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Best of HRT Flickr pool - 1st edition

2lip — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:22:55 +0000

A while ago, I started a flickr group for highresolutiontextures.com, where the readers can post their own texture images. The group already has 58 members and a few of those member submitted some great texture photos. From time to time, I want to showcase the best submissions of this group and this post is the start of that series.

Max from DesignShard was the first one to submit some of his work and here 2 examples:

Delarge runs the well-known texture site Urban Dirty and also submitted some great texture images:

The last image is from a flickr user called In Fair Nation:

As you can see, there are lots of talented people out there and I want to encourage all of you to submit your photos to this group as well. There is no need to be shy, so join the HRT flickr group!

Many thanks to the above mentioned people for sharing these beautiful textures!

Mixed texture pack: documenting the move

2lip — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:33:32 +0000

At the beginning of october, I moved into a new house with my girlfriend and as we made quite some renovations, I wanted to document those with a special texture pack. This pack includes high resolution images of carpet, tiles, wood and wallpaper. Enjoy!

This is the bamboo floor, which we put in the living room:

The carpet of the 2 small bedrooms:

The carpet of the master bedroom:

My favorite: some hand-made finnish wallpaper:

Tiles on the kitchen wall:

Plaster on the bedroom walls:

Wood panels in the small bedrooms:

Wood panels in the master bedroom:

move texture pack (.zip file, 39.7 MB, 8 files)

Tutorial round-up: creating seamless textures

2lip — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:53:14 +0000

From all the improvement suggestions that you guys made during the last contest, having more tutorials here on highresolutiontextures.com was the most popular one. Therefore, I went through my bookmarks and came up with a small selection of Photoshop tutorials, which focus on creating seamless textures. These are particularly useful, when you want to use repeating background images on websites.

Without further ado, here is the list of tutorials:

tutorial 1 at photoshoptextures.com

tutorial 2 at freeseamlesstextures.com

tutorial 3 at biorust.com

tutorial 4 at cadtutor.net

tutorial 5 at brushes.obsidiandawn.com

I hope you find these tutorials useful!

In case you haven’t noticed - today is Blog Action Day!

2lip — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:29:40 +0000

Hi folks,
today october 15th, 2008, is Blog Action Day and a few months ago, I decided to register highresolutiontextures.com in order to make a small contribution to this great event. The initial idea was to create a huge texture pack and ask my readership to donate a small amount of money for it, which in turn would be used for one of the charity organizations featured at the Blog Action Day website.

However, due to the fact that the last 2 weeks have been totally hectic with renovations and moving, I had to make a change of plans. Therefore, I will donate all my earnings of the month october to Kiva.org and just like Jacob Cass of justcreativedesign.com, I will add 10 cents on top of that for every comment that you guys leave on this post.

Let’s see, what we can come up with. Every comment, which is made until the 31st of october, counts. Many thanks in advance for your support!

Short forced break

2lip — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:43:45 +0000

I just wanted to make a quick announcement that I will not be around for 1,5 weeks and therefore will not be able to post any new content. I bought a house together with my girlfriend and the next 2 weeks we will renovate our new home.

In the meantime, you can have a look at the newly installed Flickr pool, where the first members already posted some great images.

After the break, I will provide you with some kick-ass texture tutorials - promised!