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 had carefully created background images to influence how the websites is visually distinct but considerate of their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content.
We have hand-picked background image resources and tutorials one can use to create amazing background images for the next website design.
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Stunning Examples and Trends
Let’s take a look at some great website designs that are very well engaged to the background images
1) Viget/Extend
2) Jazz Clubs
5) Hebatec
Plain and Simple
8 ) Subdued
10) Eddidit
13) Otramancha
14) Peminoz
15) Time For Cake
16) Dale Harris
17) Kutz Town
18) BootbB
19) Springtime
20) Level Opacity
21) Eleven3
22) Swell Guys
23) Point Of E
24) Abduzeedo
25) Avalonstar
26) Pangaea Festival
28) Deadmetropolis
29) Juxt Interactive
30) Introzo
31) Scoutingforgirls
32) David Hellmann
Where can you find background images?
Below you will find regularly updated online libraries and resources featuring hundreds of textures, patterns, brushes and images. They’ll come in handy when creating Photoshop brushes or your own background images.
- Free Hi-Res Splatter Photoshop Brushes
- Createsk8- Free Illustrator Patterns, Camouflage Patterns.
- PS Brushes- Great resource for Photoshop Brushes
- Squidfingers
- Urban Dirty- Texture stock photos
- Go Media Vector Packs
- Kaliber10000
- Kavewall
- Vecteezy
- DeviantART Brushes
- Brusheezy- Free Photoshop Brushes at Brusheezy
- Free Vector Graphics
- Texture Packs
- Free Photoshop Brushes
Further Resources for Background textures and patterns
- Where can I find textures and background images?
- Free Textures and Background Images
- 30+ Background & Stock Image Sites
How to Control element backgrounds with CSS
- Spruce up your search box- with CSS and a background image.
- CSS Sprites- What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them
- Using Percentages in Background-Image
- CSS background-image Tutorial- A tutorial about the CSS background-image property and other background related CSS properties.
- Controlling background images and colours- Learn how to use CSS properties to add background images and colour to your Web pages. Lots of neat tricks and examples are included!
- CSS Image Maps- How to create an image map that’s built entirely using CSS and XHTML
Creating Your Own Backgrounds Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials
- Illustrating the Flower Pattern- This article will outline the main steps on how Nick La has made the flower pattern in Illustrator for WeDesignerWall.
- Magic lighting effect in photoshop- How to create a nice light and magic effect.
- Photoshop Space and Planet Tutorial- The techniques in this tutorial will show you how to create a nice image of space and planet.
- Vector Polishing Techniques- This tutorial includes 9 Photoshop techniques that will show you how to add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into your vector art.
- Creating Smoke- How to create smoke in photoshop.
- The Neverending (Background Image) Story- by Elliot Jay Stocks
- Beautiful lighting FX effect in Photoshop
Background images Generators
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Wow. Some inspirational examples. I am a big fan of bg, so thanks a lot.
Great collection. I really love them! Thanks for the amazing post.
Great Post!
I love the subtle dotted flourishes on I HEART LUXE
http://www.iheartluxe.com
Awesome list! I think Juxt has had that same look for a couple of years now - it’s amazing how some designs can really stand the test of time.
thanks for add!
nice sites!
Great list of backgrounds. Here’s another great use of design and technique:
http://silverbackapp.com/
Very good selection. Thanks for this list!
Great list - stumbled!
Another amazing one is the background on the registration/login page over at Vimeo.
Wow! a great list!
@Gelay, @Sarah, @Ryan, Gunner Si
I’m glad you liked it. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks @Matt, Juxt is one of my favorites.
@David, You’re welcome. I really like your design.
@James, silverbackapp.com is great too. I am not sure how we missed that
@Fubiz, i am glad you liked this post.
@Binny V A, thanks for the stumble
@Andrew Cafourek, Yea Vimeo has an nice background.
i’m habby to be here, hehe!
Great collection.
I think the following site also has a stunning background: http://www.rubinered.eu
Some of these backgrounds are really cool, special Level Opacity one. I appreciate the way you explain the CSS coding to add them as well.
Excellent collection. It’s amazing how much great ideas can be found.
No 17, http://www.kutztown.edu/ doesn’t match the screenshot in the post.
Very nice post.
Must have been a lot of work it looks like.
When I post on My Blog I know it takes time to get it out.
Its great & nice colection
thanks for the inspiration!
STUMBLED!
Very nice looking designs.
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cool work with photoshop?
this is awesome. I’m thinking about redesigning my site some time soon. I’ve boomarked this article for future references. Thank you very much!