11 Old and Grungy Film Textures
The following textures were taken in the mid-late 19th century using one of the earliest film techniques: The Daguerreotype. I originally intended this to be a set of Polaroid textures, that was before I stumbled across a bunch of old public domain portraits that are freely available on the web. I thought: "these would work great as textures for layers in digital photos." The only problem was: the photographs had people as the main subject, disrupting the awesome and rich textures of the film.
So I simply removed the people in photoshop. Voila, genuine 19th century film textures for you guys to use. I hope you like them!
To the people in the photographs: I'm sorry for erasing you from history.
Click on the images below to download the individual files or grab them all in a zip file at the bottom of the post.
Caleb Kimbrough
Reader Comments (71)
These are SO sweet!
thanks!
Wow, really great set! Thank!
These are fantastic! Thank you so much. Where did you find the digital portraits? www.archive.org?
That's awesome! Thanks so much!
you are the best!!! i simply fell in love with this textures, love love love it!!!!
This is a truely remarkable set of textures, having a photographic background, I can really relate to these.
These have to be some of the best textures I have seen, will almost certainly using one for my new updated site design, possibly for the header. Will let you know.
Great
Graham
Those are great! I'm bookmarking this so when I have some more time I can come download some of these really great textures.
Hey everyone! Thanks for all the positive comments, I'm glad you guys like the textures.
@Devlin - I found the images though the this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources
@Graham Smith - Can't wait to see the textures in use, thanks for the encouragement.
Caleb
Caleb,
Thanks for the url! What great resources. Now my night is shot, I'll be spending all night looking at these great resources.
Impressive work. Could you give me a hint of how it's done?
I have a few old films / photos and I 'd like to retrieve those textures.
Thanks a lot!
WOW, Fascinating.
Thanks for sharing all of these. I just came across your textures and I can't wait to use them on my photos.
love them!thank you!!
Great textures, thanks so much!!1
Beautiful, thank you!
Joana
Thanks, good work!
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Thank you very much, my friend! Very useful.
Good luck!
Amazing work, love it!
Wow! I love these! Please keep them coming! :)~
Thank you - I reallu like these old textures...!!
ooh. These are great textures. Thanks mate
You are AWESOME! thank you so much for sharing these!
grunge it !!!!
love em!!! thank you thank you thank you