Our First Texture Set
I’m happy to announce the first texture set released at PSDFAN. I’ve finally got my old camera working, so you can expect many more to come over the course of the month. This first set should prove useful as personally I’m always looking out for new paper textures to use in my designs.
I hope that you find them useful, and I’d love to see where you’ve used them in your designs. As always social bookmarking efforts are much appreciated
The textures
You can preview all of the textures below. The actual sizes are 1280X960 for each texture.










Free Download
You can download all of these textures using the link below:


25 Comments so Far:
Comment by beets on August 8, 2008 at 3:27 am
Yay papers! hehe… these are great Tom.
They also bring a tutorial idea to mind: removing barrel distortion caused by camera lenses. Ex: look at the first image and note the blue lines bowing out around the left/right sides of the image. It happens all the way around, but is usually most noticable with verticle lines.
This is a common phenomena in amateur photos, but is easily fixable in Photoshop.
Not attacking your photo skills Tom - the textures are great!
Comment by 2R on August 8, 2008 at 9:11 am
I made a signature by the above textures. How could I instead into the icon?
Comment by Tom on August 8, 2008 at 9:16 am
Thanks Beets
I appreciate the suggestion, but I actually think the 1st photo was just shaped that way in real life. Either way, I’m not the greatest photographer - I’m ok but for now I’m forced to use my brother’s bad camera until mine is fixed. I’m a bit hesitant to get into photography/photo retouching as I’ll be the first to admit this isn’t my strongest area!
2R: Awesome, I’d love to see it.
What do you mean by instead into the icon? Do you mean to use your sig as a gravatar?
Comment by 2R on August 8, 2008 at 9:47 am
Yes, I think it means like your head photos.
Comment by 2R on August 8, 2008 at 9:59 am
In fact, I’ve learnt it for a short time. I send the file on the
http://ftp.log.com.hk
password and login : logguest
in the papertexture floder
Comment by Tom on August 8, 2008 at 10:54 am
Hey 2R. If you want to use the paper texture for a gravatar icon (like my icon next to my comments) then you’ll need to sign up for an account at http://www.gravatar.com. You can create the icon in photoshop using the paper textures though.
Comment by Andrew Houle on August 8, 2008 at 11:36 am
Whoohoo, freebies! Thanks Tom.
Comment by 2R on August 8, 2008 at 11:54 am
I try it
Comment by Tom on August 8, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Haha no problem Andrew, I hope you find them useful
2R: Ok, let me know how it goes.
Comment by 2R on August 8, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Ha Ha, I’ve done it but how can I transfer to here?
Comment by Tom on August 8, 2008 at 12:27 pm
It should be working fine if you’ve set it as your gravatar within your gravatar account. Right now your gravatar has changed from the PSDFAN default to black, so you’ve definitely changed it. Perhaps your image was too large though and that’s why only black is showing? Try creating a gravatar of the same dimensions as the gravatar image shown (I’m not sure exactly what the dimensions are - try screengrabbing it).
Comment by 2R on August 8, 2008 at 12:30 pm
ok
Comment by 2R on August 8, 2008 at 1:17 pm
work now, thanks
Comment by Tom on August 8, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Awesome, it looks great!
Comment by 2R on August 8, 2008 at 6:39 pm
May I introduce your tutorial to another website such as
http://www.photoshopcn.com.
Comment by Raj on August 9, 2008 at 9:17 am
These are really cool Tom
Thanx a lot!
Comment by Tom on August 9, 2008 at 12:03 pm
2R: Sure
Raj: Thanks mate, I hope you find them useful.
Comment by River Girl on August 24, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Thanks for the papers!
Comment by Tom on August 27, 2008 at 1:15 am
No problem River Girl
Comment by Muss on September 2, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Thanks!!
Comment by Tom on September 2, 2008 at 6:09 pm
You’re welcome
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Comment by calinus on January 23, 2009 at 7:21 pm
nice.. tks!
Comment by Aman on January 30, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Awesome =D
No i don’t have to picture one by my self!
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