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Texture Gallery: Miscellaneous
These photos have been created by Smashing Magazine readeres in our Smashing Texture Contest. What can you do with them? You can use all textures for both private and commercial projects for free,... More... 5 Comments
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Texture Gallery: Wood, Bark
These photos have been created by Smashing Magazine readers in our Smashing Texture Contest. What can you do with them? You can use all textures for both private and commercial projects for free,... More... 8 Comments
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Smashing Texture Contest Results
Last week was really full of hard work for us. The response to Smashing Texture Contest was impressive and overwhelming. We have received over 740 e-mails from over 600 participants, resulting in far... More... 135 Comments
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Smashing Textures Contest
Take a shot, send us the image and win a Canon Digital Rebel camera. In web design textures are needed in background-images and header graphics. Graphic designers use textures to transport some concrete... More... 101 Comments
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Add Stock Textures to Images
In this little Photoshop tutorial you’ll to design a quick art piece, and then add some texture to it — to demonstrate the use of some really dirty texture in artwork. More... Be the first to comment!
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Grunge Style In Modern Web Design
Most design trends come unexpectedly, evolve over time, become pointless and finally disappear from the design landscape. This holds particularly for web design, which is — just as every other... More... 181 Comments
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PaperScan Textures
Free Textures. Download 12 High-Res PaperScans from Pixey. More... Be the first to comment!
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Where can I find textures and background images?
If you are a graphic designer, you probably know that textures and background images are essential for every project which is related to graphics or design. But where to search for quality images if you... More... 45 Comments
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