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Tileables - Never Ending Patterns. 70+ Subtle Patterns Perfect for Minimal Designs. When taking a minimalistic approach to designing a website, the key is to keep things clean and clutter free. It’s important not to over-design and use tons of graphical elements, but this doesn’t mean you can’t use any. So for this post, we’ve rounded up a collection of subtle patterns for when your minimal design needs a little something. Subtle Light Tile Pattern Vol3 Subtle Light Tile Pattern vol1 Subtle Light Tile Pattern Vol2 Noisy Grid Subtle Grey Tiny Grid SubtleNet 10 Fresh Light Patterns for Websites 35 Tiny Pixel Patterns Light Photoshop Patterns.

80+ Fresh New Textures for Creating Web Site Backgrounds. As you’ve probably figured out, I love designing with texture. I also love sharing textures here on WDL. When done properly, a texture used as a background can add depth and set the over all mood for a web design. Here are over 80 textures that have all been released in just the past couple of months and can be very useful for making backgrounds. These are all beautiful as they are, but for truly unique results, I encourage you to use these as foundations for your own creations. painted textures vol. 12 (12 textures) Vintage IV Texture Pack (9 textures) Two vintage textures (2 textures) A Little Dirty (8 textures) 8 new paper textures (8 textures) Nebulae Grunge (10 textures) Grungy Dirty Wood (20 textures) Light Grunge (5 textures) Concrete (5 textures) About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience.

Related Posts 294 shares Spring Up your Designs with Some Free Flower Textures Read More 285 shares New Free Textures for your Delight. 25 Free Textures for your Delight. Since here at WDL we believe it is our duty to keep our readers up to date with freebies and useful resources, we decided to gather a new round of free textures to spice up your library and give your designs a whole new look. From paper and wood to walls and paint, here are 25 new free textures for your delight. Source: Abduzeedo’s TTT About the Author Gisele Muller loves communication, technology, web, design, movies, gastronomy and creativity. Related Posts 908 shares 10 Best New Free Fonts We’ve been on the prowl for some new free fonts to share with you. Read More 293 shares Spring Up your Designs with Some Free Flower Textures Textures are a good way to add personality, depth and interest to a design.

600+ Photoshop Textures Making Brushes. Download Download 10 brushes Download 19 brushes Download Download 50 Grunge brushes Download 15 brushes Download Download 27 brushes Download 60 brushes Download 13 brushes download 7 brushes Download Download Download 24 brushes Download 14 brushes Download 12 brushes Download 8 brushes Download 10 brushes 5 brushes Download 22 brushes Download Download Download 22 LARGE square brushes Download 6 brushes Download 25 brushes Download Download 9 brushes Download 30 brushes Download 17 brushes Download Posted in Photoshop Brushes, Photoshop Textures. Tagged with Texture Brushes. By admin – February 9, 2010. 21 Examples of Excellent Navigation Menus in Web Design. Navigation is certainly a very important element in web design, especially if we keep in mind that the navigation of a page is there to orient and guide the user.

I believe we know that it’s extremely important that users understand navigation options to better explore a website and that is why today we are showcasing examples of navigation menus, to show how websites are presenting menus to their users. From the traditional header menu to side bar menus, footer menus and much more, you will see that there are a variety of ways to present your navigation options. So check it out and let us know which one you like most. Zola’s Undercurrent naks Demi Creative Matt Delbridge Nordic Ruby Conference The Design Office United Pixelworkers Leading Art Olé Chef bleu de chauffe Wanda Productions goodness Habuhiah Emporio Urbano B&O Play Ekso Bionics Agence Crac Sir John a Day Phil Martinez life in my shoes Source: The Best DesignsCSS Awards About the Author Related Posts 396 shares Read More 449 shares.

Free Hi-Res Old Grunge Paper Textures. It’s time for another high resolution texture set. This time it’s all about grunge paper textures taken from old books. As a bonus there’s even a nice book cover texture for you to download. Due to the enormous size (about 7MB each) of the textures I will not offer a single zip file containing all the images. Instead you have to individually download each texture by clicking on the preview.

I hope you don’t mind. The files are perfect for both web and print jobs to your designs a more organic or vintage feel. Download Old Grunge Paper Textures: 13 Sources for Background Patterns and Textures. Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now Patterns and textures are becoming a bigger part of web design, and an increase number of resources are available for freebies in this area. Some are tools that will help you to quickly create your own background pattern, while others are sources of stock textures that can be used in your own work. Of the available options for finding textures, these are the best that I have found. BgPatterns BgPatterns is a really nice resource for quick experimentation.

Stripe Generator Striped backgrounds are still pretty popular for web 2.0-style designs. Lost and Taken Lost and Taken is a site that publishes images of copyright-free stock textures. Wood Textures from Bittbox Bittbox is one of the best places to find textures and other freebies for graphic design. 24 Hi-Res Textures from Bittbox Bittbox also gives away a great collection of these images. Hi-Res Grungy Paper Textures More free goodies from BittBox. Texture Kings Grunge Textures. 100+ Grunge Textures Collection. This is the ultimate grunge textures collection (just because I said so) with more than 100 grungy textures in one post. We have individual texture and also some texture packs including black and white grunge, vintage grunge textures, scratch textures, dirty textures, old paper textures, flaky wall textures, grunge paint textures and many more. Credit to the talented artists who made these for us and do read their terms of use before downloading.

Download link will take you to the creator's page and you can download the textures from there. Brown-ish Grunge TexturesAvailable for download @ princess-of-shadows Available for download @ dazzle-textures Continue reading for more textures.. Flaky Old GoldAvailable for download @ ayelie-stock Soft Colored Grunge Texture SetAvailable for download @ spookyzangel Black and White Grunge TexturesAvailable for download @ yawee Ssrambled Letters GrungeAvailable for download @ octopax Scratch Grunge TextureAvailable for download @ struckdumb. 200+ High Quality Free Paper Background Textures to Grab. Using paper backgrounds is quite common these days. Paper is a not only used to write but it can be also useful as a texture in doing some web design or graphic projects as well. In fact you can see some websites on the web applying more paper concept now a days and come up with a very neat results.

Looking for some High Quality Paper Textures? Here I compiled 200+ High Quality Paper Textures for everyone to Grab for FREE. These Paper Textures were made by some talented designers and texture lovers all over design community. Most of these Textures are grunge looking,vintage and even some are neat.Check them out. Scrapbook paper 1 to 5 If you feel like adding scrapbook looks in your design, this texture is right for you. Textures: Paper This set of 9 Paper Textures is just perfect if you like a notebook paper background or graphic paper. Paper Textures 01 A set of 8 Paper Textures 13 HQ Old paper Textures A set of 13 Old Paper Textures 19 Free Hi-Res Burnt Paper Textures 1 Craft Paper Texture. Old Paper Textures & Backgrounds - Very Vintage Retro Grunge | Vintage Retro Grunge. © 2021 - Privacy - Terms. Free High Resolution Textures - Lost and Taken. Grungy Stripes Photoshop Patterns Part 2.

7 Subtle Grunge Pattern Textures. Seeing as this blog is all about giving, I thought it would be terribly inappropriate of me to not post some textures on Thanksgiving. I've got a set of grunge pattern textures that I whipped up in Photoshop just for you guys. If you like them let me know and I'll make a bigger set with a little more variety (houndstooth, polka dots, etc.). Have a good holiday everyone! Click on the textures below to download the high-res version or download them all in a zip file at the bottom of the post. Enjoy! If you've used L&T textures in commercial work or earned a profit from them in your designs, please consider making a donation to Lost & Taken. All donations made go directly to helping keep the site online by helping pay the server bills (which run nearly $3k a year) and allow me to buy supplies and equipment to create new textures.

WebTreats ETC. Ultimate Grunge Toolbox for Web Designers. Grunge websites are a common web design style that can add emotion and depth of character to a website. Some of the most common elements include dirty textures, torn edges, aged paper, and handwritten text. Often, the color palette of grunge includes muted colors that are mostly neutrals. And contrary to popular belief, a design does not have to be messy to be grungy, with strategically placed elements you can give any design a grungy feel. We have covered all bases with this post – you will find Photoshop brushes, textures, seamless backgrounds, Vector packs, fonts, PSD web layouts… and much more. One of the best ways to gather ideas for your own grunge design is by viewing websites that have successfully incorporated this trend.

Grungy Seamless Backgrounds & Textures 10 Seamless Grunge Patterns (.png) Download Page → 7 Grungy Wallpaper Photoshop Patterns & Texture Pack (.pat & .jpg) Download Page → 7 Extreme Grunge Seamless Photoshop Patterns 2 (.pat & .jpg) Download Page → Download Page → The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns - Smashing Magazine.

Advertisement Photoshop users can save themselves a great deal of time and end up with better results by taking advantage of readily available freebies, such as brushes, patterns and shapes. With the wide variety and (often) high quality of resources available, whatever you need or are looking for is in most cases already available somewhere. The only problem is that the vast quantity of freebies can make it difficult to track down what you need. Hopefully this collection of excellent Photoshop patterns will help.

The resources featured here are all available as downloads in PAT format, which can be placed in Photoshop. In addition to this format, there is also a number of quality resources online for creating or using patterns in other formats that can be used by any program, not just Photoshop. Skull Patterns Two skull patterns from Go Media using an image from one of its vector packs. Carbon Fiber A carbon fiber pattern. Grunge Pattern Set Nine large and high-quality grunge patterns.