Author: Brant Wilson

I'm the editor-in-chief of Bittbox.com. I'm a designer and developer by day, and a writer and musician when the feeling strikes. I enjoy vintage advertisements and puzzles with an absurd amount of pieces. Follow me on Twitter.
Free Texture Tuesday: Re-Stained Paper
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Free Texture Tuesday: Re-Stained Paper

Like many of my images, each of these textures is actually 3-5 different paper images layered together in photoshop to give them their “feel”. A lot of the textures I make like this are the result of trial and error experiments in photoshop, I’ll make one really rad cool one and then transfer my technique…

Free Texture Tuesday: White and Black Grunge
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Free Texture Tuesday: White and Black Grunge

I’ve got a nice simple set of grunge textures for you today. These should be ubiquitous enough to use in a lot of your designs, especially those that only require a little bit of textures. Enjoy! Preview About The Author: Caleb Kimbrough is the man behind LostAndTaken.com, a blog solely focused on giving away free…

[Ask BB] Illustrator: Document Raster Effects Settings

[Ask BB] Illustrator: Document Raster Effects Settings

Eddie, a relatively new Illustrator user had a question about raster images in Illustrator. Eddie asks: “I have imported a raster image into illustrator and I would like to know the properties of it (ie dpi). Is there a way of doing this in Illustrator (ie properties box that exists in Corel)? I’m not sure…