Textures for photoshop free

This roundup is the ultimate collection of free photoshop textures. Photoshop textures are images that are used on the main image via blend modes or opacity to give different textures to the image. So whether you want to give your photographs a vintage look or an abstract effect, these free textures will come in handy.

1. Wood Textures
2. Paper Textures
3. Halftone & Distressed Textures
4. Polygon Textures
5. Grunge Textures
6. Blurred Textures

Free Wood Textures

6 Vintage Wood Textures Vol.4

6 original photos of aged wood, that can be used as textures in vintage styled designs, desktop backgrounds or anything else.

Curved Raw Wood Texture

Use them to showcase your product or design and get full control over the PSD file.

6 Vintage Wood Textures Vol.3

This one includes 6 new high quality original images you can use in your design projects or just as backgrounds or wallpapers.

3 Seamless Wood Textures

3 Hi-res seamless wood textures, created from photographed materials and handpicked from bestselling packs. All files are x pixels at dpi.

6 Vintage Wood Textures Vol.2

Second volume of vintage wood textures including 6 JPG images to use as backgrounds, wallpapers or anything you want.

Download 7 Free Wood Textures

Give a natural look to your designs. Use this set for your personal or commercial projects. Great for 3D patterns, backgrounds or any kind of presentation.

6 Vintage Wood Textures

A set of six high quality aged wood textures to use with your vintage style designs.

Free Paper Textures

5 Seamless Paper Textures

Free useful set of 5 beautiful seamless Paper Photoshop Textures provided by Anna Ivanir ready to use in your next design project.

12 Grunge Photoshop Patterns

This includes 12 seamless Grunge Patterns. It also includes 1 Photoshop .PAT file to use in your web and application projects.

Free Halftone & Distressed Textures

10 Free Detailed Vector Halftone Texture Backgrounds

These free halftone textures are created with irregular dots to achieve a distressed retro style. There’s 10 vector textures in the pack, ranging from light tones made with widely spaced tiny dots, through to densely packed groups of heavy dot patterns.

2 Vector Distress Textures

Set of two high-quality, distressed textures in Vector EPS and transparent PNG formats

Free Polygon Textures

11 Free Polygon Backgrounds

Free polygon backgrounds set made in high resolution and containing 11 different textures. These free backgrounds will surely come in handy when you want to design a website template, business card, flyer, poster, collage, presentation, postcard, banner, etc.

10 Low-Poly Polygonal Texture

Low-Poly Polygonal Texture pack is a collection of 10 low-poly backgrounds that can be used as wallpapers, backgrounds, patterns, textures and much more. The free package comes with 10 high resolution backgrounds ( x ) in JPEG format.

Free Set of 10 Polygonal Background Photos

A free set of 10 polygonized photographs in high resolution. Download and use them as background images for your print or web projects

Free Blurred Textures

10 Blurred Backgrounds

Set of 10 free blurred backgrounds for our readers. These backgrounds can be used in personal as well as commercial work.

High Resolution Blurred Backgrounds Pack

Premium quality and a carefully chosen color palette. Those backgrounds are perfect for your graphic design and web design project.

Download 6 Hi-Res Summer Blurred Backgrounds

This set includes 6 high-resolution blurred images captured with DSLR camera and low aperture lens. Great for modern looking designs and artworks. High quality images with zero noise and no banding. Download and use these summer blurred backgrounds for your personal or commercial projects.

Free Grunge Textures

10 Free Grunge Textures

These textures are assorted in nature – from extreme texture to subtle. They are perfect for use as overlay textures on your photos, typography, graphics and backgrounds. The pack contains 10 .jpg textures in x px size.

25 Colorful Grunge Textures

This set of 25 Colorful Grunge Textures was designed by Florin Gorgan and is perfect for use as overlay textures on your photos.

10 Free Subtle Grunge Textures

These textures are highly useful to add a touch of grunginess to your designs and graphics. The images come in x pixels with dpi resolution.

12 Free Vector Grunge Textures to Erode Your Artwork

This Freebie is a pack of 12 grunge textures in vector format. Use them to erode away your designs in Illustrator or apply them as detailed background for your artwork.

5 Soft Grunge Textures

A set of 5 soft grunge textures in .jpg format, px x px

10 Grunge Blurred Backgrounds

This pack contains 10 high-resolution grunge blurred backgrounds. Download these backgrounds for your personal or commercial projects. Great for any kind of presentations.

Step 1: Choose a texture and copy it

Having opened both the original photograph and a free Photoshop texture in the program, we should send the chosen texture to the photo document. Make sure that the window containing the texture is active, open the “Select” menu at the top of the screen, and click “All”. Thus, we select the whole texture. There will be an outline around it. After that, open the “Edit menu” at the top of the screen, and then “Copy”.

Step 2: Insert the texture into the document containing the photo

After copying one of the free Photoshop textures into the buffer, go to the window with the photo, go back to the “Edit menu” but this time select “Paste”. Photoshop will insert the texture into the document, more precisely, into a new layer which will be located above the photo. Depending on the size of the document with free texture Photoshop, it can completely cover the photo. But if you look at the Layers Panel, you can see that the original image was saved in the Background layer, and the texture is higher in a new layer entitled Layer 1.

Step 3: If it is necessary, change the size of the Free Transform tool

If the sizes of the image and the texture do not match, you may level them with the Free Transform command.

Step 4: Switch between blending modes

The layer blending function can be found in the top left corner of the layers panel. By default, the Normal mode is selected. The top layer does not mingle with the bottom one. That’s why the chosen free texture for Photoshop overlaps the photo. By clicking on Normal, you will see a list of other options - Screen, Multiply, Overlay, etc. Look through the blending modes and check how they work until you like some other options.

When applying some kind of Photoshop textures free, the most interesting results are achieved with the help of Multiply, Soft Light, Overlay, Screen, and also Hard Light Modes. We recommend testing them all to understand which of the options suits your goals in the best way.

Step 5: Decrease the color saturation of the texture

At the moment, the picture shows not only the texture itself but also its color. Perhaps, this is exactly what you need because mixing colors on different layers can give an interesting result. But if you want to preserve the original gamut of the photograph, you must remove the color from the free Photoshop texture. The easiest way to do this operation is to reduce its saturation.

Step 6: Decrease opacity of the texture

Finally, if the applied free texture Photoshop seems too catchy, it is possible to reduce its look by decreasing the opacity of the layer. This option is directly opposite the blending modes at the top of the layers panel. The default Opacity value is % but the lower it is, the more the original photo will become noticeable. We recommend reducing the Opacity to 50%.

Photoshop textures are an awesome resource for designers who want to play around with different looks &#; especially because you can download thousands of them for free.

But a thousand textures would make for a pretty long blog, so we’ve collected 40 of the coolest free Photoshop texture packs you can use for your next design project.

This compilation includes a mix of different kinds of high quality textures such as watercolor textures, feather textures, textures of rocks, concrete, grungy surfaces and much more. These textures would be a great addition to your toolbox. Enjoy!

Gold Foil Textures

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Watercolor Smudge, Vector, Brush & Texture Pack

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Watercolor Circle Textures

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Card Stock Paper Textures

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High Resolution Grungy Photocopy Textures

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Splatter Texture

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Free Nail Varnish Brush, Drips and Splatters

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Brushed Metal Textures

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Marble Texture

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Concrete Texture

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Sweet Glittery Girly Textures

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Old Brick Wall Texture Pack

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Aluminum Foil Stock

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Leaves Closeup Textures

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Brown Wood Tree Bark Texture

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Cracked Old Wood Textures

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Autumn Texture

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Grungy Cloud Textures

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Grungy Cracked Textures

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Distressed Halftone Pattern Textures

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Feathered Texture

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Peacock Feathers Stock

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Cork Texture

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Coffee Stain Texture

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Vintage Paper Pack

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Canvas Texture

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Fabric Texture Pack

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Colorful Grunge Textures

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Cracked Stripe Texture

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Cracked Mud Texture

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Bubble Texture

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Ice Cubes Texture

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Ice and Snow Texture

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Wave Texture Pack

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Blue Black Stripes Texture

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Vintage Wallpaper Textures

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Floral Texture Pack

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Dancing Lights Texture

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Multi-Faceted Texture

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Recycled Paper Patterns

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How to Use Textures in your Design

Textures are a great way to add depth and a tactile feel to your design. Here are some of the ways you can use them in your designs in Photoshop:

1. Use Texturesas Backgrounds in your Design

You can use subtle textures such as recycled paper patterns listed above to add visual interest to your background. These background textures help put focus on foreground elements such as text, logo and buttons when you are designing a website, Instagram post, promotional banner or poster.

Additionally, in place of using the whole texture image, parts of it can be clipped to shapes and blobs for creating interesting collages and background compositions.

2. Create Textured Typography

Textures can be used to easily create a range of text effects in Photoshop. One such example would be clipping the gold foil texture (mentioned at the top of above collection) to text layer for a quick gold text effect.

3. Overlay Over Images

Textures are an asset when it comes to photo manipulation. You can overlay concrete and grungy photocopy textures, both included in this roundup, over an image to produce distressed effect in Photoshop.

Textures can bring life to any design, they are an incredibly useful and versatile design resource. Good thing with these textures is that they are available for free download as JPG files which are a common image format format and are widely supported in graphic design tools and can be used not only in Photoshop but also in Canva and Affinity as well.

More Texture Resources

Design is all about giving yourself options. The more tools you have at your disposal, the more designs you can make. Here are more texture collections for you:

What’s your favorite Photoshop texture? Share it with us in the comments!

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Oval outline PNG image that you can download for free. Make sure you download the oval shape outline image the big size version by clicking the DOWNLOAD button. You can use this oval shape outline to highlight text for example.

Check out the outline text in Photoshop tutorial and combine it with the rounded oval outline shape to get some really cool effects. This red oval outline is simply a squashed circle outline and can be stretched horizontally or vertically to get the dimensions you need. You can also easily change the red color into any color using any editing tool like the Mockofun photo editor where all textures from Textures4Photoshop are available.

What can you use this for? Lots of things! For example, you can add this over an image containing text to make annotations or highlights. Do this in a graphic design tool or even in HTML. Check out this amazing article about HTML highlight text.

If you want to add text to an image, I have the perfect online tool for you: MockoFun. Check out the curved text generator in which you can add your own photos, images from Textures4Photoshop and hundreds of thousands of other photos and graphic elements. It's fun and it's FREE!