TEXTURA - Original Photoshop Textures By Vered
TEXTURA is an amazing site that features the work of texture artist Vered, who created everything using Photoshop. The texture work is beautiful and inspires us. As soon as you load her site you'll see some of the nice smudgy, charcoal and pastel work she's known for.
At the site, on the right hand navigation area use the scrollers to dig down and pretty soon the previews to the textures (small squares) will appear. There are about 50 textures available that are listed by upload date. All of them are quite beautiful, are free, and are ready for download. The texture files are high resolution and feature exquisite color schemes and patterns.
Vered has also posted a thorough How To Create Textures In Photoshop tutorial that will help you create your own textures and backgrounds — if you'd like to give that a try.
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Pixel Perfect Digital - Free Textures & Backgrounds
A very nice assortment of free high resolution textures and backgrounds can be found at Pixel Perfect Digital in the following categories: Asphalt, Bark, Brick, Concrete, Decorative Stone, Fabrics, Glass, Metal, Mud, Natural Stone, Organic, Peeling Paint, Rock, Rust, Stucco, Tar, and Wood.
Make sure to download the files that might interest you so you can have a closer look at them, as some of the thumbnails do not do justice to the patterns and textures that are featured.
A clean and simple website that is super easy to navigate, this is a good place to find quality textures and backgrounds fast.
Citrus Moon Patterns — Free Patterns and Background Tiles
You'll find some very beautiful free patterns here for making tiling backgrounds. Start on the Patterns Page and you'll see a list of categories that include: Arrays, black & white, blue, brown / beige, busy, dark, deco /nouveau, Floral, green, grey, House Party, Ménage à trois, metallic hues, multicolor, Multicolor, Neutral, nice couples, Op, orange, peach, pink, purple, red, retro, rust, silk, Tame, U-Color 'em, and yellow.
Then try Overalls, which is a collection of semi-transparent tiles that will work over many different background colors. If you hit the "latest" button you'll be taken to the end of the line, and then you can use the left arrow to step your way to the beginning.
But there's something else here that is truly amazing. Just below the Terms Of Use notice you'll see an assortment of color squares. All you have to do is pass your mouse over a color and you'll suddenly see the tile you selected against that sample color. This is a huge time-saver, and a lot of fun.
If you'd like to learn about making your own patterns, read A Tip Or Two On Making Patterns by taz, which includes links to useful resources.
To make your own "OverAlls" (semi-transparent tiles) read the 30 Second OverAlls Tutorial which walks you through every step.
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Squidfingers — Free Patterns
Squidfingers has lots and lots of well-designed, professional-looking free patterns. They are collected on the Patterns Page of the site and are indexed by number. Take a few minutes and browse through them. You'll be rewarded with some really nice work to choose from.
There are 140 patterns available. Just click on one of the patterns and a small popup window will appear with the image, which you can then download.
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Texture Warehouse — Free High Resolution Textures
The Texture Warehouse offers free, high resolution textures to designers and 3D artists. The images are licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0). Their textures and backgrounds are updated frequently, and are found in the following categories:
Brick, Concrete, Metal, Rust, Organic, Ground Texture, Wood, Rock/Stone, Decorative Stone/Marble, Glass, Asphalt, Miscellaneous, Goo, Fabric, Food, Paint, Plastic, and Tiles.
You can also get a look at what's popular by viewing their most downloaded textures and backgrounds hotlist.
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Luxology imageSynth Plug-in for Photoshop - Texture Generator & Tiling Solution For Backgrounds
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New Tool Streamlines Arduous Process of Creating Tiling Textures, Synthetic Images, Unique Backgrounds and More
imageSynth is advanced technology that works within Adobe Photoshop for creating seamless textures and for creating high resolution images from low resolution sources using advanced image synthesis algorithms. Hence the name! imageSynth is included FREE with every purchase of modo. And now you can buy it standalone.
Developed in conjunction with the smart people at Allegorithmic, the imageSynth plug-in is a powerful ally to Adobe Photoshop for anyone wanting to create seamless tiling textures. The plug-in is simple to use and rewards experimentation. You can use imageSynth from Luxology to create an unlimited number of creative new images based upon simple seed images that you choose from your collection.
The resulting images are unique, and will tile seamlessly, making them ideal for use as backgrounds, brushes or texture maps. You can also take a low resolution image source and use it to generate a high resolution image that is based upon. This is a very powerful tool providing a myriad of creative solutions.
Go to our Luxology imageSynth Page to find out more (includes links to demos).
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