The Fat Strawberry - Frequently Asked Questions

Please read my license agreement before you re-publish any of my textures!

Frequently Asked Questions

What is The Fat Strawberry all about?

This website features seamless tiling textures which you can download to your computer to use for a whole range of different things such as ...

Backgrounds for your website, forum, My Space page etc
Email Stationary
Decoration for both real and virtual scrap books
To create and
share textures for 3D rendering & models
Printed out they can be used for gift wrap, dolls house wallpaper, greetings cards or other stationary items
Desktop backgrounds or as part of a Desktop or Mail Client theme
Using as textures to make game mods
Uploading to Second Life to use on furniture, clothes, posters etc

... and anything else you can think of (except to post as seamless tiling texture downloads on your website!)

To preview the textures choose a category by clicking on one of the menu options above (the image buttons). 

You will not find any Sims custom content on this website! 

If you are looking for Sims custom content then I would suggest visiting our sister site Parsimonious where you can find thousands of quality items for The Sims & The Sims 2

How do I download & unzip the textures?

To see the full pattern and how it tiles you can click on the zoom button. If you decide you like the texture and want to download it, click on the preview thumbnail to download the zipped texture to your computer.

For Example:

There is a tutorial on opening zip files in the Tutorial section

 

Creating web-friendly formats from bitmaps

If you're totally clueless how to create a web-friendly image from a bitmap then you can find a newbie friendly tutorial on how to export web appropriate images using Paint in the Tutorial section

 

Recolouring or altering my textures

You can change the colour my textures to suit your own purposes although credit is still required under the terms of my license agreement (since it can take hours to create the texture and a couple of seconds to change the colour I don't feel that is unreasonable as it will still look very much like the original). 

 

I'm looking for a texture which isn't on the site?

In March 2007 and again in February 2008 I've taken down large batches of older, lower quality textures off the site. I still have most of the removed items on my computer so if you really are desperate for a particular old texture which is no longer hosted here then contact me with a description or item number.

 

Can I spam you with my proposal to buy advertising space on your website?

For some reason a spate of companies keep contacting me via The Fat Strawberry asking me if I would like to sell ad space on the site. I suspect said companies are in fact wanting to buy ad space on Parsimonious given it has 15-20 thousand visitors a day compared to the few hundred daily visitors that come here, if that's you then please contact me via Parsimonious or your proposal will be ignored. 

If you are in fact dumber than a box of rocks and can't work out how to do that then I don't want to do business with you.

 

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