Design inspiration: 3 more websites with excellent use of textures

Posted by Vincent on Jul 8, 2008 in Inspiration | 1 comment

Design inspiration: 3 more websites with excellent use of textures

In order to mix it up a little, it is time for some more inspiration. The following websites illustrate, how one can achieve beautiful results in web design through the use of textures. slabovia tv: it has a nice wooden background and contains some concrete and paper textures as well. It is hard to describe, what this website is about, so you have to see for...

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Taking your textures to the next level part 2

Posted by Vincent on Jul 7, 2008 in Tutorials | 1 comment

Taking your textures to the next level part 2

One of the readers requested there should be more tutorials on this blog, so here is a little piece of advice, how you can improve your texture photography. The devil is in the details! Therefore, carefully check your desired motive when looking through the viewfinder or at the live screen of your camera. I learned it the hard way, when I was looking at some of...

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grates and grids

Posted by Vincent on Jul 5, 2008 in Textures | 1 comment

grates and grids

Originating from the same photo shooting as the industrial decay pack, here is a nice variety of grates and grids. This texture pack contains 6 high resolution pictures and I hope you find them useful! grate texture pack (.zip file, 23 MB) Bookmark It Hide...

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Feature: grunge paper texture tutorial at bittbox.com

Posted by Vincent on Jul 2, 2008 in Inspiration | 1 comment

One of my favorite resource websites bittbox.com has a great tutorial on how to enhance paper textures in order to create a unique grunge paper effect. Head on over to the tutorial. Next to that, the website has a great freebie section with lots of Illustrator and Photoshop brushes and a few more tutorials on how to create you own textures in Photoshop....

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