Flypaper Textures: New Fly Edges Texture Pack!

Testimonials

Bill Tongue writes:
I purchased your complete set a few days ago and have been going crazy reworking some of my old stuff. I've always "painted" my pics and made my own textures. Your offerings have changed my end product dramatically. A little Photoshop, a touch of NIK and three layers of Flypaper.

Laura James writes:
I started using your textures from looking at some of what Tony Sweet was creating. Loved them immediately and am hooked on using textures. Thought you might be interested in seeing some of the images I created. You can see my photos at You can see my photos at www.lightwriterimages.com Look under Laura's gallery - new photos. Thanks for offering your textures for use, LOVE them.

Larry Gerbrandt writes:
I'm fairly new to the whole texture layer look but have fallen in love with the look and most of the credit goes to a combination of your textures, your tutorials and outstanding images. The Summer Painterly collection is like playing in a sandbox full of wonderful toys, with Brushed Rose at the top of the heap. Your tutorials have encouraged me to try blending modes other than Overlay and Soft Light, with delightful and surprising results. I shoot with a Nikon D3X and it produces huge files. Finding textures with enough resolution to blend with 25 megapixel images isn't easy but your textures scale beautifully. Can't wait for you next set.

Elise (mythlady) writes...
Hi Jill and Paul -- I entered three photos in our local county fair, all of which featured Flypaper Textures. I won blue ribbons on all three, Antique Roses, Two Ships, and Cows, and then the cow picture went on to win Best in Section (visible manipulation) and Best in Show!! I was surprised and delighted, and of course, I owe it all to you.
Thanks for your great work! The textures are wonderful.

pink pegasus said..
Bought Tex box two and Fly edges today - it's great to use them - thank you to your fine and very exclusive textures!

Tom Said..
Fantastic!
As much as I enjoy the painterly/Pictorialist effects that I get with your textures, I'm still working on being more "subtle". You managed to add a golden light,
but in a way that is far different from a "digital warming filter". Looking forward to seeing the results of your further experimenting and trying it out myself.

Delany Dean, JD,PhD Said..
These texture images are just marvelous! I stumbled across them on Flickr, found this blog site, and was instantly delighted. I bought both sets. I have been using textures in my photography for about a year now. I have used some of the images that others have posted on Flickr, and later went on to develop a few pretty nice ones of my own, but I can see that my days of struggling with trying to create my own texture images are over! I will never come close to the quality of these. And I'd rather spend my time using these, anyhow. Thanks for developing these, and making them available!

Cass said...
I think I might just have died and gone to heaven. When I got your e-mail about the new textures I thought "yeah, they'll look the same as the old ones" (yes, you can call me cynical) but I clicked anyway... just in case... just for a peek. And I fell in love straight away and had bought them within seconds. The sky ones are my favorite right now. They are stunning. But they are all beautiful. Can't wait to have a play with them. In the meantime, I might just have to print them out as they are, frame them and put them on my wall :)

Bob said...
The thing I wanna’ talk about here is the Voyageur Map texture, a new texture from flypaper textures. This is my first try with one, but do they LOOK scrumptious!!! These are lighter in tone and texture, pastel-ish in color, more transparent – they just glow. They are big files too, 6 – 8 mb each – really wonderful to work with.

They ain’t replacements for the first series, but delightful supplements that offer us more creative and artistic options. With both texture packs, I think this brings the total to 50 – 60. And no “cheap dupes” either (what I call it when someone designs a nice texture and simply changes the color to make various ones).

Martine Roch said...
These textures are really good quality, very big size and a real pleasure to use in many ways. I'm sure I will enjoy using them more and more...
I can't wait for your next set.

Julie Tardy said....
Bought one this morning, they are great !

SilviaON said....
thank you for the wonderful textures !!
good luck for the group :)

Telzey said....
I'm in love with Flypaper Textures! They're generously sized for print work, easy on the eye, and simple to use.
I applied them to some of my "lost" images and the results were great. So I decided to see how they'd work with some of my finished images. All I can say is incredible. Wish I'd had them sooner.
Am I satisfied? Absolutely! Thank you Jill and Paul for making them available. I can't wait to see what's next.

Anonymous said..
I love these textures. Bought them a few days ago and have been addicted ever since. When I've purchased texture packs like this before, there has always been a bunch I never use and a couple that I do. With this one I really like every single one of them. A+.

Bob Said..
Master Paul Grand; masterful artist, possessed of superb vision, sublime spirit, exquisite imagery, wrote a short tutorial on his texture work. It was an epiphany for me.
It was short, direct and to the point – with examples. All of these damn photo textbooks should be so succinct and direct. Thank you, Paul.
I used his lesson on my new image.
A most elegant, stylish treatment that worked wonderfully for me. I have now added another, subtle, layer technique to my texture work and style.
As Paul quickly showed, there is much one can do with “blending options, blending modes, % of use and % opacity, and color sliders” either as top layers or under layers.

Katieandcalli.com Said..
I'm betting that once you use one of their textures, you'll want the whole set. They're marvelous, subtle textures, so they blend. ...And now I feel like Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny. ("Oh, yeah. You blend.") Point is, the texture isn't what people will see when they look at your photographs. Textures are a delicate thing, in my opinion, and they don't always enhance an image so much as distract, but anyway. Flypaper Textures are really nice textures!

missnoma Said..
"Honesty (texture tutorial and recipe)":
What a fabulous way to teach textures...Even a newbie like me should be able to follow and enjoy...Thank you so much...

Dave Said..
Just thought I'd drop you a line and mention that I've just bought your wonderful flypaper textures set. Thanks for doing this and I look forward to trying them out. They look wonderful and really useful.

sassl Said...
did someone say, you can never be too rich, have too many big dogs, or too many fab textures ...
I'm pretty sure I heard that! :D I love these textures. Bought them a few days ago and have been addicted ever since. When I've purchased texture packs like this before, there has always been a bunch I never use and a couple that I do. With this one I really like every single one of them. A+.these are fantastic, i downloaded them way past a decent hour to go to bed so will give them a go tomorrow. you've both done fine work here, and definitely a next installment is in order.

anniedaisybaby Said...
I am also excited to try out my newly downloaded Flypaper textures. Your blog is fantastic! Love the before and after "rollover" - truly inspiring. I will be using these for a long time to come. Thanks for all the inspiration Paul and Jill. And thanks for contributing to my texture addiction, too. LOL Can't wait to see the next set of textures.

Anonymous Said...
I appreciate you putting your "recipe" info online. Some people become secretive and snobby and don't share their info. I appreciate your openness and willingness.

Oryctes (Dani) said...
I have silently followed this blog for a few weeks and from the tutorial I have seen a sample of what these wonderful textures are capable of, but I had to test it by myself.
I just downloaded the set and with the first quick tests the results are more than promising.
I'm sure I'll be using the textures quite often.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

New Fly Edges Texture Pack!

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( Go HERE for more Fly Edge detail images )

Ever needed the original Alice in Wonderland photographic look?
Did you yearn for a natural large plate format photographic feel?
Have you ever wanted natural un-contrived edges that are not the everyday humdrum TTV retro, but something a little bit special?
Then this is the product for you!:-)

At long last, we launch our new one-off, cool toned, metallised glass texture pack! Its made with all those people in mind who over the past months have requested edges from us. However this isn't any old edges pack! This is a connoisseurs edges pack that includes all over iridescent grunge goodness!

These edges derive from 100 year + antique French glass silvered plates, lovingly scanned in TIF, then cleaned and processed in a secret way we have developed ourselves, to show only grunge, without the original image. These were produced to be as widely used as possible, both in their original format, or cut and pulled square.

As with all our products we have a minimum sized side of 4000 pixels by 5000. The length being around 30% wider than our previous textures @ 13" x 17" approx inches in 300 dpi for perfect printing and happily usable with your landscape formats. All our textures can be used in any editing programme that supports the use of layers, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Gimp etc

These edges can be used in conjunction with our Normal flypapers or on their own. We're really looking forward to framing our new look with you over the next few months!

Happy Edging! :-)

Paul and Jill

Fly Edges Pack

Only $40

Please note that this is big, almost 400 mb file so the download may take a while. Average reported download time for this pack varies from 15 to 20 mins.

15 comments:

Jordan Flynn said...: Great to see that you are developing new textures, as an avid user of your two previous packs i am excited as to the potentials! also loving that you have increased the resolution for us landscape folks. $40 US is a little much for me as a poor student but im sure I'll be persuaded once i start to see some of the possibilities.; April 10, 2010 at 8:00 PM
ana.gr said...: So beautiful that I can't resist...
Yes, I have to have them!; April 11, 2010 at 3:39 AM
Adrian said...: Great, great, great!

What about some nice scratchy granite flypapers?; April 11, 2010 at 6:40 AM
hotdigitaldog said...: I bought your last two sets and really like them. I would love to see at least a few samples of this a bit larger.; April 11, 2010 at 11:10 AM
Colleen Farrell said...: Yep, I'll be buying these in the next few days! Can't wait to try them out. Thanks so much for your endless creativity and generosity.; April 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM
Borealnz (Jill) said...: Thanks everyone, looking forward to seeing how you use them
For anyone interested, we've added a slightly closer view of the textures here http://flypapertextures.blogspot.com/2009/04/fly-edges-sampler.html; April 11, 2010 at 4:43 PM
Borealnz (Jill) said...: Oops my link didn't work....but this one will with luck!
See the Edge Sampler Here :-); April 11, 2010 at 4:47 PM
Nicole Klingler said...: Awesome! Love it!; April 13, 2010 at 9:28 AM
jordan flynn said...: Ok, i gave in.... hahe.; April 13, 2010 at 6:15 PM
Jackie said...: Absolutely beautiful!! I love them!; April 14, 2010 at 6:43 PM
mar...just...mar said...: mar...just...mar

Can´t resist!, I've to have this pack (it´s downloading right now).

I bought the last two sets few days ago, you'll make me poor one of these days!.

Regards.; April 22, 2010 at 9:17 AM
Nettie Edwards said...: I am smitten ;-))); April 30, 2010 at 3:23 PM
widaca said...: i love nature's textures and really love that you can collect them through photography. i often apply natural elements into my design too. awesome captures!; May 7, 2010 at 2:34 PM
Pam said...: These are awesome!; August 4, 2010 at 2:21 PM
Anonymous said...: Love the your textures! Used Fly Edge 13 on this one :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72614889@N05/6655189669/in/photostream; January 7, 2012 at 2:14 PM