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

[Anna]

These are great!! well done!!! Thank you soooo much ^^

[Marian]

Thank you, these are really great and might come in handy some day!

[amai.smugmug.com]

thanks

[cedarfever]

Just found your wonderful daguerreotype textures and have used them on three selective color photos . Thank you!

[cole]

wonderful textures!

[Monica]

Thank you sooo much, these are wonderful!

[gogozombie]

fucking amazing ) thanks

[andemande]

thanks, got to know your site through the German FotoCommunity. Will sure have plenty of use for your fabulous stuff

[hels]

wow! fabulous set - can see tons of potential for these - thank you! Hels

[Sharee]

Thank you soooooo MUCH! I feel like I just won the lottery. These are fantastic! JUST what I was looking for.

[EunYoung]

Thank you very much!!

[Jenna]

Wow, what an amazing site! You are truly talented. Thank you for sharing! Love love love them!

[Deborah K]

Thank you!

[Roberta]

!!!

[Pajunen]

Thanks for sharing!

[Angelina]

Great textures, thank you for this !!!!

[suns]

U r the best :)

[Roxane]

You are great and generous and amazing. Thank you x
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[Damien Nikora]

DOPE love these

[Pat]

Any way you could post the link to where you found these public domain images, pre-photoshop? I would appreciate it greatly.

[Lyv]

Breathtaking, as usual!

[letizia]

Many thanks! Fantastic!

[Melissa]

hasta ahora no he podido hacer nada, SALUDOS!

[Brent Hanvey]

Your donation button is completely hilarious and definitely makes me want to donate, sick site and textures. I'll be back on pay day ;] thanks.

[Noel]

Lovely. Thank you!