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

Watercolor Smudge, Vector, Brush & Texture Pack

Watercolor Circle Textures

Card Stock Paper Textures

High Resolution Grungy Photocopy Textures

Splatter Texture

Free Nail Varnish Brush, Drips and Splatters

Brushed Metal Textures

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Marble Texture

Concrete Texture

Sweet Glittery Girly Textures

Old Brick Wall Texture Pack

Aluminum Foil Stock

Leaves Closeup Textures

Brown Wood Tree Bark Texture

Cracked Old Wood Textures

Autumn Texture

Grungy Cloud Textures

Grungy Cracked Textures

Distressed Halftone Pattern Textures

Feathered Texture

Peacock Feathers Stock

Cork Texture

Coffee Stain Texture

Vintage Paper Pack

Canvas Texture

Fabric Texture Pack

Colorful Grunge Textures

Cracked Stripe Texture

Cracked Mud Texture

Bubble Texture

Ice Cubes Texture

Ice and Snow Texture

Wave Texture Pack

Blue Black Stripes Texture

Vintage Wallpaper Textures

Floral Texture Pack

Dancing Lights Texture

Multi-Faceted Texture

Recycled Paper Patterns

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 Textures as 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:
- 100+ Free Fabric Textures
- Free High Quality Gold Textures
- High Quality Paper Texture and Background Packs
- 100+ Metal Textures for Download
- Wood Texture and Pattern Packs
What’s your favorite Photoshop texture? Share it with us in the comments!
Here is another site from where you can download high quality textures for Photoshop:
http://www.textures4photoshop.com/