Tag Archive : Textures

20 Distinctive and Unique Reptile Skin Textures

Posted on November 10, 2011 in: Textures|4 Comments

The use of texture in graphic design creates an illusion of adding an extra dimension of touch within an illustration. It is considered to be an important element in a design because it evokes and alerts the senses of things that are known to us. In today’s post, we are showcasing reptile skin textures that can be downloaded for free. Reptile skin textures are fascinating to look at in the background of campaign posters for saving animals.

Here are the 20 Distinctive and Unique Reptile Skin Textures that you might find useful in your design project. Most of these textures can be freely downloaded from DeviantArt. Check this out and enjoy!

30 Aesthetically Beautiful Vintage Textures for your Designs

Posted on November 7, 2011 in: Textures|Post Comment

If you are a designer who is working on design projects such as banners or sketch of a website which require vintage touches, the use of design elements that look like they were found in the attic of an old house dating back to the 1920′s, 30′s, or 40′s or vintage looking textures is important to give your design a feeling of authenticity and originality. In today’s post, we gathered some great vintage texures that are extremely useful in decorating your designs to make your viewers feel that they have transported back in time. You will no longer spend much of your time in browsing vintage textures on your local antique shops or on your grandmother’s attic since we have already done this job for you.

Here are 30 Examples of Old Yet Aesthetically Beautiful Vintage Textures for your Designs. Hope that these wonderful pieces of art will be useful in designing your vintage-themed projects. Enjoy browsing!

27 Free High Resolution Fire Textures

Posted on October 5, 2011 in: Textures|3 Comments

People make fire to generate heat and light to cook food. The produced heat also helps our body stay warm in cold weather. These are just a few uses of fire in people’s life. In web design or digital world, designers use fire texture or background to provide a realistic fiery glow to any design be it in 3D animation works that we see in blockbuster movies or in print and web designs or other digital media like movie posters, photo manipulations etc. To help you save time in finding the best textures around the web, we compiled high quality textures that you can download and freely use.

Here is a Showcase of Fire Texture with Substantially High Resolution that can be very useful for making backgrounds. These are beautiful and will truly give you unique results for your design. Select from this collection of fire texture right away.

20 Free Glittering Christmas Background Textures

Posted on December 25, 2010 in: Textures|5 Comments

Its Christmas time and today, we are providing you with some sort of free interesting holiday-themed textures that you can use in creating your own personalized Greeting Cards, banners and backgrounds for Holiday projects and Christmas scrapbooks. Some of the textures include Christmas tree, Christmas Wrapper, Glitters, Christmas Light and Christmas Balls.

Here is our compilation of 20 Free Glittering Christmas Background Textures in high resolution that can be downloaded for personal and commercial use. Feel the spirit of joy this Christmas through these textures. Enjoy!

40 Refreshing Water Textures for Your Design

Posted on September 23, 2010 in: Textures|5 Comments

Texture is one of the most essential elements that we can add in a design. It can enhance and emphasize the theme of a design and can easily grab the attention of the viewers. In this post, we have come up with a collection of refreshing water textures that could give an inspirational touch to your next design project. Water textures are useful in making 2D and 3D designs, in photo manipulation and as a background for websites. Some of the textures included in this post are water droplets, water ripples, surface water textures, splashes, and many more. These textures are free for personal and commercial use. To download, just click on the thumbnail or Download Source below each image.

Here are the 40 Refreshing Water Textures for Your Design that can be very inspiring. Start on browsing and enjoy!

40 Metal Textures for Designers

Posted on August 20, 2010 in: Freebies, Textures|11 Comments

Texture can refer to the actual surface of a design or to the actual appearance of the design. Metal textures can also be very handy in web and graphic design. They can appear as 3D, or may even look futuristic, depending on how well you use it. Here, we came up with these freebies of metallic textures that can give an edge to your websites and blogs making it unique and attractive.

In this next post, we were able to compile 40 Metal Textures for Designers, which seems unusual but at the same time unique and exquisite. They can be used in posters, as well as wall papers and graphic backgrounds. So feel free to stream through them and make the best out of these unique freebies and enjoy.

35 Useful Concrete Textures

Posted on May 10, 2010 in: Freebies, Textures|4 Comments

Texture is a visual characteristic and/or a surface appearance of certain objects. With this, you can come with bizarre effects and can greatly enhance your design works. Textures are usually used in website backgrounds, banners, or even editing images. But you can use them anyway and anywhere you like, let your creativity run wild!

In this post we will showcase 35 Useful Concrete Textures. This collection will give you great variety of concrete-inspired textures that you need for your next design work. Feel free to browse them and of course, everything you will see is free to download, however, just make it to a point to check the agreements and conditions from the owners of this textures to avoid accidental violations. Take your time, Take a peek and choose your pick.

45+ Absolutely Useful Free Fabric Textures

Posted on July 28, 2009 in: Freebies, Textures|11 Comments

Today we will showcase a collection of textures where you can use and apply on your future web page design project or just for graphics use. These type of textures is more on different kind of fabrics.

Here is 45+ Absolutely Useful Free Fabric Textures. This is just the first round-up on fabric textures, so expect to see more in the future.