Colorburned » Textures http://colorburned.com Graphic design resources, tutorials, and more! Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:32:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 25 Apocalyptic High Resolution Rust Textures http://colorburned.com/2010/09/25-apocalyptic-high-resolution-rust-textures.html http://colorburned.com/2010/09/25-apocalyptic-high-resolution-rust-textures.html#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:00:53 +0000 Grant Friedman http://colorburned.com/?p=46875 Its been a while, but today I’ve decided to release a really nice set of rust textures for you guys to use in your work for free. Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time in New York…

]]> Its been a while, but today I’ve decided to release a really nice set of rust textures for you guys to use in your work for free. Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time in New York City. New York is a great place to seek out textures because much of the city is old and in some cases, decaying. I spent quite some time the other day walking under the FDR, an expressway that extends up the east side of the city. Overpasses are fantastic places to find textures because so much moisture drains off the road above, rusting the metal and wearing down the concrete below. This set includes 25 high resolution rust textures that you can use in your designs. Enjoy!

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]]> Earlier this summer I took a trip to the Florida Gulf Coast with my family. We spent much of our time there walking up and down its beautiful beaches, which were covered in seashells, not the BP oil spill. As soon as I saw them I knew that they would make an excellent set of textures to release on this site; so I took several shots with my camera, packaged them up, and am releasing them to you guys for free. Enjoy!

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Number of textures: 6
Size: 12.6 MB

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]]> http://colorburned.com/2010/06/6-high-resolution-sand-and-seashell-textures.html/feed 5 Moldy Paper Textures: 5 Free High Resolution Textures http://colorburned.com/2009/10/moldy-paper-textures-5-free-high-resolution-textures.html http://colorburned.com/2009/10/moldy-paper-textures-5-free-high-resolution-textures.html#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:00:27 +0000 Grant Friedman http://colorburned.com/?p=12694 The other day I was clearing out some space in my basement to make room for a makeshift photography studio. During the process I found some old notebooks of mine from college that had been sitting below a…

]]> The other day I was clearing out some space in my basement to make room for a makeshift photography studio. During the process I found some old notebooks of mine from college that had been sitting below a leaky pipe that busted several months ago. After carefully paging through the notebook I found that all the notes and ink had been washed away but replaced with some disgusting moldy stains. I decided to scan the pages and release them on this website so that you guys could have some nice textures to use in your designs. I ended up scanning about 25 pages but I’m only releasing 5 of them because of bandwidth restraints. Anyhow, I hope you guys enjoy this set of 5 Moldy Paper Textures; they are pretty awesome!

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]]> Textures are one of our favorite design resources. While vector patterns, graphics, and brushes are incredibly useful tools, all too often they can make your designs look flat and 2 dimensional. Textures are great because they allow you to easily add dimension and color to your designs without a lot of hassle. Today, we’re happy to release the first set of high resolution textures that we have released in months; courtesy of our friends at High Resolution Textures. Feel free to download this set of 5 high resolution stone textures and use them in your designs for free.

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5 Free High Resolution Stone Textures | 24 MB

]]> http://colorburned.com/2009/04/5-free-high-resolution-stone-textures.html/feed 7 Maximize Traffic for Your Contest or Giveaway Using Twitter http://colorburned.com/2009/03/maximize_traffic_for_your_cont.html http://colorburned.com/2009/03/maximize_traffic_for_your_cont.html#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:11:45 +0000 Grant Friedman http://colorburned.com/2009/03/maximize-traffic-for-your-contest-or-giveaway-using-twitter.html held a giveaway on this website sponsored by F-Stop to give away a free courier bag. I've always loved giving things away on this website and I was very excited..]]> Not too long ago I held a giveaway on this website sponsored by F-Stop to give away a free courier bag.  I’ve always loved giving things away on this website and I was very excited to be giving away such a great item.  In the past, I’ve found contests or giveaways to be great ways to increase traffic and exposure for my site as well as the item that is being given away.  The problem with contests or giveaways is that it can be hard to spread the word about them.  In the world of social networking, it can be tough to ask others to help spread the word because after all, why would anyone want to hurt their own chances of winning a particular item by telling their friends about it?

This is the major impediment to any “comment-to-win” contests or giveaways that one might find on the web.  Unless your site has a huge following, the traffic and exposure as a result from the contest is likely to be minimal because people simply won’t want to help you promote it.  I spent a lot of time thinking about how to solve this problem.  The solution came to me while thinking about the terms for the F-Stop contest.  Why not allow people to enter the contest by Tweeting about it via Twitter?

I immediately saw the advantages a Twitter-based contest or giveaway would have over a standard “comment-to-win” giveaway.  By asking a person to simply Tweet a message containing some basic text and a specific shortened URL with a link back to my contest, my contest could literally become viral.  Every person who entered would send the link out to all their followers, those people would in turn visit my website and then send the link out to all their followers, and so on and so on.  I could then track the entries using Search.Twitter.com.  The only drawback I could see from this sort of contest was the potential irritation that it could cause from people realizing that I was asking them to essentially sign up their competitors.

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To off-set this irritation I decided to allow the entrant to enter more than once.  This would have a dual benefit.  The more they Tweeted, the better their chance to win and the more potential entrants my contest would receive.  I wasn’t exactly sure how well this contest would work but my gut was saying that it was going to do really well.

After about 2 hours, I knew I was right.  I published the contest about 5 a.m., by 7 a.m. the contest already had 200 entrants and by the end of the day my contest had received nearly 1,000 entries and the contest page had received about 3,500 page views.  On day 2 the contest page had received over 1,100 page views and the number of entries was still increasing.  At this point I knew that this contest method was a winner.

The response I received regarding this contest was very positive although I did receive some negative feedback from some of my readers who felt that it was irresponsible to allow people to enter as many times as they wanted, that spamming their friends with the contest details was annoying, and that the potential ramifications for Twitter were very bad if this method caught on.  For the most part, I do agree with some of the detractors of this method.  That’s why I believe that contests run in this matter should be done using some common sense and with some responsibility.  If you decide to run a contest like this on your site, here are a few suggestions:

  1. Limit the number of times people can enter and tell them that if they violate the rules, their entries will not be counted.
  2. Don’t hold contests like this very often.  If you do this too much, people will catch on and stop participating.
  3. Only give away big ticket items.  Do not try to sell your eBook this way.  If you do, you’re likely to face a lot of negative feedback.
  4. Only run the contest for 1-3 days. After that, interest seems to run out.

Anyhow, I thought that I would share my thoughts regarding this very effective contest method with you guys and see what you think.  Feel free to comment and let me know what you think.

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]]> I hope you guys are having a great week!  I’ve been busy making some exciting new Photoshop brushes this week and have been busily working on my book but I thought I would let you guys know about the interview I did on PSDFAN last week.  If you’ve ever been curious about me, check it out.

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]]> Last weekend I went to the pumpkin patch with my family. While I was there, I decided to snap a couple shots of some pumpkins so I could give them away on my site, just in time for Halloween. Hope you guys enjoy them!


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4 Free Fall Pumpkin Textures | 5.89 MB

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]]> Today, I am showcasing just a few premium textures from the Colorburned Shop and am offering them to my readers for free. The Colorburned Shop hosts over 300 high resolution, premium textures for a very reasonable price. For a limited time you can purchase all 300 textures for 50% off their original price. That means you’ll receive all 300 images for just over $35 USD.


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cb-shop-preview-7.jpgPlease download and review these free premium textures.  If you like them, I encourage you to support this site by purchasing all 6 sets from the Colorburned Shop.

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6 Free Premium Textures | 16.4 MB

]]> http://colorburned.com/2008/10/6_free_premium_textures_from_t.html/feed 8 Free Textures: Sand & Beach Outtakes http://colorburned.com/2008/08/free_textures_sand_beach_outta.html http://colorburned.com/2008/08/free_textures_sand_beach_outta.html#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:57:33 +0000 Grant Friedman http://colorburned.com/?p=102 When I take my camera out to grab some shots of textures I usually come home with literally hundreds of images. The really amazing ones, I release in the Colorburned Shop. The good ones get released as freebies…

]]> When I take my camera out to grab some shots of textures I usually come home with literally hundreds of images. The really amazing ones, I release in the Colorburned Shop. The good ones get released as freebies and the others get held over just in case. The other day I was looking through some of my old sand images and I realized that some of them, while not technically textures, were good enough to be released as freebies on my site. When I go through my images I try to distinguish between what’s a texture and what’s a photo. In my mind a texture is any kind of image that you can skin a 3D model with. A photo is just about everything else.

Included in this set are 21 high resolution textures of the sand and ocean from a trip I recently took to the beach.

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These textures are free and you are permitted to use them in both your personal and professional work.  You may not however resell or redistribute these files in part or whole without the expressed permission of Colorburned Studios.  Thank you very much and enjoy!

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Download Sand & Beach Outtakes | 31.1 MB (21 images)

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Support this website by purchasing textures from the Colorburned Shop.  The Colorburned Shop hosts over 300 high resolution, high quality textures for a very reasonable price.  For a limited time you can purchase all 300 textures for 50% off their original price.  That means you’ll receive all 300 images for just over $35 USD.

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You can also visit http://www.colorburned.com/freebies for more free textures and vector objects.

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]]> http://colorburned.com/2008/08/free_textures_sand_beach_outta.html/feed 0 All Textures 50% Off http://colorburned.com/2008/08/all_textures_50_off.html http://colorburned.com/2008/08/all_textures_50_off.html#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:58:56 +0000 Grant Friedman http://colorburned.com/?p=97 To thank every one who is participating in the Abduzeedo Giveaway, for a limited time I’m offering all the textures in my online shop for 50% off their original price but only if you buy all 6 sets.  That…

]]> To thank every one who is participating in the Abduzeedo Giveaway, for a limited time I’m offering all the textures in my online shop for 50% off their original price but only if you buy all 6 sets.  That means you’ll get over 300 textures for $35.20 USD.  That’s an incredible deal, so purchase all 6 sets now and receive 50% off the original price and do it before time runs out.  All you have to do is enter the following discount code during checkout: SHOPIFYSKAGPZE6.  Thanks again everyone and good luck in the giveaway!

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