50+ High Resolution Textures, Tutorials and Resources
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Hundreds of thousands of incredible Textures are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of textures available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want.
So I’ve been surfing and made a list of sites that offer free textures to download. Here are tons of convenient stock textures that others have freely contributed to the design community!
Important: Licenses of every Texture varies, so be sure to check that information before using them.
Grunge Textures
1. Texture 4
2. Girly Grunge 11
3. Texture 3
4. b l u e o i l s
5. Urban Decay 2
6. Texture 13
7. Green White Rusty
8. Unwanted Texture
Artistic Textures
9. Texture
10. Sirian Textures 1
11. Textures 119
12. Oct21lma1i
13. Floral Texture
Paper Texture
14. Cards
15. Grungy Paper Textures
16. Paper Texture 2
17. Studio
18. Photo Card
19. Burned Texture
20. 10 Plain and Grunge Paper Textures
Paint and Color Textures
21. Abstract – Color 3
22. Abstract – Color 4
23. Paint Drops
24. Oil Paint Series 4
25. Srokes on Canvas
26. Go Media Watercolor Pack
Granite, Marble, Glass and Sand Textures
27. Dry Sand
28. Granite & Marble
29. Outsd 108
30. 24 Free High-Res Textures
31. Broken glass
Wood Textures
32. Wood Texture
33. Wooden Floor
34. My little star
35. Cork
36. Pressed Wood
37. Wood Texture
38. Plywood Sign
Miscellaneous
39. Guthrie 126
40. Old Autograph Book
41. Vines Texture
42. Glace sur verre
43. Waterdrops Texture
44. Texture 8
45. 30 Free Bokeh Textures
How to make Textures Tutorials
47. Add Visual Texture 3 Easy Steps
The use of textures in design are incredibly important in defining a surface. While we can not create actual tactile textures in digital design, we can create the visual illustion of 3D texture. This Tutorial aims to show you an easy way to do just that.
48. Grungy Paper Texture
Learn how To Make An Awesome Grungy Paper Texture From Scratch
49. The Ultimate Wood Texture Tutorial
In this tutorial, learn how to create a wood texture and apply some artwork on top of it that has an aged paint feel.
50. Add Texture to Improve Artwork
In this little Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to design a quick art piece, then add some texture to it, this is to demonstrate the use of texture in artwork
Great work!
awesome collection. thanks for including my textures. it’s been dugg and shouted!
Great collection!
Great collection once again. thank you
I find a mistake.the No.41 and No.43 are same.
nice list.im gonna use some if them.thanks!!
Ronald
That is one long list. Thanks for sharing the texture freebies list with us.
@Love CJ- Thanks for pointing that out. It’s fixed now.
@everyone- I am glad you found this post interesting.
great post. this gives me another of grunge and textures.
Awesome! Love your freebies – keep it up and thanks!
WOW – Freebies really make my day !!!
Oh wow… these are really great. Thanks.
Hey, all kinds of great resources here, glad I made the list! Thanks.
Caleb
http://lostandtaken.com
Thanks for the compilation, Noupe!
Good to see a number of these are stored on Flickr — which is a great resource for organizing textures you’ve made.
If anyone wants 600+ FREE textures in a variety of styles, mostly surreal but they’re quite a jovial diversity I’ve created, you’re welcome to help yourself to:
» http://torley.com/textures
Cheerio!
OMG! these are great! I will surely using them in the future.
Wow, great list. I especially like those old and burned ones.
I already linked this article on my blog.
Thx again!
Thanks. It’s really useful
Hey thanks for including my photos for use in textures! Almost all of my photos are free for use as long as it’s not a commercial (for profit) venture.
Great collection, Thanks
It’s really hard in our days to make complete list with all the best textures, but every new article comes nearer to this goal..:) thanks for the resources!
you guys are the best =’)
Great list! Texture King is my favorite!
Thanks for posting these
Excellent!! it’s a great collection!
Great resources. Thanks you very much !
thanks
thank you.. Te?ekkürler ;)
Excellent. Keep up the good Work.
Trevor.
you guys rock :)
muy buenes texturas gracias