In case you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to lately, well, here it is. After lots of hard work and testing, I’m proud to release my latest pet project, Brush Pilot 1.02. It’s a lightweight, fast Photoshop Brush Previewer for OS X. In the spirit of BittBox, I’m giving away 3 free copies to some lucky commenters. Make sure and read the rules, and good luck!

Visit BrushPilotApp.com to download a demo and read more details.

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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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