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 over 50 of the coolest free Photoshop texture packs with hundreds of free textures 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, metallic and much more. From colorful to glittery textures to subtle transparent and grayscale textures, you will find them all. These free textures for Photoshop would be a great addition to your toolbox. Enjoy!
Free Ivory & Gold Paint Textures
Gold Foil Textures
Watercolor Smudge, Vector, Brush & Texture Pack
Watercolor Circle Textures
Free 4K Watercolor Textures
Free Holographic Textures
Card Stock Paper Textures
Free Retro Film Grain and Dust Textures
High Resolution Grungy Photocopy Textures
Splatter Texture
Free 4K Plastic Wrap Overlay Textures
Plastic Texture Set
Brushed Metal Textures
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Free Aluminium Foil Textures
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Marble Texture
Realisitic Shadow Texture Overlays
Concrete Texture
Sweet Glittery Girly Textures
Rose Gold Foil JPG Textures
Free Marble Ink Paper Textures
Free Artistic Paint Textures
Old Brick Wall Texture Pack
Aluminum Foil Stock
Leaves Closeup Textures
Brown Wood Tree Bark Texture
Cracked Old Wood Textures
Autumn Texture
Free Cloud PNG Textures
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
Cracked Stripe Texture
Cracked Mud Texture
Concrete Texture Images
Arctic Frost Textures
Bubble Texture
Ice Cubes Texture
Ice and Snow Texture
Wave Texture Pack
Blue Black Stripes Texture
Vintage Wallpaper Texture
Floral Texture Pack
Dancing Lights Texture
Multi-Faceted Texture
Recycled Paper Patterns
How to Use Photoshop 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 Grunge 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!