Outstanding Website Background Guide: 60+ Impressive Resources
Web designers compete to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. Background images are one of those visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen.
In this post you will see how web designers carefully created background images to achieve their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content.
We have hand-picked different background image trends and tutorials you can use to create an amazing background images for your upcoming website design. You will also find an amazing set of patterns and texture packs that will magically add a big impact to a web design without a lot of effort.
As always when you’re dealing with freebies, be sure to read the owner’s instructions and license info.
Great Tutorials for getting the perfect Background
- Ultimate Guide for Creating High Quality Textures
A step by step guide for creating amazing textures.
- Create an Awesome Background Using Patterns
- Make a Torn Vector Desktop Wallpaper with Angled Text
- Add Visual Texture in 3 Easy Steps
- How to Turn a Texture into a Seemlessly Tiled Background
- Craft a Vector Collegiate Notebook Design
- How To: Make the Viget Inspire Background
- Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch then Create a Grungy Web Design with it!
- Realistic Stone Texture
- Make an Aurora Borealis Design in Illustrator
- How to Seamlessly Tile a Graphic
- Create a Realistic Stone Texture in Photoshop
- Photoshop Retro Grid Background
- Design your own pattern swatches
- Repeating Seamless Background Image Tutorial
- Awesome digital bokeh effect in Photoshop
- Create a Realistic Torn Paper Effect in Photoshop
- Create a Themed Repeating Pattern in Illustrator
- Creating Old Paper With Custom Brushes
- Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs
- Create a magical rainbow color flame in Photoshop
- Creating geometric patterns in Illustrator
- How To Make An Awesome Grungy Paper Texture From Scratch
- Illustrating the Flower Pattern
Handpicked Textures & Patterns
- 29 Great Free Textures
From organic to metal rust, this list has lots of great textures.
- 200+ Beautiful Seamless Patterns Perfect for Web Design
Whether you use patterns to fill the entire background of your site or just a specific area of your design, you will definitely find this collection useful.
- Texture Pack Sampler
- 5 Genuine Carbon Fiber Textures for Photoshop
- Ornate Flourish & Pattern
- Seamless Swirls
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29 Most Useful Texture Packs of 2008
- Funky Circles Set 2
- Organic Set 1
- 53 Impressive Polka Dot Pattern Swatches
- 50 Astonishing Argyle Pattern Swatches for Illustrator
- 25 Woven Plaid Swatches
- 101 Free Stone and Rock Textures
What about Free Textures?
- Milleseicentopercento
- PatternHead
- SeamlessTextures.net
- High Resolution Textures
- GrungeTextures
- LostandTaken
- CGTextures
- TextureKing
Where to Find Free Patterns?
- Milleseicentopercento
- PatternHead
- ava7 Patterns
- Kaliber Patterns
- Tartanmaker
- Brusheezy Patterns
- Squidfingers Patterns
- dinpattern
- bgpatterns
- patterncooler
