Paul Grunt

Texture Lovers Rocks!

The purpose of Texture Lovers is to archive some of the best free textures from around the web and better yet only archive the ones that are free to use in commercial and personal work without worrying about giving credit to the source (no attribution).

On this site you will also find links to inspiration and tutorials all texture related.

On this site you will also find links to inspiration and tutorials all texture related.

Free Textures, Inspiration and Tutorials | Texture Lovers.

Iconfactory : Software : Iconbuilder. IconBuilder supports the creation of icon sizes up to 1024 x 1024 for both the Mac and Windows operating systems. Additionally, non-Mac resources are not limited to being square in proportion. Create a 64×32, a 10×200, or anything in between – whatever your project calls for.

How to Make a Menu Interface for a Fantasy Themed iPhone Game – Psdtuts+.

Design in life size. Design for life.™

When you zoom to 100% in programs like Photoshop or Illustrator you’re not actually seeing true print size, but if you know your monitor’s DPI (dots per inch), also known as PPI (pixels per inch), you can work around this. Learn how >

via PX CALC: DPI Calculator with Dot Pitch, Size, Aspect Ratio, Pixels, and Megapixels.

Design Your Touchscreen Interfaces in Photoshop in True Life Size

When you’re designing a touchscreen interface in Photoshop, what you see onscreen is often a very different size than the way it will actually appear on the touchscreen display. This is problematic when you’re trying to size and space all the elements of a user-friendly interface. Fortunately, there is a way to preview your design in the true size of your target display.

Photoshop has a “Print Size” command in the view menu. This not only allows you to view the canvas onscreen at the actual size it would print, it’s also great for viewing the canvas at the actual size of your target touchscreen.

To do this, you first need to tell Photoshop the dpi (dots per inch) of your computer display. Mine, for example, is 113.21. You can figure out yours with this handy dpi calculator or the following formula:

dpi = sqrt (width_pixels^2 + height_pixels^2) / diagonal_inches

Read the Entire Article Here > Guifx : Design Your Touchscreen Interfaces in Photoshop in True Life Size.

I wanted to post another great resource for Matte Painting by the best in the industry so here you go!

The seventh book in the d’artiste series—Matte Painting 2—features Master Artists Yusei Uesugi, Max Dennison, and Chris Thunig.

Our talented and experienced Master Artists provide you with priceless matte painting techniques to help you improve your own skills. With more than 30 Hollywood blockbuster movies to their credit these three Master Artists show you the approaches and techniques they use to create unforgettable movie environments. Matte Painting 2 covers the process from concept, right through painting and 3D techniques and tricks, to the completion of complex environments—including the famous Coruscant sequence from ‘Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith’.

via Ballistic Publishing: d’artiste – Matte Painting.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn to Matte Paint then you should visit Dylan Cole Studio. Dylan is a Master Matte Painter. Please check out his site!

Dylan has a DVD series you can purchase at The Gnomon Workshop.

TypeTester is a really cool way to compare screen text. It can speed up your website body text comps a ton.

I ordered my Charge Tee from SimpleBits the other day as a birthday gift to myself. I can’t wait to get it and charge forward with all my future projects while wearing it.