Offsite Resources – Image Textures – Site List

Image textures! Sooner or later, almost no matter what you do in either 2D or 3D CGI, you will want to gather some image textures to use in your creations.
These are some of the sites I go to to grab textures, some are huge sites, others are small but just keep looking until you find what you need.

I have NO doubt that I have way more links backed up elsewhere. As I sift through them and find more, I’ll add them into this post.

Now, in no particular order (Order? Who needs order?), are my links, copied right out of my Firefox faves;

*Those entries in bold are must-see collections.

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Google Image Search – Man, have I ever embraced this as a starting point to find image textures. Especially after visiting all the other sites, this is a great way
to find new textures you’ve never seen before or when you are looking for something obscure that most sites don’t have (cracked glass, circuit board, etc).

• 3D Total – Very worthwhile and large collection.
• Mayang’s Free Texture Library – When looking for a texture, I always check here.
• CG Textures – They now require registration and only allow 15mb of downloads a day but still worth it, they have great quality textures.
• High Resolution Textures – blog format site with unique textures.
• Textures Forrest CZ : Textures Library – Don’t let the url fool you, they have many types of textures, not just “forests”.
• Texture Online
• Texture King
• My Photoshop Textures
• Design Mag : 2,000 Absolutely Free Textures
• Browsing Textures on deviantART

• Текстуры / фактуры – Russian site with some cool textures and a lot more links to more texture sites at the bottom of the page.
• Zen Textures
• Texture Lovers
• Trójmiasto- Scans of older maps.
• luGher Texture
• Photoshop Textures
• Lune Rouge
• Smashing Apps : 21 Collections Of Free Textures
• Psdtuts+ : Free Textures
• Best Design Options
• PSD Graphics
• Design Shard : Freebies
• Texture Warehouse
• Amazing Textures – Download medium resolution immediately or grab hi-res versions after a free registration.
• Davegh - Artist that created textures for a video game and after he never got paid, he is offering them all online (these are not photo textures, but hand-painted ones)
• Texture Bin 342
• Mega-Tex
• Smashing Magazine : 100 Free Textures
• Lost and Taken

More to come as I find them in my piles of favorites!

If you have any link suggestions, feel free to email them to me at kirkdunne@yahoo.com