Web designers compete to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. Background images are one of those visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen.

In this post you will see how web designers carefully created background images to achieve their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content.

We have hand-picked different background image trends and tutorials you can use to create an amazing background images for your upcoming website design. You will also find an amazing set of patterns and texture packs that will magically add a big impact to a web design without a lot of effort.

As always when you’re dealing with freebies, be sure to read the owner’s instructions and license info.

Great Tutorials for getting the perfect Background

A step by step guide for creating amazing textures.

Handpicked Textures & Patterns

From organic to metal rust, this list has lots of great textures.

Whether you use patterns to fill the entire background of your site or just a specific area of your design, you will definitely find this collection useful.

What about Free Textures?

Where to Find Free Patterns?