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materials for rendering
[Link] Over 1GB of texture packs and collections. Mostly
from quake / unreal artists and mappers. Some backups of dead sites
Large public libraries of textures. Mostly high res until e able photographs
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[Link] (Textures and photographs licensed under creative commons)
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[Link] (Free low res textures. Paid users get high res textures)
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displacement maps here), just photo textures)
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overbright or angles)
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[Link] (Plethora of high res photo sources, but many were taken at angle)
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[Link] (Don't be fooled by its name, all textures are photo sources)
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textures)
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[Link] (As the name says, amazing! Proper, not
angled, photos. Most are clean with no light flashes, shadows or overbrightness)
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very good)
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[Link] (many modern world facade photos)
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[Link] (Mostly small tiles)
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[Link] (Metal, rust, oxidized, dirty, mud, dust, old, etc)
[Link] (Seems that they were a paid site sometime ago, but now everything is
free to download)
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[Link] (blender texture CD)
[Link] (Some high quality photographed textures)
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Tileable / seamless
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[Link] (14 1024 x 1024 base textures. Have links to other sites)
[Link] (High resolution photographic textures)
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[Link] (both seamless and photo reference)
[Link] (a few photoedited seamless)
[Link] (many wallpapers and ornamental patterns)
[Link] (Very good source of tileable background patterns)
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[Link] (tileable patterns in a wide range of colors)
[Link] (Has some low res textures)
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Texture maps
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[Link] (Some tutorials about texturing for games)
Procedural / Synthetic
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generator)
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Planets, stars and galaxies
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Materials for 3D modelling softwares
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Misc & Reference
[Link] (Architecture and interior design reference)
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[Link] (amazing collection of reference
pictures of skies in different weather conditions)
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[Link] (Ever watched Saw horror movies? This is
a lot like Saw I)
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[Link] (Modern Ruins)
[Link] (abandoned, decayed buildings)
[Link] (Dedicated to mines and miners)
[Link] (Bunkers around the world)
[Link] (German. Pictures of decayed buildings and structures)
[Link] (Has a database of panoramic images)
[Link] (Russian. Another source of abandoned structures)
[Link] (Pictures of decayed structures)
[Link] (More decayed...)
[Link] (Pictures of geological formations around the world. Integrated with
google Earth)
[Link] (Both textures and professional quality pictures of various places, and concept
art)
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[Link] (Excellent reference for interiors and exteriors, all
categorized in sections such as bathrooms, living rooms, castles, rivers, etc.)
[Link] (A wiki dedicated to archive game content that the
author's has released under GPL)
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Photos
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[Link] (Some very high res textures and many photographs)
[Link] (many real marble references)
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Non english resources
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All in one tutorial index sites (most tutorials are found in all of those)
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[Link] (Free video tutorials of pretty much any subject)
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[Link] (Plethora of good tutorials hosted on a forum
scheme)
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[Link] (It's like a youtube specialized in showing off" how to's")
Gimp & Others
[Link] (Free vector drawing software)
[Link] (pixel art)
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[Link] (Drawing art)
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[Link] (Paint Shop Pro)
[Link] (Texture theory)
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Photoshop
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digital artists in general)
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some effecst from burning texts to emboss, from photo retouching to some filter effects)
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%23target&topic=&submit=Search (The official adobe resource site)
[Link] (Highly recommended, very well written, step by step)
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The path tool
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The history brush tool
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Selection and masks
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Drawing & Painting
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Adjustment layers (extremely powerful feature)
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Histograms and channels (extremely useful for fine tuning)
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High pass & Low pass filter
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frequency or low frequency "noises" from textures)
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Brush tools (learn those!)
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(handy description of dodge, smudge, burn and sponge. All in one easy reading photo retouching
guide)
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dodge and burn tools)
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above)
[Link] (very short description of dodge, burn,
gradient, fill, and paint brush)
[Link] (More dodge and burn)
[Link] (Smudge)
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photo to paint)
[Link] (Simple guide that shows how to create
a simple painting using the regular brushes tools)
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[Link] (create your own brushes! This offers much more
control than simple blending two layers together)
Blending modes / Blend rages / Blend if (This + brushes = dreams come true. All
descriptions from all sites are virtually the same)
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blend many images together to form unusual textures)
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blend and what does not)
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photos at different exposures)
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Eraser tools
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eraser and bacground eraser)
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Art history brush and history brush
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Colouring drawings (ranges from cartoon to manga)
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Digital painting (Most describe the techniques, not the tools itself)
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d_Editing_Original_Art_Work.htm
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Most CG / 3D modelling communities have sections dedicated to traditional art
Clouds
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Grass and rocks
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(Grass and rocks. Hard visible brush strokes style)
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Lanscapes
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custom brushes before trying this)
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(need some prior experience)
This resource has EVERYTHING about color adjustments, contrast, brightness and pretty
much all things about photo / image adjusting and treatment
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more about rendering)
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Links collected in level design and gaming communities, and social bookmarking sites. And thanks
google and yahoo.
