Texture is what gives a design the feeling of a surface. It is the tactile sense of the elements in the design. In Web design, texture is visual, but it provides the illusion of physical texture.
The most common way to incorporate texture into Web designs is with the background image style property. You can put background images on most block level elements, which allows you to add texture throughout your Web pages. Use of texture, along with other elements of design, can convey a variety of messages and emotions. Good quality textures can be hard to find however they are quite essential building blocks for designers. In this article you will find more than 20 great websites where you can download nearly any kind of texture, happy texture hunting! You will also find inspiration on how to use textures in web design.
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OK you may ask yourself how to to get started with using textures in your designs. To help you out I would like to point your attention to these inspirational articles showcasing textures used elegantly in web design.
- 25 Website Designs with Great use of Textures @tripwiremagazine.com
- 40+ Stunning Website Designs and Textures With Heavy Use of Bokeh Effects @tripwiremagazine.com
- Textures and Patterns Design Showcase @smashingmagazine.com
- Textures In Modern Web Design @smashingmagazine.com
Texture directories
1. Urban Dirty
2. Grunge textures
3. Lost and Taken
4. 3dup.com
5. Texture Lovers
6. Stock Textures
7. 2Textured
8. Texturama
9. CgTextures
10. 3Dxo
11. Textures Library
12. PatternWall
13.TextureKing
14.Texturez.com
15.TextureWarehouse
16.TextureArchive
17. Got3d
18.PhotoShopTextures
19.Texture Spot
20.MorgueFile
21. Mayang’s Free Textures
22. Amazing Textures
Other useful texture resources
There are other great places to find high quality textures. One area is of course design blogs where you may find hand-picked textures for a specific purpose…
- 70+ Awesome Free Textures and Texture Sets @tripwiremagazine.com
- 20+ Stunning Textures of Decay from stock.xchng @tripwiremagazine.com
- 100 Beautiful Free Textures @smashingmagazine.com
- Smashing Texture Contest Results @smashingmagazine.com
- Where can I find textures and background images? @smashingmagazine.com
- 29 Most Useful Texture Packs of 2008 @webdesignledger.com
- 60+ Free Textures from SXC.hu @designm.ag
- 99 Free Canvas, Paper, Paint, and Metal Textures @tutorial9.net
- 31 Most Colorful Collection Of High Quality Free Texture Packs @smashingapps.com
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