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It has been a long while since we had our last post about textures. Since it is almost summer and most of us are looking forward to spending a nice summer holiday in a beach, we decided to come up with a refreshing post about quality water textures that you can use for your design projects. Water textures are useful in creating 2D and 3D designs, for photo manipulation or even as a background for websites. The textures that you will find in this post include water surface textures, ripples, water droplets, rain drops, icy water, splashes and many more. All of these textures are free for personal projects although there are some that you can use even for your commercial projects as long as you credit the creator of these water textures. Read Best Design News

Paper textures are emerging as one of the most popular textures used by designers in recent years. The uses of paper textures encompasses almost all types of digital design from making backgrounds for web design to creating realistic papers in 3D renditions and even for digital scrapbooking. Thus, it is always handy to have a collection of high quality and high-resolution paper textures and paper texture Photoshop brushes. Read Best Design News

Carpet texture images are being used by digital artists, interior designers, graphic designers for making 2D and 3D renditions. For example you can use carpet texture in creating a realistic model or design of an office or home interior. I recently needed some carpet texture photos for a personal project but I found out that it is not easy to find good carpet texture images online in high-resolution format that you can use for free. So here, I am sharing with you 12 carpet texture images at resolution of 3500 by 3500 pixels. I hope you guys will find some good use for these carpet texture images. Read Best Design News

Fire is one of the elements used by designers for creating realistic effects. These fire images are very useful in 3D animation works such as those fiery glow used in special effects that you see in blockbuster movies as well as background or textures for print and web designs. If you are a designer and would like to add some fiery glow in whatever you are working on, then start scrolling your mouse down and check out if you can find textures or maybe some inspiration from this collection. The good news is that, all of these textures carry a Creative Commons license, which means that you are free to use these fire textures provided that you credit or link back to the source or author. There are however some authors that has special requirements when you use their stock images, so please do check out the terms of use of each free texture when deciding to use them, especially for commercial projects. I hope you will find this collection inspiring as well. Read Best Design News

Leather textures are useful for making 2D and 3D renditions. For example you can use a leather in creating a realistic model or design for a bag or jacket. I recently needed some leather textures for a personal project but I found out that it is hard to find some good leather textures online that you can use for free. So here, I am sharing with you 10 very colorful leather textures. Of course these have been manipulated in Photoshop to make the colors more vivid. I hope you guys will find some good use for these leather textures. Read Best Design News

Light effects can be easily achieved through fractal brushes and textures. Fractal Art (FA) has been around for approximately 15-20 years. Nowadays, digital graphic designers make use of fractal art in creating abstract and beautiful lighting effects such as background of websites and other design forms. Fractal Art is a genre concerned with fractals—shapes or sets characterized by self affinity (small portions of the image resemble the overall shape) and an infinite amount of detail, at all scales. Fractals are typically created on a digital computer, using an iterative numerical process. Read Best Design News

Textures remain to be an element that is widely used by designers in different graphic presentations such as website, banner, posters, brochures, magazines and even in video footages. Textures are also versatile. You can use it in many ways and in different styles. You can come up with striking art pieces If you are able to implement textures effectively along with typography, lighting, colors and other design elements. It also adds dimension to any design. Read Best Design News

Most designers and photographers make use of smoke to achieve powerful and dramatic effect in their photographs or designs. For example, we usually see smoke in many fantasy 3D wallpapers. Digital smoke in combination with lighting effects also create stunning piece of art. In this post, we are going to list down more than 1000 smoke textures that you can use to create dramatic smoke backgrounds. Most of these resources carry a Creative Common License and therefore free for personal use. Read Best Design News

Clouds background are one of the most sought after types of textures. From colorful sky to smoky and dark sky, these textures are very useful for 3D artists and to those who need to incorporate some cloud textures in their designs. High resolution clouds background can be applied to a sky dome and can alternatively be used as a background pass in 3d render composites or as subtle elements in all kinds of interesting images. This roundup includes different weather conditions ranging from stormy and overcast to clear and sunny. Read Best Design News

Grunge background textures are useful in creating vintage look or when creating graffiti artwork, among many other things that you can do with these textures. This draft has been sitting on my drafts page for months and it was just yesterday when I was making my post about free graffiti fonts when I remembered that I had a draft about resources for grunge textures. Obviously, this post is very much related to my previous entry here. Read Best Design News