It’s all about the darkness on this Texture Tuesday. I’ve got a nice set of ultra dark and dirty textures for you guys. Something just subtle enough to give your designs a hint of texture or grunge. I hope you find them useful, enjoy!

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The three lucky winners of a free copy of Brush Pilot™ are Zuba, Lyn, and Kristen Collins! I’m almost done with Brush Pilot 2.0, so keep an eye out for that. And just in case there is any confusion, Brush Pilot users get free updates for life. Congrats again to the winners, I hope you enjoy using the program!

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Today I have a nice, simple set of blue metal textures for you. I love searching through old rundown buildings and car junkyards for cool textures like these and then passing them on to you guys. Hopefully you find them useful in one way or another. Enjoy!

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As many of you know, I’m the person behind the Brush Pilot software, a Photoshop brush previewer for Mac. I’ve been secretly working on adding some awesome new features to Brush Pilot in the last few months, and I’m going to release that version soon. But since I’m adding so many new features, the price is going to go up a few dollars, so I thought it would be nice to have a giveaway before that happens. I’ll be picking three random winners from the comments. Good luck everyone!

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

Contest Rules:

• All you have to do to enter is leave a comment. (tweeting is appreciated)
• Only comment once.
• 3 winners will be randomly chosen from the comments.
• You must leave an email address in order to win.
• Please only comment if you have a Mac.
• Comments will remain open until Sunday, July 18th.

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Today I have a nice set of stone and rock textures I shot recently, hopefully they come in handy for you guys! Also, sorry for the delay in textures recently, I just finished a moving my studio. But I’m all settled in now and ready to make plenty of more awesome textures. Enjoy!

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Today I have a nice set of metal textures for you. Hopefully they’ll come in handy for that one time you need a good metal grate texture for your design. I’m open to suggestions for new Texture Tuesday posts, if there’s anything you’d like to see just let me know. Thanks!

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Hey Everyone! I’ve been on a 3 week hiatus out of the country then back and moving my office, so without further ado, the TrendyPacks winner is Chad Trutt. Congrats to Chad, we hope you enjoy the vectors and thanks to TrendyPacks for making the giveaway possible. Also thanks to Caleb for pumping out the textures while I was gone. Back to work!

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Ahhhh yes… the venerable wood texture. Showing up often in today’s designs, it always pays to have some decent wood textures handy for your next web or graphic design project. If you like these and are looking for more check out the first wood Texture Tuesday post and also the great set in the archives. Enjoy!

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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 to the next few textures in order to make a full set. I hope you guys enjoy them!

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Today I have a nice set of stained concrete textures for you. Next time you’re pumping gas into your car take a look at the concrete around the gas station, I’ve found some amazing textures there. I hope these come in handy for you guys, enjoy!

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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!

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I have some more free stuff! The people at TrendyPacks.com have offered up their “Infinity Pack” to one lucky BittBox reader! The infinity pack is a $95 value, and includes all of the products on their website, including brushes. You probably know the drill by know, so good luck!

Contest Rules:

• All you have to do to enter is leave a comment. (tweeting is appreciated)
• Only comment once.
• 1 winner will be randomly chosen from the comments.
• You must leave an email address in order to win.
• Comments will remain open until Sunday, May 23rd.

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More spring-y textures today! Leaf textures are always some of my favorite to go out and shoot. For all of these images I simple held the leaf towards the sky on a cloudless day and used the sun as backlight, in case you ever want to try yourself. I hope you find some cool uses for the textures, enjoy!

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Quality marble textures are hard to find on the internet, let alone quality free marble textures. I thought I’d try and fill that void a little today. Taken out of context, the marble textures resemble some sort of far-off nebulae millions of light years away and should hopefully present you with a unique texture to incorporate in your designs.

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Apparently one of our BittBox User Showcase members at Flickr has a sense of humor. I was browsing the group today and came across the piece below by Deviantmonk, and couldn’t help but laugh out loud, so I was hoping to spread the laughter to as many people as I could. Thanks Deviantmonk, you made my day :)

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It’s springtime! And that means lots and lots of beautiful, fresh plants. Here in the next few weeks I’ll be posting some cool Spring-y textures. Today we’re starting off with the ever popular grass textures. I hope you like them and get osme good use out of the textures. Enjoy!

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It’s texture grab bag time again! I’ve been experimenting with all kinds of new kinds of textures in Photoshop, and today I have a little sample for you. I’d appreciate any constructive feedback you have on these textures, just leave a comment here or on Flickr if you like. I hope you find some good uses for them, enjoy!

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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 about a Corel equivalent, but there are options in Illustrator to help you out.

First of all, when creating a new document, you can set the raster effects right away in the “New Document” window.

Second, if your document is already created, you can go to Effects > Document Raster Effects Settings to find out what those settings are for your current document.

Third, you can see the pixel dimensions of an image by clicking on it and looking in the “Info” palette. (This can also be seen in the toolbar at the top of the Illustrator window.)

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Today we have a nice and simple set of grunge textures for you to utilize. I know that these are some of the most used kinds of textures out there, so hopefully they come in handy! Starting next week I’ll be bringing you some spring themed textures, including the always venerable grass textures. Enjoy!

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The other day I was walking around some of the back alleys in my town and found lots of awesome texture opportunities. If you are ever out looking for cool textures to shoot on your own, I would highly recommend perusing some back alleys, some of the best textures can be found in the most unlikely of places. Anyway, enjoy these and let me know if you make anything cool with them!

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