10 Free Texture Resources

Forget your camera. Check out these texture resources before snapping photos.

Once in awhile we search for free visual assets to help push us further in the creative universe, ones to use for inspiration and assets to enhance our creative when we don’t have the time for a photoshoot. So, we’ve put together a list of free textures that we love and gain inspiration from and we hope you will too!

Subtle Patterns

http://subtlepatterns.com

This site offers subtle patterns for download, created by Alte Mo http://www.atlemo.com/, with the goal to offer high-quality resources for anyone in need of repeatable texture patterns, free to use.  There are quite a few patterns, but it’s definitely worth the look. You can even submit your pattern (although it must tile and you have to agree to license the pattern as Creative Commons).

MediaMilitia Freebies

https://mediamilitia.com/category/freebies/

A variety of freebies available from Mediamilitia with licensing of all resources that are free for personal and commercial use. For specific details view the copyright-terms and conditions.

Bokeh Textures

http://lostandtaken.com/blog/2010/1/9/5-colored-grungy-bokeh-textures.html

Lost and Taken has a variety of Bokeh textures to download. Bokeh is a neat camera effect and with L&T’s help, you can forget the camera, and well photoshop for that matter!

Texture King

http://www.textureking.com

This site offers free stock textures to download—grunge, dirt, plaster, concrete, rust and more. Have a look for yourself—there are way too many texture resources for us to list.

Unsplash

https://unsplash.com

This site offers a huge variety of free stock textures to download. Start with the search keyword ‘texture’ to get started.

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