On the way to my kid’s school, there is an abandoned building with a really nice graffiti piece across the front. Today I decided to take some high-res photos of the graf for you to download to use as texture or stock photo.

I started by taking all the images I had taken, and used Photoshop to photo-merge them into a single panorama; the graf art is very wide.

[TIP] To Photo Merge many files into one, with all the files open inside Photoshop, click File -> Automate -> Photomerge and choose the type of layout, then click “Add open files” … The box will populate with the filenames of all open documents -> Click OK

I have the finished piece available in 300 dpi JPG image at 11,629 x 1,707 pixels, and the rest available in 3 separate sections in 2,500 pix wide, 300 dpi PNG files with transparent backgrounds.

Get Graffiti Wide JPG (340) 3MB
Get Graf 01 PNG (295) 4MB	Get Graf 02 PNG (290) 3MB	Get Graf 03 PNG (275) 3MB

Check out Media Militia for a great Graffiti Brushes/Texture resource.

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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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It was a gorgeous morning near the base of Mt. Pisgah in Oregon (near where I live), and I just had to photograph it! Something about this image just makes me want to lean my back against one of those trees and take a nice warm afternoon nap!

Anyways, I wanted to share the stock photo with you (free of course). The zip file contains the high-res JPG of the image – 3072 x 2048 pixels.

Download Mt. Pisgah Road Stock Photo (270)

lostandtaken.com is a great place to find high-res free textures.

I was really impressed by his (Caleb’s) bubble texture set I wanted to share.

Go on over to lostandtaken.com to get the textures yourself!

This weekend I was playing around; I wanted to try some new ideas floating around in my head.

My daughter’s favorite movie (right now) is The Parent Trap (remake) with Lindsay Lohan (debut film). It was actually pretty hard explaining to my kid that Hallie and Annie are actually the same actress… So what better way to convince her than to make a twin out of an only-child?

This was actually a pretty easy setup; I took the first picture of her, taped the area and had her go change clothes. We then snapped the second picture and later I laid the two images on top of one another, then using the layer mask and the paintbrush I carefully masked one picture into the other.

Pretty fun experience actually. But now my kid thinks Mary-Kate and Ashley are the same ha!