Category: Freebies

Design Freebies such as free textures, paper textures, grunge textures, background images & stock images all for commercial use.

Freebie: Tiled Ornamental Twitter Background

Here’s a free repeating pattern that is ideal to be used as a twitter background, created from some Victorian images from some books I’ve arranged them in a way that they will tile perfectly… how convenient!

A few of you may know that I’m really in to my ornaments and swirls so you can get a bit of inspiration from this post I wrote earlier: Ornamental design inspiration – Baroque

Download The Background

There are 3 variations to choose from below – Right Click the image and “Save As”

Light

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Dark

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Stained

The subtle stains were added using my free grunge stained paper textures.

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Example In Use

Click the image to see a biger preview

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Comments

If you use it on your twitter profile feel free to post a link in the comments so we can all see it in action

Friday Freebie: Old Vintage Paper Tag

I saw this old sort of vintage tag on a bed and thought damn that’s awesome ( pretty obsessive haha ) so I took a snap of it and removed the background and the text so its great for adding to web designs or photo manipulations.

The tag is in .PNG format with a transparent background, one with the text and one with it removed, in the preview i used a Burlap Texture for the background i released on Texture Lovers which you can also download for free.

What Size is it?

The tag is about 1776 x 578 px so its pretty big to work with, which is always a good thing!

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Download Via RapidShare

http://rapidshare.com/files/248593670/designshard-old-tag.zip

Download Via MediaFire

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jjydntm5zyy/designshard-old-tag.zip

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Usage Terms

Use it for Commercial and Non Commercial Projects for free, No credits required but please don’t redistribute or repackage and sell it.

Do You Like It!

What do think of it? will this be useful at some point? leave a comment

15 Free Original Hi-Res Concrete Textures

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These Textures have been kindly contributed by Robert who has been shooting some textures for you, feel free to follow him on Twitter, and if you would like to contribute any thing to design shard please get in touch with me.

In total there are 15 high resolution Concrete textures in this pack, with the extra details such as oil stains, dirt and grime, Ideal for adding some fine detail to a piece of work.

Roberts Textures On Flickr

You can see many of Roberts Textures on Flickr which I’m sure he will be gradually growing in to a great collection.

If you want to download all of these textures choose one of the options below.

Rapidshare Download (20.2mb Zip File)

http://rapidshare.com/files/234215418/Concrete_may-2009_hellogreenstar.com.zip

Mediafire Download (20.2mb Zip File)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2nmjnjwemyu/Concrete_may-2009_hellogreenstar.com.zip

Additional info:

  • Quantity: 15 Images
  • Resolution: 2080 x 1368
  • Contains: Concrete

Usage Terms

Free to use for commercial and non commercial work no credit or link back needed, but please don’t redistribute or sell them as your own.

A Closer Look

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SHOW ME WHAT YOU MAKE

Post a link in the comments to your work where youve used the textures, you dont have to but it would be nice to see them being used somewhere. Also let me know if you like them !

20 Free Original Hi-Res Ink Stained Paper Textures

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So i say these are ink, and they do look like ink but there actually food colouring / dye , they give the same effect pretty much , but i wanted to give them a watered down feel with strong pieces of colour in some places and lighter in others.

Dont forget to keep checking Texture Lovers for free textures.

These 20 textures are also at a high resolution to cover most working areas and are ideal to be edited, such as colour adjustmets and cropping, as you can see i have changed the colour in the preview above to green.

See All The Textures On Flickr

You can see all the textures in the Flickr set before you download any of the files below or simply use them directly from Flickr, the choice is yours.

Rapidshare Download (1.36mb Zip File)

http://rapidshare.com/files/222844113/ink-stained-paper-textures.zip

Mediafire Download (1.36mb Zip File)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/qo5ztil2q3z/ink-stained-paper-textures.zip

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Additional info:

  • Scanner: Epson Perfection 3490
  • Quantity: 20 Images
  • Resolution: various
  • Contains: Ink stained / dye paper textures

Usage Terms

Free to use for commercial and non commercial work no credit or link back needed, but please don’t redistribute or sell them as your own.

A Closer Look

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SHOW ME WHAT YOU MAKE

Post a link in the comments to your work where youve used the textures, you dont have to but it would be nice to see them being used somewhere. Also let me know if you like them !

20 Free Original Hi-Res Grunge Stained Paper Textures

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I’ve been experimenting with tea bags and water to create some custom grunge stained paper textures, I wanted to see how different they would be from water colours but there’s not a lot of difference to be fair, I am going to keep experimenting any way, so this is the first batch and hopefully the next batch can bring some more refinements.

These 20 textures are also at a high resolution to cover most working areas and are ideal to be edited, such as colour adjustmets and cropping

Dont forget to keep checking Texture Lovers for free textures.

See All The Textures On Flickr

You can see all the textures in the Flickr set before you download any of the files below or simply use them directly from Flickr, the choice is yours.

Rapidshare Download (26.8mb Zip File)

http://rapidshare.com/files/217853009/Grunge-Stained-Paper-Textures.zip

Mediafire Download (26.8mb Zip File)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jzdt3kjykxg/Grunge-Stained-Paper-Textures.zip

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Additional info:

  • Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ 18
  • Quantity: 19 Images
  • Resolution: 1600px x 2256px
  • Contains: Grunge Stained Paper

Usage Terms

Free to use for commercial and non commercial work no credit or link back needed, but please don’t redistribute or sell them.

A Closer Look

This image has had brightness and contrast adjusted.

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SHOW ME WHAT YOU MAKE

Post a link in the comments to your work where youve used the textures, you dont have to but it would be nice to see them being used somewhere. Also let me know if you like them !