Seamless Textures

It all just fits together...

This page provides you with 80 free seamless textures, to use for whatever purpose you like. They are free for both personal and commercial use, so there's no need to reference the site if you don't want to. A link to the site is very much appreciated if you don't mind however.

How to Download the Textures

To download a seamless texture, right click on the image and select 'Save Picture As...', (or the equivalent in your browser). For anyone wondering, I don't provide a method for downloading them all at once, but you are free to take as many as you like.

Using Seamless Textures

If you've never used seamless textures before, you might be wondering why they're useful! Well first, let me quickly sum up what a seamless texture actually is. Basically, if an image can be tiled repeatedly without any visible seams or edges, then it can be considered 'seamless'.

Textures that can be tiled seamlessly are necessary in several applications. One common use is in 3D modeling, where you want to wrap an image around an object. This technique is used a lot for 3D game textures.

There are more everyday uses though. For example, you could use a tiled background for your image, just like you can tile an image over your desktop wallpaper. An example image using a seamless texture is shown below:

Using the Textures in Photoshop

These textures can be used with any graphics program, but for those wanting to use them in Photoshop, here is the simplest way.

There is no need to save the textures to any special directory, or to 'install' them for Photoshop, you can keep them wherever you like.

When you want to use a texture, open the file in Photoshop, and select 'Select - All' from the menu. Then select 'Edit - Copy' from the menu. (On Windows, you can just press Ctrl+A, then Ctrl+C).

Then, in whatever image you want the background, paste the texture in on a new layer by selecting 'Edit - Copy' (Or pressing Ctrl+V).

To tile the image, simply keep pasting the image in, and dragging it beside the previously pasted images. You can merge the layers to keep them all together.

If you're tiling a particularly large area, then you might want to paste a few tiles, then merge the layers, then copy that larger area and begin pasting that in. That way you're filling in more area each time.

The Textures

Without further ado, here they are. Enjoy!

Alien	Autumn
Bend	Bird
Black	Breeze
Calm	Camo
Chaos	Chrome
Corners	Crossed
Curves	Daggers
Dance	Darts
Deco	Deep
Depth	Diamonds
Dizzy	Drop
Electric	Emboss
Emerge	Eyes
Fabric	Falls
Fountain	Fractured
Glitter	Gloss
Grain	Hearts
Highway	Hurry
Ice	Ice Cubes
Injection	Jagged
Levels	Light
Mayhem	Mist
Moss	Mutant
Mystery	Offset
Peace	Perspective
Pinch	Poolside
Production	Push
Ripples	River
Roller	Rose Patchwork
Shadows	Shards
Sharp	Silk
Silver	Slits
Slope	Space Age
Spikes	Square Spirals
Starlight	Strokes
Swirl	Trying
Tube	Turns
Verdant	Vertigo
Walls	Warp
Waves	Windows