Why PixPlant?

A good photo of a surface can invoke feelings and in a certain sense "tell its story". Think about a photo of an old wall with cracked paint, of the rust on a corroded metal door, of an old wood bench marked with decades of wind.
However the very thing that can make realistic photos so dramatic - their detail and "realism", is often an obstacle when you need to apply them to particular situations, say when you need a tileable version 1024x1024 or a horizontal background image of 4000x2000. The problem with realistic photos is that one is in a sense trapped by its characteristics: size and proportions, whether it can be tiled or not...
The motivation behind PixPlant was to create a way to transform realistic images into useful textures, preserving the beauty and drama of the source photo.

PixPlant was created by FaronStudio, a Portuguese company located in Lisbon. Thank you for using our software - we hope you're having a great time!

Credits

The PixPlant website uses public domain or Creative Commons photos from the following sources:

• Some photos used in the tutorials and examples are based on Creative Commons images from Flickr: mosaic image by Thinboyfatter, bricks photos by Éamonn, Takomabibelot and Stephentrepreneur
• Some textures generated from strawberries seed photos by *clairity* used under a Creative Commons license: here and here
• Some great photos by Ben Cloward
• Photos from www.drweb.de
• Other photos from www.publicdomainpictures.net

The website is based on an initial design by Andreas Viklund. Most images are displayed using Awesome Box from Paul Armstrong.

Privacy Statement

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