63 Impressive Website Background-Images: Trends, Resources and Tutorials
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 had carefully created background images to influence how the websites is visually distinct but considerate of their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content.
We have hand-picked background image resources and tutorials one can use to create amazing background images for the next website design.
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Stunning Examples and Trends
Let’s take a look at some great website designs that are very well engaged to the background images
1) Viget/Extend
2) Jazz Clubs
5) Hebatec
Plain and Simple
8 ) Subdued
10) Eddidit
13) Otramancha
14) Peminoz
15) Time For Cake
16) Dale Harris
17) Kutz Town
18) BootbB
19) Springtime
20) Level Opacity
21) Eleven3
22) Swell Guys
23) Point Of E
24) Abduzeedo
25) Avalonstar
26) Pangaea Festival
28) Deadmetropolis
29) Juxt Interactive
30) Introzo
31) Scoutingforgirls
32) David Hellmann
Where can you find background images?
Below you will find regularly updated online libraries and resources featuring hundreds of textures, patterns, brushes and images. They’ll come in handy when creating Photoshop brushes or your own background images.
- Free Hi-Res Splatter Photoshop Brushes
- Createsk8- Free Illustrator Patterns, Camouflage Patterns.
- PS Brushes- Great resource for Photoshop Brushes
- Squidfingers
- Urban Dirty- Texture stock photos
- Go Media Vector Packs
- Kaliber10000
- Kavewall
- Vecteezy
- DeviantART Brushes
- Brusheezy- Free Photoshop Brushes at Brusheezy
- Free Vector Graphics
- Texture Packs
- Free Photoshop Brushes
Further Resources for Background textures and patterns
- Where can I find textures and background images?
- Free Textures and Background Images
- 30+ Background & Stock Image Sites
How to Control element backgrounds with CSS
- Spruce up your search box- with CSS and a background image.
- CSS Sprites- What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them
- Using Percentages in Background-Image
- CSS background-image Tutorial- A tutorial about the CSS background-image property and other background related CSS properties.
- Controlling background images and colours- Learn how to use CSS properties to add background images and colour to your Web pages. Lots of neat tricks and examples are included!
- CSS Image Maps- How to create an image map that's built entirely using CSS and XHTML
Creating Your Own Backgrounds Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials
- Illustrating the Flower Pattern- This article will outline the main steps on how Nick La has made the flower pattern in Illustrator for WeDesignerWall.
- Magic lighting effect in photoshop- How to create a nice light and magic effect.
- Photoshop Space and Planet Tutorial- The techniques in this tutorial will show you how to create a nice image of space and planet.
- Vector Polishing Techniques- This tutorial includes 9 Photoshop techniques that will show you how to add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into your vector art.
- Creating Smoke- How to create smoke in photoshop.
- The Neverending (Background Image) Story- by Elliot Jay Stocks
- Beautiful lighting FX effect in Photoshop
Another amazing one is the background on the registration/login page over at Vimeo.
Wow! a great list!
Wow. Some inspirational examples. I am a big fan of bg, so thanks a lot.
Great Post!
Awesome list! I think Juxt has had that same look for a couple of years now – it’s amazing how some designs can really stand the test of time.
thanks for add!
nice sites!
Great list of backgrounds. Here’s another great use of design and technique:
http://silverbackapp.com/
Very good selection. Thanks for this list!
Great list – stumbled!
@Gelay, @Sarah, @Ryan, Gunner Si
I’m glad you liked it. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks @Matt, Juxt is one of my favorites.
@David, You’re welcome. I really like your design.
@James, silverbackapp.com is great too. I am not sure how we missed that ;)
@Fubiz, i am glad you liked this post.
@Binny V A, thanks for the stumble :)
@Andrew Cafourek, Yea Vimeo has an nice background.
i’m habby to be here, hehe! :)
Great collection.
I think the following site also has a stunning background: http://www.rubinered.eu
Some of these backgrounds are really cool, special Level Opacity one. I appreciate the way you explain the CSS coding to add them as well.
Excellent collection. It’s amazing how much great ideas can be found.
No 17, http://www.kutztown.edu/ doesn’t match the screenshot in the post.
:)
Its great & nice colection
thanks for the inspiration!
this is awesome. I’m thinking about redesigning my site some time soon. I’ve boomarked this article for future references. Thank you very much!
This is a very inspirational post.
Great work displayed.
Great site…great links….great images….thanks a lot
my picture load not correctly, hehe
I love number 19 – Springtime. The webpage just feels really great to be on.
inspiring!
wow, great combination of background images into header.
Great…great collection! Thanks!!!
Pretty nice tutorial keep it up.
very good… Thanks you very much !
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Awesome list! I think Juxt has had that same look for a couple of years now – it’s amazing how some designs can really stand the test of time.
Great list of backgrounds. Here’s another great use of design and technique:
thank a lot very usfull site
Thanks for the information. It will be useful for many.
thanks for sharing, some really amazing websites in this list : )
wow, very beautiful backgrounds indeed. thxs for sharing this. ;)
Hey! nice backgrounds collections…
Really awesome compilation of impressive website background.
Great collection..
Thanks for sharing
Ha-ha!! I Was just browsing around, wondering if an online photography course was of some interest for me, and came across of this – an interesting read, thankx!
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When laying in a background graphic, you need to consider all of the different monitor sizes. background graphics repeat themselves and could look weird on a wide monitor if
you selected a background size to fit one of the older, smaller monitors.
Interesting post! I was wondering, as I usually read most of the entries here is there any way I can get updates sent to my inbox?
Wow its amazing……….
its grate
Great Information, thanks for your useful Article. Also check these nice Website.
Nice Work!
I loveeeee the texture background used in some of these!
Although some of them when I clicked onto the website, it’s changed :(
Anyway, still – very inspiring!!!
Liking this wallpaper! Looks awesome on my new Mac :)
excellent thanks for great information – this has me motivated now
whoa…it’s amazing design.. I want to learn it..!!
I actually really like the web template that using, is it custom created?
Wow, most of examples posted here look amazing. I will be trying to create something like that for my website.
Awesome list of website back ground images, i like the post.
Hello. Thank you for this nice compilation. Because of it is very useful i bookmarked this page.
Thank you again and regards.
Great compilation – provided a lot of inspiration for a recent web design job
Cheers
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Really great resource with a nice variety of examples!
Nice collection, i like this post.
Nice Collection. Specially I like the BootbB website background image. And i am going to use some of the ideas from here.
Amazing… Luv it …
Really great resource, really useful
Wow. Really inspiring. Now I know where to go during my designer’s block moments. Awesome designs, thanks for sharing this! :)
Very nice creative designs. Amazing list! Very inspiring. Excellent work. Good Inspirational work.Thanks!
these are some amazing site designs. This is true artwork.
Thanx
gr8 list. its really helpful. thanks for sharing.
Realy nice choice of backgrounds, great work!
Inspirational work.Thanks for Sharing
Very useful site for inspiring before begin to design.
Woahhh, I have never ever seen this type of WordPress Theme. Great Man ! Your Site is Amazing…
it’s likely good to try
I like creating smoke and now I can create smoke with my PS. Thanks noupe
Really lovely post wish there are more like this on the web………………..
love it
come on ,why
excelente colección de backgrounds. muy utiles para mis proyectos.
Saludos
Awesome i love it
great designs you’ ve got here
Beautiful collection…loving it..
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