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Old Paper Textures

By Leichim Thursday July 22, 2010

Some years ago I got a present from my neighbours: some old psalm and songbooks. At that moment, they were only usable for begin in the museum or as a decorative item in my room. However, these books have some excellent old paper surfaces which provided some pretty neat old paper textures. Here on this post, 47 textures from old paper and psalmbooks, shot with my camera.

Old Bible Stocks

By Leichim Thursday July 22, 2010

This year I was in a church service, and I brought my camera with me. The perfect opportunity to take some pictures from the old dutch bible: 11 free to use stock photo’s of this old bible can be found in here…

Photoshop Brushes – Old Map Brushes

By Leichim Tuesday June 29, 2010

In this post you can findold map brushes, made by m-sign.nl. They are free to download, and this category might be updated regularly with new brushes. The brushes are available for Photoshop: they are in .abr format.

Inspiring Wallpapers

By Leichim Tuesday June 29, 2010

Finally, another post. I had really busy days with schools, but now the holidays started. In this post you can find an overview of wallpapers made by m-sign.nl. This post will be regularly updated as new wallpapers find it way to m-sign.nl. Not all resolutions are available for each wallpaper, but we strive to deliver as many as possible!

High-Resolution Textures: Outside Textures

By Leichim Tuesday June 29, 2010

Although the city I live in is not the most entertaining city in the world, it has enough spots to obtain textures. This resulted in the outside texture pack which contains several textures which were shot around the house. Take a look inside and download the outside texture pack!

High-Resolution Textures: Marine Texture Pack

By Leichim Tuesday June 29, 2010

Visiting a marine ship always reveals interesting patterns. And if you have you camera with you, it is an easy way to obtain some technical and naval oriented textures. Discover some excellent naval textures inside this post…

Building a CSS-Sprite Based Website

By Leichim Saturday March 27, 2010

What is a sprite? A CSS-Sprite is a single image which containt multiple images and is used and placed using css on such a manner that you use each image in it. Ok, this sounds a little bit vague (a more detailed description can be found on: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites/), but a css sprite helps to limit your http-requests. In other words, it is used for optimizing your website loading times. It reduces your loading times. This is especially important when having a very big site with many visitors. However, it is also interesting to learn this technique for own purposes.

Cleaning your Keyboard

By Leichim Wednesday January 20, 2010

Some spare hours left, and a keyboard that wasn’t cleaned for 5 years. What to do next? Right, cleaning my keyboard. And the amount of dirt, it was shocking…

Blender Tutorial – A little game!

By Leichim Monday December 28, 2009

Even the blockbuster movie 2012 used the Physic Engine Blender is using: Bullit. In this tutorial we will discover some basics of the Physics and Game Engine possibilities within Blender, and make a small game where we can demolish a brick tower. It’s pretty addictive to destroy this tower with a small ball, using the arrow keys on your keyboard. This tutorial is made using blender 2.49 (32bit). Blender is an open source 3d-editor which can be downloaded from blender.org

Make a Winter/ Christmas Design

By Leichim Thursday December 24, 2009

The snow has fallen over here, and the outside is looking beautiful, but very cold. Inside nice music is coming out of the loudspeakers, the heating is working hard and the atmosphere is cosy with all the candles and lights. In other words, winter has arrived and it is time for a new tutorial: make a winter theme based poster. This can be used for christmas and happy new year cards, as computer background, etc. In this tutorial you’ll learn to use adapted brushes, stroked paths and layer masks. Let’s start!