Fantastic Free Photoshop Patterns and Textures

Posted by Jenni on 10/03/2011

Patterns and textures are great for inspiration and kickstarting designs, so we’ve put together a post of essential links to bookmark. You can use these free patterns and textures in Photoshop and various other design programs.

Don’t forget to check the licences/terms and conditions before using these resources.

Patterns

If you’re not familiar with using Photoshop patterns, check out this complete guide.

Instant Shift: The ultimate list of sources for free background patterns
Brusheezy Patterns
Patternhead Free Patterns
CreativeNerds: 45 sets of seamless vector patterns
Smashing Magazine: The ultimate collection of free Photoshop patterns
Squidfingers Patterns

Designm.ag: 2000 Photoshop patterns
1stwebdesigner Photoshop Patterns
50 extremely beautiful Photoshop patterns for elegant designs
Obsidian Dawn Patterns
Designm.ag: 650 free Photoshop patterns
DJ Designer Lab: Beautiful free Photoshop patterns for web designers

Re-encoded: Awesome freebies – 500 of the best Photoshop patterns
Designzzz: Free Photoshop pattern sets
Fbrushes Patterns
Top Design Mag: 45 superb background patterns
Artatm: Amazing collection of Photoshop patterns
Lined Paper patterns

Textures

Here’s a quick tutorial on using textures in Photoshop.

Designm.ag: 2000 absolutely free textures
Smashapps: 42 free Photoshop textures
CGTextures
Dr Web Textures
Amazing Textures
Image After Textures

Design Reviver: 25 great free Photoshop texture packs
The Lime Lite Textures
Forrest Textures
Bittbox: Free Texture Tuesday
Graphic Mania: Breathtaking free Photoshop textures
Fbrushes Textures

Abduzeedo: 36 cool free textures
Swimchick Textures
Freephotoshop.org Textures
Texture King
Texture Warehouse
Web Design Fan: 20 excellent free high-quality wood texture sets

There are thousands more links we could have included, so let us know your favourites in the comments!

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3 Responses to “Fantastic Free Photoshop Patterns and Textures”

Keith Patton says:

10/03/2011 at 2:05 pm

Thanks Jenni, I already have the majority of these bookmarked. I was actually going to create a one-page list like this on my own site XD

You have saved me the time lol

(PS: the CAPTCHA won’t refresh in my browser using Firefox 3.6.15 – it simply returns me to the top of page)

Keith
- Jenni says:
  
  10/03/2011 at 5:17 pm
  
  No problem Keith, great minds think alike eh?!
  Thanks for reporting it, I’ve passed it on
  Jenni
- Stu says:
  
  14/03/2011 at 11:57 am
  
  Hi Keith,
  
  that should be working now. It was just a bit of a disagreement between our theme and the plugin.

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