Archive for the 'Textures' Category
Leather textures are useful for making 2D and 3D renditions. For example you can use a leather in creating a realistic model or design for a bag or jacket. I recently needed some leather textures for a personal project but I found out that it is hard to find some good leather textures online that you can use for free. So here, I am sharing with you 10 very colorful leather textures. Of course these have been manipulated in Photoshop to make the colors more vivid. I hope you guys will find some good use for these leather textures. Read Best Design News
November 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Photoshop, Textures | 7 Comments
Light effects can be easily achieved through fractal brushes and textures. Fractal Art (FA) has been around for approximately 15-20 years. Nowadays, digital graphic designers make use of fractal art in creating abstract and beautiful lighting effects such as background of websites and other design forms. Fractal Art is a genre concerned with fractals—shapes or sets characterized by self affinity (small portions of the image resemble the overall shape) and an infinite amount of detail, at all scales. Fractals are typically created on a digital computer, using an iterative numerical process. Read Best Design News
October 30th, 2009 | Posted in Brushes, Photoshop, Textures | 4 Comments
Textures remain to be an element that is widely used by designers in different graphic presentations such as website, banner, posters, brochures, magazines and even in video footages. Textures are also versatile. You can use it in many ways and in different styles. You can come up with striking art pieces If you are able to implement textures effectively along with typography, lighting, colors and other design elements. It also adds dimension to any design. Read Best Design News
October 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Textures | 2 Comments
Most designers and photographers make use of smoke to achieve powerful and dramatic effect in their photographs or designs. For example, we usually see smoke in many fantasy 3D wallpapers. Digital smoke in combination with lighting effects also create stunning piece of art. In this post, we are going to list down more than 1000 smoke textures that you can use to create dramatic smoke backgrounds. Most of these resources carry a Creative Common License and therefore free for personal use. Read Best Design News
September 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Textures | 5 Comments
Clouds background are one of the most sought after types of textures. From colorful sky to smoky and dark sky, these textures are very useful for 3D artists and to those who need to incorporate some cloud textures in their designs. High resolution clouds background can be applied to a sky dome and can alternatively be used as a background pass in 3d render composites or as subtle elements in all kinds of interesting images. This roundup includes different weather conditions ranging from stormy and overcast to clear and sunny. Read Best Design News
August 4th, 2009 | Posted in Textures | 1 Comment
Grunge background textures are useful in creating vintage look or when creating graffiti artwork, among many other things that you can do with these textures. This draft has been sitting on my drafts page for months and it was just yesterday when I was making my post about free graffiti fonts when I remembered that I had a draft about resources for grunge textures. Obviously, this post is very much related to my previous entry here. Read Best Design News
July 25th, 2009 | Posted in Textures | 6 Comments
Flickr is probably the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. What’s best about Flickr for graphic designers like us is the fact that we can showcase and share our work under a Creative Commons License. At the same time, we can also search for stuffs that we can use under a Creative Commons license. The newest feature of Flickr is the search option where you can limit your search for images that can be used for commercial purposes as well. Read Best Design News
July 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Textures | 5 Comments
Paper Background Texture is one of the most sought after type of textures by digital artists, web designers and graphic artists. In fact this is my third collection of paper textures. I just can’t seem to get enough of paper textures. This collection is much easier to browse through because what I featured here are individual textures. Personally, I prefer to view the textures first before downloading them. Read Best Design News
July 4th, 2009 | Posted in Textures | 4 Comments
Another set of texture freebies that you can use for free in your designs, both personal and commercial. This set contains pictures of grass and leaves in high resolution format. Like my previous sets of free textures, this batch were also taken using a professional digital camera in RAW format, processed in Photoshop Lightroom and saved in uncompressed JPEG. The size of most of these textures is around 3872 by 2592 pixels. Read Best Design News
June 28th, 2009 | Posted in Freebies, Textures | 6 Comments
Once again, I am posting several textures that you can use for free in your designs. This set contains textures of bark of dead and live trees such as textures of logs or trees that were cut down. Like my previous sets of free textures, this batch were also taken using a professional digital camera in RAW format, processed in Photoshop Lightroom and saved in uncompressed JPEG. The size of each texture is 3872 by 2592 pixels. Read Best Design News
June 9th, 2009 | Posted in Textures | 1 Comment
