60+ Free Textures from SXC.hu

By Steven Snell | Published September 28th, 2008 in Resources

Last week I posted a collection of Photoshop brushes for creating your own textured graphics. In addition to using brushes, you can get great results and save considerable amounts of time by taking advantage of textures that are freely available. One excellent resources of textures (and other types of stock images) is Stock.xchng. Below you’ll find more than 60 textures from their site. Each image links to the page on sxc.hu where the image can be downloaded.

Wood Textures

Wood texture

bamboo texture

wood

wood

wood

wood

wood

wood

wood

wood

wood

wood

wood

wood

wood

wood

wood

Grass Textures

grass texture

grass

grass

grass

grass

Sand Textures

sand texture

sand texture

sand texture

Paper Textures

paper texture

paper texture

paper

paper

paper

paper

paper

paper

paper

paper

paper

paper

paper

paper

paper

paper

Canvas Textures

canvas texture

canvas

canvas

Leather Textures

leather

leather

leather

Metal Textures

metal texture

brushed metal

metal

Satin/Silk Textures

satin texture

red satin


silk

Wall Textures

dirty wall texture

wall texture

paint on wall

Other Textures

retro

lamp shade


cardboard

textured surface

ink splatter


ink splatter

pinboard

water texture

gold texture

rust

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127 Comments
  1. General Specifics on September 29th, 2008

    Great collection of textures you got there.
    Thanks!

  2. Jerry on September 29th, 2008

    Nice infos..Thank you

  3. mike on September 29th, 2008

    These are nice, they’ll be helpful with my 3D models and scenes.

  4. cell phone reviews on September 29th, 2008

    Nice textures. I like Satin/Silk textures… :)

  5. Ahmed on September 29th, 2008

    Wow ! That’s definitely a cool and useful selection :) ! Thanks !

  6. Online hry on September 29th, 2008

    Best list what can i have chance see …

  7. Chirax on September 29th, 2008

    Thanks, Great resource.

  8. Steven Snell on September 29th, 2008

    Thanks for the feedback everyone. I’m glad it’s helpful.

  9. Alexandru Strimbeanu on September 29th, 2008

    Great resource! Thanks for tanking the time and writing this article.

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  11. Torley on September 29th, 2008

    Yes, thanks for making this! Inspiration in the morning, ah.

    And if you want some wild ‘n’ wacky FREE textures which I made which fuse the naturalistic with the surreal, feel free to use these: http://torley.com/textures

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  13. Matt on September 29th, 2008

    Great set of textures, however these are almost useless for texture mapping purposes. Generally textures should be in such a way that they can be seamlessly tiled, and therefore having vertical and horizontal continuity.

    Nevertheless, these can still be widely used for other purposes.

    Cheers.

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  15. Alek on September 29th, 2008

    Great set of textures. gotta love free stock photos!

  16. Stuart Robertson on September 29th, 2008

    This is great — I was going to look for some stock images tonight, so you’ve saved me a bit of time. Thanks! :)

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  18. Yong Hwee on September 29th, 2008

    Great textures! Have been using SXC.hu and I just love it.

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  20. David Airey on September 30th, 2008

    Bookmarked before you could say, “bookmar…”.

  21. Hair on September 30th, 2008

    With the new trend of using background images, textures and subtle compositions, the demand for textures is becoming really high and this article saves loads of time that we might otherwise spend looking for good textures. Excellent info.

  22. Edwin on September 30th, 2008

    Nice collection. It would even been better if you had put them all into one zip-file ;)

  23. Steven Snell on September 30th, 2008

    Edwin,
    I believe it is against the terms of usage to put them in a zip file. The terms say that the pictures/images can be used but not redistributed. Putting them in a zip file to give away would qualify as me redistributing them. Linking to them and having visitors download directly from the source does not. Otherwise, you’re right, it would be helpful.

  24. PR on October 1st, 2008

    Excellent post! SXC is such a great resource.

  25. Panther on October 1st, 2008

    Thanks! Can’t wait to use these on my next project. Good to see other textures than just wood.

  26. clem on October 1st, 2008

    Some free textures here : http://www.leldoradodestextures.com

  27. applejuice on October 1st, 2008

    great! thank you!

  28. Marko on October 1st, 2008

    Great collection, bookmarked your post.
    Thanks a lot

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  33. bgalmar on October 2nd, 2008

    Great Collection. I Love using sxc, but it is even better to have one spot to get these textures rather than searching. Thanks for your work.

  34. Mathias on October 3rd, 2008

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  69. Gerd on January 7th, 2009

    This textures came in at the right time! I already use one for a new project.

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  82. jack on May 29th, 2009

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  83. Maja on June 4th, 2009

    Love the collection, but the 9th texture under paper links to the brown paper bag below it. :(

    But otherwise AWESOME! :D

  84. Phaoloo on June 21st, 2009

    I love all these great texture.

  85. Michael Cerdeiros on June 26th, 2009

    awesome post! Thanks so much

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  89. Adam on July 17th, 2009

    Love the different terrain textures. They look awsome.

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  100. arun on November 19th, 2009

    Wondreful …. No words for thanks.

  101. Diseño Web on December 1st, 2009

    Agendé este sitio en Favoritos de mi explorador.

    Muy bueno el aporte!!!!

  102. Gareth Coxon - Dot Design on January 11th, 2010

    Sxc.hu is a very useful site if only for research, great set of textures by the way, thanks. G

  103. Juegos on January 18th, 2010

    Thanks, I like the grass textures very much. Appreciate your work.

  104. Directory Web design on January 25th, 2010

    WoW :) some awesome collection of textures. Thanks for sharing this nice post.

  105. Greg on January 30th, 2010

    Hi amazing pack THX Steven! You can also find here free textures http://www.texturepalace.com/.

  106. Tom - Website Design Bristol on February 12th, 2010

    These are great – saves me searching myself – always nice :)

  107. maya on March 26th, 2010

    Thanks for this huge great collection. But I tried to download one of them, click on the image and found nothing. Would you please check the links.

    Thank you again.

  108. Ivan on July 6th, 2010

    thanks for sharing! useful for my upcoming web projects at http://www.icgraphics.net ;)

  109. Cavalera on July 20th, 2010

    Wow. really cool pics. I love such backgrounds. The colors are amazing… Sometimes i find good pics on http://www.photl.com

  110. PhotoshopMan on July 27th, 2010

    Thanks for the textures! I’ve been using http://www.texturemate.com lately!

  111. Dan on July 29th, 2010

    Wow great collection, thank you!

  112. HDR Textures on August 5th, 2010

    Nice List! That first metal texture is great!

  113. HDR Textures on August 5th, 2010

    Great list – again thanks for sharing! That first metal texture is phenomenal!

  114. vuitton on August 15th, 2010

    I tried to download one of them, click on the image and found nothing. Would you please check the links.