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.

   

Comments

[dinny]

These are SO sweet!
thanks!

[Angie Bowen]

Wow, really great set! Thank!

[Devlin]

These are fantastic! Thank you so much. Where did you find the digital portraits? www.archive.org?

[Kim]

That's awesome! Thanks so much!

[serapart]

you are the best!!! i simply fell in love with this textures, love love love it!!!!

[Graham Smith]

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

[angelandspot]

Those are great! I'm bookmarking this so when I have some more time I can come download some of these really great textures.

[Caleb]

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

[Devlin]

Caleb,

Thanks for the url! What great resources. Now my night is shot, I'll be spending all night looking at these great resources.

[Anonymous]

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!

[GranoloBar]

WOW, Fascinating.

[Jana]

Thanks for sharing all of these. I just came across your textures and I can't wait to use them on my photos.

[ellie]

love them!thank you!!

[Elizabeth]

Great textures, thanks so much!!1

[Anonymous]

Beautiful, thank you!

Joana

[Anonymous]

Thanks, good work!

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[Frank]

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

[Marsharii]

Amazing work, love it!

[Maria]

Wow! I love these! Please keep them coming! :)~

[Jacqueline]

Thank you - I reallu like these old textures...!!

[k-jo]

ooh. These are great textures. Thanks mate

[LivE]

You are AWESOME! thank you so much for sharing these!

[nico]

grunge it !!!!

[funklazy]

love em!!! thank you thank you thank you