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Over 30 Great Peeling Paint Textures
August 02, 2011
With the heat wave we've been having, I feel like the temperature in my room is what's making all this paint peel. That, or Silent Hill transitioning from the movie. Either way, go grab some free textures.
on naldzgraphics.net | Launch Link »
Some DNS Tricks that web developers should know
July 24, 2011
Some developers like to avoid anything involving server configuration, but these are some tricks everyone should know, even if you are server squeamish.
on www.inspiredm.com | Launch Link »
More free textures gathered up for you
July 23, 2011
Abduzeedo has gather up a collection of more textures for you to collect for use in your various projects. Hop on over if you're interested.
on abduzeedo.com | Launch Link »
Old Wood textures from Bittbox
July 19, 2011
You can never have enough free textures, and BittBox's collection of Old Wood textures will be sure to have a happy home in your next project.
on www.bittbox.com | Launch Link »
Freebie vectors, balloons of the vintage variety
July 03, 2011
Bittbox released a great collection of vintage balloon vectors for everyone to grab. I can already imagine the style of work this would go into, I'm sure you will to.
on www.bittbox.com | Launch Link »
TextureLovers: A source of free texture downloads
June 21, 2011
Graphical components, like brushes, gradients, textures and vectors are never enough. There are plenty of sites online for downloading these for free, but sadly, many of them suffer from lack of visitors and promotion. Every week, here at Design Blurb, we shall feature good free resources.
on designblurb.com | Launch Link »
High-Res HDRI Map Pack 3
April 16, 2011
After spending much time looking online for some decent HDRI maps, and only acquiring a couple decent looking ones, that were 512's, I just decided to make my own. I made a batch of about 100 or so 1024's, ranging from low environments, to high, mostly photo realistic ones (from personal photos, and stocks), all stitched manually. They have some minor errors here and there on some of them, but for what I use them for, they work more than fine enough. All of the images have been exposed and marked, so you shouldn't have to adjust the Black & White (Point/Clamp)'s. That is to say, if you don't adjust them, you'll get results like those on the spheres above. Since the only stipulation of some of the stocks that were used is to not use them in commercial works, that stands here too. No selling of anything these are used in, respectively.
on deviantart.com | Launch Link »
High-Res HDRI Map Pack 2 (Abstracts)
April 16, 2011
When mapped onto a sphere, like in the previews, these aren't really being shown as they are meant to be used, but the spheres do provide a decent visual reference for each map. Sometimes when working with models or objects out of the ordinary, you want to use the HDRI features, like allowing the environment to pass through the white clamps, and other such .hdr features, but a reflection of something like an old Victorian house doesn't quite fit in your abstract/space/bizarre scene. That's what these are for. They provide a decent looking "abstract" messy/complex reflection look though images, not reflections. This cuts the render time way down on trying to achieve that "complex" look, as the map does the work, not the processor.
on deviantart.com | Launch Link »
High-Res HDRI Map Pack 1
April 16, 2011
After spending much time looking online for some decent HDRI maps, and only acquiring a couple decent looking ones, that were 512's, I just decided to make my own. I made a batch of about 100 or so 1024's, ranging from low environments, to high, mostly photo realistic ones (from personal photos, and stocks), all stitched manually. This pack is the first 30. All of the images have been exposed and marked, so you shouldn't have to adjust the Black & White (Point/Clamp)'s. That is to say, if you don't adjust them, you'll get results like those on the spheres above.
on deviantart.com | Launch Link »