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5 Great Places to Find Textures

I thought I’d post some links to some great online resources for finding interesting and good quality textures to use with your photographs. Most of these can be used royalty-free or under an appropriate creative commons license but I would advise you check the license on each texture before you use them. If you’re not sure how to add and use textures with your photographs then I suggest this tutorial as a simple starting point, but there are lots of methods out there and lots of great way to use textures…maybe google yourself some more options =)

1. Urban DirtyFree – texture stock photography for your artwork, designs and desktops

2. TextureKing – Free stock textures

3. Grunge Textures -Free High Resolution Textures with Creative Commons Licensing

4. Texture Warehouse -Free High Resolution Textures for Designers and 3D Artist

5. Flickr of course! – Yes there are lots and lots of people offering their own textures for use on flickr, up until recently an individual called ghostbones was top on my visit list but sadly he seems to have departed!?!? So another good place to start would be the textures for layers group.

bonus number six – shoot your own!! If your at a loss of what to shoot on any particular day grab your camera and go and take some texture shots and start building up your own library, you won’t have to travel far to find 100′s of different surfaces and materials to make up great layers for future photo projects.

Here are more examples of textures in action. › Continue reading

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