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lundi 28 mai 2012

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6 Free High Resolution Plastic Wrap Textures

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Today I’ve got a free texture pack that’s a little different, but I hope it will help you create some cool effects in your artworks. This pack contains 6 high resolution plastic wrap textures that are not only handy for creating packaged product effects, but can also be used to add some cool grungy distress marks to your designs.

These 6 texture files are all 2000x2000px in size at 300dpi, which should be more than enough for even the largest of print projects. Each file is based on black, so you can simply change the blending mode of the texture file to Screen to render the black area transparent, leaving just the white texture visible.

Use the textures to create plastic wrap product packaging effects, or use the distressed appearance of the texture files themselves as some cool grungy backgrounds.

Plastic wrap texture

Download the plastic wrap textures 6.5mb

vendredi 25 mai 2012

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What Image Resolution Do I Need to Use? (and more!)

Posted: 24 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Question Time is back! After hearing how many people found my old question time videos useful I decided to get back into the swing of creating them, this time with some fancy new equipment. In this week's video I talk about websites I submit my new blog posts to and give an overview of different images resolutions.

Richard Carpenter:
Whenever you release new content on your blog do you spend time submitting your content to other websites such as article directories and tutorial submission websites? If you do it would be nice to know which sites you are using.

Anonymous:
Hi Chris, I find it hard to get to grip on terms like resolution, PPI and DPI when I make pixel based designs. Often I get stuck with questions like “Is this picture large enough to use?”, “Will my design look pixelated in the end?” Do you have any tips on this?

If you have a question you would like to submit for an upcoming episode with add it to the comments below, or send it to me on my Formspring account.