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I must admit to being reasonably mystified by textures in general. Coming from a programming background rather than an artistic one, I’ve never really understood what they’re for, when to apply them, and in general, the stock textures with Fireworks, for example, are reasonably simplistic. I look forward to these contest results and, hopefully, learning more about textures between now and then.

How Exciting….!

Having a hard time choosing the good ones to send.

:-D

So when sending in more than one texture, each texture should be zipped separately….Does this mean that each zip contains exactly one image, or that each zip can contain more images of the same texture (eg different angles, etc) (my understanding is that each zip contains 1 image, but I just want to be sure :) )?

Great Post….

Great contest! Two quick questions: 1) In the text file, you ask for copyright information. Do you have a preference to what to put in here? Creative Commons, etc? 2) I went out and took some pictures just for this contest … Then, I read that we should zip more than pic of the textures. Is just one picutre okay, or does there need to be more than one?

hey! Why you use use Canon camera image in post?

i hate Canon (I love nikon), and i think You should use canon or nikon image.. it;s provocation!

Please, it’s detail, but important for me.

I like smashing magazine, and don’t want stop.

So the winner will be randomly determined? So, you’re saying that it’s basically pulling a name out of a hat?

Thanks for this beatiful textures!

I’m getting to work!

this will be fun! i give away free textures on my blog all the time (along with tutorials on creating your own), so I’m looking foward to participating.

great contest, maybe ’cause i’ve shot the perfect picture for this contest one month ago :>
already submitted it gladfully :)

I’ve just mailed mine. Great idea.

Wow, very nice. I will definetly try and enter something.

@gGus – I see no reason textures should have to be tileable. The images can fade out, or be used for specific-side headers.

cool !

Will send mine next week

Hi, great idea for a competition!

I have a number of textures on my Flickr account that are all under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license. Would you accept them for entry into the competition if I waved this licence, or does the fact that they already are on my account mean that you still wouldn’t allow them?

Picking the winner at random seems a bit pointless to me. You may have someone who created some stunning textures only for someone else to win who didn’t create anywhere near as nice textures. I think the owner of the most impressive textures should be given merit for their work.

THanks for the reply Vitaly. Totally overread the point of randomly picking a winner. Kinda renders my point useless, so thanks for clarifying that bit!

So when do we publish/link and announce the winner(s)??

Interesting competition. I look forward to seeing (and using!) the results.

Great contest. Keep up the great work.

oh, dang …. “at random”

take a chance, make a decision, go for it…. the coolest texture will be chosen as winner, then i would have some incentive, to sendx my unbelievably cool textures from indian back alleys, but, at random? too boring

gregory is right, with the winner picked at random there’s little incentive. I’ll be entering some texture shots but it would be nice if there was a chance of winning through skill and not just luck.

Sweet – I’m in!

Now I just need to be on the look-out for some kind of texture that no-one would ever think of – or one that others might not be able to find where they live…

Hey, just create a folder and put all your patterns in that folder. Then right click on that folder and select send to and click on Compressed (zipped) folder. Thats it!

Did that… didn’t work… I eventually sent them in 3 lots… I hope it was ok to do that…?

Thanks for your help :)

Just sent in my zip archive with 5 Textures :-)

Is the deadline today or was it yesterday?

Hello, the result leaves when?

tanx

Vitaly and Sven;
I would like to be participatting in this contest.
Is it possible? Can I send you, my pictures?
Regards;

Hello. has the winner been announced? Are the entries viewable?

Hey,
please let me know the winner for this contest.I know its very old post still i wanna know the wiiner and his/ her work..

thanx