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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 the pictures I took in Dresden a while back. Have a look at the picture below.

This would make for a brilliant texture photo, if there would not be one little object disturbing the picture. Look at the lower left corner and you will see what I mean.

I only noticed this plastic cup when I was already at home browsing through the shots on my computer and then of course it was too late. The only solution at that point would be some photoshopping and artificially removing the cup from the photo, but this mostly results in inferior pictures after all. The better option is to double check before taking the shot and remove the object.

I hope this tip was helpful. You might also want to look at the first post of this tutorial series.

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:

Add perspective

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).

flower fabric texture (.zip file, 7,4 MB)