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Heart design elements to bring your intimate and family photos to life, to make your scrapbook layouts unique and special. Using your creativity, color printer and these images - you can make a last minute gift to someone special. Illustrations of interesting heart backgrounds and frames, symbols of hearts, hearts from flowers, and "I love you" concepts. You can use them not only for Valentine Day, but in your daily life.

Nice seamless brick backgrounds suitable for web pages and creative textures for all purposes. medieval and modern dark red, gray, and white brick wall fragments -- a lot of choices to make your presentation fit the era you are working on.

Jumping people showing their happines and joy. Boys, girls, men, and women eanthusiastically jump on the beach, on a green field, and against the sky. Business people jump expressing success and great results, and some jumping just to be jumping.

Isolated frames, grunge borders and abstract framed backrounds with different themes including victorian, aged paper, floral and foliage, colorful flower and autumn leaves themed photo frames. Interesting highly detailed examples of animal paws, heart shaped, Mardi Gras bead, aromatic coffee beans, halloween borders, Valentine's Day love patterns over one color or splatter backgrounds. Unique country and cowboy themed picture frames, ancient Greek designs.

Images of Seven Natural Wonders of the World including Grand Canyon (Arizona, United States), Great Barrier Reef (Australia), Harbor of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aurora Borealis, Paricutin volcano (Mexico), Mount Everest, and Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe).

Images of Seven Medieval Wonders of the World including Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa (Alexandria,Egypt), Colosseum (Rome, Italy), Great Wall of China (Nothern China), Hagia Sofia (Istanbul, Turkey), Stonehenge (Wiltshire, England), and Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italy)

Images of Seven Modern Wonders of the World including CN Tower (Toronto, Canada), Empire State Building (New York City, New York), The Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, California), Panama Canal (Panama).

Using World maps as abstract backgrounds, imitations of antique maps on grunge paper and fabric, vector illustrations of maps of the world, different variations of maps illustrating world concepts.

Various images taken in the desert. Sand dunes, cactus flowers, grasslands, and desert blooms all combine to produce some unique shots of areas that appear to contain nothing, but contain life in many different schemes.

The beauty and spirit of mountains in spring, summer, winter, and fall, mountain top views, mountain landscapes with clouds and sunset highlights on steep ridges, high desert shots and amazing rocky views. All images of rough and untamed wilderness, it's still out there.

Spectacular Summer, Winter, Spring, and fall shots of various woodland landscapes. The forests with their golden foliage, Beech and Aspens in Autumn Colors, snow covered fir and pine trees with all of the vivid colors that nature is capable of. These images create a sense of wonder of the woods around us.

Pictures of overweight people, women demonstrating weight loss and measuring herselves on the scale. These images demonstrate humanity's obsession with weight gain and loss, and ways to manage weight: eat fruit instead of hamburgers and exercise, are some examples of how these images could be used in health-related themes. Apples, bananas and other fruit, measuring tape and scales are some of the main objects in these "diet" pictures.

Various images of hands holding plants and globes illustrate environmental protection concepts. Protect nature and save the environment - The World in our hands! Caring for Earth means caring for the future.

Backgrounds and assorted antique frame elements suitable for scrapbook design, or text framing. Photo corners and decorative elements are in this collection, to create your own high quality scrapbook layouts. Many of them have victorian elements and ornamental accents, composed of metal, wood, and leather.

A collection of popular grunge backgrounds with different color balance, brightness, and contrast. By using these, you can produce "dirty", "rust", and "scratches" effects. The Grunge Style of web design, and your creativity will bring the overall site to life, will make it look "less digital" and more "irregular". Give it a try.

Panorama!!! A wide angle vision of the world around us. By assembling, and image stitching digital photographs, we produce an image that is as real as nature or man intended it to be. These images in this collection are large, but worth the effort to work with, as they represent real art, and work well with wide formatting.

Swirly floral elements are very popular in graphic design these days. They help to "break up" squarish themes and enrich the appearance of any design. These scrollwork designs are reminiscent of ancient hand copied texts that are considered high art. Scrapbooks use them frequently to 'paint' a frame. Swirly floral ornaments can be used as is, as a template, or to design elements and papers.

Various images of buttons and icons created by designers and artists that may been used inside web pages, reports, presentations, or other documents. Square, spherical, and curved, glassy and plastic button graphics centered on various themes, with text embedded in them, or blank buttons to place in your own set. These are very usable for Web interface and navigation buttons and application icons "to go".

Metallic effects are, without a shadow of a doubt, extremely popular amongst web designers and game artists. The reasons behind this are simple - there are many places that these textures can be placed, and they can be used for many different themes. You can use metal textures as a background to depict toughness or something rusty with age, it's up to you. Brushed, discolored and oxidized, scratched rusty metal, different aged metallic textures, patina colors for stylish website design layouts - all of them are photography based, which is why they are so unique and eye catching. Just focus on enhancing the design and making it cool!

What kid, or adult for that matter hasn't wanted to throw something at a canvas, wall, or piece of paper, just to see what they would get. Our Author's, all being kids at heart have taken it a step further, and captured these images digitally, and what great results!! Splattered paint, shooting ink - different paint splats of different colors on black and white backgrounds - these type of backgrounds in the hands of experienced designers can result in outstanding productions. Different colors, backgrounds, textures, and materials were used to create these excellant images that will make great backgrounds, and attention getters, have fun!!!

While home owner's and builders are looking for effective water proofing solutions for house walls, designers are finding rich and exotic textures observing old surfaces. Cracked concrete walls, peeling paint, old urban street poster walls, multi-layered stucco and other wall grunge textures, are extremely valuable sources for designers. Multi-colored grunge wall textures open the door to limitless possibilities for artists. They are creating an "Aged" and "Modern" look and feel for their products using textures such as these.

This collection of royalty free pictures focuses on stone and rock textures. These types of textures are essential for architectural visualizations, artists, game artists, and web designers. Stone surfaces, stone and rock walls, cliffs, close ups of different rock formations, fragments of weathered stones, portions of old brick facades, stones with topographic textures, and sophisticated erosion effects -- the textures below. The ageless stone patterns have different color variations and levels of detail to produce complex scenes and effects for your renderings.

Without texture the 3D environment is nothing more than a series of flat surfaces, with maybe a single color on a given surface. To make an object appear to look like wood, the Artist needs to capture a wood texture and put it on the object. Photographs can be used as the basis of the composition. Occasionally, they may need to be modified to appear seamless by the artist. 3d artists know that the texture they use can make the difference between a good or a great final image. FeaturePics has a huge portfolio of "wood grain" photographs to choose from. These are some examples of patterns and colors you can use to create texture variations for complete texture sets.

Since the ancient Greeks named the Seven Wonders of World more than 2 millennia ago, with the exception of the Pyramids, they are all gone. People across the globe have enjoyed debating which are currently the most remarkable of Earth's many spectacular sites. Bernard Weber set out to name the "New 7 Wonders of the World" in 1999. Almost 200 sites around the world were selected, and the list was then narrowed to 21. One of these, the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the sole original Wonder of the Ancient World to survive, was named an honorary wonder. Seven more of the remaining 20 were chosen by worldwide vote, via internet and phone polling, and announced on July 7, 2007 These images, presented in high resolution, represent those choices and some additional views of other spectacular sites.

Bring summer's bright cheer and positive energy with these creative fruit theme backgrounds and patterns. Juicy orange Slices will provide a fresh, organic feeling for your design, strawberries always will add a decorative touch to any centerpiece, zesty lemon slices will add a little more sophistication to your theme. All-natural ingredients inserted into your promotion, will lighten up your designs for years.

Yes, ornate forms such as grandmother's satin pillows and some very old wallpaper patterns are very popular today. Deep red colors along with ornate patterns provide a luxury look and feel for menus and body backgrounds. Today we regret that we didn't take a picture of a very old fabric we threw away a year ago, or at least keep a sample of it. Some of us did! Find patterns and design elements to immitate seamless ornate wallpaper and fabric.

For a long time, background patterns and textures were a no-no. Recently they have made a classy comeback. If you scan some of the latest ads and websites out there, you will notice these textures used in place of plain color. By using this method, the eye is caught, and the site looks much better. The images in this collection will help you to replace your flat color with an enhanced color.

Animal Fur, hides, and reptile skin - these pictures depict the look, texture and the patterns of animal skins. It is an excellent collection - we prefer to observe the images, not women's clothes and accessories made from animal skin. Cool vs. Cruel - produce animal friendly designs by using your own creativity to replace real fur whenever you can. Find tiger, leopard, cheetah, giraffe, and other wild animals skin patterns with background textures.

Need to design an eco web site to make Mother Nature feel right at home? Green leaves on a white and black backgrounds, macro close ups of fresh and dry leaves , green natural patterns will help you to illustrate eco ideas, or concepts. Complimentary reds, oranges, and browns will help boost the green theme to dominate in your designs.

Water, that most essential component of life. Waterdrops, watersplash, and all forms of fresh water are always considered by designers. This collection includes pictures of splashing fresh water, water drops on different backgrounds, bubble and ripple illustrations, raindrops on a window surface, different abstract forms of water in motion. Water textures are always a good subject for backgrounds.

Floral design with swirls, leaves, flowers and curls. A large selection of pictures for decorative textured backgrounds, background borders, corner design elements and computer generated floral patterns with copy space for text. Decorative composition with foliage contains grungy effects, presented in different hues, designed with decorative textured backgrounds. Many images of stems, swirls and flowers silhouettes.

These images are of the silent war. This is a war against an enemy that can come from anywhere. These scenes are of fires and the people who combat them all over the world. While dangerous, the oranges and reds in some of these images are facinating, and hypnotic. It takes many types of courage to fight this menace, and to appreciate the people who do it everyday. Check out our images related to firefighters responding to fires and emergencies.

It's rocket fuel, the morning heart starter, the late night work finisher, and just a great beverage all around. It goes with any snack or meal, and completes most. These images show many people of all ages, imbibing in this so necessary potion of wakefulness. So, with cream and/or sugar, or black, it's what you need when you need it. Pictures of coffee time, coffee breaks, and just drinking it to be drinking it.

It doesn't matter what style you study, but how you study it. These pictures depict all age ranges and both sexes hard at it. The training is both mental and physical, and will last throughout your life. So, Karate, Kung-Fu, Tae-Kwon-Do, or whatever suits your vision of the right style, can be found in this collection. Train Hard!!!

The following images all have a blank area surrounded by a theme, that can be used for insertion of your text, images, or signs, and may be used for advertisements or flyers. Many are funny, and have a light scene that is suitable for all needs. There are many choices for placing your text over blank cards and empty signs

Pictures of confident and successful businessmen working on laptops, taking notes, and talking on their mobile phone in conference rooms and offices and images of businessmen facing problems.

This selection of images shows loving families and joy of parenthood. Two and three generations of families, outdoor and at home, daddies and daughters, mothers and sons -- all of them are about happy family times, and loving each other. These images would be excellent for advertising products that appeal to all members of a family.

Marvelous collection includes quiet mountain scenes, mirror smooth lakes, streams and waterfalls rushing through the forest. These unique photographs are taken in national parks and in places where nature doesn't see people often. A Lake's pristine clearness and rich colorfulness - print and frame these professional hi-resolution waterscape and mountain scenery photographs.

Geometry, is the math that makes the world. These images, in an abstract way, point out the many forms that this can assume. Circles, triangles, angles, and cubes, combined with vibrant colors, serve to illustrate how versatile this medium is.

A logical step in the process of using color, is creating shots using only two colors. These images show how this is possible.

Images of two people who are one, and happy about it. One completes the other, it has been this way for all time. These shots are proof of this.

Images of antiques and historical themes. Some are valuable some are nostalgic, all are well captured.

Various still life and abstract images, focusing on food, and relaxing scenes. Well lit and staged, good colors.

Images of Ancient Rustic Grungy Parchment Paper and Textured Backgrounds. Paper with splats on them. Old scraped and spotted paper and vintage Papers. All excellent backgrounds for various types if promotions and ads, or just standing alone to illustrate age.

Various still life images isolated on different backgrounds of differing colors.

Things and people in action. Images of movement and change. These photos display the world and the constant motion that it and it's inhabitants are in.

These images are symbolic conceptual graphics that at once spell out an idea. There is very little guesswork about what these images represent. It takes quite a lot of imagination to think out the ideas for these images, so use them in good health and business to get your point across.

One of Man's many attributes that label him civilized, is his obsession with time. Keeping time comes in many forms, and uses many methods. From the sun on a sundial, to the sands of an hourglass, to the loud clicking of a kitchen clock, to the electronic hum of a nightstand clock, keeping time has become the subject of many of the following images you will see here. Hope you have the time to look at all of them!!!

Have you ever looked at an image such as these and actually be able to taste what is photographed? Some if these images actually cause me to get hungry. Also, these are more examples of Mother Nature's choice in colors that will remind you of how good life is.......

Images of how the world is built. Machinery, scaffolding, graders, and backhoes. All pieces of the whole that go together to build the world we live in. These images would work with promotions for upcoming projects, and projects in progress.

These images take it one step further and show what can be done when you have an unlimited access to whatever color you want.

There is nothing that warms the meart more than these image of toddlers. Despite all of the work involved to raise them, none of us would have it any other way. Just looking into these eyes alone will make you fall in love.......

Textures and patterns so real you can almost touch and feel them. Great images useful for Designers interested in backgrounding presentations of all types. Text and image overlays would be easy with these.

Books are the medium that retains our civilization. These are the words of our ancestors and predecessors. These are life's experiences contained in paper and leather. There isn't one of us who has read a book, that hasn't been taken back in time, and relived the experiences and learning that took place before our age. Hopefully, we learned from these books. These images will help you to remember the past and to use them in sentimental productions that will hit home and bring out old memories.

That live body you always pray for when you call your bank or tech support. We have all been on hold at one time or another, and then wondered what that person on the other end, who finally answers looks like. Here are some samples of what might be there with a headset, trying to help you out.

Images of the new corporate woman in action. Power suits, laptops, phones, faxes, and all of the tools needed to compete on an even basis with anybody. Comfortable as she moves through her day, these women still manage to look good. These images portray today's modern business woman, as she evolves.

Scrapbooking as a hobby, has taken off in recent years (scrapbooks are decorated albums). Statistics show that one in five households in the United States has a family member who does scrapbooking as a hobby.

Add Scrapbooking Effects to Your Portraits, Use these images as scrapbook layouts to put your photos in.

Add Scrapbooking Effects to Your Portraits, Use these images as scrapbook layouts! use Microsoft Picture It!, Photoshop or Photoshop Elements which is similar in many respects to Adobe Photoshop but quite a bit less expensive to create professional-looking layouts in digital form.

Find antique, rustic, golden, wooden, leather, and many more frame digital Scrapbooking Layouts with a clipping path included.

Add these layouts onto your cardstock, print at high resolutions and place them into your scrapbooks! Personalize your photos with digital photo frames from FeaturePics.com and send us your best results to publish, along with their stories to our site.

Springtime!!! The snow has melted, the rain has stopped, or at least slowed down, and it's getting warm!!! Spring brings with it the promise of new life and new things to do. The grey of winter surrenders to the explosion of colors that happen when Nature runs riot and starts growing things. These images will help you to get the feeling of rebirth that spring brings. These images are real enough so that you can almost smell the flowers..........

To quote an old cliche "Summertime and the living is easy". Beaches, lakes, bikini's, flowers, long naps, recharging the batteries, suntans, and the smells of summer. It all resonates with these images. It is a time for the old and the young, and everyone in between. Winter is just a distant memory. When we were young, it seemed to never end. These images will bring some of it back to you, hope you like them!!!

Summer's over and it is time to get ready for Winter. The harvest is pretty much over, and we are storing our nuts for the time of cold, but for now, we bask in the beauty of Nature shutting down the world for a rest. The colors in these images reflect the leaves changing to many shades of reds and oranges, as they make ready to fall and blanket the earth and prepare it for Spring. Time goes on and we reflect on the past seasons and wonder.......

Bluberries, blackberries, caffeine, keyboards, eyestrain, mindstrain, all are subjects for this collection. Who hasn't spent hours in front of a screen, and wished they were somewhere else, and then after a break returned eagerly to what they were doing? Computers are a new injection into mankind's DNA, and who knows where it will all lead. In the meantime enjoy the human side of these images.....

Push your body, push your mind, push your spirit. These images bring to us the effort required to stay young and healthy. Everybody is different in their needs and ambitions, and these photographs show many different people and their striving to be better at what they do. How do you fit in here? We hope you see some inspiration with these images.....

Ah, what you can see in a face. The smoothness of youth, the wrinkles of age and experience. You can almost see a person's personality just by looking at these images for a long moment. Whether in color or black and white, the person photographed never fails to come through. You will find yourself wondering who they are, where they have been, and how they are feeling about life. Some will even fall in love with a particular portrait, enjoy!!!

Who hasn't sat on a bench watching the close of day, and reflected on the beauty of our wonderful world. The redness, the clouds, the feeling of a day well spent, the promise of a better day tomorrow. This is another example of nature at it's best, and never fails to bring on a feeling of humbleness.

How many of us have read a mystery novel or a piece of fiction where fog was used to shroud something that we shouldn't see until the last moment? Throughout history, misty foggy scenes caused us a little discomfort, because we didn't know what they contained. How often have you driven through a foggy night, and tightened up, wondering what was just ahead? These images may bring some of those feelings to you.

This collection of different pets and an occaisional imposter will tickle your funny bone. Animals, without knowing it, can put themselves into situations and scenes, that could'nt be reproduced if you tried for years. You can only hope to catch them on film with a lot of luck and experience. These images will make you laugh and maybe remember the wonder of discovery.

Anybody who says nature is boring is blind!!! The natural colors brought forth in these images is breathtaking. Nature's production of these vibrant colors bends your mind and your imagination, as no two scenes are even remotely the same. You could look at images such as these for years, and never get tired of them.

Reaching for the heavens! Man's eternal quest to stretch his technology and spirit ever upwards. These images are a testament to the human spirit reflected in glass, steel, and concrete. As our technologies became more advanced, so did the heights and unique designs of our skyscrapers. These images will give you an impression of the scale involved to accomplish these man-made miracles.

Do you ever wonder how man communicated before languages became common? Do you wonder how different cultures communicated? These are a sampling of different gestures that say many things, and are in most cases universal. Have fun with this one!!!

This section deals with the new schools of open glass, steel webwork, new and always advancing techniques of construction and materials. Structures seem to float, or to have no visible means of support. Disappearing lines and vivid colors blend with stainless steel, chrome and powder coatings ever reaching higher goals. Buildings seem to go on forever in some of these images. Perspective is elevated to new heights.

Colors of Easter: White symbolizes purity, holiness, and virtue. Gold symbolizes majesty, joy, and celebration. Yellow symbolizes light which in turn is a symbol of the presence of God. Fuzzy bunnies, Easter egg hunts, candy and chocolate eggs, new dresses and suits for the kids, and Easter Sunday at church. This holiday coming in early Spring, has always been spiritual and the forerunner to Summer. Kids get Easter Break from school, to rest up for the scholastic run to Summer vacation, and they use it well. Enjoy these images of Spring!!!

What can we say about this day? This is where you reinforce how much you love your significant other, and how much they love you. This is the day where you focus on that other person with gifts, and sweet sayings. Where sentimental memories are recalled and relived, and where you look into your heart and feel. These images will help to enhance any promotion that has to do with this holiday. They are symbolic of the heart of man.

It's cold!!! Winter is the time when nature goes to sleep, and we freeze. Yet it is also the time of year for hot coffee, hot tea, and, yes hot buttered rum. Every culture has it's own way of dealing with the time of the year when nature sleeps. These images help to portray some of these ways. Enjoy life for what it is, no matter what the season!!!


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