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High resolution wood grain images, what's the best site?
- Thread starter Andy D
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I found these a while back and thought they were actually pretty decent.
http://www.premiumpixels.com/freebies/10-free-high-resolution-wood-textures/
http://www.premiumpixels.com/freebies/10-free-high-resolution-wood-textures/
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TrustMoore_TN
Sign & Graphics Business Consultant
I have a bunch I could send you via Hightail. I'll put together a contact sheet with the images so you can let me know what you want. They are huge and look really good. I've pulled them into photoshop to change the color if it doesn't match what I need.
phototec
New Member
I usually find what I need at textures dot com, sign up and you can download most for FREE, and a small fee for the very large files.
Here is a link to the PLANK wood textures, however they have many different wood textures.
http://www.textures.com/category/planks/45355
Here is a link to the PLANK wood textures, however they have many different wood textures.
http://www.textures.com/category/planks/45355
TrustMoore_TN
Sign & Graphics Business Consultant
Fred Weiss
Merchant Member
Thanks for remembering.
All our our woodgrain images are seamless tiles. Sizes up to 3600 x 3600 pixels that can be used as a pattern in Photoshop, FlexiSign, Corel, Adobe and other apps to create as large an image as you need at high resolution without distortion from resizing.
Right now we have a half price sale going on. Just enter 50OFF at check out to receive the discount.
http://www.allcompu.com/category/Textures:-Wood/1/page1/
Fred Weiss
Merchant Member
Kaiser
New Member
Shoot and tweak. Hands down the best advice I could give regarding this. It will save you loads of cash in the long run.
Usually I pick up my camera and set up a couple softboxes all at the same distance to get homogenous lighting all round and lay down whatever texture I need. Gives me freedom to provide 100% original artwork to a client.
Set your camera to twice the stop you have on your flash units. That should give you perfect exposure.
This obviously for photo enthusiasts. Another way is to create a small light box with foamcore/k-line and set a few lamps. You might have to play around a bit with the direction of the lighting but once set up you have a goto photobooth for textures and objects. Take care with white balancing and your good to go even with a compact camera.
if you can get your hands on D50 lights, this box can double up as a light box for spot colour checks on your prints.
Shoot in RAW to have maximum editing leeway.
Usually I pick up my camera and set up a couple softboxes all at the same distance to get homogenous lighting all round and lay down whatever texture I need. Gives me freedom to provide 100% original artwork to a client.
Set your camera to twice the stop you have on your flash units. That should give you perfect exposure.
This obviously for photo enthusiasts. Another way is to create a small light box with foamcore/k-line and set a few lamps. You might have to play around a bit with the direction of the lighting but once set up you have a goto photobooth for textures and objects. Take care with white balancing and your good to go even with a compact camera.
if you can get your hands on D50 lights, this box can double up as a light box for spot colour checks on your prints.
Shoot in RAW to have maximum editing leeway.
ams
New Member
I do agree that they are overpriced and restrictive, but they have some nice work.
Fred Weiss
Merchant Member
It's a long read but this thread may interest you. Dave Dorsey's reply is here. There are times when one might decide to that a supplier is not worthy of one's business even when one could use what they offer.
That's something I have been wanting to do, Unfortunately, on this one I don't have the time to go out and buy the wood, and atm the only camera I have is on my phone.
Here is a episode from one of my favorite podcasts where they set up a small studio light box.... one of these day's I will get around to it.
[video=youtube;OyxzC5kqbyw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxzC5kqbyw[/video]
Kaiser
New Member
You dont necessarily need wood. Foamcore works just as well and has a nice white finish. Camera? If you have an Iphone 5 or higher you can get results that are sufficient enough for some run of the mill prints. Heck, im printing images 1m2 taken by clients and some are actually suprisingly good. Most phones have better capturing capabilities than some of the first digital cameras I used to work with a few years back.
bigben
Not a newbie
Thanks for remembering.
All our our woodgrain images are seamless tiles. Sizes up to 3600 x 3600 pixels that can be used as a pattern in Photoshop, FlexiSign, Corel, Adobe and other apps to create as large an image as you need at high resolution without distortion from resizing.
Right now we have a half price sale going on. Just enter 50OFF at check out to receive the discount.
http://www.allcompu.com/category/Textures:-Wood/1/page1/
Hi Fred, does your images could have similar quality to Dinoc products when printed? I'm quoting right now a project using Dinoc and I would be cheaper to print it myself and laminate it.
Fred Weiss
Merchant Member
They're sharp and should compare favorably, however, I have never dealt with Dinoc so I would suggest that you download and use one of our free samples to check quality.