63 Impressive Website Background-Images: Trends, Resources and Tutorials
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- Posted in DESIGN, Graphics
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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
Gelay, 14 April 2008
Wow. Some inspirational examples. I am a big fan of bg, so thanks a lot.
Ryan, 14 April 2008
Great Post!
Matt Radel, 14 April 2008
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.
David, 14 April 2008
thanks for add!
nice sites!
James Carlos, 14 April 2008
Great list of backgrounds. Here’s another great use of design and technique:
http://silverbackapp.com/
Fubiz, 14 April 2008
Very good selection. Thanks for this list!
Binny V A, 14 April 2008
Great list – stumbled!
Andrew Cafourek, 14 April 2008
Another amazing one is the background on the registration/login page over at Vimeo.
Gunner Si, 14 April 2008
Wow! a great list!
Noupe, 14 April 2008
@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.
David, 14 April 2008
i’m habby to be here, hehe! :)
Ricardo, 15 April 2008
Great collection.
Mikey, 15 April 2008
I think the following site also has a stunning background: http://www.rubinered.eu
Siddharth, 15 April 2008
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.
Janko, 15 April 2008
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.
:)
Nidhi, 15 April 2008
Its great & nice colection
Andy, 18 April 2008
thanks for the inspiration!
ferdinad, 30 April 2008
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!
Paintworkz Web Design, 14 May 2008
This is a very inspirational post.
Great work displayed.
Sandeep, 12 June 2008
Great site…great links….great images….thanks a lot
David, 07 July 2008
my picture load not correctly, hehe
Felicity, 08 July 2008
I love number 19 – Springtime. The webpage just feels really great to be on.
bangbouh, 14 July 2008
inspiring!
Shivaji Mitra, 20 September 2008
wow, great combination of background images into header.
JONxBLAZE, 21 September 2008
Great…great collection! Thanks!!!
Denis, 08 October 2008
Pretty nice tutorial keep it up.
Alanya haber, 10 October 2008
very good… Thanks you very much !
imran, 03 November 2008
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hikaye oku, 16 November 2008
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.
seks hikayei oku, 16 November 2008
Great list of backgrounds. Here’s another great use of design and technique:
dekorasyon, 28 November 2008
thank a lot very usfull site
serge, 09 November 2009
Thanks for the information. It will be useful for many.
Real-Estate, 26 November 2009
thanks for sharing, some really amazing websites in this list : )
honour chick, 02 December 2009
wow, very beautiful backgrounds indeed. thxs for sharing this. ;)
Allen, 03 December 2009
Hey! nice backgrounds collections…
Web Guru, 10 February 2010
Really awesome compilation of impressive website background.
Srinivas, 17 March 2010
Great collection..
Thanks for sharing
Online Digital Photography Classes, 21 April 2010
Ha-ha!! I Was just browsing around, wondering if an online photography course was of some interest for me, and came across of this – an interesting read, thankx!
Active Computech, 26 April 2010
These are really amazing and trendsetters for 2011. Get inspired
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Kern, 03 August 2010
When laying in a background graphic, you need to consider all of the different monitor sizes. background graphics repeat themselves and could look weird on a wide monitor if
you selected a background size to fit one of the older, smaller monitors.
Natashia Notowitz, 05 August 2010
Interesting post! I was wondering, as I usually read most of the entries here is there any way I can get updates sent to my inbox?
Durga, 27 August 2010
Wow its amazing……….
vinod, 02 September 2010
its grate
Nakesha Bassin, 04 September 2010
Great Information, thanks for your useful Article. Also check these nice Website.
dfunk, 08 September 2010
Nice Work!
Graphic Designer Sydney, 26 September 2010
I loveeeee the texture background used in some of these!
Although some of them when I clicked onto the website, it’s changed :(
Anyway, still – very inspiring!!!
Cristobal Diekema, 27 September 2010
Liking this wallpaper! Looks awesome on my new Mac :)
local dentist page, 30 September 2010
excellent thanks for great information – this has me motivated now
Dzinepress, 13 October 2010
really useful stuff for graphic and web designers. thanks
Mida Cahya, 17 October 2010
whoa…it’s amazing design.. I want to learn it..!!
Mildred Mcclure, 23 October 2010
I actually really like the web template that using, is it custom created?
All Vectors, 17 December 2010
Wow, most of examples posted here look amazing. I will be trying to create something like that for my website.
doubledome, 14 January 2011
Awesome list of website back ground images, i like the post.
Kenan SKAR, 22 January 2011
Hello. Thank you for this nice compilation. Because of it is very useful i bookmarked this page.
Thank you again and regards.
steve, 26 January 2011
Great compilation – provided a lot of inspiration for a recent web design job
Cheers
Alonso, 29 January 2011
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Vaughn, 31 January 2011
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Jake, 31 January 2011
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Jennifer, 16 February 2011
Very cool, love the backgrounds.
Remo Naidu, 27 May 2011
I completely adore it and will likely be back to learn alot more.Several thanks to your very good web-site
Zavial Design, 08 March 2011
Really great resource with a nice variety of examples!
Jim, 04 April 2011
I love how the majority of these pics leads to spam sites…go get a real job you fuckin losers…tricking people so that you can get money from advertisers and w/e the else you low lifes get money from.
The internet is full of shit and its people like you that fill it even more.
Strikesolitaire, 26 April 2011
Nice collection, i like this post.
Realtor Rebate, 19 May 2011
Nice Collection. Specially I like the BootbB website background image. And i am going to use some of the ideas from here.
Supreet, 26 May 2011
Amazing… Luv it …
vague, 27 June 2011
Really great resource, really useful
Independee, 08 August 2011
Wow. Really inspiring. Now I know where to go during my designer’s block moments. Awesome designs, thanks for sharing this! :)
umesh shejole, 26 August 2011
Very nice creative designs. Amazing list! Very inspiring. Excellent work. Good Inspirational work.Thanks!
Feuerschale, 08 September 2011
these are some amazing site designs. This is true artwork.
Thanx
Kona, 24 November 2011
gr8 list. its really helpful. thanks for sharing.
Tim, 25 December 2011
Realy nice choice of backgrounds, great work!