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.

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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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To kick off the week, I’ve got some hi-res Photoshop brushes for everyone. I call them abstract splatter. There are 10 brushes in the set, and they’re all 2500px. I don’t think these will be something most people would use very often, but you can’t have too many brushes, right? I’ve got CS1, CS3, and PNG’s available for non-Photoshoppers.

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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.

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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 :)

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