Archive for the ‘Backgrounds/Patterns’ Category
Monday, April 28th, 2008
All Things Designed has twelve excellent, seamless textures available for FREE. As I’ve said before, FREE is fits into my budget very nicely. The only caveat attached to these textures is a request that you pass the link on to other people who may find them useful too.
Again, as Web Design Ideas finds sites like this one, we want to share them with you. We consider our site as a kind of ‘toolbox’ for Web Designers. Lots of ideas, lots of links to good resources and information. We hope you enjoy it!
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I found an article today that contained some excellent examples of websites with great backgrounds. The article is posted at Six Revisions, Useful Information for Web Developers and Designers. Creating a good background is a critical component of setting the tone for any website. I like many of the examples he chose. In particular, I really like #8, #10, #18, and #20. Wow…can you tell I like earth tones?!
Now, I’m off to search for a good cork background (think bulletin board). I like the texture of cork and I think it makes a great background for some sites. So, if you have a good example of a cork background, let me know please. Thanks!
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
While looking for some cool ‘parchment’ effects, papers, and paper textures, I came across this site that gave a pretty good, detailed tutorial on how to make a burnt scroll navigation bar. I like the texture and the paper or parchment they chose to use. The effects they chose were tastefully done as well.
I think I would have chosen a different font though. While it is a pretty cool font, it leans too much toward something out of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Because of that, I think it creates a dated design. I know some of you are thinking…’well, you’re talking about a design featuring a scroll…it seems appropriate in that context.’ Well, it’s my opinion, haha. I think it would be better served with a different font. A font that doesn’t look trendy and easily pinned down to a specific date or period. With the availability of so many different fonts, I’m sure one could be found that would work well with the scroll.
I like the technique of using old papers, maps, parchment, etc. I like sites with an earthy feel to them. I think this scroll lends itself well to sites that are going with that type of theme. It’s a good tutorial and something to check out and remember when a request pops up for a similar design.
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Aah, a nice collection of vintage wallpapers. You can easily turn these into seamless background pattern tiles that would look great on a vintage style website.
To turn them intoa seamless tile just open it in Photoshop, crop out the unneeded sides and then do Filter > Other > Offset and offset the image by +20 horizontally first, then hide the seam using brush or smudge tool if needed. If you have cropped the image correctly, no blending may be needed. Once the it looks good horizontally, now offset it by +20 vertically and blend the seam. You’ve got a nice background tile.
The source site for this is: http://www.5qm.de
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Here is a cute one. As I was changing the colors on these I thought this one would work well on a baby related website. Cute baby-blue or baby-pink colors look good with this pattern.
Remember, if you need a specific color, just leave a request in the comments and I’ll post it for you.
These are designs from Ballard Designs fabric patterns that I adjusted in Photoshop to make a seamless website background tiles.
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
This is a colorful quilty-looking pattern. After cropping it in Photoshop to make a seamless tile I cut and pasted the design onto a new layer and set the layer Opacity to about 15%. The layer below it gets the maine color. I fill it with dark?blue, black or white and then go back to the design layer and play with the Opacity until I see the look I am looking for.
Remember, if you need a specific color, just leave a request in the comments and I’ll post it for you.
These are designs from Ballard Designs fabric patterns that I adjusted in Photoshop to make a seamless website background tiles.
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Had enough yet? Here’s another floral one, well kind of floral, it actually looks like a bunch of grapes and a poppy. I don’t know, what do you see in there? A bit smaller pattern design on this one compared to the previous ones.
Remember, if you need a specific color, just leave a request in the comments and I’ll post it for you.
These are designs from Ballard Designs fabric patterns that I adjusted in Photoshop to make a seamless website background tiles.
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
And one more floral one. This one looks a bit like velvet, especially down lower in the dark reds and purple. These just look so good, I can’t resist them.
Remember, if you need a specific color, just leave a request in the comments and I’ll post it for you.
These are designs from Ballard Designs fabric patterns that I adjusted in Photoshop to make a seamless website background tiles.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Here is another floral one. I know thatsome of the readers probably have photoshop and are able to chenge the colors on these for themselves but some of you do not, so if you need a specific color, just leave a request in the comments and I’ll post it for you.
These are designs from Ballard Designs fabric patterns that I adjusted in Photoshop to make a seamless website background tiles.
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
This one was easy so I wanted to post it now and not wait till tomorrow.
These are designs from Ballard Designs fabric patterns that I adjusted in Photoshop to make a seamless website background tiles.
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