Featured sites offering backgrounds
Seamless tiling textures.
Online tiled backgrounds designer.
Free High Res Grunge Textures.
From this site.
Free background patterns at ava7
Patterns.ava7.com currently offer about 1,000 free background patterns at their well designed and very neat web site. If you are looking for tiling background patterns to use on your web site, blog, profile page etc they are well worth a visit.
Free custom Twitter backgrounds
If you are tired of your default Twitter background and want to create a custom one quickly and for free then head over to MyTweetSpace.com. It takes just three simple steps and you can add as much or as little to it as you would like (for example web site URL, photo, logo etc)
Free backgrounds at The Fat strawberry
Download seamlessly tiled backgrounds at The Fat Strawberry. You can use them free on your web site, blog, Myspace page etc with a link back to the site.
There are many free backgrounds providers out there but I found The Fat Strawberry pretty outstanding in it’s offerings. Best of all there are no ads popping up all over the place, it’s a well organized site with some great content.
Create tiling backgrounds with bgpatterns
BGpatterns let’s you create seamlessly tiling backgrounds online with just a few simple clicks. Create a new background for your Twitter profile, web site or anywhere else that accepts custom backgrounds, without having to open an image editor.
As well as creating backgrounds for yourself, each day one generated background is chosen as the background of the day by users’ vote and there is also an overall champion, the background with the highest votes overall.
Go to bgpatterns.com
Industrial/grunge backgrounds and textures
Stretched, scratched, dirty and rusty, grunge is one of today’s popular web design/ graphics styles.
Below are a few hand picked sites which offer grunge style backgrounds and textures to download and use on your web site.
UrbanDirty - 300+ photos of grunge textures, a fantastic resource.
gallerie1.de/html/metall.shtml - Metallic rusty textures.
Textureking - grunge, dirt, plaster and more.
DeviantArt Textures.
Texturebin - Many textures here.
10 Grunge, rusty and dirty tilable textures at PhotoshopRoadMap
GrungeTextures.com
texturez.com - Free stock texture photos in high resolution.
Feel free to add to this list if you come across any.
Free backgrounds: rocks, bricks, stone textures
To save an image to your computer click on it with the right mouse buttons and click on “save as” or similar.
Free backgrounds: silk
To save an image click on it with your right mouse buttons and choose save as.
Free backgrounds with stripes
To save an image click on it with the right mouse buttons and choose “save as” or similar.
Stripes which tile across as well as down the page:
Stripes which tile across only, not down.
