Pine Woodcuts

PINE WOOD CUTS | THE INTRODUCTION

We spent over 20 hours cutting, inking, printing, and scanning to create this exhaustive compilation of 100% original pine wood cut impressions, delivered in 10 different and independently valuable formats.

PINE WOOD CUTS | THE BASICS

As we’ve mentioned before, we are always looking for opportunities to create resources that haven’t been fully explored by others or in many cases that simply haven’t even been done yet. Most of the time, we make resources out of necessity for ourselves and simply want to share our work with others who may be looking for the same kind of solutions we were.

After searching far and wide on the expanses of the internet, we couldn’t find a single source for truly diverse, hi-res, and versatile woodgrain textures like what we’ve made. We have created a truly exhaustive arsenal of pine woodcut textures: over 100 unique cuts of all sizes and angles with just shy of 600 different inked variations between them.

PINE WOOD CUTS | THE PROCESS

Sometimes it’s easy to find the general idea of what you’re looking for but not the actual specifics For instance, finding a unique woodgrain that you would like to use is one thing, but having that in a royalty-free, hi-res and/or even scalable file format is rare, rarer still to have the same grain in multiple options with varying styles.

We started by making around 100 different cuts in varying angles into different pieces of pine. After we made our cuts, we applied a viscous black pigment to the areas we wanted to transfer.

The first imprint was always the darkest and many times the ink would bleed into itself, which created a much more grungy and thick texture. We would imprint the same piece several times after that applying varying amounts of pressure so as to get varying amounts of detail and texture.

Some impressions would blotch, some would blur, and of course some would come out immaculately detailed and precise. From messy to meticulous, we’ve included all of these into this resource in order to accommodate for all tastes and styles.

PINE WOOD CUTS | THE GOODS

Here is what you get when you purchase Pine Woodcuts:

• 100 Full page scans at 300 DPI with all the different imprints
• 599 Original individual scans at 600 DPI in TIFF file format
• 599 Halftone bitmaps at 600 DPI and 16 LPI in TIFF file format
• 599 Halftone bitmaps at 600 DPI and 28 LPI in TIFF file format
• 599 Halftone bitmaps at 600 DPI and 36 LPI in TIFF file format
• 599 Halftone bitmaps at 600 DPI and 60 LPI in TIFF file format
• 599 Halftone bitmaps at 600 DPI and 80 LPI in TIFF file format
• 599 Diffusion dither bitmaps at 600 DPI in TIFF file format
• 599 50% Threshold bitmaps at 600 DPI in TIFF file format
• Photoshop brush pack

NOTE: Due to the large file size (almost 4GB!), when you make your purchase, you will be sent a plain text document that will contain the download link to all files.

As always, feel free to send us examples of work you've done with any of our products–we love to see how we've aided in the progress of excellent design! If for whatever reason you have any questions or problems, please send us an email at hello@triedandtruesupply.com and we'll do whatever needs doing to get you sorted.

We hope you enjoy!

Cheers, Tried & True Supply Co.