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What a remarkably inane first comment.

Very nice textures though, thanks again for sharing!

There’s so many amazing pictures here. Nice work, everyone!

Very cool textures! I’m sure all these guys have a flickr account or something similar they should have placed a link with each texture.

Truely a nice collection! Congratulations to smashingmagazine for reaching so many people!

Is it just me or only the winner’s name is presented without the winning photo?

anyways, amazing stuff!

Where’s the winners’ pic?

There’s some really nice pictures there! Congrats to the winner and the ones listed in the Editor’s Picks.

Nice set of stock photos. I say stock photos because I can’t see most of these being used as “textures,” but nice none-the-less.

Why is the winner’s pic not shown?

Lovely collection! Thanks for including mine in the Editor’s Picks :)

Brilliant, lots of great textures.

Honored to have been included under Stones, Wall, Brick !!!

Can’t imagine why my textures are nowhere to be found. While the quality of them was really good enough to stand next to one of the category textures. :/

Really a brilliant contest.
Thanks for sharing!

Congrats to Linda, this was a fun contest, bring on the rest…seriously though, please do more of the same.

This is truly awesome. :3

Simply mind blowing… OMG indeed! :)

What??? ooh come on!……………..who wouldn’t want a camera like that!!…………….my camera………..is at the edge of its life time!!!! i need one………..DONATE it to me!!!!!!!!!!!! hehehe ; – )

by the way…..excellent CONTEST!! great quality textures. Very inspiring, thanks for letting us designers and photographers be part of this great magazine!

I did not reject the prize or write that comment. I’m happy to be selected to win the camera. Thank you!

Thanks, Smashing! My 1st time participating in a contest like this. It’s truly encouraging!

yea how come the winning photo was not shown?? talk about a big oversight….

Very thanks, SmashingMagazine! Great Contest! I´m very happy! Everybody won, design won, inspiration grew up! There´s no beautiful camera compared to those images!!

These are amazing! And free, too? Brilliant.

Great to see a photograph from my hometown Coonoor! Although I must point out that Coonoor is not in karnataka, it’s in Tamilnadu.

I wonder my friend aneeskA also got placed in the list..

my wishes to all

thank you

niiice … sleek…n…yeah…free….10x A LOT

Lovely collection. This page will end on my favorites-menu. :)
You should have presented the winner as the first example, I think..

hey..my frnd aneesKA also has got his pic here…great……..on a whole marvellous work….

congratulations Linda!
Hopefully we soon can see some contributions from you, made with your new camera.

Thanks again to smashing for this great contest and for presenting my work.

Jesse
Berlin, Germany

Muchas Gracias!

thanx for the appreciation ! please showcase the winner’s picture !

– anees

I’m delighted to have one of my photos in the “Editors’s Pick”, among such a lot of amazing pictures :-)
Many thanks to the Smashing Magazine teem for making this beautiful collection possible !
And congratulations Linda !
– Toh

Simply amazing! Congratulations to the winner, stunning image!

Go Indonesian Batik!

Thanks so much to Vitaly and Sven for the time they put into this contest–it was no small feat! Thanks, of course, also to all the photographers who have entered and shared their work; there’s some truly great stuff up here! Lastly, congratulations to Linda for winning “my” camera. ;-) This has been smashing!

I can’ t believe you let the full details in the files to download : email, details, name, etc.

Damn, i wouldn’ t have let my personal email for contact if i knew that you would have put it all online :/

Directed towards DL:

As a media student working on a webproject I went by this article to see if I could find some inspiration and Jim Ferguson’s image of the rusted out tank got my inspirational juices flowing. What came of it was this site, which I will feature in my portfolio once I decide to start one up. http://dont-read.com/tsc/c/

Thank you Smashing Magazine and Jim Ferguson!

Hey,where’s Linda’s work ?I’d luv to see that :-)

Great Stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you explain “only got a thumbnail, the rest are in zip”?

not bad….

Really cool these are great!!! Amazing work and thanks for sharing!

Kudos guys

Thanks for sharing!! http://www.alanyahaber.com

An amazing post. Fantastic work everyone.

@ Tammy: Textures can be used for a variety of things relating to design to create mood and or a theme. It really depends on what the goal of the designer is. Many digital artists may use textures as a base for their layout designs and carry through an idea off of that main concept. IE – Rust for a grunge look, flowers or grass for a nature theme, etc. CG and 3D artist use textures for mapping onto 3D objects and such. Photographers may experiment on various lighting situations and shot compositions. The list goes on… From a design standpoint, textures come in handy for so many uses I could not begin list them all here.

Eric – blog.texturedoodles.com – Texture Doodles

they are very good pictures. thanks

cool

Well, many so called textures are in fact images with a clear subject matter – but why should designers who take it as a starting point mind? More free textures here:

COOL ! Thanx