Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Another Bunch of New Textures Released

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The textures added this week run the range from some nice abstracts to some smaller photo texture files. A little bit of almost everything, including a couple of new brick textures and a rather nice texture of redwood roof shingles.

It's been a busy week over all - we've got 15 new textures, 30 new free stock photos, 10 new png files and a couple of new graphics.

black and gray abstract texture with a rough, rocky background and a modern feel

An interesting abstract texture in black and gray with an edgy, modern feeling. Varying shades of gray, black and white combine with a yellowish shade to add interest to the colour palette, and and overlay of black cracks ads to the roughness of the texture, a bit of a bedrock sort of texture. While this is not one of the super large textures, it is big enough to be useful as a web background.

This blue texture has a nice light, wispy feeling. The main free 3d texture of blue sky with wispy white clouds and shades of pinkcolors and tones in this one are mostly in the pastel range - blue, white, yellow, light pinky-mauve shades and it has a slightly ethereal quality because of the color and the wispiness. Really quite pretty if made seamless and rendered over an orb to create a planet. This one is mostly a photographic texture, manipulated a bit to give it some depth.


wood shingle textureThis next one is from the wood and walls category of textures. A rather nice photo texture of redwood shingles. These are on the roof of a restored set of buildings on the grounds of Berry College in Rome (Georgia) and if you look at the larger file you will notice a few pieces of missing shingle. My wood category is somewhat sparse at the moment (hey, it's winter here) so I'm always happy to find an old file I haven't used yet...it's almost like getting a birthday present.

Okay, that's enough gabbing out the textures for now - below you'll see some samples of the rest of them:

new free textures in all categories
And below are some samples of the new free PNG files available over at Free-3D-Textures this week. I think some of these are included with the sales files, but I've pulled a few from the sales package and released them as free ones.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Bricks, Mortar and Wood…

Generally that makes a house, but today it’s just a few new textures. We’ve added a few new files for brick textures, and an interesting bit of wood – it’s a very large burl on the side of a tree. Rather unusual to see something like that. As well, there’s a couple of new abstract textures for you – useful as textures in 3D renderings, but also as backgrounds.

BrownBrick_02_TH RedBrick_04_TH

An interestingly textured brown, tan and white brick with brown mortar and straight stacking, and light red brick with moss-colored mortar and typical brick stacking.

TanTileFloors_TH BlueBlack_12_TH

An uneven clay floor in the shape of bricks, with colorations ranging from tan to light mossy green and pale orange, and an interesting blue and black abstract texture.

RedBlack_09_TH wood burl on tree

A marvelous abstract with motion and movement in red, black and gold, and an interesting burl of wood on a tree trunk.

All of these can be found in the appropriate textures section on Free-3D-Textures.com

 

Along with these, there are also some new files in the free PNG section:

empty shell casings and a corner armoir

Some empty shell casings in red and blue, and a corner armoir of dark-stained pine.

small wall clock with round wooden frame and a yellow ceramic piggy bank in the shape of a rooster

A warm yellowish wall-clock with light wood frame and a yellow ceramic piggy bank in the shape of a rooster.

 

Over the course of last week, and the weekend (yes, sometimes we do work weekends) there have also been quite a number of new stock photo files uploaded – spread throughout most of the stock photo sections. Some winter landscapes, people photos, the toy section is up and running, and in the “flora” section there is a couple of images of holly – the closeup one might be useful as a texture as well.

collectible toys - metal construction vehicles, and an old tow-truck, as well as a cute brown teddy bear with a white face

A selection of stock photo toys (more in the section than this sample portrays) – these are mostly “boy toys” – cars and trucks, including a tow-truck and some collectibles, a vintage rubber ducky and the cutest teddy bear I’ve seen in a long time. He’s a white teddy, wearing a coat of brown, with red and white candy striped buttons.

savannaholly_TH

As well as the textures, PNG files and stock photos, you’ll find two new texture brushes in the free Photoshop Brushes Section.

AbstractTexture_08 DenimTexture

An abstract texture brush which gives results quite similar to mud cracks, and a denim texture brush.

 

Don’t forget – if you are looking for textures only, take time to browse through some of the stock photo sections. There are some image files in the stock photos that you can extract some interesting textures from, particularly if you only need smaller files that would be used in 3D rendering programs. At this point, I believe we are approaching 500 stock photos in that new section, and of course there is also the free PNG section and the free graphics section.

 

Hope you all have a productive and fun week! And hey…drop me a line anytime you can’t find something you need. I might just have it stored on a disc somewhere.