50+ Beautiful Patterns & Useful Tools for Web Designers

The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Photoshop users can save themselves a great deal of time and end up with better results by taking advantage of readily available freebies, such as brushes, patterns and shapes. With the wide variety and (often) high quality of resources available, whatever you need or are looking for is in most cases already available somewhere. The resources featured here are all available as downloads in PAT format, which can be placed in Photoshop. Skull Patterns Two skull patterns from Go Media using an image from one of its vector packs. Carbon Fiber A carbon fiber pattern. Patterns from PunkSafetyPin This set of 15 patterns from a deviantART user offers more than 30 other packs of patterns. Grunge Pattern Set Nine large and high-quality grunge patterns. Dots Pattern Set Eight dot patterns of various colors and styles. Hexagonal Patterns Seventy-two black-and-white horizontal and vertical patterns. Skulls and Hearts Three different gray, white and pink patterns. Brick Texture Patterns

The Big Collection Of Free Design Textures - Noupe Design Blog Nov 08 2009 Knowing your resources is important in all aspects of design. You could be working on a new draft and realize you are missing one thing, texture. This post presents an extensive collection of resources with textures from which you can choose the perfect background image for your next design. 40+ Beautiful Patterns and Textures for Ornate BackgroundsThe use of ornate patterns in web design has been popular for several years now. 50 Outstanding Free Design TexturesA few good textures can take a boring design and turn into something stunning. The Big Smashing Texture GallerySmashing Magazine organized the Smashing Texture Contest last year and received over 740 e-mails from over 600 participants, resulting in far more than 2000 photos. 270+ Sets Free And Beautiful Watercolor TexturesBoth grunge and watercolor effects are really cool and hot in web design industrial. 25 Free High Res Watercolor TexturesThese awesome watercolor textures are brought to you by Daniel Davidson.

Massive Grunge Texture Pack: 40+ Textures I know things have been a little slow around here lately, but I promise I haven't forgotten about all of you textures lovers. I've been keeping myself busy with lots of side projects and freelance work lately, but I have managed to go out and shoot a whole bunch of new textures to give away. I thought I'd show my appreciation to you guys by releasing a massive pack of grunge textures. I'm pretty sure this is most textures I've posted at one time, not to mention some of my personal favorites. In the coming weeks I'll be posting more and more awesome textures for you guys, as well as announcing some other cool projects :) Click on the textures below to download the high-res version or download them all in a zip file at the bottom of the post. If you've used L&T textures in commercial work or earned a profit from them in your designs, please consider making a donation to Lost & Taken.

Free Stock Photo Resources I’m not sure if you’ve ever had a look at the prices on some non-stock photography sites (pictures of Gummy bears for $769.00 anyone?), but they reach far beyond the budget of the typical designer/developer. However, many places online allow you to obtain high-quality stock photos for free, giving the average starving artist a chance to create wonderful works of art/design without having to use next month’s rent on stock photos. In this article, we review the 15 best places to free stock photos online for designers. Note: Although these sites feature free stock photos, you should read the terms, limitations, and licensing of each work that you use; read the fine print! Dedicated free stock photo sites 1. stock.xchng stock.xchng is all free, all the time. one of the most popular paid stock photo sites – iStockphoto, sponsors them. Aimed at: Web designers and web developers, illustrators, print designers 2. A small team of in-house professional photographers supplies the photos in the site.

Free Textures from TextureKing 350+ Free Textures - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag 17 scratched and scraped textures grab bag 40 random free textures 14 free high res slate textures Aqueous Sun Texture Pack Volume 1 (50) Aqueous Sun Texture Pack Volume 2 (50) Aqueous Sun Presents Rust v.01 (28) Beautiful Textures On Black Backgrounds (22) rust textures (5) victorian dreams texture pack (10) Dreamy Bokeh Textures (4) Glitter Bokeh Texture Pack (33) 20 grungy dirty wood textures tree bark 10 free high res textures 9 colorful rust textures Wood Panels Texture Set (9) turn back time texture pack (5) Vintage II Texture Pack (6) Rust ‘n Such Textures (10) textures (5) Folds: Texture Pack (8) Freebie: Texture Pack 4 – Watercolours (10) Metal Texture Pack – 47 Free Images Brick & Stone: Texture Pack (24) 17 rock and concrete textures 25 subtle and light grunge textures 8 re-stained paper textures 28 High-Res Vintage Postal Textures Old Leather Textures (5) 5 colored grungy bokeh textures 15 High-Res Lens Flare Textures 27 High-Res Fabric Fold Textures out of focus 30 free bokeh textures Bokeh Pack (22)