Textures and Patterns Design Showcase. Advertisement Textures and patterns are used more often than one may think.
The reason why we don’t see them is because they usually remain in the background, supporting the overall design, replacing a standard background color and creating a more inviting atmosphere. But they almost never stand out. Used primarily for background images, they need to fit to the overall design making the content easier to perceive. In fact, wood textures seem to have become so popular that designers suggest that wood is the new glossy style1 and wood is the new white2.
Well, we don’t think that wood is a new revolutionary trend — after all, it was used and explored for years. In this post we present a showcase of sites using textures and patterns— we want to focus designer’s attention on design options available beyond wood. You may want to take a look at the related articles: Where can I find textures and background images?
Tiles, Patterns How do I create a tile or a pattern? T! Images and Textures Ground Rust. Where can I find textures and background images? Advertisement If you are a graphic designer, you probably know that textures and background images are essential for every project which is related to graphics or design.
But where to search for quality images if you can’t find anything usable on your PC? Web offers many useful resources one should always keep in mind searching for textures. Below you’ll find a hand-picked selection of some useful resources related to textures and background images. We tried to pick the best ones which offer quality and professional content without annoying advertisement. Following repositories offer “free” textures, which means that you can use them for both personal and commercial projects according to the license mentioned on the web-site you’ve downloaded the images from.
Dr. Texture Library20 Another free library of texturesTirad21 You are welcome to use these textures in your works….WebGround22 Thousands of original background textures for your Work. It's done. How-To: Creating Seamless Textures with Photoshop CS4. Have you ever needed to tile a picture of some sort of texture – fabric, grass, sand, water, stones – only to find that when you do, you can see the sides of the images repeated throughout?
It looks awful! People have to tile images for all sorts of reasons. These reasons range from simple things like tiled computer backgrounds to more complicated endeavors, like texturing a 3D image in a digital rendering, video game or virtual world. This how-to will show you two of the most popular methods for taking a regular image and making it seamless using Photoshop CS4; one of the industry’s most popular image editing tools. With the right steps, a little know-how and a splash of artistic ability, anyone can learn to take any image and remove the edges for a nice, natural tile. Adobe Photoshop is a piece of software that runs on both Mac and PC, so it is readily available for most people’s systems.
In case you are unable to follow along with the video, here’s how it goes… Step 5: Save.