Lately I’ve been getting a lot of questions from our photographers about textures. Some customers send me e-mails with sample images from the web saying, “How on earth do I achieve this look?” Other customers call and explain they want the textured look – without the $300 texture set price tag.

I was overjoyed last week when a twitter post led me to www.Tofurious.com. These guys have got it going on! If you were at WPPI, you might have seen their super cool plexi-glass photobooth they’re selling the software for. I stopped in and had fun taking my own set of pictures! On their site, they have some amazing, simple and affordable resources that I think you all will love. I highly recommend their texture set (and trust me, I’ve looked at as many different company’s as I could find!) because of the vast array of textures along with the affordable price.

Plus, their website has an incredibly helpful step-by-step video tutorial on how to use textures to highlight the composition and artistic feel of your images.

For just $50 you get 50 high-res textures.

Above are two quick samples of my own textured work done with the fabulous textures from www.Tofurious.com. You’ll want to do more tweaking with your textures to emphasize the main focus of your images than I did here – I just wanted to give you a quick glimpse at just how much these textures can improve the artistic aesthetic of your images.

Also available from Tofurious.com – flush mount album design templates, a super slick easy to use blog template, and if you’re looking to boost your search engine rankings, some videos on SEO.

Thank you, Tofurious, for sending me these textures to play with so I could honestly say just how much I love them! You guys are doing some incredible things and I can’t wait to blog more about you! Keep it up!