I was surprised recently when I couldn’t find any hi-res leather textures for a project that I was working on. As a result, I got my hands on some actual leather hides and started photographing them. I wanted to share these with others who may also need leather textures for one reason or another. I have 12 leather textures available in high-res JPG format available in a ZIP file, after the jump.

Please enjoy!

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Here are 2 simple ways you can dramatically reduce filesize of your Illustrator production files:

Step one:

Before exporting your Illustrator file to another more universal format (such as EPS), or even if you are sharing the .ai file you can remove unused swatches, brushes etc from your document; these unused components add to the size of your document!

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I wanted to write out a quick tutorial on how to create dynamic pattern text using Illustrator CS3.

This will really just cover how to add a pattern to the text, without much fuss or sweat; I did notice that the pattern I chose turned out to not work great in this instance, so be careful on the pattern you choose beforehand to make sure it will tile well (within text).

Okay, let’s get started: First off head over to a really kool site Patternwall.com to find a good tilable pattern.

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Media Militia (www.mediamilitia.com) is a great place for tutorials and freebies; and they have really outdone themselves this time with a 75-pack of free smoke textures! Simply amazing is how I describe it!

Check it out here: http://mediamilitia.com/smoke-pack-75-free-images/

I have a set of 8 free rock textures for you to download and use. These were a lot of fun to shoot; they are all shot by Canon Digital Rebel in Manual with Camera RAW output. The final images have been output to high quality JPG files compressed for easy download.

Download all 8 textures after the jump. Enjoy!

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