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11/07/2013 10:56:28 AM · #1 |
and thought some of you might be interested....
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11/07/2013 11:16:09 AM · #2 |
That's the WORST kind of thread title, Janine :-( It gives no clue as to what the thread's about, so it becomes a hit-or-miss proposition as to whether interested parties will open it. THEN you don't even describe what's behind the link... Why would we hit that link? We've been taught for YEARS not to hit random links... Now I know you, personally, so I felt safe checking it out.
It turns out to be a site called GraphicStock, promoting itself by offering 30 days of unlimited downloads. As it happens, I signed up here a little over a month ago so I could download some texture libraries for free. In order to sign up I had to provide CC information and agree to be billed monthly after 3-0 days if I didn't cancel. It's a professional designer's resource, and a pretty good one at that. But (not atypically for me) I forgot I'd done it until I noticed the first payment. I contacted them and said whoa, I don't want this, and they were kind enough to unwind it for me, but...
That said, I got some nice textures from them... |
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11/07/2013 01:37:17 PM · #3 |
nice to have a bear around when you need him...
and now that obscurity, or unleadingness has been noted, let me almost irrelevantly ask why people need premanufactured textures. I know I am a dinosaur, but cannot people make their own textures, their own original, even tailor made textures? or is it too much like making porridge on a woodstove? |
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11/07/2013 02:02:03 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by tnun:
nice to have a bear around when you need him...
and now that obscurity, or unleadingness has been noted, let me almost irrelevantly ask why people need premanufactured textures. I know I am a dinosaur, but cannot people make their own textures, their own original, even tailor made textures? or is it too much like making porridge on a woodstove? |
The site's designed for graphic designers, and when you're doing graphic design at a production level, you're not gonna be able to charge people for shooting and processing your own textures when you can get them for pennies from the web. |
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11/07/2013 02:09:36 PM · #5 |
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11/07/2013 10:39:53 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
That's the WORST kind of thread title, Janine :-( It gives no clue as to what the thread's about, so it becomes a hit-or-miss proposition as to whether interested parties will open it. THEN you don't even describe what's behind the link... Why would we hit that link? We've been taught for YEARS not to hit random links... Now I know you, personally, so I felt safe checking it out.
It turns out to be a site called GraphicStock, promoting itself by offering 30 days of unlimited downloads. As it happens, I signed up here a little over a month ago so I could download some texture libraries for free. In order to sign up I had to provide CC information and agree to be billed monthly after 3-0 days if I didn't cancel. It's a professional designer's resource, and a pretty good one at that. But (not atypically for me) I forgot I'd done it until I noticed the first payment. I contacted them and said whoa, I don't want this, and they were kind enough to unwind it for me, but...
That said, I got some nice textures from them... |
totally meant to make you look...worked didn't it... ;P
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11/07/2013 11:35:57 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Ja-9:
totally meant to make you look...worked didn't it... ;P |
Here's a really great opportunity to get a huge texture library, a professional one, for free, and only two of us have responded to the thread. I'd say it DIDN'T work. I don't even COUNT, I look at everything. |
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