This morning, I grabbed my camera and wandered around town in order to get some textures of brick walls. The fact that I am living in Holland makes it a very easy task, because over here there are so many different colors and sizes when it comes to brick walls.
But see for yourself and grab the entire texture pack by clicking the download link below. The resolution of the pictures is 3888 x 2592 pixels. Enjoy!
Here on highresolutiontextures.com, besides offering free textures packs, I try to encourage the readers to grab their camera, go out and shoot some pictures of nice textures themselves. Therefore, I would like to provide you with several tips & tricks on how you can achieve better results or simply more variation. Most of them are as easy to apply as this first one:
Normally, when you come across textures, the pictures have been taken straight in front of or above the subject, like the one below.
By slightly tilting the camera and moving in on the subject, you are able to take a whole new picture, which has a lot more depth. This can make for some interesting shots.
I hope that this little piece of advice was useful. There’s definitely more where that came from, but first it is your turn to try out this technique. Feel free to post your results in the comments. Both pictures from above are also available for download in high resolution (3888 x 2592 pixels).
After presenting you the first 2 texture packs, I now would like to illustrate several possibilities of how to utilize high resolution textures, namely web design, print design and computer game design.
If you ended up here on this website, you can already see one example of how a texture can be used e.g. as a background graphic. One of my favorite websites with regards to overall design is Electric Pulp (see screenshot below), because their use of textures shows the neat effects that you can achieve with it.
There is almost no limitation to that concept and if you would like to get some more inspiration, I suggest you head over to Design Meltdown, who showcase lots of websites according to the design elements used. Have a look at their collection of sites that are using for instance wood or clouds.
Nowadays, textures are also used as a design element for magazines, books, advertisements and other printed media. There is a brilliant tutorial at PSDTUTS.COM, where Kyle Pero uses one of the paper textures of Bittbox in order to design a retro look poster.
Here is another example displaying magnificent use of a concrete texture taken from the online portfolio of designer Paul Harrison.
Picture is courtesy of Gamestar.
If you have played fairly modern computer games, chances are very high that you came across all kinds of textures, because they are heavily used for level or character design. As you can see in the above screenshot from one of the latest First-Person-Shooters Far Cry 2TM, the game designers used some stone textures for the rocks and wood textures for the rifle. There are also some amazing works of professional CG artists in the scenes gallery of 3dtotal.com.
I hope that I could give you an idea of the different areas of design, where textures are being used on a daily basis. If you like this post, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed of this blog.
Last weekend, I have been to Leipzig and Dresden - two beautiful cities in Eastern Germany, which have an abundance of old monuments, churches and statues. With such a variety of medieval buildings, there is no better place to get some pictures of stone textures and this is exactly what I did.
Grab the entire texture pack, which contains 8 high quality pictures!
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As the title already implies, this website is all about high resolution textures. These high quality textures can be used for all sorts of design work, whether it be background graphics for websites, flyers or even 3D computer games.
On this website, I am offering all textures and patterns free of charge. Most of the pictures have a maximum resolution of 3888 x 2592 pixels and smaller sizes are available on request. Next to offering textures, which I think are interesting, I am always open to suggestions for new material. So, if you would like to see a particular sort of texture here on highresolutiontextures.com, then let me know in the comments or contact me via email.
As a welcome present, here is the first small texture pack with 3 graphics, including the one from this blogpost.
