Free tire tracks textures
Bittbox has another great texture set available free for download and use. Tire Tracks includes 5 high-res textures of muddy tire tracks. Advertisement:

Save time with Illustrator's layer Target icon
Adobe Illustrator offers a simple tool to quickly apply colors, strokes, fills, effects, change fonts, and more to every item on a layer at once. The Target icon, the little round icon displayed at the far right of each individual layer in the Layers panel, is used to select every item on the layer. Click the circular Target icon, then apply a stroke, change a color, or apply a style to all the objects on the layer. T

11 ways to Zoom in Photoshop CS4
Did you know you can quickly and temporarily switch to the Zoom tool in Photoshop CS4 simply by hitting the Z key? How about by hitting Command + Spacebar? Command + or Command - works pretty well too. Adobe offers a plethora of ways to use the tools available in Photoshop, and my friends at CreativeTechs have posted 11 ways to Zoom in Photoshop CS4

Aligning objects in Adobe Illustrator
If you've ever tried to align two objects in Adobe Illustrator, you may have noticed that when you select the two objects and click the align tool; the objects align, but do so by moving both objects. Not an optimal situation. Wouldn't it be better if you could tell Illustrator to not move one of those objects? Thankfully, Illustrator CS4 allows you to do so. Shift + click both the objects you want to align so they're both selected. Now, click one of the objects a

Free Smoke brushes for Photoshop users
A while back I told you about some free smoke textures you could download and use in your Photoshop designs. But if those textures didn't quite fit your needs, perhaps you would be better off creating your own texture backgrounds. QBrushes has an awesome set of 21 free smoke brushes for us