Paper Textures and Brushes: The Ultimate Collection
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. This collection includes 20 packs of paper textures and 17 sets of Photoshop brushes featuring grungy to old paper textures, cardboard textures, paper stocks, etc. Terms of use of most of these resources are governed by Creative Commons License. Please check out with the individual authors about terms of use when deciding to use any of these free resources as they may vary from one to another. I hope you will also find these textures useful.
PAPER TEXTURES 01 – Floral Paper Pack
Author: Morana Stock
Description: A set of five high-resolution paper textures featuring floral design. Some of the textures are crumpled, giving a 3D effect and feel. These would be very useful in creating backgrounds especially for your scrapbooking projects.
PAPER TEXTURES 02 -Old paper and antique textures
Author: Damerel
Description: This texture pack includes six high-resolution paper textures featuring old and antique paper images. You may use these textures to create vintage or grungy backgrounds for web, print or scrapbooking projects.
PAPER TEXTURES 03 – Emily’s textures pack 1
Author: Ginger Bread Art
Description from the author: These are handmade natural textures made by myself with my fair hands, although some of them happened by accident when I spilled something. Mostly watercolour splashes, collages and manky bits of paper I found on my desk. and theres a whopping 21 of them!
PAPER TEXTURES 04 -Archaic Scrapboock set
Author: Neodios
Description: A set of 11 high-resolution paper textures in lovely designs and patterns. All textures have resolution of 1800×1800 pixels.
PAPER TEXTURES 05- Grungy Patterned Paper Texture Pack
Author: Knald
Description: These are some paper textures created using scanned paper from old books. These textures may be useful for creating vintage looking designs or grungy backgrounds for both print and web design as well as for 3D designs.
PAPER TEXTURES 06- Grungy Patterned Paper Texture Pack Part 2
Author: Knald
Description: Another set of paper textures created using scanned paper from old books by Knald. Like the first set, these textures may also be useful for creating vintage looking designs or grungy backgrounds for both print and web design as well as for 3D designs.
PAPER TEXTURES 07 – Paper Textures 2010
Author: Othum
Description: There are 14 high-resolution paper textures composed of mostly crumpled papers in various colors and textures. Useful for creating a 3D effect and feel in your designs.
PAPER TEXTURES 08 -Vintage Valentine Paper
Author: Aramis Dream
Description: Some paper textures that you can use for creating backgrounds for Valentine-themed designs. Useful also for other occasions such as anniversaries, birthdays, etc.
PAPER TEXTURES 09 -6 Tea Textures
Author: RyoKoNoKalo
Description: Here is a set of textures composed of scans of six dyed papers in 300ppi. The textures include black Rose, Instant Coffee, Green Tea, Earl Grey, Hibiscus, and Rooibos.
PAPER TEXTURES 10 – Rose Digital Papers
Author: Karavajka
Description: A collection of ten digital papers you may use for digital scrapbooking, card making, etc. All files are 12″ x 12″ in size saved at 300 dpi (3600×3600) in JPG format so you can use it in any image programs.
PAPER TEXTURES 11 -The Golden Pack
Author: Morana Stock
Description: A set of five high-resolution paper textures featuring gold colored papers. Some of the textures are crumpled, giving a 3D effect and feel.
PAPER TEXTURES 12- Decoratedl Paper Pack
Author: Morana Stock
Description: Another set of five high-resolution paper textures from Morana Stock, this time, featuring printed papers.
PAPER TEXTURES 13 -10 Old Paper Textures
Author: lassekorsgaard
Description: There are 10 high-resolution photos of homemade paper textures in 2000 pxixels resolution. Zip file that you can download is 5.2 mb in size.
PAPER TEXTURES 14- Word Art Love paper
Author: Diamara
Description: A set of six high-resolution paper textures in 12 inches by 12 inches size at 300 dpi. Perfect for creating love-themed designs for Valentine’s day, anniversaries, weddings and other occasions.
PAPER TEXTURES 15 – Retro old dirty paper texture
Author: Berthjan
Description: A set of dirty paper textures for creating vintage and retro effects in your designs. These paper textures were created using different sort of papers and tools, like coffee filters, tape, shoe paint, black ink and some rope.
PAPER TEXTURES 16- Paper Texture Pack
Author: Zigabooooo
Description: A set of five nine high-resolution old paper textures. All are around 3000 pixels tall.
PAPER TEXTURES 17-10 1024×768 Paper Textures
Author: entrochique
Description: A set of 10 paper textures.
PAPER TEXTURES 18 – Paper Textures
Author: Texture machine
Description: Here are several textures i have scanned from papers (including rice papers) and cloths, in high resolution.
PAPER TEXTURES 19 – Rice Paper Sky Textures and Layered PSD
Author: Web Treats
Description: Here is a layered PSD of rice paper sky background texture you can use for free.
PAPER TEXTURES 20 – 20 paper textures 800×600
Author: Sarytah
Description:20 paper textures in 800×600 pixels resolution.
PAPER PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES
Paper Photoshop Brushes 01- CoffeeHappens RELOADED
CoffeeHappens RELOADED pack contains 15 BIG (~2500px) brushes compatible with PS 7 and up!
Paper Photoshop Brushes 02- Vintage Postcards Set 1
Paper Photoshop Brushes 03- 12 Hi-Res Paper Texture Photoshop Brushes
12 high-resolution brushes composed of different paper textures.
Paper Photoshop Brushes 04- Vintage Paper Brushes
These brushes are ideal for achieving retro or faded look in your layout or artwork. There are a total of 18 brushes in this set with resolution of each brush set at around 2500 pixels. Created in Adobe Photoshop CS3, these brushes should work with any CS version of Photoshop.
Paper Photoshop Brushes 05- Paper textures by In Obscuro
25 original paper textured brushes.
Paper Photoshop Brushes 06- Tissue Paper Brushes
Includes 5 tissue paper brushes
Paper Photoshop Brushes 07- Torn Paper brushes
CA bumper set of 28 torn paper brushes made in Photoshop 7 – both high and low res. Great when used as an eraser to distress your clean edged images.
Paper Photoshop Brushes 08- Ink and Paper Brushes
This is a free set of 8 brushes, it has some ink and paper textures, some torn edges and some grungy ink edges.
Paper Photoshop Brushes 10-Old Paper Photoshop Brush Set
Here’s a large collection of Photoshop brushes, they include paper textures, paper edges, blots, stains, type and graphics. They range in size from small to large so that you can create a complete artwork.
Paper Photoshop Brushes 11- Cofee stains brush
9 very big coffee stains. They may be useful to make an old paper, some kind of stains, even blood stains. Made in Photoshop CS3. Not tested in other versions.
Paper Photoshop Brushes 11- Torn paper brushes
20 images of torn paper, notebook paper, paper clips, pins and even a polaroid paper. Like all of my brushes, these brushes are also in large sizes, with each brush having a resolution of about 1500-2000 pixels wide.
Paper Photoshop Brushes 12- Parchment Halftone Brushes
This is a zipped folder with three brush sets, Parchment Edges, Parchment Texture and Halftone brushes. It is a huge file because the brushes are huge.
Paper Photoshop Brushes 13- Ripped and Folded Paper Brushes
Paper Photoshop Brushes 14- Burnt Edges brush set
7 brushes in this pack, differing angles.
Paper Photoshop Brushes 15- Old paper Brush Set 2
Paper Photoshop Brushes 16- Torn paper Edges
Paper Photoshop Brushes 17-Stationery brushes
