Paper textures

[Voolf]

I was looking through this section, but could not find anything.

I was wondering if any of you knows some websites with nice grungy paper, parchment textures that are hi-res (would like them to be at least 3508x2480, so they can fit a4 300dpi) and are free .

I can find tousends of paper textures, but unfortunately most of them are not even half of the size i require. Streching them is not a solution. I am looking for more chaotic ones, so seamless also is a no.

[Falconius]

If you have a camera with enough megapixels to get that resolution it's honestly seems easier to just make your own (but then I hate searching for things on the internet). If you do it a longer zoom with neutral lighting, it should help flatten it out.

[Josiah VE]

This is something I had trouble with at first. I found a few ones I liked and now I use them for almost all my maps.

This is one of CoyoteMax's textures, one that I like very much: https://www.cartographersguild.com/a...1&d=1461562742
Another from CoyoteMax: http://coyotemax.deviantart.com/art/...es-4-144972405
His textures are for free use by the way!


Here is one I made myself: https://www.cartographersguild.com/a...6&d=1468250375

I made it by crumpling the piece of paper up and soaking it in strong tea. After that I let it dry and scanned it in. Then I edited a bit to darken it and get it to the a good colour.

Here's a mini tutorial I made to add stains in photoshop to paper: https://www.cartographersguild.com/a...4&d=1468250177

[mat_r]

I buy mine at http://www.textures.com/
They have got a quite nice selection of high res textures.
(You also get a certain contingent of free downloads, but I am not sure if you can use it for the highest resolutions...)

[Voolf]

If you have a camera with enough megapixels to get that resolution it's honestly seems easier to just make your own (but then I hate searching for things on the internet). If you do it a longer zoom with neutral lighting, it should help flatten it out.

Unfortunately i am no looking for a 'blank' page. If that was the case i would use paper texture pattern on a new layer which is even faster . Thanks for the suggestion though.

Josiah VE, those are interesting, i will try them out, thanks.

mat_r, yeah this is probably one of the gretest database of textures. I haven't bought anything from them yet, i promised myself to buy some after my first income from mapping . You are right, the free textures there are small size only :/

[timallen]

try Deviantart website

[Wired]

If you've got GIMP or Photoshop you can rather easily make one yourself.

[Greg]

Definitely agree with Wired on this one. Depedning on what you're after, a combination of grunge brushes, different colours, opacities, pressures, etc and you can get something together that can do a decent job.

Otherwise, if you can come across some smaller freebies that you're allowed to use. Don't stretch it, but copy it and flip it horizontal/vertical to match up along one edge (then merge it). Just continue that until you cover the canvas. Depending on the paper, you might get a few obvious repetitions where you connected the images, but just grab the healing tool (looks like a plaster/band-aid on Photoshop, not sure about GIMP) and you can smooth out these similarities and give them a bit more variation.

Hope that helps!

[Voolf]

Guess gonna have to play more and do mine after all. I did try several times but i never get the result that would pleased me. Thanks for answers guys.