Texturefly.com is on the rise.

masked acacia tree

It’s time to get ready to implement and in the very near future,  launch Texturefly.  Texturefly.com will be a premier online texture store that will specialize in masked images not only for those that are in architectural illustration and 3d rendering, but also those using  composite images in Photoshop as well as stock photos for web, advertising etc. Texturefly will start off with a section on masked trees and people, eventually  expanding to cars, plants and tileable textures. All images with be on a black or white background and masked using an alpha channel. All images will be sold individually at first then maybe when things get running we will have packages or bulk discounts. It will be set up so the end user can download the image directly after payment is approved though a download link.  If anyone has any requests or interests has any input to please feel free to comment on this blog.

http://www.texturefly.com

Todays Poll: Photorealistic entourage. Time for a new image?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wanted to talk today about photo-realistic entourage. For those of you not familiar with this term, masked images, or textures or 3d compositing.  Basically, It is using photorealistic images composited over a 3d rendering or 3d view in Photoshop.

One word. IMAGECELS.  I mean seriously, talk about cornering the market. For years I have been using imagecels or realworld Imagery for my compositions. I have to say, no offense to them but its time for some new blood. Ive sat here many times thinking, I could put something like this together. I even bought the URL, texturefly.com.  I know cutting out these images is a lot of work but I think its time to get some new images out so that we don’t have to keep using the same tree, or the yellow mini, or the guy in the tie that looks like a car salesman.

I guess I want some feedback on what you would think about a new site taking over the ungrowing market of Photorealistic entourage in the architectural illustration realm.  Please post comments on this topic. I would like to know if other people feel the way I feel about our options.