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Two free backgrounds with swirling lights

suz — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:05:25 +0000

There are two new backgrounds for you to download. Both are abstracts with a swirling light effect.
You can download them both in the one Zip file in JPG format. You can use them as a web page background, twitter background, desktop or any other type of background you like. If you do use it please consider spreading the word about this web site. You could Tweet about this page, write about it on Facebook or add a link to your site.

Click on the small pictures to open them up to full size and to save them on your computer.

The backgrounds in jpg format are free to use any way you wish but please don’t distribute them. The Photoshop PSD files are available for $5.50 for the two. Click the Paypal buy it now button to purchase the PSDs.

Lost and Taken backgrounds

suz — Tue, 31 May 2011 01:02:29 +0000

Lost and Taken is a fantastic site created by designer Caleb Kimbrough which offers free textures and backgrounds. The high resolution textures are free to download and use and are sorted into easy to figure out categories. The site is totally dedicated to providing free textures which means no wading through unnecessary information, if you are looking for backgrounds this is the place to find them. Visit: Lost and Taken

Free background patterns at ava7

suz — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:40:59 +0000

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

suz — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:11:47 +0000

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

suz — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:21 +0000

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

suz — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:36:19 +0000

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

suz — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:19:08 +0000

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

suz — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:16:40 +0000

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

suz — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:05:37 +0000

To save an image click on it with your right mouse buttons and choose save as.

Free backgrounds with stripes

suz — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:01:47 +0000

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.