Brian Hoff

Kyle Steed

Spoon Graphics

Sushi and Robots

New To York

Adrian Pelletier

Ribbons of Red

Purple Rain Cloud

Snook

Tobias Ahlin

Srburns

8 Interactive

Stuff and Nonsense

Lift Interactive

Jason Reynolds

Marten dejongh

Mutt Ink

Rainbeau Mars

Mark Boulton

Simple Bits

Ainsworth Studio

The Darling Tree

Pixel Craft

z8

Glue

Comments

Have your seen any well designed web sites on your travels around the web, if so feel free to post a link in the comments?

This is the second attempt to get these textures on the blog, since i scanned them in months ago the electricity cut out while i was about to save them and i lost the scanned images! so ive sat down and got them all scanned back in for you.

These were created by soaking A4 pieces of paper in a tray filled with food colouring and then left to dry in the sun. The edges are most concentrated while the middle of the paper has a sort of tie-dye effect.

You may also like these 20 Free Original Hi-Res Ink Stained Paper Textures that i also created.

Dont forget to keep checking Texture Lovers too for free textures from around the web.

The Textures On Flickr

You can preview all these textures in the Flickr set before you download any of the files below or simply use them directly from Flickr, the choice is yours.

Rapidshare Download (28mb Zip File)

http://rapidshare.com/fully-stained-paper-textures.zip

Mediafire Download (28mb Zip File)

http://www.mediafire.com/fully-stained-paper-textures.zip

Additional info:

• Scanner: Epson Perfection 3490
• Quantity: 10 Images
• Resolution: 2550px by 3509px
• Contains: Fully stained paper textures

Usage Terms

Free to use for commercial and non commercial work no credit or link back needed, but please don’t redistribute or sell them as your own.

SHOW ME WHAT YOU MAKE

Post a link in the comments to your work where youve used the textures, you dont have to but it would be nice to see them being used somewhere. Also let me know if you like them !

Yup that’s right they have transparent backgrounds so there pretty much ready to be used, check them out below from flickr.

Rapidshare Download (12.36mb Zip File)

http://rapidshare.com/files/274710877/Stock-Picture-Frames.zip

Mediafire Download (12.36mb Zip File)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zdmo3j5ttkz/Stock-Picture-Frames.zip

Usage Terms

Free to use for commercial and non commercial work no credit or link back needed, but please don’t redistribute or sell them as your own.

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Comments

Do you have any favourite tutorials that you have seen for light effects?

He also released 15 Free Original Hi-Res Concrete Textures a few months ago and some great Cardboard Textures on his own blog.

In total there are 20 hi-resolution (3648px by 2736px) Concrete textures with yellow paint, cracks and dirt details , download links are below as well as a few samples.

Rapidshare Download (65mb Zip File)

http://rapidshare.com/files/255939162/Yellow_Concrete_july-2009_hellogreenstar.com.zip

Mediafire Download (65mb Zip File)

http://www.mediafire.com/?yjaydjyn4zy

Additional info:

• Camera: Kodak Easyshare V1073
• Quantity: 20 Images
• Resolution: 3648px by 2736px
• Contains: Grunge Concrete, Cracks

Usage Terms

Free to use for commercial and non commercial work no credit or link back needed, but please don’t redistribute or sell them as your own.

A Closer Look

Below is a sample of 3 of the 20 textures in the pack.

Show us what you make!

Post a link in the comments to your work where you’ve used the textures, you don’t have to but it would be nice to see them being used somewhere. Also let us know if you like them!

Keep a look out for more freebies that Robert has to offer, he will be releasing a host of textures and other freebies on his blog but you can also follow him on Twitter.

To create this wallpaper I actually followed a great tutorial by Fabio Sasso over at abduzeedo to create a realistic water effect in C4d, I took the idea a little further and added splashes and some crazy cool smoke textures by Caleb Kimbrough.

Download The Desktop Wallpaper

Sorry if I don’t have your resolution, if there’s enough people who want a certain resolution ill may make one.

• 1024×768
• 1200×800
• 1280×800
• 1280×1024
• 1440×900
• 1680×1050
• 1920×1200

Download iphone Version

Two versions for your iphone at 320×480

• iphone v1
• iphone v2

Show me your Desktop

If you’ve used this wallpaper on your computer or phone or any other device for that matter, feel free to post a link in the comments below.

User Submitted

These people have kindly taken a picture of the wallpaper on their pc, mac, phone etc

Sam @sjlwebdesign – Visit Website

Robert @hellogreenstar – Visit Website

Simon @thewebsiteplace – Visit Website

Andy @Andy_Morley – Visit Website

Ive had these fully stained paper textures scanned in a while now made by soaking them in coffee for a few days, you can see all the little details on them they look great in my opinion!.

You may also like these 20 Free Original Hi-Res Grunge Stained Paper Textures that i also created

Dont forget to keep checking Texture Lovers Too.

See All The Textures On Flickr

You can see all the textures in the Flickr set before you download any of the files below or simply use them directly from Flickr, the choice is yours.

Rapidshare Download (95mb Zip File)

http://rapidshare.com/files/252753985/stained-paper-textures.zip

Mediafire Download (95mb Zip File)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ljgoozdwmim/stained-paper-textures.zip

Additional info:

• Scanner: Epson Perfection 3490
• Quantity: 20 Images
• Resolution: 2000px by 2752px
• Contains: Stained paper textures

Usage Terms

Free to use for commercial and non commercial work no credit or link back needed, but please don’t redistribute or sell them as your own.

A Closer Look

SHOW ME WHAT YOU MAKE

Post a link in the comments to your work where youve used the textures, you dont have to but it would be nice to see them being used somewhere. Also let me know if you like them !

The people who are following these accounts can then see your tweets which could mean some much more targeted traffic, here are the ones that i found.

Finding news about #design and #webdesign and RT them

hashwp #wp
Finding news about #wp and #wordpress and RT them

Retweeting the people who talk about #wordpress

Finding news about #win and #windows and RT them

Retweeting #html #css #htm #xml

Finding news about #social and RT them

Finding news about #php and RT them

Finding news about #photoshop and RT them

Finding news about #photo and RT them

Finding news about #linux and RT them

Finding news about #joomla and RT them

Finding news about #java and RT them

Finding news about #iphone and RT them

Finding news about #fail and RT them

Example of Hash Tags In Use

Here you can see the #wordpress tag in action this can then be re-tweeted by the hashwordpress account, but obviously you can tag any of your tweets with any thing you want making it easy to use twitter search to find relevant content.

Comments

Do you know of any twitter accounts that re-tweet your specific tweets? Please leave a link in the comments

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Trent Cruising

Squarespace

Theater Website Services

Serj

Mediocore

Macalicious

Yourt Web Job

Jamison Banham

Alcomi

Us trendy

Poolie Studios

Pixel-House

Twiistup

Source Bits

Sergey Stanchev

Icon Dock

Graphik

Future Tap

Fernando Sergio

Feels TV

Digimurai

Design Disease

Causecast

Box Wish

Code Art Media

Comments

Seen any more light effects in designs any where feel free to leave a link in the comments.

A few of you may know that I’m really in to my ornaments and swirls so you can get a bit of inspiration from this post I wrote earlier: Ornamental design inspiration – Baroque

Download The Background

There are 3 variations to choose from below – Right Click the image and “Save As”

Light

Dark

Stained

The subtle stains were added using my free grunge stained paper textures.

Example In Use

Click the image to see a biger preview

Comments

If you use it on your twitter profile feel free to post a link in the comments so we can all see it in action