Tired of gradient backgrounds, or solid colored backdrops in your web designs? This article is a resource of 32 websites that offer free backgrounds to help add interest to your next designs. You’ll find, seamless backgrounds, patterns, textures, high-resolution photo textures for today’s sophisticated designers.
Web Design Resource for Free Patterns, Backgrounds and Textures
Go Media’s Arsenal
Free watercolor packs and texture packs that are amazing!
Grunge Textures
Ok, want something peeling, rusting, twisted, ruined and just plain amazing? Check out this selection of high resolution photos. This site screams bookmark me!
K10K Pixel Patterns
974 patterns on file at the present time. So many great ones to choose from. You’ll want to check the usage details however. Not all are allowed for commercial use. I love this site!
Kollermedia.at
Currently this site has 270+ backgrounds to select from. I think this site has a nice “current” selection of quality backgrounds. This is a site I’d highly recommend.
Limelite
Photo textures to use to create different looks. Very unusual selection that you should find interesting.
Milleseicentopercento
Small selection however they are very much in style for today’s web design trends. Must see.
Power Directory
Over 8000 backgrounds. Many of the categories are outdated, however the realistic categories such as stone, wood, and nature had some useful backgrounds.
RepeatXY
Download gorgeous backgrounds or edit them for your use by using their editor. Also search this site by color. Nice site, a must visit site!
Squidfingers
Really unique and dramatic backgrounds here! If you are looking for unusual color combinations this is a nice place to look.
Templateyes
Some very nice backgrounds here. It takes only a minute to look through their selection. I saw some really nice potential backgrounds here. This site also has a preview feature so you can get a nice idea of what the background looks like.
Texture King
337 current textures including grunge, dirt, concrete, plaster, rust and more.
Texture Love
Some really interesting categories of high resolution photos. My favorite is smoke, see if you can fine a favorite category.
Urban Dirty
If these photo images don’t inspire you in designing some really interesting sites, I’m not sure much will inspire. Great site that must be bookmarked.
Vecteezy
Vector fans will love this site. Beautiful patterns to select from.
WebGround
Pages and pages of textures. From light gray, to medium gray, light and dark colors.
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About The Author
Article By: Linda Chadbourne
Linda Chadbourne has been a web designer since 1998. A large portion of her day also involves graphic and logo design for Maine-ly Web Design which she owns and operates. Linda is also one of the co-founders of The Web Squeeze which is a Web Design and Development Help Forum. In her free time she is an avid family person, horseback rider and reader.
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June 16th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Does anyone know of a background that looks like book edges? For example, if you were making a fake book, you could wrap the 3 paper sides in this to make it look like book edges?
June 19th, 2008 at 6:59 am
The list is awesome. I liked the site colorlovers.com
It has an got quite a collection of patters.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Amurai Shizoo is quite good I must say this.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Nice website!!
June 30th, 2008 at 5:27 am
I posted a similar post recently
Top 10 free stock textures resources for designer
August 8th, 2008 at 9:04 am
I never thought i will find this much information on ign Resource for Free Patterns, Backgrounds and Textures - The Web Squeeze today. Nice post mate - keep up the good work.
December 21st, 2008 at 8:34 am
don’t forget http://www.patterncooler.com
many thanks