Top 30 Sites to Download Free Textures
The uses for textures are countless for designers and artists. For example, textures are being used by digital animators all the time in making spaces and objects look more real. If you have been very observant, you could have noticed how textures were used in environmental games or animated movies to make walls and floors, objects and backgrounds, for example, look more real. What makes a door look like wood and not metal, or a ball look like leather and not plastic is probably because the artist made use of textures.
Web designers also use textures in designing backgrounds or wallpapers for a web page. Although many experienced designers argue against using textures in web design, using textures is an indispensable tool to help you create a unique appearance for your website.
In this roundup, I am going to list down 30 websites where you can download free and quality textures. The first 20 websites are sites that are dedicated to textures only. The last ten websites are design blogs that offer textures as freebies. Most of the textures you can download from these sites are royalty free, some are licensed under a Creative Commons license while some can be used for both personal and commercial purposes. Please checkout the terms of use of each site before using their textures, especially if you are planning to use them commercially. Enjoy browsing the textures found on these sites. But most importantly, don’t forget to bookmark this page for future reference.
1) CG Textures
2) Mayang’s Free Textures
3) Texture King
4) Textura (Don’t forget to scroll down to see the textures)
5) Texture Warehouse
6) Texture Z
7) Urban Dirty
Grunge Textures
9) Texture Vault
10) Stockvault
11) Free 3Ds Textures
12) Textures Pedramk
13) Amazing Textures
14) 2Textured
15) Lugher Textures
16) Image After
17) Texture Love
18) Stock.xchng
19) Deviant Art (Resources and Stock Images>Textures)
20) Flickr (Creative Commons)
21) Best Design Options
22) Lost and Taken
23) Bittbox
24) Think Design
25) Six Revisions
26) Designshard
27) Arbenting
28) Fudge Graphics
29) High Resolution Textures
30) Smashing Magazine
Very comprehensive list of texture sites, and even a couple that I didn’t know about! Thanks for including Arbenting
No problem, Angie. Arbenting is one of my favorite design sites.
You totally forgot http://www.morguefile.com, its been around for years and is one of the best free stock photo sites on the web.
@slowmodem -
Thanks for the reminder.