Texture Resources

Seamless Texture Tutorials

Making Tileable & Seamless Textures - HighPoly3D.com
A texture tutorial on how to create a seamless and tilable texture. Applies to GIMP, Photoshop, etc.

Seamless Tiling of a Satin Fabric - M3Corp.com
There are many ways to make seamlessly tiling patterns, this is one of them and is, in fact, the method I use the most.

From Photo to Seamless Texture - GFXartist.com
This tutorial is about creating seamless textures out of photographs. There's a simple technique that allows you to create seamless textures.

Photoshop Magic: Seamless Textures - CadMonkey.com
Photoshop is one of the most powerful tools in the renderer’s arsenal. With it, the line between reality and fiction quickly can blur. In this series of tutorials, we are going to learn a simple and effective ways to help making striking 3d images.

Making Convincing Seamless Textures from Photographs - BitBrush.com
Textures can be extracted from most any picture but anyone who has snapped a picture of some grass and tried to use it in a 3D rendering has discovered that converting a picture to a texture can have its challenges.

The Pattern Maker - BioRust.com
The Pattern Maker plug-in that comes with version 7.0 and greater of Photoshop is arguably one of the most powerful tools ever to aid 2D Artists. It is so absurdly easy to use, and produces such great results, that it has quickly become very popular amongst texture developers. Let's see why.

Seamless Tile Tutorial - PixelPoke.com
There are quite a few tutorials out on the web that will teach you how to create a seamlessly tiling image. This tutorial, like most others, will teach you how to use the Filter >> Offset feature to identify and remove seams from a tile. I also cover a couple of methods for setting up your workflow, and testing your image before you throw it to the web or on a 3D model.


Seamless Texture Software

Texture Maker
Texture Maker is the powerful seamless Texture Generator and Editor for Win98/NT/2k/XP. It combines the power of procedural textures with the flexibility of image editors to create seamless textures easily. This award-winning application is a must have for all serious texture artists!

Genetica 2
Genetica 2 is an innovative node-based seamless texture editor for professional 3D artists. With more than 500 finished texture presets of all types, automatic seamlessness, and unprecedented flexibility, Genetica 2 will help you revolutionize your textures.

PhotoSEAM
PhotoSEAM is an unique, special purpose full featured image editor for creating seamless photo realistic textures and tiles from
digital photography, or from scratch.

Texture Creator
Texture Creator is the latest product from Three D Graphics. It is available in both PC (Windows 95 and Windows NT) and Macintosh versions - and both versions ship in the same box for the same price! Texture Creator is the ultimate in texture creation programs. It utilizes the same techniques (called "Solid Texture Synthesis") that professional graphics arts and special effects shops use to create textures. And that same power is now available to you for the low price of just $99.00.

RenderSoft Illusionae 2.2
RenderSoft Illusionae is a powerful texture-generation engine for making realistic 3D textures. It creates textures using an algorithmic approach, manipulating formulae and displaying them in the graphical form. It gives you the freedom to explore the generated textures, and change them dynamically. Because of the mathematical nature of the textures, RenderSoft's powerful engine is able to provide an unlimited number of possibilities.


Free Textures and Images

Texture Warehouse
Free, High Resolution Textures to Designers and 3D Artist. Our images are licensed under a Creative Commons License
(Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0).

Image*After
Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.

MorgueFile
A place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.

Pixel Perfect Digital
F ree high resolution images, textures, backgrounds, illustrations, digital art and stock photos for use in both personal and commercial design projects. 4,000+ images online.

StockXchng
Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 100.000 quality stock photos by more than 9.000 users! Need a wallpaper for your desktop? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around.

StockVault
2,000+ high resolution images and textures. The images on this site are for personal and non-commercial use only.


3D Graphics / Rendering

3DLinks
Free Texture Links
Ultimate 3D Links: Objects, information, Textures, Tools, Modelers, Plug-Ins, Lightwave, 3D Studio Max, Books, Truespace, Meshes and Animation.


Photoshop Resources

Photoshop Support
PhotoshopSupport.com was created as a public service by Futura Studios to provide links to the best resources online for Adobe Photoshop. In our search for the very best Photoshop products and services, we have partnered with certain companies. The commissions from sales resulting from placement on this website have helped pay for the upkeep and maintenance, but all endorsed products were first reviewed carefully on their own merits - and were included because they either met, or surpassed, our highest standards of excellence.


Other Resource Directories

Pure Directory
Our goal was to create the most useful, most complete web directory on the internet. We started with Open Directory as a base, and added many enhancements to make using this site as easy as possible. We've organized the topics in such a way to make traversing this huge directory quick and easy.

WebSoup
Web Backgrounds, Textures and Seamless Tiles
A small but growing webmaster resource directory where you will find hundreds of links to sites that provide free or linkware resources and services in various categories.

Designs By Darren
Webmaster link directory and free web graphics. Free web page templates, webpage headers, stock photos and photo objects. Creative Commons licensing.

Blue Vertigo
More than 900 links: Fonts, Stock Photography, Sounds, Vector Clip-Art, Logotypes, Photoshop Brushes, Patterns, Color tools, Text Generators, Poser Downloads (free and comercial) and the Design Contests around the world.