What would the chance be of introducing a photographic textures gallery? I've noticed in the past many people (including myself sometimes) submitting close up shots such as pebbles, sand, wood etc that are all good but sort of drift inbetween categories. natural textures make great desktop images and could include all sorts of subject matters - animal, mineral or vegetable.

Well, it would relieve the crowd in the photography gallery and I do think it is a good idea.

You need to check that there are enough photos in the category to justify a gallery Phil. You might like to start compiling a list?

whats the benchmark number?

I think a gallery should have at least like two or three pages so probably like 24-36+ images would make a gallery I think.

well heres the first batch of candidates:

WinterNight-1056737357.jpg
misha-1061145806.jpg
ezulwinikid-1120991227.jpg
grizzlyjunk-1054291875.jpg
kjh000-1074685498.jpg
Neamh-1102276575.jpg
thebitchyboss-1126488935.jpg
ppigeon-1037722810.jpg
Morat-1057650292.jpg
regmar-1107130802.jpg
mayne-1078385172.jpg
philcUK-1127313111.jpg
Si-1112642496.jpg
philcUK-1124896843.jpg
Morat-1051528918.jpg
monkeypuzzle-1079751296.jpg
utshoo-1125283244.jpg
kjh000-1071454382.jpg

anyone else feel free to chip in....

18! I'll help out too.

I got one so far, I'll add them to this same comment as I find more :

-donnydoofus1-1034619333.jpg

These can be added to the list

utshoo-1123376924.jpg
DMINATOR-1115968002.jpg
jacked-1116275213.jpg
proxima_centauri-1112108190.jpg
proxima_centauri-1108617170.jpg
jacked-1105796112.jpg
Piner-1090180633.jpg
Si-1086718505.jpg
mayne-1084859308.jpg
monkeypuzzle-1080698002.jpg
monkeypuzzle-1079851974.jpg
Psycaedelic-1076608039.jpg

That totals 31 images... enough to start a sub-gallery.

Well, Phil should throw a party! Who should we invite!

51 images is a good start for the Texture Gallery

All excellent desktops. Good idea Phil!

I have a photo with manipulated color that would otherwise be a good fit for this gallery. Can I have a mod's impression on whether this should be in the texture gallery or remain with the other photo manipulations?

Deep Blue

"Deep Blue", I feel it should stay in the *water* gallery.

Tom, do you think I should move it out of the manipulation gallery then? When I first uploaded it, it was one of a pair, the other one being a red and yellow firey looking version of the same photo. That one looked really nothing like water so I just put them both in the manipulation gallery. I don't know if the question of what to put in the manipulation gallery was ever fully reasolved but this photo has had its color heavily altered. You think it would be ok to put it in the water gallery and just leave the note about manipulation in the description?

P.S. Sorry for going off-topic of this discussion here.

Try to think of where you would look for a photo like that if you were a new member.

Well that's a good rule of thumb, except it seems like no one would ever be looking specifically for a photo manipulation. I guess that means that only the stuff that is borderline between photography and computer-generated art belongs in that gallery. If I wanted to find a picture just like "Deep Blue" I think I'd probably look in the texture gallery first and then maybe water, which is why I asked about putting it in the texture gallery to begin with. If I had it in my head that I wanted to find something like "Ghost Train" (another image of mine) I'd probably go look in the manipulation gallery because there's really no other gallery for something like that to go in.

Tom felt that "Deep Blue" belongs in the water gallery but to me its main feature is it's texture and it just happens to be water. I think the other stuff in the water gallery is more like a landscape and this probably fits better with the abstract feel of the texture gallery. Does anyone else have a similar or different opinion?

I think "Water" would be my choice. But you can decide whichever you prefer.

ill deffineatly take a few and add them in here

i actually think anywork that focuses on texture would be appropriate, and believe me it's just as easy to do so in computer work. in fact you can create texture from nothing without a 3-d rendering program... i just think it should be included.

That's true Bob, but the texture gallery is a sub-gallery of photography. That would require the addition of a texture gallery in the computer section to accomodate unless the texture gallery stood on its own outside the photography gallery.

I actually envisaged it as a natural textures gallery - focusing on the wonderful patterns that surround us even in everyday objects (OMG - I sounded like a complete tree hugger then) I think there would certainly be a place for CG textures in their own right in the computer gallery - you would, however, have to again find sufficient examples of them already here to justify its creation.

I'm late, but excellent improvement with this new gallery. Congrats guys :-)

I have wanted to see us have a texture gallery for quite a while,I just never thought we had enough of that type of images until recently. So when Phil suggested it, I was all for it.

This could be a useful resource for 3D artists to use as the basis of CGI textures too. Nice idea.

Matthew, That shouldn't be a problem, as long as they ask the author for permission to use the image is such a way... Most of us don't mind as long as we are asked and that we get to see the image it was used in.

Here http://www.mayang.com/textures/ is a free site that makes just textures. (nature)