The Power of Gray - The Photoshop: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - page 90

Tip
Textures are everywhere. I collect them all the time by taking photographs of
walls, floors, old flaking paint, rust, and so on. All around there are limitless tex-
tures to photograph, and you can even use your mobile phone so that you're con-
stantly adding to your collection for future use.
Tip
Adobe Exchange ( www.adobeexchange.com ) is a wonderful resource for textures.
Search for “flypaper” and you'll find many free and paid textures ( Figure 2.13 )
that you can use in your own images.
Figure 2.13
In Figure 2.14 , the flowers have been photographed using available light, with gray paper
attached to a piece of cardboard for the background.