Goodbye Summer: A Textural Tribute

So it's official: Summer 2010 is over. The leaves on the trees will soon start to brown and fall to the ground as we usher in the cold months. But before that happens I wanted to make a sort of texture tribute to Summer and all the fond memories it's provided. In the following ten textures I tried to encompass what I feel summer is all about: easy living, vacations, and just general chill times. To me, these are more than textures... they tell the stories I've formed this summer.

The colors for these textures were inspired by the music video for J.Viewz - Salty Air (which I think is a pretty good declaration to summer itself):

Click on the textures below to download the high-res version or download them all in a zip file at the bottom of the post. Enjoy!

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Comments

[Kyle Reed]

These are gorgeous
thanks for sharing

[raythedestroyer]

Awesome textures as always dude. keep up the great work and thanks

[David]

I'm not a legit graphics dude, but I tend to have to come up with stuff at the last minute and make something work. Your textures have been of infinite value bro. Thanks so much

[John]

These are awesome! Thanks a bunch!

[Peg]

Fabulous! Always look forward to your posts. Thanks!!

[narnianbadger]

ohboyohboyohboyohboy! *gobbles them all up*

[giorgos]

first of all,for another time thank you and i think you are doing a great work
yesterday i download about 10 packages but winrar and winace says that the file is damaged in 8 of ten.i searched the page to see if anybody else had this problem but i didnt found something.any ideas?

[Brant Wilson]

giorgos - If all else fails I always suggest downloading 7zip and using it to unarchive the files.

[belle]

Fabulous! Thanks very much.

[LivE]

AWESOME!!! thank you so much!

[Dee]

I too have been having problems on my older Mac (OS X 10.4) with unarchiving files. Upon enquiry the person says the files work just fine on their end. But I get a damage archive message. At least here I can download them individually. I'm not sure what the problem is. I have Stuffit Expander, and the built in Mac unarchiver. I wish I knew what the problem is, because not every site is set up like this one and I spend a bit of time downloading textures only to not be able to use them doe to the "damaged" archive.

[juno]

Wonderful. Thanks!

[Manual Clipping Path]

Great compilation. Thanks for inspiring. Keep it going

[Dan]

Beautiful - thanks :)

[Stuart]

you've captured teh feeling of summer well :-) cool textures - thanks for sharing and great work!

[josh]

these are beautiful!! total summer vibe. now, would love to see a "hello to autumn" tribute :)

[Kristin]

Wow, these perfectly hit the nail on the head. Thank you!

[Jonathan]

Thank you so much

[itsrainingcake]

Oh how I love free :)

[Kelly]

You are the god of textures. Thanks so much for all the work you do. You really make this Graphic Designer's life so much easier to bare, haha :)

[Kim]

Caleb!! These are my FAVORITE of yours - ever!!! Beautiful, beautiful, BEAUTIFUL. :D Thank you, thank you!

[CJ]

Awesome.

[Mad Trucker]

You have outdone yourself, sir!

[Viviana]

Absolutely beautiful. Thank you. :)

[Avis]

Fabulous!!,, thx for sharing =]