350+ Free Textures - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag 17 scratched and scraped textures grab bag 40 random free textures 14 free high res slate textures Aqueous Sun Texture Pack Volume 1 (50) Aqueous Sun Texture Pack Volume 2 (50) Aqueous Sun Presents Rust v.01 (28) Beautiful Textures On Black Backgrounds (22) rust textures (5) victorian dreams texture pack (10) Dreamy Bokeh Textures (4) Glitter Bokeh Texture Pack (33) 20 grungy dirty wood textures tree bark 10 free high res textures 9 colorful rust textures Wood Panels Texture Set (9) turn back time texture pack (5) Vintage II Texture Pack (6) Rust ‘n Such Textures (10) textures (5) Folds: Texture Pack (8) Freebie: Texture Pack 4 – Watercolours (10) Metal Texture Pack – 47 Free Images Brick & Stone: Texture Pack (24) 17 rock and concrete textures 25 subtle and light grunge textures 8 re-stained paper textures 28 High-Res Vintage Postal Textures Old Leather Textures (5) 5 colored grungy bokeh textures 15 High-Res Lens Flare Textures 27 High-Res Fabric Fold Textures out of focus 30 free bokeh textures Bokeh Pack (22)
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 resources featured here are all available as downloads in PAT format, which can be placed in Photoshop. Skull Patterns Two skull patterns from Go Media using an image from one of its vector packs. Carbon Fiber A carbon fiber pattern. Patterns from PunkSafetyPin This set of 15 patterns from a deviantART user offers more than 30 other packs of patterns. Grunge Pattern Set Nine large and high-quality grunge patterns. Dots Pattern Set Eight dot patterns of various colors and styles. Hexagonal Patterns Seventy-two black-and-white horizontal and vertical patterns. Skulls and Hearts Three different gray, white and pink patterns. Brick Texture Patterns
Stackin’ Bricks: 10 Free High Resolution Bricks Textures The use of bricks in designs are popular. It gives a certain authenticity and realness to it. This week, we present to you, Stackin’ Bricks: a set of free bricks images. In this set, You’ll find 10 high quality and high resolution bricks textures/stock photos. They’re extremely large-scale in dimension, each being 2,896px x 1,944px saved in JPG. Preview You can find various sizes of each image in by clicking on its title or preview image; doing so will bring you to their own Flickr pages. Stackin’ Bricks 01 Stackin’ Bricks 02 Stackin’ Bricks 03 Stackin’ Bricks 04 Stackin’ Bricks 05 Stackin’ Bricks 06 Stackin’ Bricks 07 Stackin’ Bricks 08 Stackin’ Bricks 09 Stackin’ Bricks 10 Licensing details The above works that are featured here and in the Flickr Grunge Extreme set are all licensed under the Creative Commons license and can be used for personal and/or commercial purposes. The Creative Commons license requires you to "attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor".
Massive Grunge Texture Pack: 40+ Textures I know things have been a little slow around here lately, but I promise I haven't forgotten about all of you textures lovers. I've been keeping myself busy with lots of side projects and freelance work lately, but I have managed to go out and shoot a whole bunch of new textures to give away. I thought I'd show my appreciation to you guys by releasing a massive pack of grunge textures. I'm pretty sure this is most textures I've posted at one time, not to mention some of my personal favorites. In the coming weeks I'll be posting more and more awesome textures for you guys, as well as announcing some other cool projects :) 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. 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.
300+ Free Grunge Textures - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now In this roundup we’ve collected over 300 free grunge textures. Enjoy the show! 8 Subtle Grunge Textures vintage grunge textures(5Textures) color grunge textures(5Textures) grunge textures(6Textures) Victorian grunge texture pack(5Textures) Grunge II Texture Pack(5Textures) Tileable Burnt Orange Industrial Grunge Textures – Part 1(8Textures) Grunge Background Textures(5Textures) Colorful Grunge Pack(5Textures) Grunge III Texture Pack(8Textures) Grunge Package(4Textures) Grunge Textures(20Textures) Autumn Grunge(3Textures) Grunge textures(3Textures) Grunge Nebulae Textures(5Textures) Victorian Grunge Excl(4Textures) 8 Subtle Grunge Textures Ultimate Grunge Pack: 40 High-Res Textures Grunge Cement Texture Pack(12Textures) 4 Free High Resolution Grunge Textures 24 High-Res Grunge Texture Pics Grunge Texture vol.1(5Textures) 20 Simple & Subtle Grunge Textures Massive Grunge Texture Pack: 40+ Textures Grungy Cement: Texture Pack(7Textures)
Free Stock Photo Resources I’m not sure if you’ve ever had a look at the prices on some non-stock photography sites (pictures of Gummy bears for $769.00 anyone?), but they reach far beyond the budget of the typical designer/developer. However, many places online allow you to obtain high-quality stock photos for free, giving the average starving artist a chance to create wonderful works of art/design without having to use next month’s rent on stock photos. In this article, we review the 15 best places to free stock photos online for designers. Note: Although these sites feature free stock photos, you should read the terms, limitations, and licensing of each work that you use; read the fine print! Dedicated free stock photo sites 1. stock.xchng stock.xchng is all free, all the time. one of the most popular paid stock photo sites – iStockphoto, sponsors them. Aimed at: Web designers and web developers, illustrators, print designers 2. A small team of in-house professional photographers supplies the photos in the site.
30 Free Stock Photo Sites: Ultimate Collection | Graphic and Web Design Blog Huh, I know there are maybe even too many articles about places, where to search for photos and images, but those articles were usually very old, many sites do not work anymore and that kind of stuff. So my goal was to create ultimate collection with the best places where to search for and get nice quality images. I think every site of this list is worth checking out, although in most cases with sxc.hu site alone is enough. 1. The leading free stock photo site. 2. EveryStockPhoto site is becoming more and more popular, now there are 4,4 million free photos! 3. Pixabay.com is an international community for sharing outstanding public domain images. 4. One more site worth looking for. 5. Everybody know about this site with their main purpose as photo management and sharing application. 6. Very popular community and also very good photos sometimes can be found there, but yes, don’t forget about license and asking authors first for their permission. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
Free Texture Packs To Spice Up Your Designs Feb 25 2011 Every day we try our best to present to you some useful tips, dear reader, to inspire you with fresh ideas and to try out new things. Today, we’ve prepared a nice collection of free texture packs that you just may have been looking for to freshen up your designs you’re working on. Enjoy! High Resolution Texture Pack 5 High Resolution Brick & Tile Textures 9 High Resolution Metal Surface Textures Starry Textures 4 Free High Resolution Grunge Textures 5 High Resolution Grungy Paper Textures 10 High Resolution Grungy Surface Textures 46 High-Quality Graffiti Textures High Resolution Fabric Texture Pack 6 High Resolution Sand and Seashell Textures 27 High Resolution Watercolor Textures 12 Free Grungy Bokeh Textures 27 High-Res Playdough Textures 8 High Resolution Screen Print Ready Textures 30 High-Res Foam Dot Textures 14 High Resolution Paper & Canvas Textures 12 High Resolution Denim Textures 11 Free High Resolution Fabric Textures 10 Free High Resolution Wood Textures Wood Textures (ik)
20 Useful Websites for Graphic Design Textures and Patterns By Kawsar Ali Patterns and textures, when applied correctly, can produce amazing and truly unique designs. Typically, they are used for site backgrounds, but can also be used as repeating patterns on site components such as the header and the footer. If you use right type of patterns it can really improve your site visually for the viewer. In this article, we share 20 excellent sites where you can find and download seamless textures, patterns, and tiles free of cost. 1. Seamless Textures, as the name of the site implies, provides high-quality textures. 2. Pattern8 has a gallery style thumbnail layout so that you can quickly view a large amount of patterns in one page at once. 3. Kaliber1000 has a beautiful and distinctive collection of pixel patterns, patterns crafted in the style of pixel art. 4. PatternCooler is an excellent site for getting seamless patterns. 5. Ava7Patterns provides beautiful patterns for you to download. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
45 Awesome Abstract Textures Finding that perfect texture for your design can be quite the search, and also quite time consuming. To help you out a bit we’ve browsed through the large collection of textures over at deviantART and picked out some abstract textures. These can inspire you in making your own ones or you can use them. Just make sure to click on the images to go to the originals and read if the artists behind them have any restrictions or require credits first. Maybe this can be the helpful start to a new project? Let’s dive in! Where to find amazing photo backgrounds or textures? | Graphic and Web Design Blog If You are a graphic or web designer, great texture always becomes handy in your workflow. You can create amazing effects just combining those textures together and playing with them. I just took a look around and thought that I need to make a list of amazing textures, because quality images and textures are never enough. There are many great resources all around the web, I just tried to select those most better known web pages and those with great collection and quality of textures. All of those textures are free, so You can use them freely in your personal or commercial works. Free texture web sites 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.Texture Warehouse 9.Grungetextures 10. 11.Lost and taken thinks so big, I cant even fill all logo in the page: 12.Web site with stylish design and textures: 13. 14. 15. I just love all those vintage, grunge, rusty textures and so the last ones are hand picked 5 great texture packs which I like the most. 1. 5 nice old scratchy paper textures : 2. 3. 4. 5.
20 Great Web Page Backgrounds You Can Certainly Use Advertisement There can be times when your web design is almost done but you can’t finalize a beautiful background for your site. Importance of a Background can not be ignored since a site is viewed differently in different browsers and resolutions and the empty space at the background kills the foreground’s beauty. Designing a background yourself is a time consuming process and its hardly required when the fellow designers have heartily and happily contributed so many beautiful backgrounds and patterns for websites. We have collected few sets of Beautiful Backgrounds which will surely be useful to you. If you like this article, you might be interested in some of our other articles on Wallpaper Patterns, Damask Pattern Collection, Grunge Backgrounds, and Great Photoshop Backgrounds. Dark Patterns More Information on Dark Patterns 13 Asphalt Textures More Information on Asphalt Textures 103 Various Textures More Information on Various Textures 94 Walls More Information on WALLS Sue’s Wood Patterns