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BittBox Freebies in the Wild: EA Sports 2010

Jay Hilgert — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:05:24 +0000

It’s always rewarding to see your hard work put to good use as a designer. I got a tip from Ghettoshark about some BittBox brushes being used by none other than the folks at EA Sports. The brushes used were my Hi-Res Splatter set, if you’re interested. Not much else to say here other than, cool!

I was planning on buying NCAA Football 10 anyway, I guess it’s a must-buy now!

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Free Texture Tuesday: Scratches

Caleb Kimbrough — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:38 +0000

These scratch textures would work perfect for giving photos an old, worn look or even as a cool, grunge website background…they would definitely put an etch in your designs ;)

I’m taking suggestions for textures again, I’ve been able to fulfill a lot of the previous requests but if I haven’t gotten to yours just leave me a comment reminding me and I’ll try my hardest to make the textures you want in the coming weeks. Thanks!

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About The Author:

Caleb Kimbrough is the man behind LostAndTaken.com, a blog solely focused on giving away free high-res textures.

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100+ Minimal and Typographic Package Designs

Jay Hilgert — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:05:29 +0000

Time for a little inspiration. Package design can be tricky, but as you can see here, sometimes it can be relatively simple and still come across as beling elegant. Sometimes, less is more….. Here are over 100 examples of package design that either has a minimal style, or a typographic based solution. If you like these and you’d like to learn more about package design, TheDieline.com and LovelyPackage.com are the places to visit. A big thanks goes out to them for a lot of the images you see here.

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Free Texture Tuesday: Floral

Caleb Kimbrough — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00:52 +0000

These textures were made in Photoshop by layering various grunge and paper textures together along with floral patterns. They may not have a wide variety of uses, but I think they’ll really come in handy when you find a place for them in your designs. Here are links to the patterns that were used:

Floral Pattern by Snufver
Flowery Stuff 3 by gild-a-stock
Flowery Stuff 2 by gild-a-stock
Tapete by mackz
Another lovely blue by jinifur

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About The Author:

Caleb Kimbrough is the man behind LostAndTaken.com, a blog solely focused on giving away free high-res textures.

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Brush Pilot Winners!

Jay Hilgert — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:41:37 +0000

Congratulations to Cindy, Patrick Serrano, and John (the John who’s comment was “WANT”). I want to thank everyone for tha awesome feedback that came in. I had a hunch that everyone would like this app, but sounds like you guys really, really, really like it (which makes me happy) Anyway, If you didn’t win Brush Pilot retails for $15 in case anyone was wondering. Also, we’ve updated it to version 1.02 already that fixed a few major bugs. SO, if you haven’t already you can download version 1.02 at BrushPilotApp.com. Thanks again everyone!

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Free Stuff: Introducing Brush Pilot for Mac - Comment to win

Jay Hilgert — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:20:55 +0000

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.

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 Friday, June 26th.

Here’s a quick overview of what Brush Pilot can do.

Instantly finds all your brushes, fast.

Seperates uninstalled from installed brushes

Single click installation into all installed Photoshop Versions on your machine.

Reveal file locations in Finder.

View names and pixel dimensions of each brush.

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Free Texture Tuesday: Grass

Caleb Kimbrough — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:00:22 +0000

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!

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About The Author:

Caleb Kimbrough is the man behind LostAndTaken.com, a blog solely focused on giving away free high-res textures.

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Free Texture Tuesday: Extreme Grunge

Caleb Kimbrough — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:00:28 +0000

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 weeks back, see the difference? ;)

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About The Author:

Caleb Kimbrough is the man behind LostAndTaken.com, a blog solely focused on giving away free high-res textures.

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Slideshow Flash Component Winners

Jay Hilgert — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:25:43 +0000

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 :)

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Exclusive Freebie: Vectorlab Vector Pack

Jay Hilgert — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:21:01 +0000

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 TheVectorLab for an awesome freebie!

Download EPS»

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Free Texture Tuesday: Clouds

Caleb Kimbrough — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:00:32 +0000

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 to get some cool lightning textures to post here on Texture Tuesday. I think you guys would like those ;)

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About The Author:

Caleb Kimbrough is the man behind LostAndTaken.com, a blog solely focused on giving away free high-res textures.

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Free Stuff: Slideshow Flash Component (3) - Comment to win

Jay Hilgert — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:07:09 +0000

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 choose from. I’m sure there are some of out there that could put it to good use. Make sure and read the rules, and good luck!

Contest Rules:

All you have to do to enter is leave a comment.
Only comment once.
3 winners will be randomly chosen from the comments.
You must leave an email address in order to win.
Comments will remain open until Thursday, June 11th.

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UPrinting Contest Winners

Jay Hilgert — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:43:04 +0000

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.

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Free Texture Tuesday: Leaves

Caleb Kimbrough — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:00:58 +0000

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!

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About The Author:

Caleb Kimbrough is the man behind LostAndTaken.com, a blog solely focused on giving away free high-res textures.

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Free Stuff: 250 Business Cards and More from Uprinting.com

Jay Hilgert — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:06:53 +0000

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 a trusted leader in Online Printing , featuring its signature easy-to-use website
and the famous free file review, a complimentary proofing service
which requires no upfront payment. UPrinting offers convenient
marketing support services such as design, lists, and direct mailing
to help grow small and medium-size businesses nationwide.

UPrinting.com’s high quality printing services include Canvas Printing, Business Cards Printing, brochures, postcards and more, all at
the most affordable prices.

How to Enter

1. Leave a comment at the end of the blog post, describing what you
would use the free business cards and/or canvas print for.

2. Comments will be open until Tuesday, June 2nd 2009.

3. Only comment once.

4. You MUST leave an email address to enter because winners will be notified via email.

5. Winners will be chosen randomly.

Prize

250 free rounded corner business cards ( any style ) for one reader
and one free 18×24 rolled canvas print for one reader. You can
choose from any of our stocks for these items.

Rules

Printing is free. Shipping is free for winners in the US/CAN. Winners outside of the US/CAN only have to pay the shipping fee.

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Free Vectors: Engraved Ornaments

Jay Hilgert — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:27:47 +0000

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 »

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Free Texture Tuesday: Experimental Grunge

Caleb Kimbrough — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:00:29 +0000

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 a little variety and hope I succeeded. I have to give a shout out to D. Sharon Pruitt, I used a few of her awesome textures in the creation of these.

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About The Author:

Caleb Kimbrough is the man behind LostAndTaken.com, a blog solely focused on giving away free high-res textures.

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Free Texture Tuesday: Grunge Music

Caleb Kimbrough — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:00:46 +0000

…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 give a shout out to Andreas Mischke who helped me find the public domain sheet music I used. Enjoy!

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About The Author:

Caleb Kimbrough is the man behind LostAndTaken.com, a blog solely focused on giving away free high-res textures.

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GoMedia Vector Pack 15 Sampler and 15% off Discount Code

Jay Hilgert — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:05:31 +0000

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 code will be good through June 12, 2009. In the meantime, head on over and check out the sampler!

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Congrats to the Billings 3 Winners!

Jay Hilgert — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:31:42 +0000

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.

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