Textures Toolbox: 80+ Texture Resources for Designers
By Steven Snell | Published July 13th, 2009 in Resources
The use of texture can be a very powerful technique for web and graphic designers. The possibilities with textures are endless, and they can have a drastic impact on the overall look and style of a design. Equally important, with the right resources it can be very simple to use textures in your own work. This post will serve as a collection of over 80 resources, tutorials and inspiration for designers who want to work with textures.
If you’re interested in creating your own textures, please see the excellent tutorial that Caleb Kimbrough wrote for us, Ultimate Guide for Creating High Quality Textures.
Places to Find Textures:
Fortunately for designers, there are plenty of great resources for free (or in some cases, low cost) textures to use in web and graphic design.
Photoshop Tutorials for Working with Textures:
Now that you have the textures, perhaps you would like to learn more about what you can do with them. Here are some helpful tutorials for creating textures, using them in different ways, and even for creating textured website layouts.
How to Create a Grunge Web Design Using Photoshop
How to Create a “Worn Paper” Web Layout Using Photoshop
How to Create a Sleek and Textured Web Layout in Photoshop
Watercolored Design Studio Blog Layout
Create a Nature-Inspired Painted Background in Photoshop
Create a Professional Portfolio Design
Making the “Clean Grunge” Blog Design
Add Visual Texture in 3 Easy Steps
Create a Cool Music Logo on a Grunge Background
Create an Out of Bounds Fantasy Illustration
How to Create a Grunge Style Illustration with Stains
How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces
Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch then Create a Grungy Web Design with It
How to Turn a Texture into a Seamlessly Tiled Background
How to Create a Copper Photoshop Text Effect
The Ultimate Wood Texture Tutorial
Photoshop Tutorials – Fabric Folds
Creating a Rusty Surface Texture
Texture Roundups:
Earlier we linked to some of the best resources for finding textures, but depending on what you are looking for, a blogger may have already put together a great collection that will help you to find the best textures of a certain kind.
40+ Free Dirt and Ground Textures
101 Free Stone and Rock Textures
99 Free Canvas, Paper, Paint, and Metal Textures
200+ High Quality Paper Textures to Grab
80+ Free High Res Paper Textures
Free Rusted Metal Texture Backgrounds
High Resolution Wood Textures for Designers
Inspiration: Textures in Web Design:
If you’re interested in using textures in your own web design, here you will find some inspiration from other sites that are doing so very effectively.
Brushes:
One of the best ways to use textures for web and graphic design is to take advantage of Photoshop brushes that are available.
Grungy Paper Brushes for Photoshop
High Res Cracks Brushes for Photoshop
High Resolution Cracked Photoshop Brushes
Other Web Design Toolboxes:
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This is excellent the largest collection and range of texture backgrounds.
Thanks for mentioning Urban Dirty – texture freaks unite!
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Thanks for mentioning my site! I also have a 23 free textures available on my site, go check it out!
pretty conclusive list, some I had not come across before, but looking at some of thier content, deserve to be on list. nice work
Thanks for featuring texture lovers in this immense round up steven.
Paul, Steve, and Max,
You’re welcome. Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment.
Anistock,
Good, I’m glad you found some new resources here.
Perfect round-up! A bit upset my texture site (http://circleboxtextures.com/) didn’t get in though! I recently wrote a texture tutorial too!
Well, only a small number of these are actualy free to use without crediting…that sucks. But nevertheless, nice compilation.
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This post will serve as a collection of over 80 resources, tutorials and inspiration for designers who want to work with textures.
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Good List
Coincidentally, W3Avenue posted a similar post not more than 24 hours ago.
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Nice list, adding to my bookmark.
Thanks
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Wow, awesome resources for designers!
many thanks for the mention, Steve. this is an awesome round-up of all texture-related stuff that’s currently available!
Wow! Nice post! Thanks a lot!
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Forgot to mention http://www.assistcg.com/
Very good seamless textures are there!
Wow you have some nice resources listed here.
Here is another great resource with a lot of free textures:
http://www.3dmd.net/gallery/index-2.html
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Here is a great new resource for free textures: http://www.texturemate.com
Looks completely free for hi-res textures!
Good List, http://www.web30textures.com is a brand new texture resource worth mentioning in the future, thanks!
Loved it.
Thanks.
Regards