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Free Paper Textures – 20 Useful Examples
If you’re a designer you’ve probably used paper textures in your design work before. They are a wonderful resource that you can use to overlay photographs, create vintage backgrounds and many other visual elements to make them look great. Images of free paper textures aren’t hard to come by on the internet, there’s plenty of…
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Free Volcanic Stone Textures
Today I have a set of really nice and grungy volcanic stone textures from Iceland. We have these large cliffs by the sea in my hometown where the walls have been crumbling for decades, exposing some interesting rock surface. I played around with the colors in post-processing to create a mystical mood for the textures.…
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Free Floral Backgrounds – 20 Blooming Examples
Returning back from a short visit to Norway has inspired me to select some beautiful floral images for this post. The summer in Norway has really kicked in with plenty of sun and greenery, in contrast to Iceland, where it was still snowing last week. For this, I have hand picked 20 colorful and beautiful…
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Free Black & White Stock Photos
In this post I have selected 20 impressive free black & white stock photos from our gallery that you can use for your next project. Black and white photography, also known as Monochrome photography is when an image shows a different amount of light but not colors, containing tones from neutral grey ranging from black…
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Free Rust and Concrete Textures
Today I have a really nice set of free rust and concrete textures from an old stone wall down by the sea. The textures are dark and gloomy with a lot of details and rust bleeding from the cast iron in the walls. The grunge effect from the cracked concrete walls are perfect for creating…
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8 eBooks That Every Photographer Should Read
With high-quality digital cameras now in widespread, it is quite easy to get into photography inexpensively. A snapshot here a shot there and voila! You’re good to go. However, though seemingly an easy task to undertake, photography still remains a difficult skill to learn on your own. In fact, it takes most people years of…
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Free Subtle Grunge Textures
I’m starting this week with a nice set of free subtle grunge textures, perfect to use as overlays to add a worn and vintage effect to your designs and photos. Adding textures like this is easy, even if you’re a beginner with Photoshop, or any other major photo editing software. Here are a couple of…
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Free Space Stock Photos – 20 Extraordinary Examples
Space has fascinated human beings since the early ages and with space telescopes like Hubble and Chandra, astronomy was revolutionized. These telescopes provided stunning images of countless cosmic objects and gave astronomers their most distant views of the universe. In recent times this has also sparked creativity in artists, creating amazing and complicated fantasy worlds…
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Yellow Grunge Concrete Textures
Today I have a new set of yellow grunge concrete textures from an old building down by the sea in a town close by. The old and weathered walls of this building have some leftovers of peeled yellow and orange paint along with some graffiti. The old concrete has also started to crackle and brake…
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Free Organic Backgrounds – 50 Earthly Examples
With Earth Day coming up on April 22nd. I decided to round up a good selection of free organic backgrounds that you can use for the occasion. Our Organic background images mainly consist of plants, foliage, dirt and other natural elements that look great up close. Organic textures tend to be very abstract and will…
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Free Rotten Wood Textures
Today I have a brand new set of free rotten wood textures that I shot this weekend. These images are from an old driftwood that I walked upon by the sea. The wood has been rotting away for years and is filled with holes, cracks and other wonderful details. It’s probably been a while since…
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Free Tax Stock Photos
For many of us tax day is coming up in April. It’s the day of the year when individual income tax returns are due to the federal government. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it. Well, we all have to pay our taxes one way or another. Many of you are probably working in the design or…
