Wood textures in modern web design: Examples and Resources

Written by admin at January 31st, 2010 in Graphics and have 21 comments

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It is very common nowadays that websites/blogs uses a textured background. This article will only focus on wood textures, how they can be used and where to find them. Read some tutorials on how you can change the look of your textures with a couple few effects in Photoshop, and you will get a very nice background for your next web design project.

Examples of websites

Textures to Download

17 high resolution wood textures for free

I made this post a few months ago. It contains 17 really beautiful high resolution wood textures that you can use for almost everything.

High Res Wood Texture Pack

This wood textures package contains 8 high resolution textures. You can preview and Download it here.

9 Free Hi-Res Wood Panels Textures

This package contains 9 high resolution wood textures. Preview and Download it from the post on Fudge Graphics.

Woodwork texture pack

This package called Woodwork texture pack also contains 9 hi-res textures. Preview and Download here.

Free Hi Resolution Wood Textures

We can not forget these beautiful woody textures from Bittbox. You can preview and download them here.

Tags: examples, modern, textures, web design, wood

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I am Karl

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21 Comments

Steve Morris January 31, 2010

Wood textures are great for getting that homely real world feel on screen.

Thank you for the links to the image files

Ben l Awesome Wallpapers January 31, 2010

Wow! great examples! Downloaded some of the textures. stumbled:)

Web Design Maidstone February 2, 2010

Nice examples and great resources… thank you!

Webstandard-Blog February 2, 2010

Nice Website-Collection based on wood-textures. If you need some more, don’t miss 20 creative Websites with background-images based on wood-textures!

J.T. Shaver February 3, 2010

Very cool list. Maybe someday I’ll get on this list.

Mars February 3, 2010

nice collection, also had created a post http://www.orphicpixel.com/showcase-of-12-wood-textured-web-designs-for-inspiration/

pharmacy tech February 7, 2010

nice post. thanks.

Anon February 11, 2010

Someone is jacking some one else’s portfolio. http://www.monkeynuts.biz/ has the EXACT same background and content background as http://www.slabovia.tv/

compare:
Monkeynuts BG (http://www.monkeynuts.biz/images/wood.jpg)
Slabovia (http://www.slabovia.tv/common/img/WoodTile.jpg)

Monkeynuts (http://www.monkeynuts.biz/images/shadow-mid.png)
Slabovia (http://www.slabovia.tv/common/img/paper_crumple_tile.jpg)

rich February 13, 2010

…i’ve just found this great collection of web sites and wondered if there are any tutorials from psd to xhtml out there for these kinds of designs? i’m a relative novice to web design but aspire to create work just like these examples! i’ve looked but found nothing like these? thanks in advance for any assistance! cheers!