The Best Way to Download Free Textures for your Designs

Anyone getting into graphic design will eventually start using different textures. I want to feature a few of my favorite places to find some free textures.

Textureking.com

Texture King has a large database of textures. The website is easy to navigate and downloading is super simple.

Imageabstraction.com

Image Abstraction also has a great database of textures and is well organized. I found downloading to be a bit easier on Texture King, but it is still easy to download at Image Abstraction.

Texturespot.com/

Texture Spot's database is not as large, but still worth taking a look.

Google.com

This is my favorite place to find textures from my favorite web company. Google image searches always helps you get what you are looking for.

Go a Google search for the texture you want, click the Images link above the search results and when the results come up, press the "Large" link for image size to make sure you are getting the best possible textures.

Disclaimer:
Whenever you download textures, make sure you read the terms and conditions from whatever website you are downloading them from.

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Make your Designs Better by having better fonts

One of the simplest ways to improve any design is by having a well designed font. Fontsquirrel.com is perhaps the best place I have seen to get fonts that are free for commercial use. This is definitely a site you will want to bookmark.

The site is clean and well design and makes it easy to browse for whatever font you need. Before you tackle your next design, hop on over to Font Squirrel to see if there is a font that will work for your design.

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Get Great Free Music at 8bitcollective - 8bc.org

8bitcollective is an online chiptune media sharing site. What is is chiptune you ask? Basically, it is Nintendo or gaming console music (Wikipedia has a more in-depth explanation). It is old school greatness! Who doesn't love listening to some Super Mario Bros every once in a while? Yes. This is music for geeks.

8bit collective is a site dedicated to people who are still creating this music and sharing it with one another. The site has thousands and thousands of free songs. Most of them are not that great, but every once in a while you will come across a song that is amazing. I suggest going to the site about once a month and checking out the "most liked" music on the right side of the home page.

Check out some of my favorite songs from the site:

8 Bit Collective

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