Here is one of around 60 pictures I took at work today, this one however has already been put though the photoshop texture factory and tiles 100%, didn't even take that long.
I'm also working with some other techniques utilizing my scanner 
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What do you guys think? Thats about as real as you can get.
Up the resolution or detail it manually, it's terribly blurry up close.
Yea, my camera isn't crappy but at the same time it ain't great. There is more work for sure. I just thought it was cool that it tiled so easily.
Edit: Almost forgot to note that most of the blurryness is due to a lower quality jpeg setting, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to post it. The source image is 1600 X 1200
Here is another picture I took at work yesterday in Alameda (Don't look down 
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Here is a few more, might as well post em 
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And thats the last time I voluntarily think about work at home (I'm getting worn out just looking at these pictures, trust me that wire is VERY heavy)
/looks down, throws up... 
Pic seems fine, not sure about the colour saturation tho' as HL always seems to render texs differently.
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Blimey, you can see that wire is heavy just by looking at the huge spool on which it's stored.
Hope that you get good use out of the camera. Amongst other things, it will be a great tool for making textures. You already have the knowledge of image manipulation, so you should be able to make better use of the camera for source images.
Makes me jealous 
Go forth and create gorgeous art!
i took a bunch of random shots today with my cheapy digi-camera.. how high a quality does one need to get/make a decent texture with?
no i have no interest in making any myself, but i think if all of us post some random images, some may make a few great textures..
i will upload the ones i have today and post a link to the folder so anyone can see them, but i am just curious to know.. what is the minimum image quality we are talking about?
[addsig]
a few odd pics i took.. digicrap
i think, we all whom have digi-cameras should upload some pics.. if 5 out or 100 are good enuff, then all we have wasted is a few minutes.. which we use anyways while here 
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| http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/orpheus/digipics/HQ25.JPG Is this your cat Orpheus? Did you run over it? |
I have NO IDEA how to use that as a texture!!! (among other pics) 
| ? posted by Bruce |
| http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/orpheus/digipics/HQ25.JPG Is this your cat Orpheus? Did you run over it? |
its a close-up of my mare.. i figured what the hell, someone might need fur for somethin
You need a very high resolution to get rid of speckles/compression when you resize.
[EDIT] Alameda?! s**t Grim... ever been to/heard of Orinda (In Contra Costa County)?
| ? posted by Cassius |
| You need a very high resolution to get rid of speckles/compression when you resize. |
my pics are unaltered, so... that means my pics are prolly substandard..
thanx cass, thats good to know
is there no program that can take a low res shot and make it look better?
still it was only a thought, i have a camera, i was willing to donate it for anyone who needed it
CRAP, I had a long post and explorer crashed on me 
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Orpheus I checked out your pictures and the easiest ones to alter into textures would be HQ20 and HQ21, parts of most of the other textures can be sampled and resampled to paint together textures.
The shots you took at an angle wouldn't work well with out a lot of editing, if you do decide you want to start taking more pictures shoot them as dead on and strait as posable, that way you maintain an angle that will look good in 2-D.
(cassius)
Yea, I know where that is, I used to live just south on I-5 / 99 near Modesto. My brother used to live in Contra Costa county, so I've been there a bunch of times. Now I live just South of San Jose.
(Gollumn)
Thanks for the encouragement, if you ever want to see what the ground looks like 40 feet in the air let me know 
