Here are the essential, workflow-friendly, straight-to-bookmark paper textures and packs, offered up totally free!
Whatever the project and whatever the application, we’re pretty sure that the free paper textures and packs that we’ve picked out are up to the task. They’re hi-res, super easy to download, and best of all, offered up free for personal and commercial use (be sure to double-check the license with their respective authors beforehand).
Included are a bunch of texture types to suit any creative project. Whether you’re putting together posters, flyers, social media graphics or creating websites you should be able to manipulate the seamless, creased, grungy, canvas and stained downloads to your liking via HTML & CSS, Photoshop or Illustrator.
Check in at at our graphic design freebies archive for other “best of” rundowns.
6 Free Paper Texture Backgrounds Pack
Enhance your creative projects with this collection of 6 FREE seamless paper texture pack from Zippy pixels. meticulously crafted for smooth integration into various design mediums. Whether you’re working on web design, print materials, artwork, incorporating Photoshop overlay patterns, or any other design endeavor, these high-quality textures are tailored to elevate your visual creations.
Fantastically Free High Res Brown Paper Textures
We love the charm of textured brown paper, exuding an earthy allure and artisanal aesthetic. This delightful texture adds a touch of rustic sophistication to your digital craft designs, elevating them with its natural and organic appeal.
5 Free High Resolution Paper Textures – Pack
“5 Amazing free paper background textures to add an extra layer of awesomeness to your designs. These textures are created from real paper surfaces and can be used on multiple design projects including but not limited to web design, printing, paper craft and much much more. Featuring 5 multi-colored paper textures with massive pixel dimensions of 5000 x 3338.”
12 Free Paper Texture Pack
“I decided to share here 12 selected paper textures from my texture archive. As example I used »paper_texture_02« for this shot (check @2x for details).”
Size: 1600×1200
Resolution: 300 pixels/inch
File Format: .png
.zip Archive Size: 54 MB
5 High Resolution Grungy Paper Texture Pack
Each texture was created by combining multiple paper layers, brushes, scratches, splats… you name it. Each texture (jpg) is 2500px x 1667px in size giving you plenty of options. Let me know if you find them useful in the comments and feel free to spread the word!”
5 Folded Paper Backgrounds
“A set of five folded paper backgrounds perfect for flyers and posters. Inside PSD file colors and textures are on separate layers, so you can easily edit and combine them according to your needs.
Format: Layered PSD, JPG
Dimensions: 1767×2500 px
Minimum Photoshop Version: CS
Size: 40.8 Mb
5 Seamless Paper Textures
“Free useful set of 5 beautiful seamless Paper Photoshop Textures provided by Anna Ivanir ready to use in your next design project. Ready for print, Photoshop .PAT file is included.”
12 Free Seamless Paper Patterns
“Friends, these 12 free seamless paper patterns are great to create website backgrounds, posters, cards, flyers, wallpapers and more. The download file contains 12 ready-to-use JPEG images as well as Photoshop patterns (.PAT file) that you can quickly import into Photoshop and use right away.”
Format: JPEG, PAT
Dimensions: 288 x 288 pixels
Size: 1.64 MB
Free Seamless Paper Textures
“For all your creative hootenanny, both personal and commercial. I would adore seeing what you dream up with these lovelies – pics & links of your projects are welcome and encouraged!”
14 High-Res Paper & Canvas Textures
“If you’re anything like me you’ll love this texture pack, 14 top quality textures to add to your next design. Each texture is 2500px x 1667px is size giving you plenty of options! Myself, I like to desaturate the texture, set the blending mode to multiply and place it over a solid colour – creates some interesting effects! As always, spreading the word is appreciated and let me know if you find them useful!”
Stained Paper Textures
Pretty much limitless stained paper downloads via the awesome and bookmark-essential lostandtaken.com, which is pretty much THE home of free stock textures downloads. Alongside their selection of ink, tea and paint options are bark, fabric, bokeh, metal, wood and scratched variants, all available to view and grab at a click of a button.
Free Paper Texture Pack
Enjoyed this post and want more paper texture packs for free? Check out our posts on Free Wood Textures, and Free High-Quality Leather Textures.