When it comes to textures an patterns in Web design, background images are probably the most common used. Every material and surface has its own visual texture, materials such as canvas and watercolour paper are considerably rougher than, for example, photo-quality computer paper and may not be best suited to creating a flat, smooth texture. Photography, drawings and paintings use visual texture both to portray their subject matter realistically and with interpretation. Texture in these [...]

All websites in this collection search photo sites and communities that offer free imagery. These come from many sources and are license-specific. Also check out the 10 best free stock photo websites for direct acces to the free photo resources. enjoy! Everystockphoto.com Everystockphoto.com is a license-specific photo search engine. They index and search millions of freely licensed photos, from various free photo websites, and present them in an integrated search. Everystockphoto.com Compfight.com This site is [...]

Amazingtextures.com have hundreds of free textures to download, high-resolution textures, images, backgrounds, wallpapers and texture maps. Check out the collection of Tiled Textures or see the users Top Textures. amazingtextures.com/textures/

Multimedia-Stock is a perfect place for people who want to introduce themselves and their creative work to the world and for those who just want to enjoy in viewing or using that work for some purpose. Multimedia-stock.com

Urban Dirty is a regularly updated online photo library featuring 800 gritty, grimy and sometimes slimy images for use in design and artwork creation. The photos are free to download for both commercial and non-commercial use. All photos are released under a Creative Commons Licence. Urbandirty.com

High resolution macro images of well, everything really. Surface textures, plants, metal, wood, and many other types of macro images are all available here. All of the macro photography on the site is completely free for your own personal or commercial use. Microshots.org

Grungetextures provides quality background textures that can be used free of charge for digital artwork, 3D rendering, web design and print projects. They are specialized in weathered and worn surfaces. The texture gallery currently contains over 1500 high resolution images in 20+ categories. Grungetextures.com

Cr103 is a 2500 files, 6GB big library of free abstract backgrounds, textures and design ideas you can cut and paste them into your own work or use just for inspiration. The downloads are designed to be used directly in your designs, as layer textures or as inspiration and ideas for further development. Graphics for Design use, DTP, DTV, Multimedia and art / montage applications. Creativity103.com

Free high resolution, high quality textures for personal and commercial use. Textureking.com

Freepik´s aim is to gather all free, high quality graphics on the Internet and make accessing them quick and easy so you don´t have to waste your time searching manually through hundreds of websites. Freepik.com

At Texturise.com you get simple free (seamless) Textures. The  images are provided free for personal or commercial use (images must be modified). Texturise.com  

At Vector2000.com you can get high quality free vector graphics, vector art, vector icon and vector patterns to download, or upload your own! Vecto2000.com

Wallbase.cc or Wallbase.net can simply be described as a searchable wallpaper database, and it strives to be little more than that. It has a database of 800.000 desktop images driven by approximately 80.000 users. That’s big! Wallbase.net

Lost & Taken textures are made freely available for use in both personal and commercial projects including web templates, designs, and other materials intended for distribution. Attribution is appreciated, but not required. Lostandtaken.com

More than ten thousand free high quality textures and photos for you to use personally or commercially. Registrations is required to download Hires images. Goodtextures.com

Cgtexturs.com offers 50.000+ high resolution textures, free for personal and commercial use! With subjects ranging from Wood, Metal, Concrete to Panoramic Skies and Animals. More than enough to fullfill your needs in finding that perfect texture image. Cgtextures.com

The Mayang texture library has over 4250 free to download, high-resolution textures. They can be used for commercial or non-commercial purposes. For more details check … Mayang.com/textures