It’s been a while since I’ve posted a Friday Freebee, so let me correct that right now…
If you like your photos to have gungy feel you’ll love this grunge photo frame. This is a high resolution file of 4000px by 3100px in size, which makes it perfect for both web and print use. The canvas texture has lots of mottling and even a small rip, all of which was there in the original photo.
In the photo above I dropped on a mono image and changed then layer blending mode to Hard Light. This template works best either with black and white images but can also work with colour images, especially if you desaturate the template back to black and white.
I’d also suggest using images which have lots of sky, large areas of simple colour/tone or lots nice blurred parts in the photo. Basically a photo with lots of fine detail tends not to blend so well with a textured template like this.
You can download the 5mb high res file from here
If you do use the template and create an image that you share on Facebook, Flickr, 500px, Google+ etc. then remember to leave the link in the comments below. Enjoy!
Usage rules
The image is copyright Gavin Hoey 2012. Use is limited to any personal, non-commercial purposes. Please share the Friday Freebie by linking back to this page. Do not redistribute the original image without my permission.
Download instructions
Click the link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Mmmm3K1utNbzlxdjVrODlrd0E/view?usp=sharing
1. Click the Download button 
2. The download should start automatically
good job
Thanks Gav, I’ll be using this for sure. I think it’ll go nice with the Borde Hill gate triptych.
Thanks Gavin – big fan. Here’s my attempt –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnb_pics/7380971712/in/photostream
Will give it ago thanks Gavin
Now that I’ve downloaded this texture file and it is on my computer now. How do I use it in CS6 or how do I bring it over to Photoshop under the filter menu?
Hello!
Thank you, Gavin! Nice share!
Here’s my attempt 🙂
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87973712@N07/8634333990/in/photostream
Hello Gavin, I came across your site today and I love it. Thank you for sharing and all the tips as well. Hope to visit again to go through some more of your stuff. I did try one photo using your grunge photo frame. Please visit here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/takeapeekphotography/8651503442/in/photostream
Please feel free to comment. I am using CS2 so limited to some things.
http://sitiodasideias.blogspot.pt/2013/05/sempre-mesma-boavista.html
Thank you again!!!
with many thanks 🙂
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bOJGog_dZXEn1WWPFy5JU9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
I just discovered your site (though I’ve watched you on TipSquirrel before). I really like this grunge frame. Unfortunately, when I click on the link a get an error message that the page is not found.
Any chance the link can be restored?
Thanks for making these available. And thanks also for the tutorials on TipSquirrel. Must check out the rest of your site now.
Hey Gavin im big fan & love your work, i too have tried to download this and an error saying page not found comes up, is there some way to resolve this, i really like this texture, many thanks.
Should be OK now.. try agian 🙂
Thanks for sharing Gavin, from Canada.