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Free Texture Friday – Grunge Wood Surface
There’s nothing better than grunge wood to spice up your designs and photographs, and they also work amazing as a stand-alone backgrounds as well. Today I bring you 5 textures of old, grunge and weathered wood. Each of these textures has it’s own character and tells a story of time and decay. Enjoy!
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Creative Uses of Background Patterns in Web Design
One of the places that many beginning designers ignore is the background of a website design. They are so focused on the foreground user interface elements, sleek navigation menus, modal boxes and icons that they neglect one of the key areas of web design that can be leveraged for a huge benefit. There is nothing…
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30 Photographs of Open Fields
Much of the planet used to consist of open plains, where animals were able to roam freely and there was little signs of human development. These days, much of those plains and fields have been developed into residential and commercial areas, but there are still some open prairies as well as farmland. Fields present a…
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Free Texture Friday – Dark Grunge Concrete
Today’s free textures are a set of dark, grunge concrete surface that I shot earlier this year. They are perfect for backgrounds and overlays or spicing up your photomanipulations. Enjoy the free textures, and don’t forget to view the past freebies here!
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Fresh Examples of Pixel Perfect iOS Icons
Fresh off their lawsuit victory over Samsung, Apple is continuing to see their market influence grow and the number of applications flooding the app store is incredible, with applications for every purpose, feature and concept imaginable. The one type of design that makes iOS applications interesting is the icon design. The icon sizing and types…
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30 Fantastic Artistic Nude Photos
The use of people in photography is one of the most important concepts in photography. Wedding photography, portrait photography and many types of conceptual photography make use of people or the human body to create an artistic concept. Nudity can also be quite artistic, as the body has natural lines and curves that can be…
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Free Texture Friday – Earthly Grunge
This weeks free textures are a set of mud and mineral stone backgrounds shot in Icelandic nature. I’ve given the textures a soft brown and grunge overlay to make them more appealing. These are great as overlays over your photographs, or as a stand-alone backgrounds. Enjoy the textures!
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Stunning Interior Renders of Commercial Environments
For commercial businesses such as stores and food shops, the interior design of the location is critical to maintaining a respected image. Most people instantly notice if a location is dirty, and even if it’s clean, consumers are affected by the perceived quality of the design and effort. After all, if they can’t look professional,…
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30 Macro Photographs of Insects
Macro photography is the process of taking extreme close up photographs of objects. While macro can be applied to almost any subject, it tends to work better on subjects such as flowers and insects. Macro photography of insects is particularly interesting, because insects tend to look boring from a distance, but up close, an incredible…
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Free Texture Friday – Colored Smoke
This weeks free textures are smokey, colorful and abstract, perfect for backgrounds or setting a special mood for your design. They were shot in the studio with a smoke machine, and colored afterwards in Photoshop. Enjoy the photos, and let me know what you think in the comment section below.
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Innovative Single Page Website Designs
These days, it seems as though websites are becoming more and more complex. With galleries, multiple pages, blog posts, forms and other pages, many users are finding that it’s hard to find the content that actually matters. To combat this, designers and developers have begun using some neat tricks, such as tabbed layouts, and single…
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30 Gorgeous Autumn Photographs
Autumn is one of the four seasons of the year, and is marked by the transition from the hot temperatures of summer to the cooler temperatures of winter. It’s also associated with the return to school for many students, and also for the changing of the colors of the leaves. Autumn presents some great opportunities…
