For all vinyl junkies: HRT records texture pack
Posted by Vincent on Dec 19, 2008 in Featured, Textures | 11 comments
It is about time that I present some new hi-res textures on here, as posting frequency has decreased dramatically over the last few weeks. My apologies for that. One of the reasons is that I am currently working hard on a redesign of this site in order to add more features and enhance overall usability. Most of the recommendations made by the readers during the...
Read MoreHuge collection of 200+ Texture brushes
Posted by Vincent on Nov 25, 2008 in Photoshop & Illustrator | 6 comments
Recently, I was browsing through Deviantart in search for some nice texture brushes. Some of these artists have really done a fantastic job by putting out great brush sets. Afterwards, I thought that you guys might be interested in these brush sets as well and that is how I came up with this list of 200+ texture brushes. I hope you find them useful for your...
Read MoreBest of HRT Flickr pool – 1st edition
Posted by Vincent on Nov 6, 2008 in Textures | 6 comments
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...
Read MoreMixed texture pack: documenting the move
Posted by Vincent on Oct 30, 2008 in Textures | 8 comments
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...
Read MoreTutorial round-up: creating seamless textures
Posted by Vincent on Oct 24, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 comments
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...
Read MoreIn case you haven’t noticed – today is Blog Action Day!
Posted by Vincent on Oct 15, 2008 in Textures | 10 comments
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...
Read MoreShort forced break
Posted by Vincent on Sep 30, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 comments
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...
Read MoreAnnouncement of the contest winner!
Posted by Vincent on Sep 30, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 comments
Alright, the moment of truth has arrived. In total, 55 people posted a comment and every one of them was valid and contained one or more improvement suggestions. I fired up a random number generator and asked it to return a random number between 1 and 55 and it came up with number 9. That means Qbessi is the winner of the book! Congratulations! The winner has...
Read MoreContest: Win a book & DVD including loads of hi-res textures
Posted by Vincent on Sep 22, 2008 in Textures | 57 comments
Let’s start the new week with a big bang, shall we! I am giving away a free copy of the texture book Crumble, Crackle, Burn by R. von Glitschka. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and suggest an improvement, which you would like to see on this blog in the future. A random number generator will determine the winner amongst all valid...
Read MoreFeature: Lost and Taken – another great texture resource!
Posted by Vincent on Sep 15, 2008 in News | 5 comments
Shortly after I started this blog, I was approached by Caleb, who informed me that he was doing a similar thing over at lostandtaken.com. And indeed, he also offers high resolution textures and gives them away for free. We decided to join forces instead of trying to compete against each other and as a consequence he send me over a nice little texture pack,...
Read More11 hi-res slate textures
Posted by Vincent on Sep 8, 2008 in Textures | 3 comments
After his first contribution, my friend Martin hooked me up with another great texture pack. This time it is a nice collection of slate textures, which contains 11 high resolution images. A big thank you goes out to Martin for these beautiful photos! Make sure to visit his photoblog, where he showcases some brilliant pictures (other than...
Read MoreA new experiment: applying the HDR technique to textures
Posted by Vincent on Sep 4, 2008 in Inspiration | 4 comments
Lately, I have been a little obsessed with HDR photography. Especially the work of Trey Ratcliff is breathtaking and he also has a very good tutorial on his blog “Stuck in Customs”, where he covers the ins and outs of the HDR technique. Inspired by all this, I thought that I could try and apply this special technique to my textures. And this is what...
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