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Free Calendar Wallpaper: Snowflakes

chris — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:15:19 +0000

A lot of snow and a little bit of holiday cheer has just piled up outside and inside our house and so I thought it would be a perfect time to use some of the fun experimental texture pictures of shiny colorful holiday lights we took last year.

The wallpaper comes in calendar and non-calendar versions in the following resolutions:

Full Screen
1600×1200
1280×960
1024×768

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900
1280×800

iPad
768×1024

iPhone
320×480

For full 16:9 widescreen version or PSP wallpaper, check out our submission on DesignersCouch.

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Free Texture Pack: Lights (full archive) & Snow

chris — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:00:33 +0000

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Non-Denominational Winter Holiday!

As we teased last week, here’s the full archive of all 50 light textures that we’ve posted in two parts (you can check out previews of part one here, and part two here). But, because you waited patiently and were such good little boys and girls, we bundled a special surprise into your stocking: you can also download a bonus snow texture pack featured below. You can see one of these textures in action in our popular holiday Blogger template, Advent. Snow is often challenging to find good textures of because it’s not something you can point-and-shoot. Without manual adjustment, photographs of snow will come out gray, because cameras look for light and dark and take the average when they are making their light readings. So we’re pretty pleased with how these pics came out and hope you like them as well.

All our textures are released under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Share-Alike license. Click the license badge below for more information about usage.

Arcane Palette textures by Arcane Palette Creative Design is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.arcanepalette.com.

To download this pack, click the link underneath the previews below.

Have a great holiday! And check back soon, we’ve got more texture packs lined up!

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Free Texture Pack: Lights 2

chris — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:46:54 +0000

Continuing the light texture pack we started last week, here’s the 2nd half of the light textures we shot. As with our other texture packs, all images are high resolution JPGs. You can click the thumbnails below for a resized version.

All our textures are released under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Share-Alike license. Click the license badge below for more information about usage.

Arcane Palette textures by Arcane Palette Creative Design is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.arcanepalette.com.

To download this pack, click the link underneath the previews below.

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Free Holiday Blogger Template: Let It Snow

chris — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:03:42 +0000

This cute holiday blogger template is called Let It Snow because it’s covered in snowflakes and because I have found myself singing that song waaay too many times around the house lately. It’s blue and white, a little bit scrapbook and a little bit gift wrap, and quite charming for the holidays, or just the colder months.

Feel free to contact us if you’re interested in custom BlogSpot templates or just want us to design a custom header graphic for your site. We’d love to hear from you!

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Free Texture Pack: Lights

chris — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:46:11 +0000

Inspired by this Wired How-To guide on camera toss photos, and it being that time of year with the Christmas tree all decorated with lights, I thought it would be fun to experiment with the idea, and also make some cool textures for backgrounds for holiday cards or wallpapers. Such is the story behind this texture pack, which isn’t really a texture pack because light isn’t texture, but we’ll call it one for convenience. We took 50 shots at different exposures, some with more ambient light and some in the dark, and trying a variety of different techniques for capturing light trails. Since there were so many shots, we’ve decided to split this pack up into 2 pieces, and we’ll post the second half next week, as well as an archive containing all 50 on Christmas morning. Why do it like this? Well, we figure, for the people who are going to use the textures for something holiday-themed this year, we’ll give it to you a little bit early so you have time to do whatever it is you’re going to do. If you can stand to wait, you’ll wake up Christmas morning and have a little present waiting for you to open from Arcane Palette.

As with our other texture packs, all images are high resolution JPGs. You can click the thumbnails below for a resized version.

All our textures are released under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Share-Alike license. Click the license badge below for more information about usage.

Arcane Palette textures by Arcane Palette Creative Design is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.arcanepalette.com.

To download this pack, click the link underneath the previews below.

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