FREE HIGH QUALITY TEXTURES FOR 3D - FROM CG TEXTURES
CG Textures They claim as the world largest free texture site. This websites is one of my favourite textures resources, because their good quality and well organized. Their textures gallery categorized by : Animals Textures, Bones Textures, Building Textures, Concrete Textures, Fabric Textures, Ground Textures, Grunge Textures, Man Made Textures, Metal Textures, Nature Textures, Ornament Textures, Paper Textures, Plastic Textures, Plaster Textures, Roofing Textures, Roads Textures, Rust Textures, Scrap Textures, Signs Textures, Skies Textures, Splatter Textures, Stone Textures, Water Textures, Windows Textures, Wood Textures.
The website owner is a 3D artist, so if you are a 3D artist too this website is most recommended to bookmarks.
This website give tutorials too related with textures :
- Blend Mode Techniques In Photoshop
An extensive tutorial explaining all Photoshop blendmodes. With practical examples for texturing. - How to create a rope texture
Rope is hard to photograph, this tutorial shows how you can create a rope texture from scratch in your 3D package. - Texture Photography tips
Ten tips on how to shoot sharp, pretty and most of all useful textures. - Tiling complex patterns
A tutorial on how to create tilable textures out of complex patterns. An alternative way to tile textures. - Advanced blending in Photoshop using ‘Blend If’
Learn how to quickly blend layers based on intensity. Add dirt in the cracks of stones, selectively recolour textures without labourious mask painting! This technique has lots of uses, and it will save you tons of time. - Recolouring Wood Textures
In this small tutorial I explain how to prevent textures looking ‘flat’ or monochromatic when recolouring them. - Advanced blending in Paint Shop Pro using ‘Blend Ranges’
A tutorial which explains how to use the Blend Ranges in Paint Shop Pro - Alpha mask background trick
A quick and easy way to make your alpha masked textures blend nicer into the background.
And showcase how all of these stuff used can viewed from their showcase. Thanks CG Textures for provide high quality textures :).
