Free Textures for February!

To show our appreciation to our subscribers, we're giving away five free "light grunge" textures. These images and have subtle brush strokes and make great portrait backgrounds. You can download them here: http://bit.ly/AiYGC7

Photoshop Tutorials

Textures can be applied in a variety of ways to achieve different effects. Most techniques involve adding a texture to a new layer above your photograph, and then adjustments are made to the layer blending mode and opacity. Layer masks are often used to remove or reduce the texture effect from certain areas of the photo (like a person's face for example).

We've posted two Photoshop video tutorials that explain the process in detail. We hope you find them helpful. Remember, you can always download small versions of our textures if you'd like to try to these techniques yourself.

Texture Packs Now Just $10, Three New Packs Available

Texture Packs are sets of 15 large textures (3300 pixels x 2200 pixels) delivered in ZIP file format. For a limited time, all our texture packs have been reduced to $10. Plus, we've added three new "Light Grunge" packs: Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3.

102 New Textures Added!

We added 102 textures to the gallery in January. The majority were light grunge and paper textures. A few of our favorites are featured below.