Create Stunning Designs with this Bundle of Best Selling Backgrounds, Textures & Patterns

The background of a design is the foundation on which everything else is built upon. It can be a subtle texture to give the design a tactile appearance, a cute pattern to set the theme of the design, or it could incorporate stunning artwork to catch the viewer’s attention. This new limited time bundle from Design Cuts contains all the different types of backgrounds you could ever wish for with its compilation of best selling textures and patterns. A lot of the items are rare types of resources too, such as the complex polygon backgrounds that require complicated 3D tools to produce, or detailed artistic patterns in super high resolution.

This entire bundle contains countless textures, patterns and background of various types and styles. There’s plenty of popular resources for every day projects such as high resolution paper textures and illustrated vector patterns, but also some rare abstract items that are the key ingredient to create stunning artwork for the right project. As always, their massive 95% discount makes this deal unmissable, especially when you consider the value of the free extended licensing, which allows you to use these resources in your commercial design work and artwork you intend to sell.

There’s a vast range of backgrounds, textures and patterns in this collection which means there’s too many to feature in my review, but here’s a selection of some of the products that stand out to me.

Synapse Textures Vol.1

These complex textures from the Synapse kit are the perfect background for abstract designs. The mockup previews show how they help create stunning artwork for club posters or album covers. At 4000x3000px and 300dpi they can easily be used in large format print projects.

PatternPress

Creating seamless patterns has never been so easy thanks to PatternPress. In just a few steps you can create cool artwork that can fill any area, complete with texturing and stamp effects. This is great for cute art prints, customised tote bags, notebook covers and endless product possibilities.

6 Curved Wood Backdrops

This selection of 6 Curved Wood Backdrops is one of the more unusual items in the bundle, but it’s extremely useful for creating an environment for website header images or product advertisements. Place your item onto the backdrop to produce a cool realistic scene.

Floating Dust Overlays

Backgrounds can either form a focal point of a design, or they can provide subtle textures to enhance an image. These Floating Dust Overlays add a finishing touch to any photograph with a range of blurred particles.

Beachy Watercolor Chevron Textures

Watercolour textures are super trendy at the moment. They’re great backgrounds for artistic products such as cards or journal covers, and they also help bring your typography illustrations to life with a combination of rich colours and textures.

More Backgrounds, Textures & Patterns

My review is just a small sample of the full range of products available in The Extensive Textures, Patterns and Backgrounds Bundle so I’d highly recommend you check out the full overview page to see everything on offer. The extended licensing is especially valuable when it comes to texture resources because they’re always a main component of a design. Knowing you can safely use them in your client work and in products you intend to sell provides opportunities for all kinds of fun projects! This deal won’t be around for long so make sure you grab this 95% discount before the offer expires on Monday 29th June.

Buy the Textures, Patterns and Backgrounds Bundle

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5 Quality Vector Textures for Access All Areas Members

I have a brand new premium design resource for Access All Areas members today courtesy of Rob Brink, the talented Designer and Screen Printer from Brink Design Co. Rob has kindly donated Texture Pack Vol.5 from his Brink Design Co. Store. It’s a collection of 5 hand made print ready vector textures that are perfect for distressing your designs to create retro or vintage style effects.

Rob Brink is a designer and screen printer currently living in Rockford, IL. He specializes in brand identity, screen printing, and hand lettering. Rob’s passion for screen printing also extends to his premium design resources store, where his range of hand made texture products make it possible to achieve the same distressed effects as authentic printing techniques.

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5 Vector Textures for Premium Members

This set of vector textures is the latest resource for Access All Areas members to download. It includes 5 textures with a range of detail from subtle grain to heavy grunge, so you can apply the perfect amount of distress to your designs to produce retro and vintage style effects. The 5 textures are contained in a single AI or EPS file, toggle the layers to see each individual item or combine them to create unique effects.

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GraphicStock: Unlimited Stock Images and Textures

Whether you are a casual web and graphic design enthusiast or an enterprise brand, if you have had anything to do with the internet, you must already be aware of the importance of images on web pages. No matter what type of website you are browsing or building, images play a key role as they highlight not just your content but also add to the overall appeal of the design.

As such, when it comes to stock images and graphics such as vectors, icons and other textures, many professional designers and users tend to go for premium stock offerings – though that doesn’t have to mean paying premium prices. If you are looking for some awesome stock graphics and textures, GraphicStock is the way to go.

Beautiful Couple On Bicycles.

What is it About?

GraphicStock is, in essence, a library of stock graphics, images, icons, buttons, textures, and other graphic-related items. It is a subscription based service, much like WordPress theme shops, wherein you sign up for a given subscription and then are entitled to unlimited downloads as long as your subscription is valid. Plus, even after your subscription expires, you will still be able to continue using the downloaded media in your projects — just that new downloads will no longer be available to you.

However, unlike most other similar services, GraphicStock does not offer a pay-per-download model. Instead, it relies on a pure subscription based model, where you sign up once, and then can download unlimited images and resources. Obviously, this is extra beneficial for the customer, since after a few initial downloads, your subscription will essentially pay itself off, and you can still continue downloading as many resources and graphics as you want.

The GraphicStock collection is huge, and new content is being added on a regular basis. Furthermore, as you might have already guessed it, all content in the GraphicStock archive is free to use after you have subscribed, and is totally royalty-free.

Speaking of the collection itself, your choices are plenty: the GraphicStock library has been divided into genres such as business, people, nature, fashion, travel, and so on. Plus, the different content types are also separately sorted, so no matter what you are looking for, be it backgrounds, images, textures or something else — you will not find yourself running out of resources after you sign up for GraphicStock.

Musical Man And Musical Node With Burst Effect.

Pricing

GraphicStock follows a simple pricing structure. Instead of requiring you to pay for every graphic that you download, you just pay one flat rate. The subscription in itself is ridiculously budget-friendly: per month and get, yes, unlimited downloads with no caps on the number of images or graphics that you can download. Of course, you can also start with a free trial that gets you 7 days of free downloads

Quite obviously, GraphicStock’s pricing model is pretty simple, and if you are a regular user, your subscription pricing will pay for itself pretty quickly.

Retro Media Objects.

Conclusion

GraphicStock can be useful for a wide variety of target audiences: for site masters and content creators, as well as for enterprise users who need an easy solution for such resources. Most importantly, GraphicStock can prove to be a blessing for web designers as well, because you can get images, buttons, textures, and other relevant media for a fraction of the price — not to mention the fact that in the absence of download caps, you can grab as many graphics and resources as you want or require.

Furthermore, GraphicStock also offers a 7-day unlimited trial where you can test GraphicStock for yourself, without any commitment or contract. You will be entitled to maximum 20 downloads per day during your trial period, and even if you do not wish to continue the trial after the seven day time frame expires, you can still continue using your downloads in your projects.

So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and check out GraphicStock — their collection of over 250,000 graphics, images and tools is waiting for you!

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13 Free High Resolution Grungy Photocopy Textures

Grungy textures are versatile resources that can be used as backgrounds and overlays in your designs to add dirty distressed effects. Broken photocopiers produce some of the best textures around, combining black and white tones with heavy grain which is perfect for retrofying your designs with aged looks. I’ll let you in on a little secret, these textures were actually created by abusing my scanner, but they contain all the characteristics of photocopy toner malfunctions.

This pack of grungy photocopy textures contains 13 high resolution scans full of grainy tonal gradients. Use them as backgrounds to your designs, apply them as layer masks, or paste one in as an overlay and change the blending mode to produce cool texturing effects. Each texture also looks great when inverted to black on white, providing loads more ways to use these resources in your projects.

Download the Grungy Photocopy Textures 47mb

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Behind The Scenes: How Stella Caraman Creates Beautiful Watercolor Textures

When you think of great digital resources, you may not picture someone covered in paint, spending hours working on real, physical artwork. But that’s exactly how Stella Caraman created her popular product, Aquarelle Designers Kit.

In the video below, you’ll see Stella at work as she carefully creates all the great watercolor designs that will eventually be converted into digital patterns, brushes, and shapes.

Seeing this kind of dedication and craftsmanship go into products at Creative Market makes us so happy. Our community of designers is unmatched in talent and we love nothing more than to see someone pour themselves into a product like this one. Every time you use Creative Market resources, you’re supporting someone just like Stella in their creative endeavors.

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Behind The Scenes: How Stella Caraman Creates Beautiful Watercolor Textures

24 Free Authentic 1930s Vintage Postcard Textures

I recently inherited a box of my Grandfather’s old possessions, which alongside his WW2 service books and a Great War Memorial Plaque for my great-great-uncle, also contains a number of postcards dated from the mid-1930s. As well as being treasured heirlooms, the aged paper textures of these postcards also make fantastic design resources! Download this pack of 24 free postcard textures to create authentic vintage effects for your artwork.

My family has no idea how these postcards came into my Grandfather’s possession, but they’re all from Italy and have various compassionate messages handwritten in Italian, with dates between 1934-1937. I’ve scanned and processed them to produce a pack of high resolution textures which are perfect for creating authentic vintage designs. Choose from 12 handwritten postcards or 12 blank postcards to use as backgrounds or elements within your projects. They’re all 300dpi CMYK JPEG scans with lots of grungy textures and colouring from centuries of ageing!

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24 Free Authentic 1930s Vintage Postcard Textures

24 Free Authentic 1930s Vintage Postcard Textures

I recently inherited a box of my Grandfather’s old possessions, which alongside his WW2 service books and a Great War Memorial Plaque for my great-great-uncle, also contains a number of postcards dated from the mid-1930s. As well as being treasured heirlooms, the aged paper textures of these postcards also make fantastic design resources! Download this pack of 24 free postcard textures to create authentic vintage effects for your artwork.

My family has no idea how these postcards came into my Grandfather’s possession, but they’re all from Italy and have various compassionate messages handwritten in Italian, with dates between 1934-1937. I’ve scanned and processed them to produce a pack of high resolution textures which are perfect for creating authentic vintage designs. Choose from 12 handwritten postcards or 12 blank postcards to use as backgrounds or elements within your projects. They’re all 300dpi CMYK JPEG scans with lots of grungy textures and colouring from centuries of ageing!

Download the Free Vintage Postcard Textures 24mb

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Snow Effect Overlay Textures for Premium Members

Access All Areas members are being treated to more resources from Design Something this week. These snow overlay effect textures instantly add realistic wintry blizzards to your photos. Five effects are included in the PSD, which can be used individually or combined to produce unique snow effects. At a resolution of 3000x2000px at 300dpi they’re ready to use in any project they may be required.

Design Something is a creative store full of quality products for designers, including texture overlays, vector sets and fonts. If you’re looking for a bargain, check out Design Something’s Shop SALE Bundle. It’s a compilation of 20 best selling items with a massive discount of 96%, meaning you can get your hands on 100s of quality resources for just . Act fast though, this deal is due to expire in just a couple of days on February 1st.

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Snow Overlay Effects for Members

Access All Areas members can download this set of 5 snow effect overlay textures from Design Something. Simply paste one or more of the overlays over your photographs to enhance them with a realistic wintry snow effect.

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