Free Wood Fence 3D Textures Pack with Transparent Backgrounds

Free Wood Fence 3D Textures Pack with Transparent Backgrounds

This high resolution free wood fence texture pack is perfect for game textures, 3D modeling, 3D graphic design in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, or architectural textures. They are pre-matted with transparent backgrounds so that anything behind the wood fences will show through. They are designed to be seamless textures so that you can tile them horizontally...

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4 Free Hi-Res Grunge Concrete Wall Textures

4 Free Hi-Res Grunge Concrete Wall Textures

Awesome grungy concrete wall texture pack. These cracked cement photos will make great urban 3D game textures or video background textures. They are perfect to add a dirty, grungy look to your graphic design projects. HRT Concrete Wall Texture Pack (.zip file, 9 MB, 4 files) Bookmark It Hide...

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5 hi-res textures of stones and rocks

5 hi-res textures of stones and rocks

Another texture pack containing images from my recent visit to France. This time it is a diverse collection with 5 high quality images of stones and rocks. On a side note, I will remove the upload functionality from the website, because it was barely used and most of the images only had a limited resolution. It was worth a try, but it is apparent that this...

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4 hi-res grunge textures of cracked paint

4 hi-res grunge textures of cracked paint

Coming back from a nice vacation in the beautiful Ardeche region in France, I present you some nice grungy textures of cracked paint. There were lots of old villages in that area, so it was a perfect spot for shooting pictures of old stones, rocks and in this case wheathered wood. I hope you find those useful! cracked paint texture pack (.zip file, 27...

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Featured new texture site: LoveTextures

Featured new texture site: LoveTextures

A while ago, I presented to you a few newcomer websites that are also focussing on hi-res textures. In the meantime, I was approached by Justin, who recently set up a great site called LoveTextures and with this feature post I would like to welcome this friendly new member to the texture community. For this post, he send me an awesome set of graffiti textures,...

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7 hi-res textures of wood and volcanic stone from Fuerteventura

7 hi-res textures of wood and volcanic stone from Fuerteventura

My dear friend Martin, a regular contributor to this blog, recently went on vacation to Fuerteventura, one of the Canary islands. This island has emerged from volcanic activities and there is an abundance of nice rock formations, which are perfectly suited for shooting textures. This is exactly what he did and he gave me a few of his best shots in order to share...

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5 hi-res grunge textures made from pancakes

5 hi-res grunge textures made from pancakes

You might ask yourself, what kind of a stupid title is that – grunge in combination with pancakes? The idea for these textures just popped up, when I was standing in the kitchen and making…you guessed it: pancakes. I just looked at the first one I made and thought that the color and structure resembles some rust textures that you see floating around...

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new kids on the (texture) block

new kids on the (texture) block

It was pretty quiet here for the last month, due to the fact that I was busy working on other personal projects and client work. But I promise to make up for my absence by posting a bunch of articles over the coming days, starting with this one here. I would like to present you 2 great new texture sites that have emerged recently. The first new site is called...

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4 hi-res mussel shell textures

4 hi-res mussel shell textures

Summertime is here and this calls for different kinds of textures. Last week, I spent a lovely day at the beach with my fiance and while walking along the coastline, we collected quite a few mussel shells. At home, I made a big pile and created these textures from it. I hope you find them useful. Enjoy! Update: One of my twitter friends – ...

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Interview with professional photographer Tyson Crosbie

Interview with professional photographer Tyson Crosbie

I am very pleased to present to you the first interview here on HRT. A few months ago, I noticed some outstanding textures in the HRT Flickr pool and I wanted to find out more about the artist, Tyson Crosbie. Turns out, he’s a professional photographer from Phoenix, Arizona, and he agreed to do this interview and share some details about his artwork and...

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Feature: DPS article with 10 tips for shooting graphic textures

Digital Photography School, one of the biggest blogs about photography, has a great article with 10 tips for shooting graphic textures. This is a must read for all aspiring texture photographers, if they want to find out, how they can achieve better results. Visit the article here! Earlier, I also wrote 2 articles about how to take your textures to the next...

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Spray paint: a collection of 9 hi-res textures

Spray paint: a collection of 9 hi-res textures

Here is a nice and colorful collection of hi-res spray paint textures on different metal surfaces. I found these on several garage doors on my way home from my first skateboarding photography session, when I had take a detour with my bike. This proves that it can be very beneficial from time to time if you go off the beaten track and as a consequence discover...

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