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Over 130 High Quality Water and Ice Textures

Posted by on Jun 23, 2010 in Photoshop, Textures | 4 comments

water textures

It has been a long while since we had our last post about textures. Since it is almost summer and most of us are looking forward to spending a nice summer holiday in a beach, we decided to come up with a refreshing post about quality water textures that you can use for your design projects. Water textures are useful in creating 2D and 3D designs, for photo manipulation or even as a background for websites. The textures that you will find in this post include water surface textures, ripples, water droplets, rain drops, icy water, splashes and many more. All of these textures are free for personal projects although there are some that you can use even for your commercial projects as long as you credit the creator of these water textures.

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Paper Textures and Photoshop Brushes

Posted by on Mar 15, 2010 in Brushes, Photoshop, Textures | 1 comment

paper textures

Paper textures are emerging as one of the most popular textures used by designers in recent years. The uses of paper textures encompasses almost all types of digital design from making backgrounds for web design to creating realistic papers in 3D renditions and even for digital scrapbooking. Thus, it is always handy to have a collection of high quality and high-resolution paper textures and paper texture Photoshop brushes.

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12 Carpet Texture Freebies at 3500×3500 pixels

Posted by on Feb 16, 2010 in Textures | 3 comments

carpet texture

Carpet texture images are being used by digital artists, interior designers, graphic designers for making 2D and 3D renditions. For example you can use carpet texture in creating a realistic model or design of an office or home interior. I recently needed some carpet texture photos for a personal project but I found out that it is not easy to find good carpet texture images online in high-resolution format that you can use for free. So here, I am sharing with you 12 carpet texture images at resolution of 3500 by 3500 pixels. I hope you guys will find some good use for these carpet texture images.

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200+ Free Fire Background Textures

Posted by on Feb 12, 2010 in Textures | 0 comments

fire background texture

Fire is one of the elements used by designers for creating realistic effects. These fire images are very useful in 3D animation works such as those fiery glow used in special effects that you see in blockbuster movies as well as background or textures for print and web designs. If you are a designer and would like to add some fiery glow in whatever you are working on, then start scrolling your mouse down and check out if you can find textures or maybe some inspiration from this collection.

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10 Free Colorful Leather Textures

Posted by on Nov 22, 2009 in Photoshop, Textures | 7 comments

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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.

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1000+ Fractal Art for Creating Light Effects

Posted by on Oct 30, 2009 in Brushes, Photoshop, Textures | 4 comments

light effects

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.

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30 Linen Textures for Web and Print Designs

Posted by on Oct 2, 2009 in Textures | 4 comments

linen-texture 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.

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