Texture Toolkit 6 : The essentials ll

Building on the popularity and usefulness of Texture Toolkit 1 - and all of its successors - we decided to take the Texture Toolkit product line back to the essentials with Texture Toolkit Collection 6: The Essentials 2. These 650 super high-resolution textures are a unique collection consisting of any style you could ever want in a texture. From subtle and sophisticated to fun, funky patterns, this collection has it all! So no matter what look or feel you want in your projects, there will always be a texture to help you out. If you've ever looked at a blank canvas in Photoshop, After Effects, or even in PowerPoint or your video editor, and not known what to do or where to start, the textures in Texture Toolkit 6 were created just for you. Delivered at a maximum resolution of 4000 x 4000 pixels, most of these textures are seamless in all directions and many have a built in alpha so they can be layered on top of images or video for unique effects.

Good textures - particularly high resolution and seamless textures - are hard to find. These long misunderstood workhorses of the creative industry are an essential tool when working with photos, illustrations, videos and animations of any kind. They can be used as a subtle accent or to add a striking backdrop for a hero element - but they are rarely the star of the show. Their main job is to add context and subtext to your creations. Textures can create a mood without saying a word and the right texture can make a simple photo more dramatic or add a weather-beaten look to something shiny and new. The realistic feel of the textures in this new collection will help you build an illusion of tactile reality for your work and will add a unique look and feel to anything you create.

Features
- Just the facts
Benefits
- What it means to you

Super high resolution of 4000 pixels by 4000 pixels
Greater flexibility in using textures for demanding applications such as HD video, 3D animation and large format printing and signage

650 unique textures classified into a variety of sub-themes and created using many different styles and techniques
More selection when choosing a texture that will give you the exact look you need to enhance your next project

612 fully seamless, 29 horizontal & 4 vertical seamless textures
Maximum usefulness with infinitely repeating fills and tiles, including compatibility with DJ Fonts

83 textures with some alpha channel transparency
Textures that can be dropped on top of other graphics to add an instant subtle texture or pattern effect without completely obscuring the image below or the need to use blending modes

1 DVD
650 Super high-resolution textures (4000 x 4000 pixels)
612 Fully seamless textures (XY)
29 Horizontally seamless textures (X only)
4 Vertically seamless textures (Y only)
5 Non-seamless textures
83 Transparent textures with alpha channel
570 Illustrated Patterns
77 Illustrated Texture
3 Photographic Patterns
8 Broad and 53 specific themes
10 Broad and 35 specific styles

I work mostly on web graphics and don't need large images. How can I get the textures in a more manageable size?

Using our free Juicer software, you can render any of the textures from the Texture Toolkit at whatever size you need in whatever file format you require. When you install the product you can even choose to install only small or medium sized source files instead of the full resolution versions.

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Windows:
XP Professional SP2 / Vista / Windows7
Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon XP
Min of 1 GB system memory

Mac:
OS X 10.4+, OSX Leopard / G4 / G5 / Mac Intel Processors
Min of 1 GB system memory

The seamless nature of the majority of the Texture Toolkit textures is essential and it is a key aspect to their usefulness. Just about anyone can create a bad seamless texture. Some computer software can even make some less bad ones. However, most people don't even try, because making a GOOD seamless texture is hard, tedious work. It requires the skill and trained eye of an artist to make a truly seamless and interesting abstract or realistic texture.

A seamless texture is one that can be repeated infinitely without showing any noticeable edge or join between repeating tiles. It can be used to fill as large or as small an area of a graphic as you like. Most seamless textures can tile in both the X and Y directions, while some are designed only to tile horizontally (X), usually across the base or top edge of a graphic area.

In the past, seamless textures were used primarily for desktop wallpaper and web page backgrounds, as well as for adding realism to 3D models and architectural renderings. Nowadays, high resolution textures can be used for a wide variety of design applications including as photo, illustration, animation or video fills and backgrounds, as the base to build a virtual studio or scene for still or motion graphics or as a way to add realistic texture and depth to any part of a designed graphic, whether 2D or 3D, static or moving.

Requires Juicer 3.89a
(a free download)

What will always set Digital Juice apart from every other media content provider is the free Juicer software. Through the Juicer, users are able to instantly identify the proper piece of content and try it on for size. And, in the case of Texture Toolkit, users can benefit from the new Filter Mode search, preview all the images and export selected textures in their desired size and file format (JPG, PNG, etc) so that they can be used in any application.

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