http://www.dreamstime.com/
http://eu.fotolia.com/
http://www.BigStockPhoto.com/
http://www.stockxpert.com/
http://www.shutterstock.com/
You can actually make a decent supplemental income, just in your spare time, and several talented artists have been known to quit their day jobs, and do stock photography/images for a living. So check it out and who knows, you might find out that this is where you can make some extra money with a minimal effort.
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23 100×100 colorful grunge textures in .png format
File Size: 563 KB
3 middle-sized textures, in the colorful grunge category.
File Size: 962 KB
48 small (100×100 pixel) textures useable for icons.
File Size: 661 KB
This set contains 4 large (1024×768 pixel) light textures.
File Size: 1.3 MB
20 small-sized (100×100 pixel) textures, made from various paper scans.
File Size: 511 KB
4 medium sized textures, 600×300 and 800×500.
File Size: 1.8 MB
2 medium-sized random cloud-themed textures.
File Size: 1.1 MB
10 dyed papers colored with watercolor and salt.
File Size: 16 MB
4 colorful textures, medium-sized.
File Size: 810 KB
6 grayscale grunge textures for a used look.
File Size: 671 KB
23 icon sized smoke textures.
File Size: 136 KB
Painted textures - be sure to read the license agreement before use.
File Size: 8.7 MB
Lovely light bokeh textures
File Size: 277 KB
]]>Sakke is an extremely talented designer residing in Helsinki, Finland. He attributes his style to old retro movies like Tron and various images he recalls from growing up in the 80’s. His illustrations consist of vibrant colors and bizarre images that are unique and very well executed. In this interview, Sakke explains how he thinks a freelance designer should build up a client base, and a lot more. So check this one out.
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deviantART is a great place to use when looking for textures and inspiration, so I decided to put together a list in 2 parts of the 25 most popular texture collections on deviantART.
There’s patterns, tilable, large and small textures. Plenty of stuff to use in your digital art.
This collection has 5 large (around 1500×2300 pixel) grungy vintage textures to give your work that subtle aging that harsher textures just can’t match.
File Size: 16.1 MB
Contains 5 medium sized (800×500 pixel) colorful and greyscale grunge textures.
File Size: 672 KB
20 small (100×100 pixel) textures. Partly made from scratch, partly altered paper scans. Could be useful for icons, patterns etc.
File Size: 387 KB
6 colorful medium sized textures (800×600 pixels) in .png format.
File Size: 3.5 MB
A whopping 50 small-sized (100×100) .png textures in a grungy style.
File Size: 1.1 MB
This collection contains: 16 small-sized (100×100) textures, 4 medium (800×600) textures, .abr brush file for Photoshop.
File Size: 4.1 MB
This set contains 7 medium to large gray-scale (1 in color) grungy textures.
File Size: 1.7 MB
40 small-sized (100×100 pixels) textures with a light theme - fireworks, bokeh, reflections etc.
File Size: 399 KB
5 very nice large (1500×2000 pixels) colorful grunge textures.
File Size: 20.3 MB
4 large delicious busted-up textures + black and whites and 1 flowerish scan all in .png format.
9,6 Mb Download

9 large (1024×768 pixel) light textures, made from scratch.
File Size: 918 KB
40 small-sized (100×100 pixel) textures and 2 medium-sized (800×600 pixel) textures.
File Size: 2.8 MB
Stay tuned for part 2 with the rest of the 25 most popular deviantART texture collections.
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