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Happy New Year, Fellow Creatives!

To kick off 2022, we have some brand new free textures on these pages on my site:

BARK - Artistic (Tile-able)

BRICK - Artistic (Tile-able)

As always, feel free to edit them, mash them, use parts of them, combine them with other images or anything you like.  :-)

You can access them from here:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy!
 
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Hi everyone,

I've redesigned my images homepage to make it easier to find what you need (and to make it more visual, too.) Give it a look!

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

That said, you'll find brand new texture images on these pages:

CONCRETE - Artistic (Tile-able)

FUR / CARPET - Artistic (Tile-able)

Enjoy!
 
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Greetings Creatives,

Brand new seamless texture images are ready on these pages on my site:

GROUND - Artistic (Tile-able)
METAL -  Artistic (Tile-able)

You can access them from here:
https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

CUSTOM MUSIC

If anyone happens to need some custom music created, give me a shout. My contact information is here:

https://soundimage.org/custom-work/

In the meantime, enjoy my free assets!  :-)
 
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Happy Saturday Folks,

This week's new free textures are on these pages:

STONE - Artistic (Tile-able)

VEGETATION - Artistic (Tile-able)

WOOD - Artistic (Tile-able)

As always, you can access them from my Free Images home page:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy!  :-)
 
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Hey everyone,

Finishing out January, I've created some brand new textures that you'll find on these pages on my site:

BARK - Artistic (Tile-able)

BRICK - Artistic (Tile-able)

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Please feel free to edit them, mash, mix, use parts of them, combine with other things...whatever is helpful in your projects.  :-)

See you in February!
 
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Happy Sunday!

If anyone happens to be using my music tracks, be sure to check out my higher-quality Ogg versions. They sound amazing, loop better in game engines and are a cool way to support my efforts.

That said, this week's new free texture images are on these pages on my site:

CONCRETE - Artistic (Tile-able)

FUR / CARPET - Artistic (Tile-able)

You can access them here:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy!  :-)
 
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Happy Friday Everyone,

Just wanted to share some new texture images...free to use, as always, with attribution. They are on these pages on my site:

GROUND - Artistic (Tile-able)

METAL - Artistic (Tile-able)

https://soundimage.org/

Have a good weekend and please stay healthy.  :-)
 
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Just want to say this site is fantastic, very impressive. I don't have an immediate need but will definitely keep this in mind for future projects!
 
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Hey everyone, this week's new free images are on these pages on my site:

TXR - Rock/Stone - Artistic (Tile-able)
TXR - Vegetation - Artistic (Tile-able)
TXR - Wood - Artistic (Tile-able)
https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

As always, they are 100% free to use with attribution, like my other 4000+ images and 2000+ music/sound effects tracks.  I hope some of them are helpful in your projects. :-)
 
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Hey there fellow creatives,

I've created more new free images for your projects. You'll find them on these pages on my site:

TXR - Bark - Artistic  (Tile-able)
TXR - Brick -  Artistic  (Tile-able)
TXR - Concrete -  Artistic  (Tile-able)

You can access them here:
https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy,  keep being creative and please stay safe.
 
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Hey Everyone,

Brand new texture images are ready for you on these pages:

TXR - GROUND - Artistic (Tile-able)
TXR - METAL - Artistic (Tile-able)
TXR - ROCK/STONE - Artistic (Tile-able)

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

OTHER NEWS

New-And-Improved Ogg Music Packs

For those of you who happen to be using my music tracks, my higher-quality Ogg music packs are now available as Zip folders so you can actually download all of my music tracks at once. This should be a huge time-saver.  Here's a link if you'd like to check them out:

https://soundimage.org/ogg-music-packs-2/

As always, enjoy, stay safe and keep being creative!  :-)
 
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Greetings Fellow Creatives,

My mad experiments creating seamless textures continue! This week we have some from my Wood and Vegetation pages. 100% free to use with attribution, like my thousands of other images.

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy!
 
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Hi Everyone,

I've had some people ask me why I don't provide maps (like normal maps, roughness, ambient occlusion, etc.) with my texture images. The answer is:  I think it's better to let people generate their own maps from my images so they can make them (and, hence, their final materials) look exactly the way they want them to.

I've recently discovered a free tool called "Materialize" that does exactly that, and it works really well. Here's a link:

https://boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize/

That said, this week's brand new images are on these pages on my site:

BARK - Artistic - Tile-able

BRICK - Artistic - Tile-able

CONCRETE - Artistic - Tile-able

You can access them from here:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy!  :-)
 
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Happy Friday!

If you happen to find my free assets helpful, please consider making a small donation on my website to help support my efforts. My site is 100% ad-free...I pay for everything myself and contributions from the creative community really help a lot.

That said, you'll find this week's new free textures on these pages:

FUR/CARPET - Artistic - Tile-able

GROUND TEXTURES - Artistic - Tile-able

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy, stay safe and keep being creative!  :-)
 
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Hey Everyone,

Brand new seamless texture images are ready on these pages on my site:

METAL - Artistic - Tile-able
ROCK / STONE- Artistic - Tile-able

Game developers and other content creators keep asking me if they can use my assets in projects intended to make money...the answer is YES! :-) As long as you use my assets within projects and properly attribute me, it's fine. Here's a link to my attribution page:

https://soundimage.org/attribution-info/

What you CANNOT do is resell my assets outright or, say, make an original soundtrack from my music and sell that. That would be illegal. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

In the meantime, stay safe and keep being creative!
 
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Happy Friday Everyone!

I have some brand new texture images to share...as always, they are 100% free to use with attribution.

Commercial usage is fine, too, so no worries.

You can download them from these pages:

VEGETATION - Artistic (Tile-able)

WOOD - Artistic (Tile-able)

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

For those of you using my music and sounds, please don't forget about my Ogg music tracks and packs.  :-)

Have a good weekend!
 
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Hey there Creative Souls, this week's new free texture images are on these pages on my site:

TXR – Bark – Artistic (Tile-able)
TXR – Brick – Artistic (Tile-able)
TXR – Concrete – Artistic (Tile-able)

As always, they're 100% free to use with attribution, just like my music and sound effects.

You can check them out here:
https://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Matyas/100017638394276/

And here:
https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy!
 
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Happy Saturday!

I don't "toot my whistle" very often, but I am very proud of this so I thought I'd share:

https://soundimage.org/praise-for-soundimage/

Btw, if anyone needs some custom assets created, just let me know...I love to help fellow creatives with their projects.

Have a great weekend!  :-)
 
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Hey Folks,

This week's free texture images are on these pages on my site:

TXR – Fur / Carpet – Artistic

TXR – Ground – Artistic

There are nearly 5000 more on my other pages...all free to use with attribution.

Feel free to edit, mash them, use parts of them, whatever you like.

Enjoy!  :-)

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/
 
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Greetings Fellow Creatives,

For those of you who use my music tracks, please don't forget about my Ogg music packs. Each pack contains all of my tracks to date from my most popular genres:

Fantasy Music - Over 261 Tracks
Sci-Fi Music - Over 260  Tracks
Funny / Quirky / Weird Music - Over 200 Tracks
Puzzle Music - Over 130 Tracks
Chiptunes Music - Over 100 Tracks
Action Music - Over 80 Tracks
Looping Music - Over 60 Tracks
Dark/Ominous Music - Over 50 Tracks
Horror/Surreal Music - Over 50 Tracks

The packs are contained in Zip folders so you can quickly download everything at once.

You can access them from my music pages, or from here:

https://soundimage.org/ogg-music-packs-2/

That said, this week's new free images are on these pages on my site:

TXR - METAL - ARTISTIC - Tile-able

TXR - STONE - ARTISTIC - Tile-able

You can access them, as well as around 5000 other free images, from here:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy, stay safe and keep creating!  :-)
 
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I'm working on a brand new area of my site that will contain free background images for games, visual novels, videos and anything else you can think of.

Any requests?

Feel free to pm or email me.  :-)
 
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Greetings Creatives!

I have some brand new textures to share...100% free to use in your projects with attribution, like my 4000+ other images. They live on these pages on my site:

VEGETATION - Artistic (Tile-able)
WOOD - Artistic (Tile-able)

You can access them from here:
https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy...and please stay safe.  :-)
 
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Hi Everyone,

New texture images are ready on these pages on my site:

BARK - Artistic (Tile-able)
CONCRETE - Artistic (Tile-able)

As always, you can access them from my images homepage:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy...and keep being creative!  :-)
 
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Greetings Everyone,

It's been a while since my last image post...I've been super busy creating custom music tracks for clients.

Anyhow, new free images are ready on this page:

ABSTRACT - Tile-able and Standard

You can access them, as well as my roughly 5000 other free images, from here:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy!  :-)
 
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Hey folks,

New free texture images are available on this page:

WOOD - (Tile-able)

They're 100% free to use in your projects with attribution, just like my thousands of other images.

You can access them here:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy and keep creating!  :-)

 
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Greetings Earthlings,

New seamless metal textures are ready on my TXR-Sci-Fi page. 100% free to use with attribution. Perhaps useful for grungy spacecraft, buildings or other technological objects. You can access them (as well as thousands of my free images) from my textures homepage:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy and keep creating!
 
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Happy Thursday Everyone,

I've created some cool new ground textures. They're on my TXR - Ground - Tile-able page.

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Does anyone need some custom textures created? Let me know!  :-)
 
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Hey Folks,

I've created some new wood textures. They're 100% free to use, like my thousands of other texture images.

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy and keep being creative!  :-)
 
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More mad tile-able texture creations!

You'll find them on my TXT - Brick - Artistic page.

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy!

 
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Sharing is caring!

I've created and uploaded some cool new bark textures. They live on my Bark - Artistic (Tile-able) page.  As always, you can access them here:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Also, for those of you who use my music tracks, MP3 Music Packs are now available on my site so you can quickly download all of my tracks at once for the following genres:

Fantasy
Sci-Fi
Puzzle Music
Chiptunes
Dark/Ominous
Horror/Surreal
Funny/Quirky/Weird
Action Music
and more.

https://soundimage.org/mp3-music-packs/

This should be a huge time-saver. I've had Ogg music packs available for a while, but for all of you who prefer the MP3 format, here they are.

Enjoy, keep creating and have a good weekend! :-)
 
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Hey Fellow Creators,

Brand new concrete textures are ready on my TXR - Concrete - Artistic page.  They're 100% free to use with attribution, like my thousands of other images and music tracks.

You can access them here:
https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

If you possibly can, please consider making a small donation on my site.  As I've said, my site is 100% ad-free and community-supported.  I pay for everything myself so your contributions really help a lot. Thanks in advance for your support.   :-)
 
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Greetings Everyone!

Brand new texture images are ready on my Wood - Artistic page.  They are 100% free to use with attribution, like my thousands of other images.

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

I hope some of my images are helpful!  :-)
 
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Happy Friday Everyone,

If you can, please consider making a small donation on my site.  My site is 100% ad-free and community-supported.  I pay for everything myself so contributions really help me a lot. Thanks in advance for your support.

https://soundimage.org/donate/

That said, I've created and uploaded some new texture images for your projects. They are on the following pages:

STONE - (Tile-able)

VEGETATION - (Standard and Tile-able)

As always, they are 100% free to use with attribution.

You can access my thousands of textures here:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy and have a good weekend!  :-)
 
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Greetings Everyone,

New seamless texture images are ready on this page on my site:

BRICK - ARTISTIC - (Tile-able)

As always, you can access them, as well as my thousands of other images, from here:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy and keep being creative!  :-)
 
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Happy Holidays Everyone!

Brand new seamless texture images are ready on my TXR - Ground - Artistic page. All of my seamless images are 2048 by 2048 pixels so be sure to download the full-resolution versions. To do so, simply left click on the thumbnail to open to full version, then right-click and choose "save image as."

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

OGG MUSIC PACKS

If you happen to be using my free MP3 music tracks, make sure to check out my higher-quality Ogg music packs. The packs enable you to download all of my tracks at once from various genres...a huge time-saver.

https://soundimage.org/ogg-music-packs-2/

Enjoy and keep being creative!  :-)
 
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Greetings Creatives!

Brand new seamless texture images are ready on these pages on my site:

Abstract - Artistic - Tile-able

Brick - Artistic - Tile-able

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

As always, they are 100% free to use with attribution, just like my thousands of other images and music tracks.

So enjoy...stay safe...and keep creating cool stuff!
 
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Hi Everyone,

I've created and uploaded some new textures on this page:

GROUND - Artistic - Tile-able

You can access them (as well as my other pages full of textures) from here:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

Enjoy!
 
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Greetings Everyone!

Soundimage.org turned 10-years-old this past month...it's hard to believe.  I want to send out a big THANK YOU to everyone who has reached out and been so encouraging, supportive and appreciative. I sincerely hope that some of my assets have been (and continue to be) helpful in your awesome creations!

Speaking of which...

Brand new seamless texture images are ready on my Wood - (Tile-able) page.  As always, they are 100% free to use with attribution,  just like my thousands of other images.

Access to my images, as always, is here:

https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

OTHER NEWS

For those of you who have been using my free MP3 music tracks and want even richer sounding tracks, Ogg versions of most of my tracks are available as individual downloads that you can easily search for. Here's info about that:

https://soundimage.org/ogg-music-tracks-individual-best-for-looping/

And complete music packs containing all of my tracks from various genres are here:

https://soundimage.org/ogg-music-packs-2/

Enjoy, stay safe and keep being creative!  :-)
 
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