Between a rock and a hard place
mouse-over for before view. Because of Covid restrictions, I’ve been going through my back catalogue and came up with this image from 10 years ago, taken at the base of the chalk cliffs on the edge of England’s Eastbourne on the south coast. Getting up at the crack of dawn – I went back to […]
Luminar ai sky
mouse-over for before view. We’d both like to wish all our fans a very Merry Christmas and Happy virol free New Year! Before the bleak mid-winter sets in, or high summer for our lucky Oz/Nz fans, we thought you’d like to hear about this fab new Luminar ai app which is a stand-alone app and/or […]
Canvas Texture Selection Launch
Click for a larger View Welcome to our Canvas Selection Texture pack! After receiving many requests over the years for an artist’s canvas themed pack we finally pulled this selection together from all our packs and then created almost half as many more new textures, filling gaps in the collection with natural burlap, rough dark […]
Golden Pears
mouse-over for before view. We hope you’re enjoying the new Impressionist Painterly pack as much as we are! I thought I’d share how I processed these pears with the new textures. I’m sure you’ll agree that the beginning image was very flat so I decided to add a couple of Impressionist textures and voila….it’s turned […]
Impressionist Painterly Launch
Click for a larger View Welcome to our lockdown created Impressionist Painterly Texture pack! We created these real-life oil painted textures over several months, shooting them in natural daylight or ‘en plein air’ to get the most out of this oil paint effect. The impressionists also worked during the evenings for ‘effets de soir’ producing […]
Black Mill
mouse-over for before view. During these strange locked down Coronavirus days its always good to have images to fall back on. Upon finding this image I’d taken 10 years ago, in Rottingdean near Brighton where this huge black Beacon Mill overlooks the English Channel. When it was built back in 1802, it defiantly faced France […]
Birthday Sale
We started Flypaper Textures ten years ago, way back in September 2009! Over those years we’ve published around 30 packs, many of which were inovative and even admired by rival sellers, but don’t worry, we’re not over creating new textures, we still have more up our sleeves! So we thought we’d do a one-off 30% […]
Edwardian Edges Launch
Need to add authentic age to Steampunk imagery or attain a fantasy Alice in Wonderland photographic look?Did you yearn for a natural large plate format photographic feel?Have you ever wanted natural un-contrived edges that are not the everyday humdrum TTV retro, but something a little bit special?Then this is the product for you!:-) Three years […]
Provencal Fountain
mouse-over for before view. Whilst picking up my first two swarms of honeybees in the Provencal town of Bollene I spied this typical French village fountain, I quickly took this picture and dismissed it as I thought I could never use it as it was too cluttered. Only after we released our Provencal pack did […]
Provençal Textures Launch
Welcome to our Provençal Texture pack! We’ve sourced this pack from ancient Provençal villages earlier this summer, using their natural clay tints which were mined from their world famous open clay pits that have also been used to manufacture artists pigments for hundreds of years. These soft toned pigments are sprinkled throughout this soft summery […]
Winter Sunset
mouse-over for before view. Jill and I would like to wish all our readers a Happy New year! Here’s my first outing of 2019 just yesterday evening during a very dark and damp winter when the sun finally came out just in time for it to to set, so I rushed out to grab a […]
Travels with My Aunt – hat and passports
mouse-over for before view. Here’s a possible book cover set-up I shot several months ago, It’s theme being loosely based on Graham Greene’s famous; ‘Travels With My Aunt’ novel, but I didn’t like the final ‘before’ result as it just didn’t ‘mesh up’ so I filed it under ‘problem images’ and forgot about it until […]
Celestial Painterly Pack Launch
Click for a larger view Welcome to this years full pack launch into outer space! This time it’s another addition to our most popular Painterly series, its theme is ‘Celestial’ which includes the names of stars and noble gasses as we thought we could discern swirling nebula gases and the textural landscapes of distant planets, […]
Table Brushes
mouse-over for before view. Back to work after a long hot, dry summer in France, where i’ve been busily turning our 300 year old barn into an artist’s studio come photo studio. Along with concreting the earth floor I’m also fitting roof windows, the first is up and working and is partly lighting this simple […]
Summer Sale and Pastel Preset Launch
Click for a larger image First the sale! Simply enter the code Summer18 when purchasing and you’ll receive a 20% discount off any products, including the new preset pack but hurry as this discount is only valid until August 5th ! Welcome to our latest pack of the ever popular presets for Nik Color Efex. […]
Bokeh Pack launch
Click for a bigger view and please note that although the mosaic shows all the textures as landscapes, Bokeh 35-64 are actually in portrait format. We’re bonkers for Bokeh! Welcome to another long awaited catch-up set of glittering Bokeh! We’ve been working on this set for months and whilst doing so also noticed Bokeh is […]
Summer in a jug
mouse-over for before view. It’s been a wonderful summer here in southern New Zealand, in fact a record breaking one temperature wise. My garden has certainly loved the extra warmth, I’ve had a bumper crop of tomatoes and more cucumbers than I know what to do with, and the pumpkin has gone berserk, as a […]
River Saone part two in portrait format
mouse-over for before view. Shot towards the end of the the same Saone river shoot blog we posted the other day, I thought I’d quickly follow it with this similar but also quite different image that was processed in a similar way. I used a poloriser filter on the camera to bring out the blue […]
Flooded River Saone
mouse-over for before view. Firstly, a big Happy New year to all our readers! Up here in eastern France we’ve had a very soggy winter, warmer than usual but also much wetter and because of all that rain we’ve not had much chance of getting fresh images, but on Sunday we had a rare golden […]
Flypaper Vignettes launch
Welcome to our brand new Flypaper Textures ‘Vignettes’ pack! Who would have thought that we had not already launched such a strong concept pack? This pack is a great all rounder, from heavy to light and ethereal and all shades in between perfect for adding extra drama to your photos. Once again we’ve managed to […]
Bluebells
mouse-over for before view. It’s been far too long since our last before/after photo and texture recipe blog post! Time has been short of late as we’ve been busy with many other projects. Hopefully we’ll be blogging a bit more frequently in the future though. It’s late spring here in southern New Zealand and the […]
Flypaper Waxworks Textures Launch
Click for a bigger view Welcome to our very first encaustic wax worked texture set! We noticed how popular waxing photographic prints had become some time ago and made a note to ourselves to do something along those lines, then this year the right time finally came about and we kitted ourselves up with loads […]
Midsummer Sale!
Hi everyone! Now is your chance to catch up with all the missing packs from your collection at rock bottom prices with our Midsummer 20% off all products SALE! Simply enter the code Summer17 on purchase to receive the discount. But hurry, the sale will finish on the July 30th! Head on over to our […]
Fly Muse 20 Launch
Click for a bigger view Our new first pack of the year the Fly Muse 20 pack of textures has been created to satisfy a demand for fans who have requested we bring out a smaller, cheaper pack who don’t want to spend as much $40 on a pack but still want our normal pro-sized […]
