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Free Texture Tuesday: Rainy Day
24/6/2009 | external link
You know what they say: “Spring showers bring awesome textures to everyone… and flowers.” I was actually a little apprehensive about posting these images as they fall outside what I would consider “normal” textures. But then I thought of times in the past where I was desperately seeking some rain drop textures for projects and [...]
Freeware Find: Repeating Motif Generator
24/6/2009 | external link
I’ve stumbled upon a little gem on the Apple downloads site, and I’d like to share a new freeeware app with everyone. It’s called Repeating Motif Generator, and it’s a handy little app for creating seamless repeating patterns. There is a variety of uses for this application, but it may just come in handy for [...]
Free Texture Tuesday: Tree Bark
24/6/2009 | external link
I hope you guys can find some good uses from these tree bark textures! John Holt had requested these a few weeks back, so here you go man. I’m in need of some more new ideas for texture Tuesday posts, so if there’s anything you would really like to see just let me know, thanks! *We’re [...]
Free Stuff: 2 Copies of Billings 3 - Comment to Win
24/6/2009 | external link
I’ve got a great giveaway for you all this week. Billings 3. Its a robust and feature-rich invoicing, time tracking, and project management software for Mac. (just name a few features) If you’re a business owner or freelancer, it doesn’t matter. This software does it all. I’ve had the liberty of playing around with Billings [...]
Free Texture Tuesday: Fur
24/6/2009 | external link
This is a set of textures I’ve been meaning to do for quite a while now, luckily my parents have a lot of cats and dogs…so I wasn’t short on subjects. They should prove useful in the fast and furious world of web design, so let me know if you make anything awesome with them. [...]
GoMedia Vector Pack 15 Sampler and 15% off Discount Code
24/6/2009 | external link
Our friends at GoMedia recently released a new vector pack, Vector Pack 15. As usual, they’ve also released a sampler pack to go with it, as well as an exclusive BittBox discount code. The discount code is “vp15bittbox” and it’s good for 15% off the full Vector Pack 15 only. (not all products) The discount [...]
Congrats to the Billings 3 Winners!
24/6/2009 | external link
It sure sounds like you all really, really wanted this app, but unfortunately there can only be 2 winners. Congrats to Dani and Serapart, the 2 winners of a free Billings 3 license! Thanks goes out to the folks at Marketcircle for making the giveaway possible :) Enjoy the software guys and gals. This is a [...]
Free Texture Tuesday: Grunge Music
24/6/2009 | external link
…and I’m not talking about Kurt Cobain. I’ve seen textures similar to these on deviantArt in the past and always wanted to give it a try, so here are the fruits of my labor. By the way, the song in the textures is Claude Debussy’s “La Mer” in case you were wondering. I have to [...]
Free Texture Tuesday: Experimental Grunge
24/6/2009 | external link
Another experimental set of textures coming your way this week, look out! To make these textures I layered all kinds of different images and textures on top of each other in Photoshop and then just played around with the blending layers, curves, brushes, etc. until I got something I liked. I tried to give you [...]
Free Vectors: Engraved Ornaments
24/6/2009 | external link
I’ve got a set of vectors for everyone today. These are engravings from currency and old documents. Most of them came from the previous generation of American paper money. I’ve always liked engraving, so I decided to make a set. I hope you can find a good use for them. :) Download EPS » This is a [...]
Free Stuff: 250 Business Cards and More from Uprinting.com
24/6/2009 | external link
I’ve some more free stuff for a lucky commenter today. My friends at UPrinting.com are offering 250 free business cards to a lucky BittBox reader, and a free 18 x 24 rolled canvas print for another winner. Be sure and read the rules (below), and good luck everyone! About UPrinting.com For over 25 years, UPrinting has been [...]
Free Texture Tuesday: Leaves
24/6/2009 | external link
Sure, Spring has been here for quite some time now…nevertheless I’m just now getting around to shooting some of the green stuff outside. This week I have some leaf textures, more specifically I tried to focus on the veins of the leaves. Let me know if you guys dig them! Preview About The Author: Caleb Kimbrough is the [...]
UPrinting Contest Winners
24/6/2009 | external link
Congratulations to Samantha and Toby, the two winners of the UPrinting contest! Samantha will be receiving 250 free business cards, and Toby is the winner of the 18 x 24 canvas print. I hope you guys can put them to good use :) Thanks to UPrinting for making the giveaway possible. This is a post from: [...]
Free Texture Tuesday: Clouds
24/6/2009 | external link
Being from the Midwest, an area infamous for “bad” weather, I get to see all kinds of awesome clouds and storms during spring and summer. These clouds were all shot in Kansas and Oklahoma over the past couple of years, some of the storms even went on to produce tornadoes. Sometime this summer I’m hoping [...]
Free Stuff: Slideshow Flash Component (3) - Comment to win
24/6/2009 | external link
Hey everyone, I’ve got some cool free stuff to start off the week. FlashOtaku has offered up 3 licenses for one of their Flash components to some lucky BittBox commenters! The component up for grabs is called “Slideshow“, and it’s a powerful Flash component used for viewing images, with a variety of transition effects to [...]
Exclusive Freebie: Vectorlab Vector Pack
24/6/2009 | external link
I’ve got another free vector pack for everyone this week from our friends at TheVectorLab. This sample comes after a lot of new additions to the VectorLab site (some really awesome engravings, BTW), as well as a new blog. No Contest this time, just a free sample for everyone :) Thanks to The folks at [...]
Slideshow Flash Component Winners
24/6/2009 | external link
I’d like to congratulate miriam, Jill, and John, the 3 lucky winners of the Slideshow Flash component from FlashOtaku.com. I hope you guys (and gals) can put it to good use :) Thanks again to FlashOtaku for maing the giveaway possible :) This is a post from: BittBox.com
Free Texture Tuesday: Extreme Grunge
24/6/2009 | external link
More grunge textures coming at you this week, hopefully they aren’t getting to repetitive…they’re useful though, right? This week I went out of my way to make the dirtiest, most grunge-y textures I could conjure up. If you’d like to compare, check out the set of light grunge textures that I posted a couple of [...]
Free Texture Tuesday: Grass
24/6/2009 | external link
I’m returning to my “roots” with set, so to speak. Instead of doing some fancy photoshop work like in the past couple of weeks, I thought I’d offer up a set of plain ‘ol grass textures for you guys to take advantage of. Enjoy! Preview About The Author: Caleb Kimbrough is the man behind LostAndTaken.com, a blog solely [...]
Free Stuff: Introducing Brush Pilot for Mac - Comment to win
24/6/2009 | external link
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 1.01. It’s a lightweight, fast Photoshop Brush Previewer for OS X. In the spirit of BittBox, I’m giving away 3 free copies to [...]