textures

  • Free Layered Rock Formation Textures

    Free Layered Rock Formation Textures

    Let’s start the year with a set of textures from the ancient Icelandic fishing village, Hellnar. It’s located in the area of Snæfellsnes Peninsula which has a lot of great scenery and a huge glazier as well. These free layered rock formation textures are from a cliff called Valasnös which has these amazing and unique…

  • Free Black Lava Textures

    Free Black Lava Textures

    If you’ve ever been to Iceland you know the first impression you get when you get out of the airport, “where the heck am I?” And on your drive to the capital, a moon like landscape with vast fields of lava rocks with some of it covered with moss. Looking like aerial photos of Iceland’s…

  • Free Icy Rock Textures

    Free Icy Rock Textures

    Hey guys, today’s textures can’t be more fitting to the freezing cold we are having here in Iceland at the moment. I have a set of ten free icy rock textures from minerals such as quartz and rock crystal, and the blue coloring that I applied in Lightroom makes them look a lot like real…

  • Free Abstract Rock Textures

    Free Abstract Rock Textures

    Rock textures are always fun to play with when designing graphics or creating cool backgrounds. I use textures like this a lot when I’m creating website & slider backgrounds as well as ads and banners for print. These free abstract rock textures are from various minerals found in Iceland. I picked them out mainly because…

  • Free Black Grunge Wood Textures

    Free Black Grunge Wood Textures

    It’s been awhile since I posted new textures, but don’t worry because today I have a brand new pack of 12 free black grunge wood textures. The textures are black and gloomy, perfect as backgrounds for Black Friday. They come from an old fishing boat that has been rotting away for years at the shipyard.…

  • Free Earthly Stone Textures

    Free Earthly Stone Textures

    Hey guys & girls, today I have a new set of some really nice free earthly stone textures from Iceland. I shot these last summer when driving around the island, looking for something interesting to shoot. These were pretty dull colored so I decided to play around with some vintage presets in Adobe Lightroom and…

  • Free Golden Rock Textures

    Free Golden Rock Textures

    Hello guys and girls, today I have a new set of free golden rock textures from my private collection. In case you are wondering, it’s not actual gold. But the yellow color reminded me of gold so I did some post-processing work to isolate the yellow color in the stone and tone down the other…

  • Free Grunge Backgrounds – 70 Gritty Examples
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    Free Grunge Backgrounds – 70 Gritty Examples

    With Halloween around the corner I thought it was appropriate to hand pick a selection of free grunge backgrounds from our texture gallery. With over 11.000 textures in our gallery, there is plenty to choose from. Unfortunately I had to limit the blog post to 70 textures, but that’s plenty to get you started. Grunge…

  • Free Alien Surface Textures

    Free Alien Surface Textures

    Today I have a real treat for you. I’ve created a set of high quality free alien surface textures that includes abstract rock surface with vivid green, brown and yellow colors. The stone is called Jasper and can be found throughout Iceland. It’s colors are magical and create a lot of depth when you are…

  • Free Iced Stone Textures

    Free Iced Stone Textures

    Today I have a new set of really interesting free iced stone textures from Iceland’s biggest stone collection. These are really something else, some even look like a gaping mouth with tiny crystal teeth. If you’re wondering how it’s formed in nature, here’s how it works: Quartz occurs as a rock-forming mineral in igneous rocks…

  • Free Purple Stone Textures

    Free Purple Stone Textures

    Today I’m sharing with you a new set of free purple stone textures from east Iceland that I shot this summer. The textures are vivid and abstract with some grunge elements that makes them really great and hopefully a bit unique. The color purple is a rare occurring color in nature and as a result…

  • Free Grunge Stone Textures

    Free Grunge Stone Textures

    Hi there! Today I’m sharing with you a mix of free grunge stone textures that I shot this summer on my trip around Iceland. They come from various rocks, stones and minerals that I photographed at a stone museum that I visited in East part of the island. Grunge in graphic design and photography is…