Photoshop-Ready Textures

I’ve always been a very faithful Adobe Illustrator guy, but have found myself using Photoshop more and more in recent months- and really loving it (I feel like I’m cheating on Illustrator).  The Photoshop application has so many great texture-creating tools in it already, but every now and then I need something a little more organic. So, off to the yard I go with my trusty camera.  The photos on this page are a small gathering of various textures I found in the last month.

For those of you who also use Photoshop, I hope these can be of some use in your endeavors.  They range from split wood, wood waiting to be split, branches, tree bark, mountain laurel, a “weed” in the front yard, andromeda blooms, stone walkways and walls, a tarp, and last but not least… my dog’s belly.