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.

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Comments

[ninigoesdigi]

thanks for those textures. Love grunge style !

[Janet]

Thank you sooooo much for these fantastic textures.....

[grammy201]

Cool textures! Thanks so much for sharing!

[Bobbie]

wow these are awesome, thank you!

[BSE]

Wow!! Love the texture, variety, and creativity. Thanks so much for sharing.

[amymom24]

Thank you!

[fm]

Thank you so much for your wonderful work! I have been downloading and haven't had a chance to thank you. I so appreciate it!

[Sandy_in_MD]

Terrific set - thank you!

[viatiare]

You do great work...thank you!

[jaynezascrapper]

Thanks!! Just love all you awesome people who make and share goodies with us!!!

[Tammy]

Absolutely amazing! thank you for sharing! :)

[melinda]

Holy, moly-- you are pretty much the coolest. THANKS!!!!!

[Janine]

Thank you these are amazing!

[Anabelle]

Thank you so much for sharing! I love these, they're great!

[Christopher]

You are a special, good, kind of person! ':D

[Kathy]

Thank you! I am using the film textures to age photos for some heritage layouts.

[RR]

Fantastic - and fantastic that they're restriction free! Good man!

[Keith Prater]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

[strony szczecin]

Thank you very much, my friend! Very useful.
Good luck!

[fED]

This is seriously awesome. My dad used to have a couple of Daguerreotype around the house and I´ve always wanted to recreate that effect. Now I can play with the idea of "color" Daguerreotype. Thanks a lot for the effort!

[love]

Simply wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing. :)

just let love be

[SJC1882]

Thank you, your hard work is much appreciated. Fantastic texture.

[Pakitu]

Useful, great, spectacular, beautiful!
Thanks man!

[ann]

Thanks so much for your generosity in sharing these great finds.

[Felice of Felice Original]

Hi I'm a digital scrapbook and tagger designer,and love your textures.
Love to use them!
I sell at http://exquisitescraps.com/store....so you can see my designs.
Thanks so much for this great texture resourse you provide.
I realy love them so much.
Big Hug from Holland,
Felice