Free tiling textures

[AuthorAuthor]

I'd like to provide a little Christmas present to the community, some textures to use in Affinity Designer.

 

 

I think I've spent a little time over 23 years creating seamless tiling textures. I gave them away when I was a host on a previous website, I thought this wonderful program and crowd might like them, too. I'd discovered early on that this is the way to get a bitmap fill inside a shape, and AD doesn't come with an assortment.

 

I've never sold a collection commercially, I'm not sure if I need to...this is just a fun hobby for me, to get a texture to seamlessly tile, and to make the texture unique. I have some wood and rusty metal textures but heck, you can find these for free just about everywhere! :)

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/opcma06qu19kunc/Textures.zip?dl=0

 

Let me know if posting this media is welcome or not. If it's a hit, I will post another texture pack after the Holidays. I have to design my Christmas card for inkjet printing now, no rest for the weary!

 

My Best,

 

Gary

[Petar Petrenko]

Thank you very much for this lovely Christmas present, Gary.

[Patrick Connor]

Gary, I split your post into the resources forum to avoid this gift being lost in a long thread.

[AuthorAuthor]

Thank you.  This is much appreciated.

You're most welcome! Use them in good health and good designs!

 

This might have been the wrong place to post the free textures, though. I can't even find it amidst the new posts this morning!

 

My Best,

 

Gary

[AuthorAuthor]

Thank you, Patrick! Although I did this in celebration of the new release, you are right; it's best served here.

 

COME AND GET IT! :)

[Alfred]

COME AND GET IT! :)

 

Got it!! Many thanks, Gary.

[AuthorAuthor]

You're most welcome, Alfred.

 

I'd love feedback. Some day I'll offer a 50 pack on Creative Market for a pittance—I'm not even considering it at present, though—and I'm wondering whether photorealistic materials, or more visually adventurous ones come in the best. Input appreciated.In the meantime, why not share, a little voice in my head is saying.

 

And here I was believed I'd had my conscience removed when I was a child!

 

 

My Best,

 

Gary

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MEB]

Hi Gary,

Thanks for sharing them with us :)

[pioneer]

Gary

Thank you for these, Love the cubes, where would be the best place to store these within the program (Assets?)

[AuthorAuthor]

You're welcome, Pioneer, MEB.

 

Gosh, I'm a novice around the interface at this point! I know how to create an asset from an imported bitmap, but not how to apply it as a fill.

 

With other programs, I create a directory of seamless textures, and then direct different programs to that folder.

 

I'm definitely open to other ideas here!

 

My Best,

 

Gary

[Guest]

Hi Gary,

 

I just found out your post and your beautiful seamless tiling textures. I immediately downloaded them and I wanted to thank you for putting them at the disposal of the greatest number.

Regards,

[AuthorAuthor]

Reglico and everyone else who download the six textures: you're more than welcome and in the spirit of Christmas, here's a link to a dozen more. They're weird, but you can get wood and nature textures anywhere. :)

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e7bxkn21ll0mgtm/Testures%20II.zip?dl=0

 

 

I didn't have a window large enough to capture images of all 12 seamless tiling textures.

 

Ah. Such is life.

 

Enjoy!

 

Gary

[Guest]

Gary, thanks for this new series of textures,

cordially

[AuthorAuthor]

You're very welcome.

Hope you rock around the Christmas Tree! :)

 

Gary

 

[chrisbst]

Wonderful textures Gary and thanks for sharing  with the World wide Affinity community

 

Chris

[AuthorAuthor]

You're welcome, Chris. I'm very taken with Affinity Designer, so why not share with a talented, rich, and diverse community?

 

I'm flattered that my tiny gifts are so well received! I've gotta come up with something else now that's useful in AD or AP.

 

My Best,

 

Fary

[Alfred]

Many thanks once again, Gary. :)

[AuthorAuthor]

You're always welcome, Alfred. What say we think about posting compositions here that have made use of a texture or two?

 

Mods: is that a good idea? If not, please let me know, but it would encourage forum participation, no?

 

This is coming from an overworked volunteer Mode somewhere else on the Web.

 

My Best,

 

Gary

[DonCarlos]

Hah, Mr B. - great to find you and your generosity now here too.... isn`t AFFINITY gorgeous?!

(I love your gifts and tuts on X.`s sites....)

A fan. :-)

[AuthorAuthor]

Hi Literaturix...

 

Small Internet, isn't it?

 

I love this program. QED I love to post stuff that can be of use to others.

 

Thanks for being a fan. you know where to find me now. :)

 

My Best,

 

Gary

[J Emm]

Hi Gary, I have been a follower for years and already have a number of your textures, tutorials, and other freebies. I am sure Affinity could benefit from your graphic expertise, how about rustling up some of your excellent easy to follow tuts?   

[AuthorAuthor]

Hi Gary, I have been a follower for years and already have a number of your textures, tutorials, and other freebies. I am sure Affinity could benefit from your graphic expertise, how about rustling up some of your excellent easy to follow tuts?   

As much as I am tempted J Emm, I'd risk falling into the same tender trap as I did a few years ago, where I was paid to do X amount of work, then the charitable side of me kicked in and I added Y for free, and then Z, and then became unhappy and broke. :)

 

I'd love to create a tutorial, several, in fact, if I had Affinity's support. We already have a handsome full color guide, the Official Guide, in fact. 

 

Let me think of what I can do in the next few weeks where I have some downtime. Believe it or not, I just finished writing The CorelDRAW Offical Guide X7 on Christmas Eve! So I'm taking a short break and doing some personal stuff.

 

Thanks for asking!

 

https://youtu.be/PgHd3jJb-j8

 

Gary