Articles Tagged 'textures'

Holy Grail: 400+ of Outstanding Textures For Vintage Style Designs

 Posted in: FreebiesWritten by: Jane BernardoNovember 7th, 2010

Who said that designs cannot be old in time? This is one of the inspiration of designers to have, to go back in time and look back on what designs they are missing.  Vintage designs are really great in terms of the texture and element that cannot be found in modern designs. You can achieve the vintage look by the mixtures  of different images that are layered through image editor like Photoshop or through ready-made Photoshop vintage brushes. In this article, I'll be featuring awesome vintage style textures and vintage brushes.

Holy Grail: 400+ of Outstanding Textures For Vintage Style Designs

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Ultimate Roundup of 200+ Outstanding Textures For Vintage Style Designs

 Posted in: FreebiesWritten by: Ahmad HaniaSeptember 14th, 2010

Vintage style design is a trend that designers use to apply an old and classic sense to their designs. One way of applying this trend is by using vintage textures, vintage textures provides an easy to use method for creating stunning vintage style designs. In this article I compiled a list of 215 outstanding free vintage textures, but please check licenses before use.

Ultimate Roundup of 200+ Outstanding Textures For Vintage Style Designs

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Get Inspired: Beautiful Examples of Textures in Web Design

 Posted in: InspirationWritten by: Ari SuardiyantiAugust 28th, 2010

Whenever you visit website these days, every single one of them is trying to compete one and another. Despite the difference of products or services they offer, their mission remain the same: to engage their visitor or customer. If you find adding big text, icons, or illustrations on web design isn't so entertaining anymore, let's add textures. Some web designs use solid or gradient colors as their background, others use illustration to make it look attractive. As for textures, you can add it as the background of a web design, create a certain effect on the text, or even add it to the buttons or other web graphic elements. In this post, we will show you 5 types of texture in web design for your inspiration.

Get Inspired: Beautiful Examples of Textures in Web Design

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50 Wicked Websites featuring Wooden Textures

 Posted in: InspirationWritten by: Matthew CornerAugust 19th, 2010

Anyone browsing the websites of creative companies, individuals and communities, will have noticed over the past few years, that patterns, and textures have become a massive design trend. A big part of this design trend, is made up of the use of wooden textures. Some sites simply use wooden textures for backgrounds, some more creatively for specific sections of their site such as features, and some even incorporate the wooden feel into elements such as the logo, or buttons! There are plenty of free, and premium wooden textures out there for you to use, so here is the inspiration you need to put them to good use!

50 Wicked Websites featuring Wooden Textures

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The Ultimate Roundup of 45 Awesome Bokeh Textures

 Posted in: FreebiesWritten by: Siva KumarJuly 15th, 2010

Bokeh backgrounds had become a huge trend from 2009 and shows no sign of stopping anytime in 2010 too. For those who don’t know what Bokeh is, it is originally "boke" and pronounced as bo as in "bore" and ke as in "Kennedy". It basically means the "out of focus" parts of a photograph.Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions. It has definitely caught on and is a very sought after effect amongst photographers and designers who especially love the textured quality of the out of focus bits. Enjoy this Ultimate collection of Bokeh textures, Please read the artist’s terms of conditions and copyright advice before using them in your projects.

The Ultimate Roundup of 45 Awesome Bokeh Textures

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30+ Best Texture Tutorials for Photoshop

 Posted in: TutorialsWritten by: Hilde TorbjornsenMay 4th, 2010

Making art or various designs will often require different textures. It can be that you need it for that extra grungy look or maybe you are trying to recreate a piece of denim for a logo. It can be very useful to be able to make your own textures in Photoshop. This way you get the exact effect you want, its customizable, no need to pay anyone for the use of it etc. I've collected some of the best texture tutorials I know of and hope these will inspire! Enjoy! :)

30+ Best Texture Tutorials for Photoshop

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Forget About Classics: 75 Crazy And Creative Textured Websites

Textures are great way to highlight your website, give it an unique look and stand out from crowd offering something people have never seen and known is possible to do. With new browser and coding features you can design almost everything and make it web-safe. And I prefer textured websites much more than outworn web 2.0 style which is so 2008, subtle gradients tied with new technologies and possibilities are very popular in our days. That’s why I gathered many excellent examples with highly detailed websites using textures as one of the most important design elements.

Forget About Classics: 75 Crazy And Creative Textured Websites

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Where to find amazing photo backgrounds or textures?

If You are a graphic or web designer, great texture always becomes handy in your workflow. You can create amazing effects just combining those textures together and playing with them. I just took a look around and thought that I need to make a list of amazing textures, because quality images and textures are never enough. There are many great resources all around the web, I just tried to select those most better known web pages and those with great collection and quality of textures. All of those textures are free, so You can use them freely in your personal or commercial works.

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