Feeling lazy for today, these are some textures I made a while ago.

I made these textures in mid 2024 as an experiment in capturing textures from reality. I don't like these much now, but they are important in my journey of learning about texturing in 2024. These were taken on my DSLR and then edited with darktable to get these images ready for being turned into tiling textures. I used Krita to make them into tiling textures. Then I use Blender shader nodes to do some image processing on them and create a PBR texture set from the image. You could do this with a standalone program called Materializer if you want as well, although it hasn't been updated in a long while. The top green metal texture was captured from the dumpster behind one of my favorite tex-mex restaurants, and the two below were taken from a heavy-duty underwater pump that had gone bad and needed to be fished up.

i slightly reworked this one right before posting, blending in some procedural elements to increase detail

You can click on the tag below here to see all the October 2025 textures posts