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20 Free Original Hi-Res Stained Paper Textures

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 for free textures.

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
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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 !

Twitter Hash Tags for Designers and Developers

I’ve collected a few twitter accounts together that retweet certain #hashtags that you apply to your tweets, id reccomend adding one or two to the end of your tweets of the related subject.

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

25 Examples Of Light Effects In Web Design

Some examples of how people use light effects to enhance their web designs either by giving it more colour or by giving it more depth, check out my selection from around the web for some inspiration.

You might also enjoy: 25 Examples of Light and Space Effects In Web Design

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.

Freebie: Tiled Ornamental Twitter Background

Here’s a free repeating pattern that is ideal to be used as a twitter background, created from some Victorian images from some books I’ve arranged them in a way that they will tile perfectly… how convenient!

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

11 Great Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials

I’ve tried to collect a few photo effects tutorials that are very much centered around one subject rather than a complete photo manipulation. If you don’t like the finished product I’m sure you’ll find some cool techniques to do certain effects in these tutorials.

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Texture Lovers has some great free textures for use in your photo manipulations too.