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Free Texture Friday ? Yellow Grunge Wall 2

Hey guys, here’s another great set of grunge wall textures for you. This is one of my favorite, and is “super” grungy and messy. It’s from an old concrete fence I stumbled upon recently, and it’s really detailed and worn out. Enjoy!

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Free Texture Friday – B&W Grunge 5

Today we bring you another set of black and white grunge textures. These are my favorite, and can be used for so many cool things, like adding vintage effect to photo, illustrations and used as layer masks for variety of things.

I hope you enjoy the free textures, more to come next friday!

Download all textures as ZIP from copy.com (21.9Mb)

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Instructional Winter Photoshop Tutorials

Winter is in full swing in the northern hemisphere, and it’s bringing freezing cold weather, blizzard-like snowy conditions, travel delays and pristine landscapes along with it. Winter is not the favorite season of many, but it does bring some great elements along with it such as winter sports including skiing, as well as the ability to snuggle up by a fire and watch the snow fall.

For graphic designers, winter is a different type of hassle. It’s often hard to incorporate wintery elements into your designs, because recreating the realism of snow is challenging. The texture, motion and color of snow is something that is unique.

For the aspiring graphic designer, these winter Photoshop tutorials will come in handy:

Create a Winter Scene in Photoshop

Create a Vivid Winter Aurora Landscape

Create a Snowy Landscape From Desert Photography in Photoshop

Christmas Winter Illustration

Create a 3D Ice Text Effect With Modo and Photoshop

Turn Any Outdoor Scene into a Winter Scene

Fairy night with the crescent above the clouds Tutorial

Winter Season Graphic Design Tutorial

A Very Snowy Tutorial

Create a Winter Wonderland in Photoshop

Geometry in the World with Photographs of Lines

The concept of lines is one of the first concepts we learn about in school (and in life). Whether it’s drawing a line, or walking in a straight line, or in math, most of us have been working with lines all our lives. Technically, a line has negligible width and depth, and infinite length, whereas a line segment has two fixed endpoints, and a ray has one fixed endpoint and an infinite length in one direction.

Mathematical semantics aside, lines appear naturally in life and nature. Buildings have straight line sides (for the most part), plants often grow in lines, people naturally form lines when waiting or when walking, and lines are even formed by erosion.

Not all lines have to be straight, they can be bent or ragged, but generally they will still provide a great concept in photography:

Pink Elephants By paulo abrantes