Jay Hilgert — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:46:42 +0000

We all love free stuff, especially here at BittBox, and I’ve teamed up with Flashloaded once again to give away just that – some free stuff. Flashloaded is prepared to give away 3 copies of the 3D Wall Pro Flash component ($179.95 retail value each) to 3 lucky BittBox commenters. The difference between the regular 3D Wall Component and Pro is significant. 3D Wall Pro can display not only images, but .FLV’s, .SWF’s and YouTube Videos, among other improvements. Rules and a video after the jump.

Live Demo:

Click here to visit the Flashloaded site for a Live Demo.

Short Video:

Flashloaded 3D Wall Pro – Demo from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.

The Rules:

To be eligible to win, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post. You MUST enter an email address or you will not be eligible to win. Winners will be notified via email. Only comment once. Comments will be open until Thursday August 28th, 2008. Good Luck!