Good sites to find textures online?

Question

I'm always on the lookout for good textures, as they are pretty subtle but can add a lot of life to your site. Recently I found Tileables (http://tileabl.es/) which looks pretty cool. Can you recommend any other good sites for textures, or make-your-own-texture tutorials?

Thanks, Kevin

Answer 1

• http://lostandtaken.com/
• http://www.sxc.hu/ (this is a stock art site, but does have a lot of textures too)
• http://www.textureking.com/
• http://sixrevisions.com/category/freebies/ (many types of freebies, so you may have to look a bit to find the textures)
• http://www.bittbox.com/category/freebies
• http://www.grungetextures.com/
• http://www.highresolutiontextures.com/

Each of these has different licensing requirements so you'll want to make sure to check those before using anything off these sites.

Answer 2

Check out http://subtlepatterns.com/, I think that's what you're looking for

Answer 3

These are geared toward photographic textures for 3D graphics so probably not what you have in mind, but here are a few:

http://mayang.com/textures/

http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/packs/index.htm

http://noctua-graphics.de/english/freetex_e.htm

http://www.cgtextures.com/