Photoshop textures

[sponge03]

Hi there

Does anyone know of a good website where i can find some nice arty textures.
(suitable for pencil sketches, watercolors etc)

I'm not sure if its possible to to get them so that i can load them into photoshop so that they work like the filters already in photoshop?

Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Thanks

[pavel123]

You can use any B&W picture in PSD format to work with texturizer filter. To get it to work you either have to load it to the folder there texturizer takes it's basic textures (never got to figure which folder it is myself, although shouldn't be too difficult), or to indicate path to the file every time you use texturizer. Any texture you find on the net can be converted to B&W and used as PS texture. Trimoon's site have a few very nice textures. BTW apart from what is in the texturizer PS has a large folder with textures hidden somewhere under resources I believe. I can e-mail you my textures folder if you like.

Pavel

[pavel123]

One option is to look at textures at

http://www.deviantart.com/ ;
http://www.sxc.hu/
http://www.morguefile.com/

and select those that may be suitable as texturizer textures.

[0lBaldy]

http://freephotoshop.org/textures/

A bunch of other goodies there also

[sponge03]

Thanks Pavel and OlBaldy.....so do those ones from freephotoshop.org , do they come up under FILTER/TEXTURE etc when we go to use them in photoshop?

Sorry, i'm new to all this loading presets etc.....Thanks for all your help

[kiska]

Here's another

http://mayang.com/textures/

[palms]

Originally Posted by sponge03

Thanks Pavel and OlBaldy.....so do those ones from freephotoshop.org , do they come up under FILTER/TEXTURE etc when we go to use them in photoshop?

Sorry, i'm new to all this loading presets etc.....Thanks for all your help

sponge
when you have downloaded the textures to be able to use them with the texturizer filter (there is a load texture button which you will then need to navigate to where you have the textures ) they need to be saved as psd files

Swampy's way is to open a new layer fill with 50% grey and use the texturizer on this layer and then set the blend mode and opacity to taste

Myself i rarely use the texturizer filter but drag the texture on top of the image ( ususally resiszing) then set the blend mode, opacity etc

hope that is not too confusing
and i get a lot of my textures from here

Palms

[sponge03]

Thanks Palms
Yes that does make sense, once again THANKS for all your help.

Thanks for all the links too everyone