5 awesome Flickr groups to fuel your texture inspiration

When trying to come up with new ideas for textures, I often turn to Flickr for inspiration. The vast amount of texture images on there is overwhelming and sometimes makes it hard to find the ones you are looking for. In order to make things easier for you, I created an overview with 5 groups, which offer a great variety of texture photos and have a solid user...

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Highresolutiontextures.com gets a makeover

After 9 months it was about time to give this website a new look and after lots of hard work, I finally went live with the re-design. The most remarkable changes are: a featured content section on top a logo, instead of plain text no huge backgroud graphic, which sometimes was a bit distracting gravatar support in the comment section a bigger sidebar to give...

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High resolution texture round-up for february

Over the last 2-3 weeks, lots of different articles about and collections with various high resolution textures have been published all over the design community. In this post, I would like to present the most important ones, in order to make sure that you don’t miss any of the action. So let’s get right to it: Launch of Seamlesstextures.net Fellow...

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4 High Quality Cardboard Textures

The current weather conditions don’t allow me to go outside and shoot some outdoor textures, so I have to come up with new ideas for textures which are located in and around the house. Therefore, I tore up one of the old cardboard boxes from the move and created a small texture pack. I hope you find these images useful and enjoy using them in your designs....

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4 hi-res footprints textures

Last weekend, we had a housewarming party at our place. In order to protect the wooden floor, I covered it with laminated cardboard. The next morning, I realized that everybody had left his or her mark on that cardboard in the form of footprints and I grabbed the camera and made a few shots before cleaning the whole mess up. So, here is a small texture pack...

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The RSS link of HRT has changed – please re-subscribe!

Hi folks, last weekend, I had to move the feed address of highresolutiontextures.com to a new location, because all feedburner accounts will be merged with Google accounts within the next 2 weeks. In order to make sure that you receive all future updates, please unsubscribe manually (from within your favorite RSS reader) and then come back to this website and...

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Great collection of Vintage textures on Web Design Ledger

Web Design Ledger is a relatively young web design blog, which delivers high quality content with every post they publish. Their latest article features 30 brilliant vintage textures created by several artists on deviantart. There are lots of wallpaper, grunge and floral textures available, so head on over there in order to grab some great...

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Looking back on 2008

Hi folks, the year is coming to an end, so I would like to take the opportunity and look back on what has been a very successful 7 months for highresolutiontextures.com. Since going live in May, the site saw a steady increase in visitors and RSS subscribers. Already in June, the first stone texture pack was being featured on Smashing magazine, which of course is...

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For all vinyl junkies: HRT records texture pack

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...

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Huge collection of 200+ Texture brushes

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...

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Best of HRT Flickr pool – 1st edition

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...

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Mixed texture pack: documenting the move

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...

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