diven

# May 5, 2008 at 3:24 pm

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?

Edwin

# May 5, 2008 at 3:49 pm

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

Chris Coyier

# May 6, 2008 at 12:02 am

Dang! Nice list Edwin! I was gonna mention that squidfingers one, but I see you got that one already.

Digital Skraps

# May 6, 2008 at 11:32 am

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.