Archive for June, 2008

This guest edition of the mixed texture pack series has been contributed by my dear friend Martin, whom I know since university. He always has some good advice for me when it comes to photography or the Search Engine Optimization of this website. Thanks a lot for that!

Make sure to check out some of his stunning pictures, which he showcases on his photoblog!

Due to the different camera involved, the pictures have a slightly smaller resolution than normal, but 3072 x 2304 pixels can of course still be considered as being high resolution. Grab the free texture pack, which contains 9 pictures, by clicking the download link below.

mixed texture pack 3 (.zip file, 34,5 MB)

If you would like to send in your own textures, feel free to contact me through one of the channels listed on the contact page.

Last saturday, I bought a new lens for my camera (Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 II) and I immediately had to try it out. So I went to an old industrial area nearby, where some of the properties are already abandoned. This was the perfect spot to get some shots of rusty metal, cracked paint and broken glass.

I am more than happy with the results of this session and as a consequence, I created a divers collection of 12 high resolution textures and offer them in one pack for your downloading convenience. Enjoy!

industrial decay texture pack 1 (.zip file, 43 MB)

Roughly one month ago, I started this website, so it is time for a small re-cap by looking at some statistics:

• I have written 10 posts so far
• 53 free high resolution textures are available for download
• 7248 people have visited this site
• those visitors were responsible for 18376 pageviews
• at the moment, 43 people subscribed to the RSS feed

Next to that, the website has been featured on numerous CSS galleries and other websites. The 3 biggest referrers so far have been Smashing magazine, a french site called emob and showcase website fave up.

So what comes next?

I am more than happy with the results of the 1st month and it keeps me motivated to continue what I am doing. This means, there will be loads of new textures, especially of categories I haven’t covered very much, like plants, rust or wood.

One of the things, I would like to improve in the near future, is the interaction with the readership. For that, I would like to encourage you to post more comments and make suggestions, e.g. what sort of textures you are currently missing here or if you would like to have multiple image sizes available for download.

Thank you very much for all the positive feedback so far. Have a nice weekend!

In order to continue the series of mixed texture packs, I herewith present you the mixtape volume 2 – a fine collection of various sorts of textures like wood, metal, bricks, concrete or stone.

Grab this high resolution texture pack by clicking the download link below.

mixed texture pack 2 (.zip file, 45 MB)

For this small texture pack, I took some shots of 2 paintings, which were created by an artist named Julian, who is in fact my girlfriend’s brother. I have to thank him for letting me publish these textures for your pleasure.

As always, use the download link below to grab the texture pack.

paint texture pack (.zip file, 15 MB)

Henry Jones, the man behind Design Reviver posted a nice collection of vintage textures and photoshop brushes. Next to a great freebie section, Design Reviver also has a few tutorials covering different topics of web development.

So what are you waiting for? Head on over to his blog and grab some freebies by clicking here!