Outstanding Website Background Guide: 60+ Impressive Resources
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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 carefully created background images to achieve their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content.
We have hand-picked different background image trends and tutorials you can use to create an amazing background images for your upcoming website design. You will also find an amazing set of patterns and texture packs that will magically add a big impact to a web design without a lot of effort.
As always when you’re dealing with freebies, be sure to read the owner’s instructions and license info.
Great Tutorials for getting the perfect Background
- Ultimate Guide for Creating High Quality Textures
A step by step guide for creating amazing textures.
- Create an Awesome Background Using Patterns
- Make a Torn Vector Desktop Wallpaper with Angled Text
- Add Visual Texture in 3 Easy Steps
- How to Turn a Texture into a Seemlessly Tiled Background
- Craft a Vector Collegiate Notebook Design
- How To: Make the Viget Inspire Background
- Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch then Create a Grungy Web Design with it!
- Realistic Stone Texture
- Make an Aurora Borealis Design in Illustrator
- How to Seamlessly Tile a Graphic
- Create a Realistic Stone Texture in Photoshop
- Photoshop Retro Grid Background
- Design your own pattern swatches
- Repeating Seamless Background Image Tutorial
- Awesome digital bokeh effect in Photoshop
- Create a Realistic Torn Paper Effect in Photoshop
- Create a Themed Repeating Pattern in Illustrator
- Creating Old Paper With Custom Brushes
- Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs
- Create a magical rainbow color flame in Photoshop
- Creating geometric patterns in Illustrator
- How To Make An Awesome Grungy Paper Texture From Scratch
- Illustrating the Flower Pattern
Handpicked Textures & Patterns
- 29 Great Free Textures
From organic to metal rust, this list has lots of great textures.
- 200+ Beautiful Seamless Patterns Perfect for Web Design
Whether you use patterns to fill the entire background of your site or just a specific area of your design, you will definitely find this collection useful.
- Texture Pack Sampler
- 5 Genuine Carbon Fiber Textures for Photoshop
- Ornate Flourish & Pattern
- Seamless Swirls
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29 Most Useful Texture Packs of 2008
- Funky Circles Set 2
- Organic Set 1
- 53 Impressive Polka Dot Pattern Swatches
- 50 Astonishing Argyle Pattern Swatches for Illustrator
- 25 Woven Plaid Swatches
- 101 Free Stone and Rock Textures
What about Free Textures?
- Milleseicentopercento
- PatternHead
- SeamlessTextures.net
- High Resolution Textures
- GrungeTextures
- LostandTaken
- CGTextures
- TextureKing
Where to Find Free Patterns?
- Milleseicentopercento
- PatternHead
- ava7 Patterns
- Kaliber Patterns
- Tartanmaker
- Brusheezy Patterns
- Squidfingers Patterns
- dinpattern
- bgpatterns
- patterncooler
Tags: backgrounds, patterns, textures
Nice List! Thanks!
thanks so much great collection
Cool, this is really appriciated! :O hope to see more in this style`s of posts!
helpful tutorials and useful resources thanks for share..
Another tremendous collection!
Wow! Great list! Just what I was searching for. This will greatly help me with my blog redesign!
Great list, thanks for including one of MyInkBlog’s tuts!
good,that is a good idea !
Nice collection of pattern…
This is a great list! Thanks for sharing this resource!
Don’t forget SVG backgrounds used in normal web pages
It’s a great list with some good resources that we will certainly keep for future use.
Thanks,
Michael
Michael
Thanks for finding this great resource of patterns, etc theywill certainly come in handy for us at dininginthailand.com
Great resource list – will definitely bookmark this one for future use!
Excellent information !!
Fantastic!
Love the graphics. How do you do it? Always finding the best lists.
Regards,
Jeromy (AKA Hillbilly)
Good Collection…
I was looking something for ” Grungy Paper Texture” since sometime..Thanks for this. And yes this is a real learning list that you have collected. Would look forward to your lists further…
Nice list, good to have all of these in one place
Great collection !
Incredible list thank! This one is getting bookmarked straight away!
Gordon
Great list.
Thanks for mentioning my free vector patterns
What a great collection. This is a useful resource and one that I am going to bookmark and use in the future.
this post came just at the right time, i am about to change the design of my blog & this really help me design my background. thanks.
awesome collection of tutorials and resources! and many thanks for mentioning highresolutiontextures.com – much appreciated!
Great list. Thx!
Kick ass! thanks
Thanks so much! Very cool collection.
What a great collection. This is a useful resource and one that I am going to bookmark and use it sin the future.
Thanks Noura, great selection
Thanks for this list, retweeting it now!
thanks for this!it really helped me a lot^^
Top backgrounds, thanks. You guys are as good as the fellows over at smashing mag. Keeping you bookmarked! Cheers, Matt.
thanks for this!great!
Superb list…thanks…
Why are the sample pictures not loaded? This happens quite frequently ….
I am tired of seeing the same resources/sites, inspirations lists, etc.
Its time to evolve…
thanks for such an amazing resources
This is a great list guys, thanks!
some really useful tutorials and images here!
nice background advices except for the torn vector I find it a little dizzy to the eye
I like the cool retro curves I think it looks great
Thank you for the effort to put together such big list. Nice work!
thank you this is a well thought out and amazing collection of resources.
What a list! Totally blown me away. Must have taken ages to compile. Thanks for sharing.
It was a wonderful list.I’m in love with most of the design!
great background resources… thanks!
great list i like 2nd one and stone effect.
The red one was great.
Great collections, thank you!
Great Backgrounds
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we always design a site with this in mind