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 argyle knitwear (Texture) This is one of over 5262 textures generated by Filter Forge, a Photoshop plugin that allows you to create your own filters. With Filter Forge, you can: change the look of this texture easily; browse through its 30,000 variations; get a normal map for a 3D model. Download Filter Forge to use this texture To open this filter, you must have Filter Forge 1.0 or higher installed on your computer. If you don't have it installed yet, click here to download Filter Forge
The Whys And The Hows Of Textures In Web Design Advertisement Texture is becoming integral to design. It’s gone beyond being a trend — it’s now a simple and effective way to add depth to a website. 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
Grunge Photoshop brush roundup We’ll be starting a regular series of roundups of the best free Photoshop brushes, in various themes; this week’s Photoshop brush roundup is on the Grunge theme. Grunge is a very bold style choice, and is characterized by its gritty style, dark, washed-out colors, and irregular shapes. Grunge textures can be so varied, from wood to metallic surfaces, fabric, paper and more as far as textures go, but also characterizing themselves by sharp cuts, or slow fades. They are all very similar in style, but offer subtle variations which can be used in conjunction with other similar or contrasting textures to create depth and wear. Double Circle A great set of grunge brushes focusing on a concentric grunge circle design with a good bit of variety so it’s likely to have the style that you’re looking for.
The What, Why and How of Textures in Web Design The use of textures and patterns in webdesign has come a long way in only a short amount of time. From cliche grunge and gaudy vintage textures, today's best websites use texture in a wide variety of ways to create a more immersive experience, define the personality of the site and create a more refined look and feel. In today's tutorial, we're going to jump straight into some of the ways that you can use texture and patterns to enhance your next design, serve up some inspiring examples of textures used in the right way and also provide a series of mini tutorials to give you an introduction to some of practical ways to include textures in your next project.
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) 15+ high quality, free pattern sets As web designers, we spend most of our time praising web designs for their sleek interfaces and their awesome typography or even just the random design work, but truly, the unsung hero of design is the pattern. The pattern is popular, not just online, but offline too—we love a good pattern because it’s design in its purest form. Patterns allow us the ability to interpret good designs and rely on a little consistency.
101 Free Grunge Textures and Backgrounds EmailEmail Everyone is expecting presents from Santa, but we wanted to be the first and give you an early gift! That’s why we’ve handpicked a huge collection of High Resolution Free Grunge Textures and Backgrounds. We’ve checked each and every grunge pack to make sure that only the best grunge backgrounds with the highest quality would make it to the list. You can download and use these free grunge textures not only for web, but also for print as we’ve tried to select only the print quality textures. 600+ Photoshop Textures Making Brushes download Download 10 brushes Download 19 brushes Download 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.
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.