Textures

If you've spent endless hours manically trying out countless background textures, photos images or whatever for your pages, and each design you tried made the last one even more insipid, I might be able to spare you the torture of trying out too many cheesy texture compilations out there and go straight to the good ones. Hopefully my taste is accurate and meets your need for good design resources

Here are more freebies. There are 9 backgrounds and 8 textures/patterns. These are free for personal use. There are Jeans background, Cloth background, patterns for websites. Enjoy them and feedback are always welcome. Download: Mirror 1 Mirror 2 (Right Click Save Target as) Download Mirror 1 Mirror 2 (Right Click Save Targets as)

As we do every month we selected for you the best Photoshop resources (tutorials, brushes and textures) you can find on the web. This is the November 2008 issue. Archive For more Photoshop resources check out our previous articles of the series : Best Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes and Textures of November 2008 Best Photoshop Resources of August 2008 220 Amazing [...]

En me baladant le coeur ouvert à l’inconnu je suis tomber sur un article de Design Shard qui propose dans les 100Mb de textures à télécharger via Rapishare. En tout, cela représente, un peu plus de 300 textures avec lesquelles vous pourez faire mumuse pendant un bon moment, si vous voulez voir un exemple du [...]

Smashing Magazine has once again showed us just how smashing they really are with their latest freebies post of over 50 Free Photoshop Brushes, brush strokes, textures, hand-drawn elements as well as borders and edges. Check this great post out here - Smashing Magazine

Many of you have probably seen preview screenshots of Culmone76’s textures for GTR2 floating around the community. I never posted them as they were payware and while that is perfectly fine, I know that many people don’t agree on the payware approach and, in all honesty, I didn’t feel like doing free advertising for a [...]

As the title specifies thsese are the CrazyLeaf Design Blog Best Photoshop Resources of October 2008. Textures 25 High Resolution Plant Textures 6 Free Premium Textures From the Colorburned Shop Brushes 1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets Tutorials Making of Fiery Planets Collision 35 Beautiful Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials [...]

Sometimes all you need is one type of grass that you like as with this Italian Timothy. Then you mow a path through and your blade contrast is created by the mown to unmown transition. Very simple planting design can be best. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Here is the DVD's full contents :-134 - Colour Texture Maps134 - Matching Bump Maps134 - Matching Specular Maps36 Fabrics & Upholstrey Textures7 Marble Textures3 Rugs15 Stone Textures25 Tile Textures23 Wall Textures21 Wood Textures4 Misc TexturesImportant Information: The New Total Textures V16 : R1 has been put onto a DVD's so please make sure that you have a DVD Rom Drive on your computer be

Here is the CD's full contents :-197 - Colour texture maps.197 - Matching Bump Maps16 Roof Tiles34 Walls25 Floors (wood, stone, tiled etc)11 Fencing11 Doors10 Windows14 Ground (sandy, stone etc)11 Woods (planks, raw etc)18 Stone (pebbles, rocks, stone etc)28 Trees (trees, leaves, bark etc)18 Skies (night & day)Project Overviews: To accompany this DVD there is the added bonus of a few 'Making O

Here is the DVD's full contents :-237 Colour texture maps. 237 Matching Bump MapsArmour 9 Armour Decoration 12 Banners 10 Clothing 13 Doors 11 Gates 4 Ground 16 Motifs 24 Script 22 Sky 14 Tiles 16 Vegetation 20 Walls 14 Weapons 22 Windows 8 Project Overviews: To accompany this DVD there is the added bonus of 7 Project Overviews that have been created by 3DTotal gallery selective artists using thes

Here is the CD's full contents :-218 Colour texture maps.218 Matching Bump MapsIsrael 13Romania 30Nepal 40Japan 38New Zealand 22Portugal 20Spain 25Sweeden 16Tunisia 14Project Overviews: To accompany this DVD there is the added bonus of 5 tutorials that have been created by 3DTotal gallery selective artists using these textures alone.HTML interface providing easy browsing and map selection to use w

Here is the DVD's full contents :-180 Colour texture maps.180 Matching Bump MapsAmerica: 14Egypt: 33England: 23Germany: 18Hungary: 25Italy: 16Thailand: 20Turkey: 31Project Overviews: To accompany this DVD there is the added bonus of 5 tutorials that have been created by 3DTotal gallery selective artists using these textures alone.HTML interface providing easy browsing and map selection to use with

Here is the DVD's full contents :-The textures are split into 2 main sections, categorised by firstly colour, then sets. The colour textures are basically arranged by whatever the dominant colour is within the texture. These textures are however very flexible and can be colour changed to suit your needs. The texture sets are designed to be used as a group in their entirety to fully map a character

Here is the DVD's full contents :-Painted Textures:16 Autumn trees16 Summer trees5 Winter trees4 Evergreen trees9 Miscellaneous shrubs, bushes and plantsPhotographed Textures:9 Spring trees17 Summer trees14 Autumn trees12 Winter trees11 Evergreens11 Bushes13 Grass textures14 Leaves20 Shrubs3 Tree stumps13 Bark texturesProject Overviews: To accompany this DVD there is the added bonus of 4 Project O

Here is the DVD's full contents :-16 African Textures30 Aztec Textures35 Celtic & Viking Textures16 Chinese Textures25 Egyptian Textures56 Greek & Roman Textures8 Indian & Islamic Textures12 Japanese Textures23 Medieval Textures15 Moorish Textures16 Native American Textures24 Neanderthal TexturesProject Overviews: To accompany this DVD there is the added bonus of 7 tutorials that have

Here is the DVD's full contents :- 20 Alloy Wheel 3D models15 Object 3D Models3 Camouflage Textures3 Camouflage Netting Textures123 Decals including Flames, Hood decals, numbers, tribal and race designs.9 Dials25 Dirt Texture Masks14 Doors and Hatches20 Ground Textures19 Material Textures25 Panel Textures2 Tank Tracks15 Tyre Maps12 Vent & Grills70 Paint shaders Project Overviews: To accompany

Here is the DVD's full contents :-14 Alien Sign17 Control Panel8 Logo56 Number20 SS 'set'30 TPOD 'set'44 UNS 'set'49 Symbol27 Ceiling16 Container26 Damage8 Dirt Map9 Dish32 Door31 Floor27 Girder11 Gun Flare14 Handle13 Hatch9 Hose46 Hull12 Material13 Rocket / Engine22 Stars & Planets29 Tile14 Vent44 Wall3 Window Project Overviews: To accompany this DVD there is the added bonus of 8 tutorials th

Here is the DVD's full contents :-30 Brick9 Carpet18 Fabric Textures23 Floor Textures10 Metal Textures5 Roof Textures18 Stone Textures30 Wall Textures26 Wood Textures7 Worktop Textures18 Shadow Maps As with the old v6 we have included for all of the maps, pre-tiled x4 and x16 versions with many of the repetitions painted out for texturing middle and far distance objectsProject Overviews: To accomp

Here is the DVD's full contents :-89 Individual stains/holes/splatters88 Horizontally tilable Dirt maps95 Fully tilable Dirt maps72 Graffiti maps + alpha map14 Creature Skin (Body)27 Creature Skin (Facial)16 www.3d.sk16 Human Eyes2 Human Hair12 Human Misc (Body)24 Human Misc (Facial)47 Human Skin (Abnormal)2 Human Skin (Old)13 Human Skin (Tatoo)34 Human Skin (Young)15 Human Skin (Reference) Graffi

Fudgegraphics.com released an excellent photoshop brush set which consist of 11 high resolution fabric texture brushes (2500px). The set is 65mb in one .abr file and can be downloaded from fudgegraphics.com. At the same place you can download the original textures used for making these brushes.

Ok, this is a really particular post. I’m working to create one of the biggest post about Photoshop (you know, i love this software…). It is “in progress” which means that i will update it every time i’ll find new cool things. JUST FREE COOL THINGS. If you want to participate, please, leave a comment with a good link and if you like this post…your vote is always appreciated (Digg it,

Here are a few high resolution photos of some wood textures. Some of these are great for adding a grunge feel to your work or creating a nice distressed background. There are also several shots of planks of wood that can be easily made into seamless backgrounds. These photos where all taken with a [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

A while ago I placed another freebie (4x high resolution textures) online. I got a couple of reactions from people that really liked the textures. That texture pack has been downloaded over 100 times. Now I'm presenting you another high resolution texture pack to download: Old and Rusty. This texture pack contains 5 high resolution textures from old and rusty objects. You can download the "Old

Ipokinetic ci mette a disposizione un pack contenente 5 suoi scatti utilizzabili come texture per i propri lavori. Il pack è liberamente scaricabile dal suo DeviantArt, se lo utilizzate, creditatelo ;)

PhotoWorks est le complément SolidWorks qui permet de faire du rendu réaliste sur votre modèle numérique 3D . Il existe de nombreux matériaux dans PhotoWorks , et pour 99% des utilisateurs, ils sont suffisants. En revanche, pour vos rendus réalistes, vous aurez certainement besoin de vous créer une bibliothèque de textures. Qu’est ce qu’une texture [...]

Remember the Smashing Textures Contest? I joined the contest and 2 high resolution textures got picked (out of ten). Even though the leftover eight didn't get picked, I still think some of they are really great to use as a texture. I personally picked my favorite four textures for your Photoshop needs. You can download the four textures in one big pack from the download section, free for all kind

Do you need free stock textures for webdesign, graphic design or 3D? Are you tired of searching textures across thousands of websites? Then take a look at this top 10 free stock textures sites. All of them have large number of free high-resolution nice textures, easy browsable and searchable. There are a lot of categories [...]

"Photoshop provides designers with unlimited options for creating unique and attractive backgrounds. One of the most popular approaches is to create some type of textured background, and fortunately there are a number of helpful tutorials to teach you all the tricks you need to know."[via vandelay design]

On the 9th of May 2008, Smashing Magazine announced a Smashing Textures Contest. The goal was set to let all readers take beautiful pictures that can be used as textures. It was one amazing contest. They received in an enormous amount of e-mail from over 600 participants. The results speak for themselves: The Smashing Texture Gallery is one great Photoshop Resource. My girlfriend (Amber from Dres

MORE Textures & Styles for Warlord Armor - 24 MbMORE Textures & Styles for Warlord Armor.5 Sets of textures for xurge3d's arlord Armor for Michael 3!# Features: Total 15 texture maps + 15 jpg bum + 15 displacement maps# Total 44 Matposes# Poser Pro & Poser 5 matposes included# Matching V3 Warlady Armor & Combo Pack availableDownload from Easy-Share or Download from Depositfilesor D

MORE Textures & Styles for Fantasy Dragon Lord Armor - 26 Mb5 Sets of textures for xurge3d's M3 Fantasy Dragon Lord Armor Outfit!# Features: Total 20 texture maps + 20 jpeg bum# Total 50 Matposes# Matposes for Poser Pro and Poser 5 (not tested in Poser 6)Download from Easy-Share or Download from Depositfilesor Download from SharingMatrix

MORE Textures & Styles for AHEV Suit v1 - 21 Mb8 Sets of textures for xurge3d's AHEV Suits!!!# Features: Total 16 texture maps + 2 jpg bum + 1 displacement map# Total 28 PP/P5 MatposesDownload from FileFactory or Download from Depositfilesor Download from SharingMatrix

MORE Textures & Styles for Armored Biological Suit M3 - 15 Mb9 Sets of textures for xurge3d's M3 Armored Biological Suit!# Features: Total 18 texture maps# Total 49 Matposes# Matching V3 Armored Biological Suit availableDownload from Depositfiles or Download from FileFactoryor Download from SharingMatrix

I was recently notified of a really cool website that has some free, top-notch seamless textures for free download. You can find these textures at All Things Designed. The maker of these textures claims to have been working in the texture industry for years, so you can trust that these are a pretty sweet deal [...]

Creating Textures in Watercolor: A Guide to Painting 83 Textures from Grass to Glass to Tree Bark to Fur (Paperback)By Cathy Johnson Buy new: $24.99$16.4931 used and new from $13.99 Customer Rating: First tagged “painting” [...]

Free grunge textures can be found at Grungetextures.com, a website which collects and presents great free grunge textures. Textures are high quality JPG files and licenced as free for personal and non-profit use. Textures are categorized well for easier navigation. For ex: you can easily find the wood textures, stone textures or the other ones. Advertisement: Use Coupon [...]

There have been several sites lately that incorporate wood in the design in some way or another. It gives a site a warm and natural feel, and can help make the design look great when done tastefully. If you have yet to do a design with wood, here are a few textures that might help [...]

The SoundBrewer Ambience collection began with the construction of many different sounds utilizing FM, vector, subtractive, and granular synthesis. Sounds were also created with experimental recordings from both traditional and non-traditional sources. The resulting sounds range from sweet, mystical, peaceful and mesmerizing to non traditional sound FX's, and dissonant noises.Ambience is a collection of multi-layered, multi-textured instruments. It contains a collection of Pads, Textures, and Atmospheres like you have never heard before. These are versatile sounds that would be at home in electronic music, a New Age soundscape, or even as an atmospheric backing to an orchestral film score.The sounds are divided into nine categories. They are:Bells - ringing pads and ambiences.Enveloping At

3D Total Textures Vol 01 - 16 Code: Original Total Texture collection was created in 2001, utilising the best methods and technology of the time. Since then, techniques and technology have both moved forward, and here at 3DTotal we felt that although the original collection is still widely used and highly regarded among artists and studios of all calibers, it was time for an update...This enormously improved version of the original texture collection now contains 188 individual Materials, comprising of over 1300 individual, hand crafted texture maps and are all fully tileable. Every Texture now has its own unique colour map, bump map, specular, mask and normal map.Included this time are 'Overlay Masks' which can be used over tiling textures to remove obvious repeated areas, and make i

Generating Terrain Textures from flipcode.comby Yordan Gyurchev (31 May 2001) IntroductionSeveral months ago I was working on a terrain algorithm. When it was implemented, all of a sudden I realized that I needed some textures. At that moment I rushed into this texture generation stuff.Here I’ve provided the stuff I’ve found on the net, fertilized with my own ideas.The TheoryThere are different types of terrain. You can call them different types of land if you like. There are for example snow, rocks, grass, mud, etc. Those can be found at various places in nature.The texture synthesis in this paper is based on combining all types of terrain but weighted with factors according to the traits of the specific place. For each terrain type a probability factor is calculated and then used a

5 x 5 ( peinture numérique, taille originale 3000 x 3000 pixels) Fragment « Le plus précieux dans la création picturale, c’est la couleur et la texture. Elles constituent l’essence picturale que le sujet a toujours tuée ». Kasimir MALEVITCH

In this little Photoshop tutorial we’ll be designing a quick art piece, and then we’ll be adding some texture to it, this is to demonstrate the use of texture in artwork, as you may be able to see in works from people such as GoMedia. Obviously this method will work better with some things and [...]

Yes… yes… yes! Just found some absolutely beautiful paper textures on Bittbox, be sure to check these out, these can be a great help for spicing up a sometimes bland piece of artwork. Trust me, I know Free High Res Grungy Paper Textures via Bittbox.

If you haven't read at my first two posts about textures, they can be found here and here.Having been intrigued by seeing what others have done with blending textures into their images, I was interested in seeing what I might be able to do. I am certainly no expert, as this is the first image that I am attempting to apply the technique to. Here we go.......first, the image with no texture applied:'Days Of Yore'Copyright Howard GrillNow, the image of the texture itself that was used:Copyright Michael SmithAnd, finally, the image with the texture applied to it:'Days Of Yore'Copyright Howard GrillThe effect doesn't overwhelm the image, but, nonetheless, I think effects it in a positive way. What do you think?Without question, too much of a good thing can be bad. I do not mean to imply that all, most, or even many of one's images should be treated in this way. But, I personally find this an interesting technique, the intensity of which can be easily controlled, that can really

In my last post, I presented some of Cate's images that I found mysterious and ethereal and which motivated me to contact her in order to find out about her post-processing. I mentioned that I don't usually write about Photoshop techniques in this blog, but, every so often, I do find something that is directly Photoshop related that I would like to share. Needless to say, this is one of those times. As it turns out, the post-processing is done with textures. What are textures? Any image that consists mainly of abstract color and shape can serve as an underlying texture to blend with another 'real' image. So how is it done?Texture By Michael SmithMore On Michael's Textures In My Next Post Open the 'real' image that you want to apply the texture to as well as the image of the actual texture itself (an example of a texture is posted above). Change the name of the texture image layer (it should consist of a single layer) from "Background' to anything else (so that

Having read about the positive and negative aspects of participating in Flickr in several blogs, I decided to join and see what it was all about. My principle reason for doing so was that I thought it would make it easy for me to see what type of interesting work was being done by others. I was looking forward to finding other photographers whose worked I enjoyed, as well as finding new ideas that might inspire me. One of the first people whose work I found myself drawn to was "Cate". Let me first say that I have never been one to go for Photoshop "tricks' or gaudy Photoshop manipulation, but, despite being manipulated, there was something I found enchanting about her images. I found them to be full of emotion; eerie and mystical. I really wanted to know how she achieved this look and to at least have the opportunity to try whatever the technique was on a few of my own images. So I e-mailed Cate and asked if she would be willing to share with me how she had post-

With Photoshop, you can simulate almost any organic texture that you can imagine. The hard part is choosing from the many possible routes for generating textural variations in tone and color. It has been hard for me to think of a way to teach you all of the possible texturing methods in an orderly fashion. As you will see in a moment, there are multiple choices at every step in the process. What I’ve ended up doing is generating one rather overdone texture that uses all of the major methods. As I am demonstrating the steps, I will point out the many, many other possible choices that you will have when making your own textures. This abundance of possibilities is both the best and worst thing about making textures in Photoshop. You are swamped with options. Even worse, most of the available choices generate equally terrific (though different) results—which means you will shortly be d

Here are 4 hi-res watercolor textures I made. The lighting is tad uneven, but should be of little concern. Feel free to use these in any way you want without credit to me. It would be nice to see... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Drawing Realistic Testures in Pencil does exactly what it says - and no more. JD Hillberry specialises in hyper realistic techniques for rendering textures in pencil. You can see a mini-tutorial of the sort found in the book on his website here. The book provides: an overview of materials - this is good but not comprehensive. He covers pencils, erasers, blending tools, paper (I was interested

The folks at GoMedia are giving away two free hi-res watercolor textures that accompany their new Watercolor texture Pack. The Go Media Watercolor Pack contains 45 high resolution (8.5″ x 11″ at 300 DPI) watercolor washes, textures, splatters, drips, fades, and stains. This set also features a Signature Series of unique watercolor textures from artist My Dead Pony. He is a master of modern watercolor design, check out his site mydeadpony.com for examples of how he uses watercolor textures in his illustrations and designs. Very inspiring! Share This

Through general information and practical application, this tutorial will give you a better idea of how to apply a texture to an object through the use of displacement maps. What is a displacement map and how does it work? I had some free time and energy to burn, so I figured I would take what I know about displacement maps and the use of displacement maps to apply texture to an object, put

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on February 26th, 2007. Click picture for larger view. Black and white photography is not a thing I have done much of, but I think it suited very well with these wonderful snow textures. The wind is a talented artist! You might notice that the photo was taken back in February. Have been a bit busy and it have been raining all the time so few photos lately. Hope it will change soon Information about the picture: Camera: Olympus E-500 digital SLR camera Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125) Aperture: f/6.3 Focal Length: 30 mm ISO Speed: 100 Lens: Olympus Zuiko Digital 14-45mm F3.5-5.6 Location: Laupstad (Andørja), Troms in northern Norway Share This

Textures 1scratchboard on Essdee scraperboard, nfsThese are some textures I did a long time ago and am reworking. Hopefully next week I will show the revised versions. Been very busy with school and special projects. Please feel quite free for any input and/or suggestions, that's what I love about blog.Click here to see a larger version of these simple sketches.

Take a trip over to Absolute Cross and take a look at a wide selection of over 500 hundred free seamless textures... Um, what's a seamless texture? A texture that is "seamless" is able to repeat infinitely without ever showing any edges. It can fill as large an area of your graphic ...