Monday, August 23, 2010

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.

Free texture web sites

1. More than 17GB Huge collection of textures and reference photos for artists.

spectraloge

2. Stylish collection of free textures and photos ( for now 415).

urban-dirty

3. Freebies from Kave Wall stock.

kave-wall

4. Maybe most popular one with the biggest set of textures, at this moment 878 textures:

texture-king

5. Also very good known web-site with great collection:

texture-forrest

6. Design is not very encouraging, but textures are:

free-textures

7. Folks from Designviver.com summarized nice pick of textures too:

design-reviver

8.Texture Warehouse

texture-warehouse

9.Grungetextures

grunge-textures

10. Design is very simple, but sometimes less is more ( more than 10 000 textures!):

image-after

11.Lost and taken thinks so big, I cant even fill all logo in the page:

lost-and

12.Web site with stylish design and textures:

texture-love

13. Fabio Sasso from abduzeedo.com has made some nice collection too from 36 textures:

abduzeedo

14. Great texture web site and even their logo is texture! Original!

cgtextures

15. Textures will be enough there for all Your life!! Maybe not, but for now there is 7292 textures

webground

I just love all those vintage, grunge, rusty textures and so the last ones are hand picked 5 great texture packs which I like the most. Hope You enjoy.

1. 5 nice old scratchy paper textures :

vintage-grunge-texture

2. Even more 6 interesting textures with some more neat text effects taking action.

hardcore-vintage-grunge

3. Nice paper textures with clouds in the background:

paper-skies

4. All those 4 texture packs comes from amazing artist Princess-of-Shadows, I really love her work.

5 more great textures.

rust-textures

5. Great selection offers fellows from bittbox:

grungy-paper-texture

6. 31 Grunge Surfaces – nice texture pack created by velvetmoth.com:

That’s all for now my friends. And Yes, maybe You see great textures all around and don’t know how to really use them?

Then I am here for You to tell this one – just create new document, make some nice gradient or fill color effect and then easily open some texture, export on image and just play with opacity, levels, color balance and mainly layer styles. With those styles You can get unbelievably great results! Just try it out – it’s really not that complicated!

250+ Shiny and Free RSS Feed Icons

Few days from now on, we really got inspired with great artworks. Today it will be little different – I wanted to create one of the biggest RSS Feed icon collections hopefully. I looked over huge amount of resources and hand picked most amazing icons I found. RSS icons are one of the most known sign – every blogger tries to get more traffic and subscribers – no matter what You write about, everybody needs some traffic to make some money. It’s very important to get more regular readers for everybody, so what can be better than gorgeous RSS icon, welcoming new readers to subscribe!? I am sure one You will find something useful here! Lets get started!

1. At first I wanted to offer You, most known RSS web site. At Feedicons.com You’ll find official RSS feed icons with wide range of formats like png, jpg, gif, psd letting to freely customize each icon!

feedicons

2. If You are interested in very small icons IconFinder.com has pretty wide collection of all kind of icons. Just type in search – “rss” or “feed”.

iconfinder

3. And how could I forget about probably most popular icon set in design world for now?

I love those too, but now everybody uses one, great advertisement for SM.

smashing-rss

4. 2 RSS icons (black and white) created by artist Nicholas Boyd are pretty unique.

hats-rss-icons

5. Rss icons – 6 different colors in *.png format.

rss-feed-3d

6. 4 glossy icons in 4 different colors.

4-RSS-icons

7. 4 great RSS texture icons

texture-rss

8. Amazing collection (18 icons) created by Russian designer from design-freak.com

RSS_feed_button_pack-18

9. Unique sign-type icons, 17 different colors:

signs

10. 6 different icons, tech style:

alternative

11. 30 small feed icons just for You:

small-icons

12. 365 different RSS icons for every case:

345-free

Circular RSS icons:

1stset

Extra and Grunge Icons

2stset

Marco and Normal icons

3stset

13. 4 colored icons

cool

14. Did You know that RSS icon can be real tasty too?

drink-rss-2

drink-rss-1

15. Simple, yet cute icon:

RSS_Block

16. Wax Seals, 4 icons, *.psd included:

Wax_Seals

17. 2 icons for RSS news:

RSS_NEWS

18. 4 icons with wood texture, pretty cool:

WoodRssIcons_lp

19. Tasty one:

RSS_Icons_petemh

20. 8 different colored RSS glassy icons:

glassy-set

21. 3 simple icons, made by pswish.com

rssiconsglossyballs

22. 6 colourful icons, looks excellent both on white and black background:

allblack

23. RSS in fire:

rss-fire

24. Pretty self explaining image below:

60-icons

25. There are huge collection of different icons at dryicons.com:

box

rss_drink rss_style note

26. Huge list of small icons used in real web pages and standard icons. Be sure to check out this list:

huge-list

27. Just one more cute icon:

rss_icon-big

28. Great animated RSS icon to take attention and hints how to do it:

animated

Animate Your own RSS icon online – by adding three different pictures!

picason

29. Great RSS and Social bookmark icons ( one of those I am using now):

maxicone

30. And at least one more web tool – You can create very simple RSS icons with it online!

Just play with the colors and You got nice, simple icon!

rss-graphic

I hope You will appreciate this!