Send us your Textures. Brush Set Part 3: The Beginning

Send us your Textures. Function Brush Set Part 3: The Start

We’re going to try something a little different for our next brush set. We want you to get involved & send us your textures. We’ve thought of a very simple and quick way for you to send them to us & we’ll give you full credit if we use them.

How to Send us your textures

Upload your Photos using wetransfer.net and put brushes@wefunction.com as the recipient. I’ll then look though the submissions and start putting together Part 3 of our Subtle Brush Sets.

What we need

We’re looking for original textures, photographed by you. The kind of things we are after include: Natural Paper, Cardboard, Wood, Concrete, Fabric or any sort of organic surface with an interesting pattern or combination of textures within.

I think the main thing I’d like you to send me is Natural Paper textures. I’ve found these to be quite popular textures, and the ones that I have trouble finding and photographing.

Size & Quality of Images

You don’t need to worry about size or quality, I tend to optimize them for the web, and I’ll tweak the crap out of them to make them look subtle, so don’t stress about levels or contrast. Anything you can send will do, I’ll make sure they work. Anything from iPhone snaps to high-quality photos will be considered.

Why are we doing this?

Our brush sets have been downloaded thousands of times by designers all over the world, all I’m asking is for you to return the favour and help us put together a really interesting set of brushes. Also because @TrentWalton is a swine! It’s pretty much his fault I’ve kicked this into life.

Written by on January 27, 2011

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45 Comments

  1. Max Stanworth said:

    gotta admit I use ure texture brushes alot, I’ve literally got a mountain of old paper that I keep meaning to use , the perfect opportunity is now?!

  2. Trent Walton said:

    This is so great! And, yes, I’m a swine! :)

  3. Ogvidius said:

    Awesome! I use your subtle grunge textures regularly and they’re probably my favourite brushes. I have some nice paper textures that I’ve found around my home and scanned. I use these sometimes for nice textures so I can send those over. Do you prefer scanned or photographed?

  4. Liam said:

    @Max – Haha the time is now! Look forward to seeing what you’ve got!

    @Ogvidius – Awesome, thanks. Either is fine, I imagine Photos are easier to take. I scale them down quite a bit, and mix textures and brushes together so quality isn’t really a huge issue, I can still take and use the bits I need.

  5. Matt @ DVQ said:

    Brilliant! I freakin’ love the 2nd brush set. I use them everyday, probably more than I should ;)

  6. Sergiu Bacioiu said:

    Hi,
    I just sent you 62 high resolution textures, I hope you can use some of them in your next brush pack.

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    Great idea and i think if you add freebies too will be better?!

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    Nice idea – also you can use all the textures at http://www.hd-freetextures.com for your set – they´re public domain!

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  14. ajuz said:

    gotta admit I use ure texture brushes alot, I’ve literally got a mountain of old paper that I keep meaning to use , the perfect opportunity is now?!

  15. handyman manchester said:

    cool, i am off too take pics if i’m not too late, ill get you some neat stuff, thanks

  16. _nuni_ said:

    wonderful idea

  17. Liam said:

    @Lukas Thanks, that’s great.

    @ajuz Absolutely, that sounds fantastic!

    I’m still looking through submissions and picking out the ones I’ll use. Thanks for the textures so far guys, appreciate it!

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