Inspiration: Textures by community

Thanks so much for the links!

These links are fantastic! Just last weekend I began experimenting with textures and stock art. The results were incredible. There is so much that can be achieved with textures and a touch of creativity. I’d link my recent work here, but I’m editing from my phone, so I can’t. Perhaps you’d like to take a peek, Nat? :D Thanks for a fantastic and inspiring post.

I use textures in almost all of my works! Here are my three newest creations…

P.S. Thanks so much for the links! I love looking through all your inspirations each week…go you to a lot of work, thank you!!

here few my textured photographs :

Here’s a link to some more textures. I used one of these on this image

Still looking at those amazing links, downloaded one little set of brushes (super!!!!) and one texture (COOL!) but got sidetracked. My Photoshop Elements 3 (Mac) has a lot of patterns and textures in little files, extra ones that I didn’t know were there, that never open, never show up (except as files)!! I’m trying to figure out how to make them work. If I can, I’ll have a whoile new world of fun AND be able to make my own textures. If I can’t……..I’ll cry…LOL

Oh, and another link to free textures

Another one and yet another one

Gotta say though, I’ve mostly stuck to Cameron’s textures….lol

thank you for this kind compliment and these full of interesting information journals !

Well, I’m stumped. Can’t get patterns or textures to inhabit Photoshop Elements 3.
But I’ll figure out some way to use them.

MANY thanks! :)

I’m a sucker for textures… nearly all my work is textured and layered. :-)

I love textures, this is very informational, thank you!

Thanks so much for this info, I’m interested in working with background textures but wasn’t sure how to go about it! Dee

O! I was trying to add it to the Textures portion of the Filters…LOL…no wonder it didn’t work! I’ll do it the way you said…
I’ll also do some searches and tryito find out why I have all these grayed-out Texture and Patterns files tucked away in there. They look SUPER and I can’t access them.

btw — the images that have been posted today in this thread are AMAZING!!!!!

MANY thanks!!

Working with textures can be addictive.

I can’t overstate how awesome CG Textures is for stock textures:

Great article Nat!

Just a few points to addPeople always think of textures as being grungy and dirty , but another way to look at it is to create your own and map it as a layer, so you take the colour and maybe the artwork from it and use the underlying image to texturize it.

You see the texture of the artwork actually comes from the models face and not the circuit board I mapped onto her face.

Here is a similar idea using the text as a layer , but it gets its texture and bump mapping from the underlying image.

Also the texture or textures you use don’t have to cover the entire image, you can isolate them only to affect only some parts of the final image

Randy

Used a fake TTV texture from a fellow flickr user, gave this one a film look.

One of my favorite, simple textures.

I’m addicted to textures too! Love how they add another dimension to photography and graphic art. Thanks for providing the links, I’ll check out the ones I’m not familiar with. Great job!!!

Here are a few recent images of mine, with textures:

This was my first try at using textures. It was for a challenge.

Most of my portfolio uses textures I am addicted lol
I take stock photos everywhere and of everything to use as I like having the work completely mine and its saves hassles for entering into competitions etc
Here are a couple of my most faved-

Thanks so much Rhana!! I’ll give it a go!

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oops, I got it wrong. I put the url first then added the image code. Do I just put the url in with exclamation marks added front and back?

Great inspiration!! Here are a couple of my textured works…

Here is one of mine this weekend

Thanks so much I do alot of this type of work, glad you enjoyed it

I personally use CG texture a lot, but it’s also heaps of fun looking for my own. Most times I go out I’ve got a compact with me so I never miss an interesting texture….. my Husband even looks for them now!!
Be sure to drop by The Grunge Art Gallery , my fave place in RB to hang out!

Oh, & here’s one of my latest…..

I love these challenges as it really gets me thinking outside the box. Thanks to Redbubble for helping me grow creatively! I will have a play with textures this week. Thanks x

Here is one of mine.

I have been wanting to try textures! Thanks so much for doing all the research that I had on the to do list! I can’t wait to give it a try!

Hope I’m doing this right to add an image here.
I love working with textures!
Here is my latest.

I think I am a texture addict. Using multi-layering to create textures, lighting effects and added dimensionality to the images. I also create textures themselves in Photoshop, (I have a bank of shapes and textures that I constantly use) and from elements in original, deconstructed photos.
Cheers.

This is one of my first works. The textures were all photographed by myself. It’s amazing what you can find when you think ‘textures’.

Heres one of my photos that is as is, that i thought looked textured.

Thanks for the links, im going to check them out. (:

Lovin these threads. I just learned how to make these textures in photoshop :)

I pretty much shoot my own textures, too, as well as blurs. I use different-colored blur shots to add a little color depth.

i absolutely adore texture

and here

Thanks – your info is terrific for heading in the right direction, makes learning so much easier and I can save for use when I’ve got the time. cheers.

“http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ular...;

ooppss..oh well l messed up on linking..just click on me..i am full of grungy work.

Playing with textures may become an addiction. I know this from experience. It is fun though….

Here’s some of my work with layers of texture added. Cheers Elana.

This post reminded me I have been meaning to do a stock gallery so got on my butt and did it here . More to come, feel free to use :)

Great topic Nat. I do love textures and agree that it can be addicting playing around with them. Often they inspire other ideas which is what keeps us all addicted to them! Here are a few of my textured works:
Bee Perfectly Still

A Gift Of Light – classic grunch texture

The Butterfly Effect – The textures here are subtle, but I think quite effective

I love working with textures. Doesn’t suit every image I take but, every now and then one pops up that’s just crying out for a bit of texture pizzazz……

Wow! I’m amazed at the fantastic works posted here! I’m a beginner and I must say I love textures :) They’re really addictive. Here is one of my latest experiments :)

<img src="http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/border:bl...;

Ooops, sorry I wasn’t able to insert the image :( Here’s a link , instead

This is a little inked texture that I have been playing around with, let me know what you think.

It was made using a sponge and Chinese ink.

My first attempt at adding a texture. Could become addictive :-))

Here’s one of my eforts:

Yolanda is right .. it does become addictive!

Fantastic————thank you all———-I’m new to this stuff.

Oh, many thanks for posting this juicy information. I’ve long admired textured art now I have a tutorial to begin my journey. Cheers!

Crumpled Paper Textures work really well too!!
Thanks for the links to more textures! :)

Thanks for your patience Rhana. I’ll give it another try!!!

Ahhhhh, think I’ve got it now, trying one last time (I’m old, brain fuzzy, need coffee LOL)
http://www.redbubble.com/people/minkas/art/3178...

Right – got this one fav’ed for future reference!, I love almost all textured work (and thanks for featuring one of mine in the journal!)

Here are 2 of mine!

Some more textures in my series “l o c k e d”

Just thought I’d try another one, a remake of one of my brolga photos

Two community challenges combined (typography and texture) :D

…. and here is one I whipped up a few minutes ago, with oooooodles of texture…..

and some more….. am in love with textures at the moment, LOL!!!!

Such a great journal and info! I am addicted to textures too! I love how it gives the image a painted “masterpiece” feel.
Here are some I have played with…

Amazing work!
I didn’t realize I’d been doing this kind of thing all along…layer of things, lighted, shaded, sometimes and then images on top……..here’s one:

Not that much time to play with textures, but it’s fun :) Here is my first trial to it, created some time ago:

I love these cummunity journals Nat, they are always so interesting and helpful.
I discovered how to use textures this month, and really love them.
Here are a few of mine;

such wonderful information….as I’m just starting to learn to play w/ making my own textures and also in my photoshop. thank you, this is great!

i love this community .. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! smooches for ya’s all .

Yowee I just discovered something: the cookie cutter tool in Photoshop Elements. I just used it to cut out a shape (a hand — from a huge selection of shapes they offer) from an image of a face….it left me with a transparent layer of a fascinating hand with an eye nestled in the palm…which I’m going to use as a texture. The cookie cutter thing appears to have endless possiblibltes for patterns and textures….

Well, thanks again. You’ve opened my eyes, you guys!!!!

I have uploaded some textures (some are my photos and others I made) for others to use at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/designsbydeb/sets/...

Here’s my contribution:

I really like textures, though I haven’t figured out how to “brush” away parts of the texture once it’s applied…. but hopefully I’ll get to this soon.

Cheers, Marie

Wow. Thanks for the info and links. I could spend all day looking at the links and trying to see all of these works in detail! (Unfortunately, I don’t have all day, but assume this page will be up for a few days?)

Thanks for the awesome links! Here’s something from our weekend trip to Cold Spring, NY.

Wow, just inspired and amazed by the beautiful art that we are treated to here on RB!!!
Now I’ve fueled up on coffee, and am ready to give this another go. I’ll wear the dunce’s cap for evermore if I don’t get the clickable link right!!! OK deep breath………

YAY!!!!! Doing the happy dance. As Arnold Schwarzenegger says on some funny ads here on Sydney TV “You can do it” (image that said with an Austrian accent)

Thanks Rhana!!!!

Thank you so much for these tips. I’ve been enviably looking at everybody else’s work with textures and wanting to apply it, but couldn’t remember my photoshop training from years ago when I downloaded Gimp a year ago. Now that I’m ‘up with it’ I’m going to give it a go.

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here’s my attempt

my contribution…http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ular...

how the bloody hell do you add images to your comments???

There you go Craig! :-)

Craig’s image above.

here are mine

and these are from my illustrations

http://images-

oei , that last one again

obviously! we love textures!
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oops messed the clicl up!
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portrait of my son

So many wonderful images! Here are a couple of mine:

And one painting can become the texture for another.

A technique I use a lot.

@community: Thanks a lot! Now I need to insert images in comments :)

Ok – here we go. Another textured image from my port. (I’m really shocked by the high quality works posted by redbubblers in this thread! Wonderful!)

my two-pennies worth…

thank you thank you thank you… : )

My second attempt at adding textures. I really liked this image but i needed something to finish it – all the texture info and tutorials were great :-)

Thanks so much for linking to my ‘playing with textures’ journal entry.

I will be writing more texture-based tutorials soon. How to make your own textures, texture overlay modes and using masking to minimise textures over parts of a photo you want to see the detail of (eg. faces and objects)

This image was in an exhibition last year and I received many wonderful comments about it

What a fun journal! Here’s some of mine:

Everyone has inspired me to give textures a try. Thank you. Now off to play with textures, thanks for all the info.

Ok, I worked with textures today. This is my first try at it, any comment or suggestions are welcome.

sorry forgot to add photo here I go.