backgrounds

  • Free Paper Textures – 20 Useful Examples
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    Free Paper Textures – 20 Useful Examples

    If you’re a designer you’ve probably used paper textures in your design work before. They are a wonderful resource that you can use to overlay photographs, create vintage backgrounds and many other visual elements to make them look great. Images of free paper textures aren’t hard to come by on the internet, there’s plenty of…

  • Free Floral Backgrounds – 20 Blooming Examples
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    Free Floral Backgrounds – 20 Blooming Examples

    Returning back from a short visit to Norway has inspired me to select some beautiful floral images for this post. The summer in Norway has really kicked in with plenty of sun and greenery, in contrast to Iceland, where it was still snowing last week. For this, I have hand picked 20 colorful and beautiful…

  • Free Subtle Grunge Textures

    Free Subtle Grunge Textures

    I’m starting this week with a nice set of free subtle grunge textures, perfect to use as overlays to add a worn and vintage effect to your designs and photos. Adding textures like this is easy, even if you’re a beginner with Photoshop, or any other major photo editing software. Here are a couple of…

  • Free Organic Backgrounds – 50 Earthly Examples
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    Free Organic Backgrounds – 50 Earthly Examples

    With Earth Day coming up on April 22nd. I decided to round up a good selection of free organic backgrounds that you can use for the occasion. Our Organic background images mainly consist of plants, foliage, dirt and other natural elements that look great up close. Organic textures tend to be very abstract and will…

  • Free Rotten Wood Textures

    Free Rotten Wood Textures

    Today I have a brand new set of free rotten wood textures that I shot this weekend. These images are from an old driftwood that I walked upon by the sea. The wood has been rotting away for years and is filled with holes, cracks and other wonderful details. It’s probably been a while since…

  • Free Gritty Colored Rock Textures

    Free Gritty Colored Rock Textures

    This week I have another one of those interesting texture sets that look like something else. I’ve been testing some of the Lightroom Mega Bundle Presets from PhotoWoah and I must say there are some really cool ones in there. I’ve just scratched the surface of the 11.000 presets in that bundle. Anyhow, for these…

  • Free Alien Rock Textures

    Free Alien Rock Textures

    Today I have a new set of 10 abstract textures that look like surfaces from alien planets. These Free Alien Rock Textures are from icelandic rocks such as jasper and quartz. I did apply some color changes to create the red and bluish tone, and toned down the brightness to make them more dark and…

  • Free Abstract Backgrounds – 30 Interesting Examples
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    Free Abstract Backgrounds – 30 Interesting Examples

    Abstract background images are a highly useful element in both graphic- and webdesign. You can use them to make your design come alive, add modern style to your images and add an interesting perspective and focus to your artwork. While there is an abundant of free abstract backgrounds to be found online, one can easily…

  • Free Grunge Backgrounds – 70 Gritty Examples
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    Free Grunge Backgrounds – 70 Gritty Examples

    With Halloween around the corner I thought it was appropriate to hand pick a selection of free grunge backgrounds from our texture gallery. With over 11.000 textures in our gallery, there is plenty to choose from. Unfortunately I had to limit the blog post to 70 textures, but that’s plenty to get you started. Grunge…

  • Free Rusty Metal Textures

    Free Rusty Metal Textures

    Today I have a new set of high quality Rusty Metal Textures that would look good on any screen or piece of paper. With texture backgrounds like this, you can add text and other graphics on top of them, use them as overlays over your photos and designs or even use them as they are…