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Holy Grail: 400+ of Outstanding Textures For Vintage Style Designs

Jane Bernardo — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:00:14 +0000

Who said that designs cannot be old in time? This is one of the inspiration of designers to have, to go back in time and look back on what designs they are missing. Vintage designs are really great in terms of the texture and element that cannot be found in modern designs. You can achieve the vintage look by the mixtures of different images that are layered through image editor like Photoshop or through ready-made Photoshop vintage brushes.

In this article, I’ll be featuring awesome vintage style textures and vintage brushes.

1. Vintage Texture Pack I (5 Textures)

2. Vintage Texture Pack II (7 Textures)

3. Vintage Floral (24 Textures)

4. +texture

5. Vintage Musk

6. Simple Vintage

7. Vintage Strip Texture

8. Vintage Grunge

9. Map Texture

10. Victorian Grunge

11. Vintage Polka Dot

12. Victorian Grunge IV

13. Vintage Musk 3

14. Grunge Wallpaper 1

15. Use This 52

16. Beauty 69

17. Beauty 95

18. Vintage Texture II

19. Art Nouveau Pattern Texture

20. Antique Script Texture

21. Music Texture 4

22. Vintage Diamonds

23. Vintage Wallpaper Texture

24. Grunge Wallpaper 2

25. Cracked Wallpaper

26. Victorian Wallpaper

27. Textures: art + vintage (15 Textures)

28. Pretty Things (38 Textures)

29. Vintage Pattern Texture LARGE (32 Textures)

30. Old Paper Textures II (10 Textures)

31. Vintage Brushes 1 (13 Brushes)

32. Vintage Birds (20 Brushes)

33. Old Paper Brushes 2 (9 Brushes)

34. Ornamental Vintage Brush (7 Brushes)

35. Vintage Toil (21 Brushes)

36. Vintage Polaroid Brushes (14 Brushes)

37. Vintage Style Textures (60+ Textures)

38. Parchment Paper Texture

39. Straw Canvas

40. Old Photo Texture

41. Bloody

42. Concretely Lost

43. Coffee Stained Napkin

44. Vintage Khaki

45. Echo

46. Old Photograph

47. Old Stitched Page

48. Brown Stucco Wall

49. Peeling paint on Rusty Metal

50. Rust on Green Metal

51. Old Notebook Paper

52. Stained Paper Towel

53. T 22

54. keltainen verho

55. Vintage Coca – Cola on Brick Wall

56. Grungy Stained Wood

57. Faded Green Paint on Concrete

58. Trunk Texture

59. lasipinta 188k

60. Gipsey Countess

61. Fancy

62. Indialon

63. Ueo!

64. Old Lunchbox

65. Cake Box Texture

66. Very Old Hankie Box

67. Old Outside Trunk

68. Package Vintage Grunge -2 ( 5 Textures)

69. Vintage V Texture Pack (8 Textures)

70. Vintage Paper Texture Pack (4 Textures)

71. Vintage IV Texture Pack (9 Textures)

72. Black Vintage

73. Vintage Textures Pk1 (15 Textures)

74. Vintage Package 2 (5 Textures)

75.Victorian Grunge Texture Pack (5 Textures)

76. Two Vintage Textures

77. Vintage Valentine Paper (10 Textures)

78. Stained Paper Textures I (12 Textures)

Here the vintage design that every designer should have. You’ll never know when will you dress up your designs with these cool and old-looking styles.

Ultimate Roundup of 200+ Outstanding Textures For Vintage Style Designs

Ahmad Hania — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:00:13 +0000

Vintage style design is a trend that designers use to apply an old and classic sense to their designs. One way of applying this trend is by using vintage textures, vintage textures provides an easy to use method for creating stunning vintage style designs. In this article I compiled a list of 215 outstanding free vintage textures, but please check licenses before use.

1. Parchment Paper Texture

2. Straw Canvas

3. Old Photo Texture

4. Bloody

5. Concretely Lost

6. Coffee Stained Napkin

7. Vintage Khaki

8. Vintage Texture

9. Echo

10. Old photograph

11. Old Stitched Page

12. Vintage Paper Canvas

13. Brown Stucco Wall

14. Peeling Paint on Rusty Metal

15. Rust on Green Metal

16. Old Notebook Paper

17. Stained Paper Towel

18. Stained Memo Pad

19. T 22

20. keltainen verho

21. Vintage Coca-Cola on Brick

22. Vintage Texture

23. Grungy Stained Wood

24. Faded Green Paint on Concrete

25. Trunk Texture

26. lasipinta 188k

27. Gipsey Countess

28. Fancy

29. Indialon

30. Ueo!

31. suvi002

32. Old Lunchbox

33. Cake Box Texture

34. Very Old Hankie Box

35. Pieceof8- Old Paper

36. Dust Pan Texture

37. Conductors Secretary

38. Old Outside Trunk

39. Victorian Wallpaper

40. Cracked Wallpaper

41. Grunge Wallpaper 2

42. Vintage Wall Paper Texture

43. vintage diamonds

44. texture 4

45. Antique Script Texture

46. Art Nouveau Pattern Texture

47. Vintage Texture II

48. Beauty 95

49. Beauty 96

50. Use This 52

51. Grunge Wallpaper 1

52. Victorian grunge IV

53. vintage polka dot texture

54. Victorian grunge V

55. texture 2

56. Simple Vintage

57. +texture

58. Vintage Texture Pack (5 textures)

59. Vintage II Texture Pack (7 textures)

60. vintage grunge textures (5 textures)

61. Vintage

62. Package – Vintage Grunge – 2 (5 textures)

63. Vintage V Texture Pack (8 textures)

64. Vintage paper TEXTURE PACK (4 textures)

65. Vintage III Texture Pack (8 textures)

66. Vintage IV Texture Pack (9 textures)

67. Black Vintage

68. Vintage Textures Pk1 (15 textures)

69. vintage package 2 (5 textures)

70. Vintage Texture 01

71. vintage roses

72. Vintage Textures (13 textures)

73. Victorian grunge texture pack (5 textures)

74. Vintage Moss

75. Vintage Denim

76. Blue Vintage

77. vintage blue texture

78. Dark Vintage

79. Two vintage textures

80. Memories textures (2 textures)

81. Vintage Rust 2

82. Vintage Grunge Texture Pack (6 textures)

83. Vintage Rust

84. Vintage Valentine Paper (10 textures)

85. Vintage News Paper I

86. textures 6 (4 textures)

87. Old paper 3

88. Beauty 30

89. Ignite

90. Maps

91. Polka

92. TEXTURES 74

93. 6 vintage textures

94. I Remember Spring

95. Disturbed Skies

96. Textures 102

97. 280

98. Vintage Paper Scans 2 (6 textures)

99. turn back time texture pack (5 textures)

100. Stained Paper Textures I (12 textures)

Let us know if we have missed some thing awesome and we will be happy to update the article.

Get Inspired: Beautiful Examples of Textures in Web Design

Ari Suardiyanti — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:00:18 +0000

Whenever you visit website these days, every single one of them is trying to compete one and another. Despite the difference of products or services they offer, their mission remain the same: to engage their visitor or customer. If you find adding big text, icons, or illustrations on web design isn’t so entertaining anymore, let’s add textures.

Some web designs use solid or gradient colors as their background, others use illustration to make it look attractive. As for textures, you can add it as the background of a web design, create a certain effect on the text, or even add it to the buttons or other web graphic elements. In this post, we will show you 5 types of texture in web design for your inspiration.

Vintage

Retro/Vintage look is timeless. It may look old, but somehow this texture always get our attention and appreciation. Most web designers will use this type of texture to create the warm feel, others use it for travel and tour sites with Polaroid as the images frames.

Ernest Hemingway Collection

Dog House Cards

Vintage Web

The Big Chandelier Web

Corvus Art

The Foggy Google

The Cowboy Star

North Point Springfield

Team Fannypack

fivecentstand.com

Grunge

To avoid the “Web 2.0″ style, web designers use grunge texture to gives their design a less uniform, less structured, more organic look and feel. It doesn’t necessarily stand for dirty, though it’s easily recognized by the gritty texture, uneven/torn edges, worn, faded and aged graphic elements. This texture is best to use on any extreme sport, rock band, or any web design whose target is young people.

The Third Floor

Jazz Sequence

Renovatus

Target Productions

Snickers Online Campaign

Cogitatur

Generation Church

Soma Communities

Sourcebit

Syc Fuk Fashion

Elegant

If you’re planning to create an elegant look for a web design, using a texture can be an alternative to make it more appealing. Though, you have to be selective in choosing the texture. Subtle textures work best for this type of look, although sometimes you can also use leather, wood, or even fabric texture.

Marcus James Wine

Abundant Life Christian Center

Outline to Design

Merten Snijders, Mhq Interactive 2007

Sarahlongnecker.com

Pizza Venetia

Moore Family Heritage Project

Café Rouge

East Point

Traffik

Doodle

Doodle look is another alternative for your web design. Most graphic designer and illustrator will prefer to use this look in order to blend their portfolio into the web design. Although sometimes it creates the childish look, but for the creatives like illustrator it’s smart and unique.

So Interactive

Instand Ad Legend

Allen Design Group

Yok Boyle Bir Yer

Ceynur

Odosketch

Dawghouse Design Studio

Legwork Studio

10 Words

Suiepaparude

Miscellaneous

In some case, one type of look may not be enough. There are no limit in web design. So be creative, mix several types of look by using textures for the design.

Grunge Retro

Tvrdek

NarStuff

Jay Hafling

El Original Movimiento

Allen Solly

Andrew Brown

Bar Alternativo

Love of Jesus Family Church

Reskinned Blog

Conclusion

Whatever the type of texture you choose to use on your web design project, make sure it delivers the right look and feel based on your design concept. Let us know what type of texture do you use the most for your web design project or any thoughts about the topic in our comment section.

50 Wicked Websites featuring Wooden Textures

Matthew Corner — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:00:33 +0000

Anyone browsing the websites of creative companies, individuals and communities, will have noticed over the past few years, that patterns, and textures have become a massive design trend. A big part of this design trend, is made up of the use of wooden textures. Some sites simply use wooden textures for backgrounds, some more creatively for specific sections of their site such as features, and some even incorporate the wooden feel into elements such as the logo, or buttons! There are plenty of free, and premium wooden textures out there for you to use, so here is the inspiration you need to put them to good use!

97bottles

Julius Mattsson

Andreas Hinkel

IconDock

Games for her by you

Redeemer Covenant Church

Andrew Bradshaw Media

Dog House Cards

Church on the Rock

Viget Advance

classics

designfabrika

101prints

We Eatt

Matthias Schuetz

The Typography Manual

Komodo Media

taptaptap

Tea Round App

Onskelista

VAEL Project

Fliprate

Cookmate

Fruit Ninja

Shane Seminole Mielke

created by Clark

Matt Bernstein

thethingswemake

Meubelen Van Aerde

Weblounge

SoulCore

Quality XHTML

Moore Family Heritage Project

Respiro Media

fontex

GabeDiaz

nataliadevalle

bcandullo

Paul Wallas

Kendo

enrichmint

Pepper & Koffee

xGraphica

Bills

Kalyan Chatterjee

Kuhboom

Creative Comic

Kyle Haskins

Cottonseed Oil Tour

siebennull

The Ultimate Roundup of 45 Awesome Bokeh Textures

Siva Kumar — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:00:47 +0000

Bokeh backgrounds had become a huge trend from 2009 and shows no sign of stopping anytime in 2010 too. For those who don’t know what Bokeh is, it is originally “boke” and pronounced as bo as in “bore” and ke as in “Kennedy”. It basically means the “out of focus” parts of a photograph.Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions. It has definitely caught on and is a very sought after effect amongst photographers and designers who especially love the textured quality of the out of focus bits. Enjoy this Ultimate collection of Bokeh textures, Please read the artist’s terms of conditions and copyright advice before using them in your projects.

1.Bokeh Dreamscene

2.Bokeh pack by dirtyboyalf

3.Bokeh Light Textures

4.Bloody texture

5.Bokeh life texture pack

6.Bokeh abstract vector backgrounds

7.Graphic bokeh textures

8.Free fresh bokeh textures pack

9.Bokeh and lights texture set

10.Digital bokeh effect flowers

11.Dreamy bokeh texture

12.Heart bokeh textures

13.Warm bokeh

14.Bokeh pack by Joannastar

15.Grungy abstract bokeh textures

16.High resolution grunge bokeh textures

17.Bokeh and lights stock pack

18.Glitter bokeh texture pack

19.Colorful shapes bokeh pack

20.Bokeh Texture high resolution

21.Bokeh texture by photoshop stock

22.Christmas light bokeh

23.Pink and silver bokeh pack

24.Red bokeh texture

25.Bokeh texture pack by regularjane

26.Chic bokeh texture pack

27.Hearts bokeh Texture pack by Joannastar

28.Raining light bokeh pack

29.Red bokeh textures

30.Night time bokeh texture

31.Pollywaffle bokeh textures

32.Texture set bokeh and lights

33.Neon bokeh pack

34.Winter bokeh collection

35.Bokeh bubbles icon textures

36.Nature bokeh

37.Bokeh textures

38.Flower bokeh pack

39.Bokeh paper premade textures

40.Ultimate bokeh backgrounds set

41.Large texture

42.Rainbow sparkles texture pack

43.Light texture

44.Golden texture

45.Bokeh texture pack by regularjane

30+ Best Texture Tutorials for Photoshop

Hilde Torbjornsen — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:36:26 +0000

Making art or various designs will often require different textures. It can be that you need it for that extra grungy look or maybe you are trying to recreate a piece of denim for a logo. It can be very useful to be able to make your own textures in Photoshop. This way you get the exact effect you want, its customizable, no need to pay anyone for the use of it etc.
I’ve collected some of the best texture tutorials I know of and hope these will inspire! Enjoy! :)

1. Realistic denim texture

Denim, a rugged cotton twill textile has been around for a long time. The variations you can make to this are many. Check out the Bonus features at the end of this article as one of them features denim!

2. Create an Awesome Grass Texture in Photoshop

The texture of Grass can be used for many different designs, and also here the variations are many.

3. Realistic crumbled paper

The crumbled paper texture is a texture that always is popular. It’s a fairly easy one to get realistic and the uses are many; business cards, websites, brochures, flyers – you name it.

4. Military style

Military style textures are mainly popular for those who make artwork that features military machinery or personnel. But how about switching the colors around a bit? That way you get a versatile look that goes with anything.

5. Reptile/dragon scales

These cool and versatile scales can be made in any color combination you want. This can be used as an exotic part of a design or to actually be used as skin for a dragon, snake or dinosaur you’ve created.

6. Brushed Aluminium

This is a texture trying to recreate the look of the good old Mac Powerbook (g4). Nowadays many things do come with this finish, maybe it even could be cool for a web design or business-card?

7. Metal Mesh

To add an extra dose of industrial funk to your design this very easy-to-make texture is worth a try.

8. Rusty texture

Rusty textures are quite in in several types of design. They make great additions to so-called “grungy” looks.

9. Glass

There are many ways of recreating the look of glass. This way is probably one of the easier ones.

10. Canvas texture imitation

By adding a texture to a picture you have you can make it fit better into a design or even on your wall. In this tutorial you will learn to make a canvas texture that has hundreds and hundreds of uses.

11. Marble

Marble has many different uses, mainly building and sculpturing. Marble comes in several color combinations from the pure white, via red and green – to black. In this tutorial you will learn to make a green one but changing the color is very easy.

12. Rock / stone

Rock can be made several ways. In this tutorial you will learn how to make it in a very quick way. Remember to try out different colors and settings to give it your own look and feel.

13. Rusty Surface

This rusty surface is quite easy to make and looks pretty realistic too. Customizing colors and patterns can be done quickly as well.

14. Fabric folds

This texture is very versatile. Choose the color that fits your design and this can be anything from curtains to bed sheets. Tweak it a bit and it can even be just some sort of smooth abstract element.

15. Wood

Wood has always been popular to recreate in Photoshop, and it’s easier to get it realistic than you might think at first. This tutorial gives kind of a worn wooden look – great for many types of designs.

16. Wood (2)

This second wooden texture tutorial gives us a darker type of wood.

17. Leopard skin

An exotic skin texture that can be used for many different projects.

18. Fur

Another type of recreating fur. Easy to follow and customize.

19. Grungy paper

By using the Photoshop texturizer filter, blend-modes and more you can create this grungy paper look. Perfect for everything from web design to birthday-invitations.

20. Leather

Leather hasn’t been the most popular texture for a while but I see it coming more and more back. Playing around with different colors gives you an interesting look to add to almost any design-project.

21. Diamond Plating

In this tutorial Corey Barker combines Photoshop and Illustrator to make a pretty cool diamond plating texture that can be used in many designs.

22. Metal “fence”

If you don’t have Illustrator or the skills to make texture #21, this is a more light versions of the same look. Play around with some settings and make your own metal.

23. Grungy Metal (+ a star)

Grungy is in, and if you don’t feel like making a rusty texture then maybe metal could be an option?

24. Lava Texture

This crazy looking texture can be used as lava or play around with settings for an abstract look.

25. Red slate tile

Recreate tiles in a house or use it for a design. This good old tutorial gives an interesting look.

26. Bubbles

An easy tutorial showing a texture that can be highly customized to fit many types of designs.

27. Cool stage curtain

This can be used as a background for your project or as part of it. A very well-explained tutorial with a professional look in the end. Takes a while to make compared to some of the others, but is definitely worth it.

28. Realistic sky

Adding some sky can be the extra it-factor needed to create a stunning piece of art/design.

29. Leaf texture

Leafs look quite interesting when you look closely. Here’s a tutorial on how to recreate that.

30. Fabric textures

We finish off with a tutorial that shows us how to easily create several different kinds of fabric. Remember that as easy as they may look it will only require minor adjustments and colorization to get completely new results. This means endless variations!

Those were the 30 texture tutorials I had found for you this time, I hope you enjoyed them!

Finally, here are some cool tutorials related to textures:

Portfolio Layout created with jeans texture

Create an eye-catching portfolio using jeans texture. Download the provided texture or use your own that you’ve made earlier in this round-up :)

Paper Texture from Scratch + Create a Grungy Web Design with it!

Using textures and grungy looks in web designs is quite popular. In this high quality tutorial you will first learn how to create paper (from scratch) followed by making a web design where it’s implemented. Great fun!

How to Turn a Texture into a Seamlessly Tiled Background

Here you will learn some tricks on how to turn your textures into seamlessly tileable background. It’s good to have that in your toolbox, – especially for making backgrounds for your designs.

And that was it for now. I hope you learned a couple of new things, good luck with creating your own textures. Always remember to play around with settings and colors, – maybe you’ll come up with something unique!

Forget About Classics: 75 Crazy And Creative Textured Websites

Daniels Mekšs — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:00:26 +0000

Textures are great way to highlight your website, give it an unique look and stand out from crowd offering something people have never seen and known is possible to do. With new browser and coding features you can design almost everything and make it web-safe. And I prefer textured websites much more than outworn web 2.0 style which is so 2008, subtle gradients tied with new technologies and possibilities are very popular in our days.

That’s why I gathered many excellent examples with highly detailed websites using textures as one of the most important design elements.

1. Texture Lovers

2. FlipRate

3. Logo Designs Studio

4. Stock de Rock

5. SL Constania

6. Real-Visuals

7. Inter Expresso

8. Landing Pad

9. Fundo Los Paltos

10. Flipp

11. Creative Soapbox

12. Marcs Design

13. All For Design

14. Magento Expert

15. Bertu’s Gym

16. RRG GRoup

17. Przeznaczenie

18. Icebolt

19. Matt Brown’s Portfolio

20. Delia Explorers

21. Ravintola Kallio

22. Sick Designer

23. The Walk to Washington

24.Mirieldesign

25. FTDesigner

26. Vael Project

27. MacMahone

28. CopperBasin

29. Harmony Republic

30. CSS Depot

31. Lather Bee Rich

32. Rekiabilly

33. Plank Design

34. Zac Brown Band

35. Carol Rivello

36. Blue Collar Agency

37. The Croquis

38. Vegas Uncorked

39. Chris Kaufman

40. Aussie BBQ

41. Istok Pavlovic

42. Ploc

43. Corking Design

44. Michael Dick Portfolio

45. Slavik Dizajn

46. Robocat

47. Burdette Networks

48. Spread Television

49. Sky’s Guide Service

50. Slurpy Studios

51. Dog House Cards

52. Arnbacktraining

53. Notorious Design

54. We Love WP

55. Nuances Communication

56. Atom Bicycles

57. James Childers Portfolio

58. Imatt

59. Anthony Fonte Portfolio

60. One Twenty Seven

61. AJ Groups

62. Chapel

63. Tapparatus

64. TJ To Do

65. Voices of Haiti

66. Blend Interactive

67. Booyant

68. Thomas Tate Portfolio

69. Padizine

70. Joe Godbee

71. Only Two Designers

72. Circa, The Prince

73. Modstudio

74. Cullpa

75. PominPerth

Where to find amazing photo backgrounds or textures?

Dainis Graveris — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:21:27 +0000

If You are a graphic or web designer, great texture always becomes handy in your workflow. You can create amazing effects just combining those textures together and playing with them. I just took a look around and thought that I need to make a list of amazing textures, because quality images and textures are never enough. There are many great resources all around the web, I just tried to select those most better known web pages and those with great collection and quality of textures. All of those textures are free, so You can use them freely in your personal or commercial works.

Free texture web sites

1. More than 17GB Huge collection of textures and reference photos for artists.

2. Stylish collection of free textures and photos ( for now 415).

3. Freebies from Kave Wall stock.

4. Maybe most popular one with the biggest set of textures, at this moment 878 textures:

5. Also very good known web-site with great collection:

6. Design is not very encouraging, but textures are:

7. Folks from Designviver.com summarized nice pick of textures too:

8.Texture Warehouse

9.Grungetextures

10. Design is very simple, but sometimes less is more ( more than 10 000 textures!):

11.Lost and taken thinks so big, I cant even fill all logo in the page:

12.Web site with stylish design and textures:

13. Fabio Sasso from abduzeedo.com has made some nice collection too from 36 textures:

14. Great texture web site and even their logo is texture! Original!

15. Textures will be enough there for all Your life!! Maybe not, but for now there is 7292 textures

I just love all those vintage, grunge, rusty textures and so the last ones are hand picked 5 great texture packs which I like the most. Hope You enjoy.

1. 5 nice old scratchy paper textures :

2. Even more 6 interesting textures with some more neat text effects taking action.

3. Nice paper textures with clouds in the background:

4. All those 4 texture packs comes from amazing artist Princess-of-Shadows, I really love her work.

5 more great textures.

5. Great selection offers fellows from bittbox:

6. 31 Grunge Surfaces – nice texture pack created by velvetmoth.com:

That’s all for now my friends. And Yes, maybe You see great textures all around and don’t know how to really use them?

Then I am here for You to tell this one – just create new document, make some nice gradient or fill color effect and then easily open some texture, export on image and just play with opacity, levels, color balance and mainly layer styles. With those styles You can get unbelievably great results! Just try it out – it’s really not that complicated!