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Textures Textures everywhere, but not a drop to drink?

  • I have no idea what the title of this post means, but I would like to know where all of you get your textures for design, whether it be free or pay to play.

    I have always been a little weaker in the design part of web design/development, but I am coming along. I have a good eye for what is good and right, and definitely what is wrong, but I sometimes have trouble pulling off the effects. For the next few sites I work on I want to concentrate more on depth, "feel" and texture.

    What are your favorite textures and where did you get them?
  • In the last time I have collected a whole list of sites with (I think all are free) textures.
    So for the good of the CSS-Tricks community, here they are. Good luck with them!:

    http://www.textureking.com/
    http://www.grungetextures.com/gallery/
    http://www.imageafter.com/
    http://www.2textured.com/main.php
    http://cgtextures.com/
    http://texturez.com/
    http://www.lughertexture.com/index.php
    http://textures.pedramk.com/index-html.php?pos=texture&cat=Asphalt&limit=24&page=0
    http://stocktextures.com/index.php?mode=textures
    http://www.texturelove.com/wp-content/plugins/gallery2/main.php
    http://www.allfreebackgrounds.com/background_select.html
    http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns
  • Dang! Nice list Edwin! I was gonna mention that squidfingers one, but I see you got that one already.
  • Well Edwin pretty much took care of that.

    Those are most of the ones i go to. Mayangs free texture library is one i go to also but its down right now.
    CG textures is cool too.

    most of them have limits to how many downloads you can do so having all those sites bookmarked helps. i usually get in a texture hunting mood and go dl a ton till i reach my limit and then move to the next site. my textures folder is quite large hah.

    theres actually 5 different textures and 5 brushes used on the redesign of my Digital Skraps site i posted in the other forum. i converted them all to black and white, then messed with the blend modes and opacity.