Tutorial round-up: creating seamless textures
Posted by Vincent on Oct 24, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 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 | 3 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 | 67 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 | 9 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 | 4 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 | 11 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...
Read More9 Colorful Rust Textures
Posted by Vincent on Aug 29, 2008 in Textures | 20 comments
Earlier this week, I was texture hunting and I was lucky to find a few containers, which contained decaying industrial machines. I spent approx. 15 minutes shooting as much pictures from every possible angle, because normally it is very hard to find good rust textures in my area. You can see the results of that session below – a colorful collection of 9...
Read Morehighresolutiontextures.com on twitter
Posted by Vincent on Aug 27, 2008 in Textures | Comments Off on highresolutiontextures.com on twitter
From now on, you can now also follow highresolutiontextures.com on twitter. I found out yesterday that it is a brilliant networking tool. So, if you want to connect with me on twitter, here is the link to my profile. Credit for the twitter icon on the left goes to...
Read MoreSome words of gratitude
Posted by Vincent on Aug 25, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment
In this post I would like to thank a few people for sending lots of traffic my way in the last few weeks. 1. Fabio Sasso of abduzeedo.com Fabio is one of the guys behind design collective abduzeedo and also one the main contributors over at psdtuts.com. His photoshop tutorials are always top-notch! I was lucky enough to be included in their post Best of week...
Read MoreFree stone texture pack volume 3
Posted by Vincent on Aug 24, 2008 in Textures | 48 comments
Here is number 3 in the series of stone texture packs. This collection contains 10 high quality shots with a resolution of 3888 x 2592 pixels. A zip file with all pictures can be found at the end of this post. In case you missed the first 2 stone texture packs, you can find them here: stone texture pack 1, stone texture pack 2. stone...
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