Found Freebie: Hi-Res “Acrylic” Photoshop Brushes
Posted by King Cricket
BittBox reader Jeffrey Gardner has offered up some of his Photoshop brushes over at his site, TheShoreways.com and asked me to help get the word out. There are 25 brushes in the set, and they are super high resolution, all around 2500px is size. Thanks Jeffrey, and everyone else, Click Here or on the image […]
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Photoshop: How To Make An Awesome Grungy Paper Texture From Scratch
Posted by King Cricket
Many of you might remember my Free High-Res Grungy Paper Textures I gave away a while back. I had a lot of requests for a tutorial on how I actually made those textures, so I here we are. Fire up good ‘ol Photoshop, have a scanner handy, and let’s dive in, shall we 
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55 Free High Quality Icon Sets
Posted by King Cricket
We love free icons. We love to smash things. And we respect hard-working designers. Therefore we are regularly looking for talented artists and creative designers and we are glad to support them by showcasing their work in our magazine. If you are going to create an icon set and experience any problems releasing it or spreading the word — let us know, we may figure something out.
In the overview below we present 55 more excellent, free and professional icons for desktop and web design. Some of them can be used for both private and commercial projects. You may always use them for free in your private projects. Nevertheless, it is always worth to take a look at the license agreements — they can change from time to time.
You can also scan through the icons-related articles we’ve published before:
- 40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download
to download some fresh professional icon goodies, - 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets
to spice up your posts with nice illustrations or enrich your desktop with outstanding dock icons, - Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designs
with high-quality free icons which you can use for your desktop and web-designs, - 20 Free And Fresh Icon Sets
with over 20 free beautiful sets and references to further free icon libraries, - and you can subscribe to our RSS-feed
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Inspiration: User Showcase Roundup
Posted by King Cricket
Now with over 800 active contributors, the BittBox User Showcase @ Flicker has plenty to look at. Here are some of my favorites from the pool, round one. (more to come in the future) You don’t have to use BittBox freebies to join the pool either. We just like to see what you’ve been […]
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Resource: Lost and Taken - New Free Texture Site
Posted by King Cricket
We all love textures, right? I was recently emailed by a BittBox reader about a new texture site, LostAndTaken.com. It’s a blog style site and definitely worth bookmarking. All of the textures I downloaded for testing were a massive 3072 x 2048px, so I’m guessing the author has a pretty darn kick-ass camera. Oh yeah, […]
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Illustrator 101: Escape Text Boxes without the Mouse
Posted by King Cricket
This is a quick Illustrator tip, but in my opinion, a priceless one if its new to you. Have you ever been typing in Illustrator and hit the “V” key to select the move tool (or any other tool shortcut for that matter), but instead, Illustrator just types a v? Yeah, it happened to me […]
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BB Free Font: Fusty Saddle
Posted by King Cricket
Alright everyone, I’ve just finished up a new font I’ve been working on for your downloading pleasure! My inspiration for this font came from Sideshow, by Harold’s fonts. I hand drew every character on paper before tweaking them on screen. The font contains A through Z and 0 through 9. In case you’re wondering what […]
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