So where to go for all those clichés that people want in a Halloween design? Well, here comes Beeex.net, your collection of strictly free resources for graphic designers and web developers. And today, we have collected some great Halloween design resources for you. For that last-minute call for a professional Halloween graphic.

We have searched and listed a total of 35 Halloween design resources for the ambitioned designer: Halloween icons, Photoshop brushes, free Halloween vector art, and of course, free fonts. Some might want to rather refer to some of the features as “Halloween Clip Art” – that’s fine. Some graphic designers tend to turn up their noses at anything clipart in general – these are meant to inspire you, friends! So be nice.

We’ve also collected some Halloween ideas for you: Halloween wallpapers and backgrounds. You can either use these for inspiration, or to scary up your computer desktop.

And finally, we found some great Halloween tutorials for Photoshop, which will take you through the steps of designing some spooky Halloween invitations and cards.

So here goes: Let’s cut to the chase and come up with some great Halloween design today! Fire up Photoshop, fire up Illustrator, get creative!

Halloween Design

Please note the user license for each of the following design resources. While they are all free, some come with a restricted usage license – e.g. for commercial work. So before you download a resource, please read the license that is usually noted on the download page.

Halloween Icons

Halloween icons that will make your desktop applications look really really scary. Make no mistake – don’t call this clip art. Halloween clip art is for milk drinkers. Halloween icons are for graphic desingers.

1/ Halloween Monsters

The nice people at Turbomilk have put together a great and very appealing set of cute little Halloween monsters. This Halloween clip art goes by the name of “monstroworld icons” and is intended to replace your usual desktop icons. And indeed, they look great! Go fetch these Halloween icons – for Mac OS X and Windows, or as PNG files – right here.

2/ Halloween Avatars/Smileys

Again, the word most suitable for these Halloween icons is “cute” rather than “scary”. Maybe “scary sweet”? At least that’s an alliteration. You can use these 20 nice, shiny and glossy 3D-style icons for anything you like, they come in GIF, ICO, and ICNS formats. Thanks to deleket on Deviant Art! Grab these Halloween icons here.

3/ Jack O’ Lantern & Harry Potter’s Hat

The Jack O’ Lantern is an American tradition and belongs in your window when the kids arrive, or they will make you suffer for your ignorance. Unless you have Harry Potter by your side to wave his magic wand at them and turn them into Jack O’ Lanterns themselves. With this free icon pack, you have both: download it here from Icon Drawer (you have to scroll down on the page a bit).

4/ Bloody Halloween Icons

These are actually two sets of bloody Halloween icons – one contains such things as knives, both with blood splatters on them and without, and the other spoils us with the Halloween mask from Scary Movie. Or was it Scream? Either way, you can find both free icon sets on this page.

5/ Halloween Icons Collection by The Iconfactory

These are five different sets of Halloween icons made by the Icon factory (a great site!). You have to click on each of the above 5 thumbnails to go to these pages. They are named as follows:
1/ Spooky Halloween Stickers (pumpkin),
2/ World of Aqua – After Dark (black cat),
3/ Vintage Halloween (scary masks),
4/ Glossy Halloween Food (pumpkin),
5/ Haunted Hard Drives (haunted hard drive).
Great addition to our Halloween design freebies by The Iconfactory. Check them out!

Halloween Photoshop Brushes

This is a great addition to our Photoshop brushes category! We have collected these really nice design brushes for Photoshop – all ready for free download and, of course, spooky spooky. Just the right Halloween stuff for you.

6/ Horror Photoshop Brushes

Want to hang someone? Maybe place them in a scary horror ambient surrounding, along with a skull or two? Download these free Photoshop Halloween brushes by Emma Alvarez and you’re set.

7/ Assorted Halloween Brushes

A set of quite pessimistic Photoshop Halloween brushes is featured on Brusheezy. Very R.I.P. style. Download this set here.

8/ Vintage Halloween Brushes

A nice set of vintage Halloween brushes arrives from 500ml brushes. We gave you free vintage textures earlier, and this Photoshop brush kit is a great addition – especially since it’s Halloween themed! You can go there here.

9/ Zombie Photoshop Brushes

Zombies! Aaah! Halloween. Ah. Nuff said – go get ‘em.

10/ Photoshop Spider Brushes

Thanks to the graphic designer Scully, we are blessed with these wonderful creatures in the form of dedicated Photoshop Brushes. We are on our knees – you can download this set here.

11/ Cobweb Photoshop Brushes

It is only logical to also feature cobwebs now. Because – since we are so much in love with Halloween, we simply can’t get around it. You can download these Photoshop brushes here.

12/ Deathbat Photoshop Brushes

What’s a deathbat? Simple – a bat with a skull as its head. Or, from the skull’s perspective which we don’t want to neglect, a deathbat is a flying skull with bat wings. So here come some great Photoshop deathbat Brushes for you, perfect for Halloween! Download them here (thanks RiseAboveArt).

13/ Cliché Halloween Photoshop Brushes

These Photoshop brushes are great for various Halloween designs, as the set contains a lot of clichés – and that’s what the people want, isn’t it? Download it here (thanks to Anodyne).

14/ Eerie Photoshop Brushes

A wonderful set that goes well with that love serenade you plan to sing to your beloved one. Really. This Photoshop brush set includes a full moon, gravestones, and more cute things for your Halloween design. Download it here (thanks to wyckedBrush)

15/ Old City Photoshop Brushes

Ruins deluxe – this Photoshop brush pack gives you the ability to use dark buildings and places in your Halloween invitations. Go for it here.

16/ Spooky Halloween Design Brushes

This is a Photoshop Brush set by the same author as #15 – this time, Anodyne designed a pack of spooky Photoshop Halloween design brushes for use in your artwork. Great stuff, download it here.

17/ Devil Wings for Halloween

Above, we had the deathbats – now it’s time for the deathbat’s uncle, the devil himself. Or herself. Depends on your view of things. Nevermind our joking – these Photoshop brushes are perfect for Halloween! Download them here (thanks to austral-azn).

Free Halloween Vector Art

We love free vectors. And we know you love them too! So of course we have to feature some great free Halloween vector art graphics for free download, and ready to use in your designs. Here they come.

18/ Free Vector Skulls

These are some very cool free vector skulls that fit perfectly with any Halloween design. Since they come as vector art, you can of course enlarge them and cover your house up with the printout. Provided you have a decent sized piece of paper handy. Thanks to Ben from Benblogged for these – go to his download page here!

19/ Free Vector Vintage

This is a nice set of free vector vintage art for use with Adobe Illustrator (or any other vector application). The free download includes skulls, wings, splatters, and even swirls and swooshes that actually fit quite well with a vintage Halloween design. Go check these free vectors out here.

20/ Free Halloween Vectors

A nice little set of three free vector graphics can be found over at Vecteezy. These free Halloween vectors consist of a witch hat and two carved pumpkins – one glowing, one in its natural form. Well, if you consider Jack O’ Lantern natural, that is. You can download this kit here.

21/ Free Vector Zombies

A nice set of free vector zombies, perfect for Halloween, that are rather funny than anything else. They are by Benblogged, and you can download them here.

22/ Free Vector Silhouettes

Another free vector pack by Ben, also for Halloween, only this time the zombies are silhouettes. Very nice work – you can use them for Halloween backgrounds, for instance. Download these free vectors here.

23/ Free Vector Zombie Heads

Zombies rock. That’s why we feature yet another free vector art pack of them; this time, they are the heads only. Really scary, and just perfect for any Halloween design you could imagine. Check this one out here (thanks to Spoongraphics).

Free Halloween Fonts

Free fonts have a tradition here at Beeex.net. One of our earliest successful posts was about free pixel fonts, which we featured for direct download – go check it out if you haven’t yet! And today, we’ve got some great free Halloween font collections for you. So you’ll find multiple – read trunkload full of – free fonts for Halloween and other scary occasions on the following sites.

24/ Free Halloween Fonts at Urban Fonts

Urban Fonts has a collection of free Halloween fonts that come as dingbats. So you won’t be able to write anything with them, but if you use Adobe Illustrator, you can use these free fonts to make paths and then use the illustrations as vector graphics! Just a thought. Check out this nice collection of free Halloween fonts on this page.

25/ Free Horror Fonts

You may know DaFont already – they are a great site for free fonts. So here’s their collection of free horror fonts that work wonders when creating Halloween designs. The horror font section on DaFont can be found here, and then you might also want to check out their free Halloween fonts – go there here!

Halloween Wallpapers and Pictures

So you are in need of some inspiration. Look no further, but stick with us. We have a few cool free Halloween wallpapers for you, along with a few free Halloween pictures that you can use in your Halloween designs.

26/ Grim Reaper

A classic. What is a Halloween without the grim reaper? Christmas! So here you get a huge-sized image of a grim reaper for use in your Halloween design. You can go to the page here (thanks to mjranum).

27/ Black Crows (PSD)

This is a free hi-res Photoshop image of four black crows by CatONineTales on DeviantArt. You can use the birds in your Halloween design to provide that certain dark feeling… You know. Download this PSD right here.

28/ Scary Halloween Wallpaper

These are two scary Halloween wallpapers for your computer desktop that look great – and can give your inspiration that push it needed very desperately. These desktop wallpapers over at GoMedia can be found at the bottom of this page – at the top, you’ll also find a free vector Halloween pack!

29/ Halloween Wallpaper

A great set of free Halloween wallpapers can be found here. Your desktop will never look the same! You can go see for yourself – and download – right here.

Halloween Photoshop Tutorials (and Illustrator)

And finally, after all these freebies, here’s the section that will teach you how to create your own Halloween pictures. Learn how to make something ugly out of something beautiful, if you want to call it that way. These Halloween Photoshop tutorials will show you how! Watch out for the occasional Illustrator tutorial as well.

30/ Illustrator Tutorial – Create a Halloween Pumpkin

In this Illustrator tutorial by Nick La, you’ll learn how easy it actually is to create a vector pumpkin in Adobe Illustrator. The result can be seen above – and you can visit this Halloween tutorial right here.

31/ Halloween Pumpkin Photoshop Tutorial

And while we’re at it, why not see what we can do in good old Adobe Photoshop. This Halloween pumpkin Photoshop tutorial shows you how to make a very evil Jack O’ Lantern in your favorite design application. Go to this tutorial here.

32/ Halloween Photoshop Tutorial – Create a Zombie

In this Halloween Photoshop tutorial, you take any picture (of yourself, or of your beloved ones) and turn it into a horror image of a zombie. You’ll be using some interesting Photoshop techniques, so be sure to check this one out. Right here.

33/ Photoshop Tutorial – Old Face

Take a picture of a beautiful young woman and turn it into a cracked, old, peely artwork – that’s exactly what this Photoshop tutorial does. You can learn some great techniques here. Go see for yourself right here.

34/ Photoshop Tutorial – Portrait to Stone Statue

Take a portrait and turn it into a stone statue – that’s what this Photoshop tutorial is about. Again, a wonderful addition to any Halloween design! Go see this tutorial here.

35/ Photoshop Tutorial – Charming Landscape to Horror Site

And finally, one of the best photo manipulation tutorials for Photoshop that we didn’t want to leave out of this list for Halloween design. Learn how to turn a charming landscape image into a charming horror site – you can find this Photoshop tutorial here (it has been featured on Beeex.net before).

There you have it, our shortlist of 35 designer resources for Halloween design. Halloween icons, Halloween clip art, Halloween Photoshop brushes, free Halloween vectors, Halloween wallpapers, and finally, Halloween Photoshop tutorials. What a mouthful. We can’t say this word anymore today.

Hopefully, you find these resources useful. We would love to hear back from you – leave us a comment if you like!

So long – and: booooooooo! -
~Beeex Happy Team

That’s why we made this post. The ultimate collection of background patterns, background tiles and free textures for your website. All high quality. All for graphic designers. You can download them for free and use them in Photoshop to fit your web pages.

Definition of Texture

Let’s first take a look at what the difference is between patterns and textures. Basically, these are two different expressions in design, describing different elements, and they are not the same. And as this post is about website backgrounds, we should make the difference clear before we start.

Background Patterns

Background patterns are tile patterns with which you can create a seamless pattern. This means that the borders of this kind of graphics fit into each other seamlessly, without revealing to the eye where one tile ends and where another one starts. We covered techniques on creating patterns in Photoshop and how extend that knowledge and play around with Photoshop patterns in the past. Adobe Photoshop comes with a pattern function that is intended for seamless tile patterns, and we recommend you read these website background tutorials first. It is always better to know how you can create your own graphics.

Background Textures

Background textures, on the other hand, can be a seamless pattern, but they don’t have to. Don’t be confused – the secret lies in the definition of texture in graphic design. Texture is an element of design and is best described as “the feel of an object”.

Interesting reads on the elements of design can be found here:

• Using Texture: Real World Examples at Creative Curio
• Textures and Patterns Design Showcase at Smashing Magazine
• The secret Rules of Composition in Design at Nubloo’s Graphic Design Blog
• Design Notes: Texture by James T. Saw

It is important not to confuse the element of design (texture) with web backgrounds (textures). We can put it this way:

• Background textures make use of texture.
• Background textures can be patterns.
• Background patterns can be seamless.

Whoa. Confused already? Don’t be. Let’s just get to the most extensive list of textures you’ve ever seen on the internet.

Please check out the license of any background image you wish to use with your graphic designs. They are all free, and most of them are also free for commercial use, but some require a backlink or another sort of reference. The license is usually noted on the download pages.

Textures

We are making a start with high resolution textures that are not seamless.

1/ Wood Textures

This is a great set of free textures that were scanned from real wood plates. 720 dpi. 100 different wood textures with an average filesize of 6 MB. Download these high resolution textures right here.

2/ Paper Textures

This is a collection of 30 free paper backgrounds; all are high resolution textures. Some of these are perfect for a grunge style background; you can even make your own Photoshop brushes with them. Go to the download page for these paper textures on Creative Closeup right here.

3/ Grunge Paper Textures

Yet another freebie over at BittBox, this time it’s 4 old, crunchy, grunge paper textures in high resolution. The download is 18 MB large. Go and get them.

4/ Wall Textures

Here comes a collection of 24 free high-res textures – stone / wall / concrete, whatever you’d like to call them. They come from BittBox for free download – go there from here.

5/ Metal Textures

If you’re looking for metallic textures for your graphic designs, have a look here. DeviantArt is a good place to go anyway; this is their metal textures gallery. Check it out.

6/ Rust Textures

Also on DevianArt, there is a collection of high resolution rust textures for use in your designs. Go there right here.

7/ Hair Textures

If you want to apply hair to your web page background, here you go: this is a collection of hair textures on DeviantArt. Go there now.

8/ Old Book Textures

BittBox did us all the favor of scanning an old book and offering the resulting hi-res images for free download on his site. Great for grunge style designs – go check it out here.

9/ Grunge Textures

Urban Dirty features “free texture stock photography for your artwork, designs and desktops”. Right now, they feature 404 (four hundred and four) grunge, dirty, destroyed, etc. textures. the collection includes wall textures, plastic textures, metal textures, concrete textures, and more – all in the “grunge” category. Most photos are at 180 dpi and 3027 x 2304 pixels large. Wow. Check them out here.

10/ Grunge Textures 2

Texture King is another website for free stock textures. They cover “grunge, dirt, plaster, concrete, rust and more”. The free downloads come as ZIP files and are all high resolution. Go to Texture King here.

11/ Grunge Textures 3

This website has a lot of “free high resolution textures for digital art, 3D rendering, web design and print projects”. Categories include aircraft aluminium, drains, vents and grates, graffiti and vandalism textures, metal, mud and clay, spills and splatter, trash and garbage, and more. You can visit Grungetextures right here.

Various Texture Galleries

The following websites are galleries that have textures and web backgrounds within a variety of categories.

12/ CG Textures

This site has a large collection of high resolution textures that also work well as a desktop wallpaper. Categories include brick textures, concrete textures, textiles, ground, grunge textures, metal textures, nature, paper textures, plastic textures, rust, scrap, signs, splatter, water textures, wood textures, floral backgrounds, and more. Go to CG Textures here.

13/ Free Foto

The site Free Foto requires that you agree to mention them with a backlink before you can use one of their free textures for your website. They also ask for an email address, but that shouldn’t be a problem… They do have a few nice free backgrounds in a decent resolution. Go check them out here.

14/ Ben Cloward’s Textures

The character animator Ben Cloward gives us a beautiful collection of high resolution textures for free use. They include brick and cement textures, cloud textures, snow, stone and stucco textures, and even skin textures. Check them out.

15/ Dr. Web Textures

Dr. Web Magazine lists quite a few hi-res background textures, including metallic textures, wall and wood textures, sand, stone and plastic backgrounds. Go visit the site here.

16/ luGher Texture

A gallery for nature related textures – all in good quality, including categories such as wood, soil textures and earth, pavements, ancient brick walls, broken walls, marble, and more. Check them out right here.

17/ Texturez

Another site with a nice little collection of free texture backgrounds for your website or desktop. Check them out here.

18/ Amazing Textures

Amazing Textures is a collection of free textures, including walls, stone and brick, wood and metal, doors, buildings and tiles (as in bathroom and kitchen), and more. They also have a section of tiled textures. You have access to the free textures in medium quality but if you want to download the high-res textures, you have to register (also free). Check out Amazing Textures right here.

19/ Texture Warehouse

A great stock gallery site for free background textures that you can use in your designs. A large variety can be found here – asphalt, brick, marble, paint and glass textures, plastic textures, rubber textures and much more. You gotta check them out – right here.

20/ 3D Place

Yet another site for free textures, 3D Place features a gallery ranging from hair, fur and leather textures over fiber textures to all kinds of paper textures (yellow pad, cream paper, recycled paper, moon paper, and paper towels). Oh well, what are we saying, just go check it out!

21/ 2Textured

This website holds a whole bunch of user generated, free textures in a lot of categories, among them man-made (like guns), human (anatomy), food and panorama. Check 2Textured out here.

22/ Texture Love

Texture love has lots of free textures for you, all in high resolution. You can vote on the textures and push them into or out of a “most popular” list. Go to this gallery right here.

Tile Patterns

If you’re looking for a seamless background, you might find what you are looking for in this category. The following websites are full of free backgrounds for your website. Here are the seamless patterns and tile patterns.

23/ Retro Backgrounds

This site has an abundance of retro backgrounds for your website. Seamless, of course. They are sorted by style and color and we’re sure that you will love them all. Check Citrus Moon Patterns out right over here.

24/ Retro Background Patterns 2

And of course, when it comes to retro background patterns, this site can’t be left out. Squidfingers is the portfolio of Travis Beckham, has been featured before on Beeex.net (158 Free Tiled Retro Background Patterns), features just that and is a must for seamless patterns. Go to this great website right here.

25/ Retro Backgrounds 3

Evan Eckard has put up a wonderful little site full of free retro backgrounds of all kinds and colors. From dark backgrounds over floral patterns to vintage style textures, you’re served well and even are able to leave a comment on the patterns. Check this gem out now.

26/ Floor / Brick Textures

Rafael Ibarrondo of Tirad.com brings us a collection of historic floor, brick, and wall textures, that can be used to create a seamless pattern. The photos are original terracotta floors from the Marienburg Castle in Germany (~ 11th century). Very nice – download these free patterns from this page.

27/ Stone Patterns

StockTextures seems to be halfway under construction, yet they already have some nice seamless patterns of photo-realistic walls, stones, rock surfaces et cetera. They ask for registration prior to a download, but the tile patterns are free. You can visit them here.

28/ Vintage Patterns

Baroque patterns. Floral backgrounds. Vintage patterns. Call them what you like, our friends over at Snap2Objects deliver 6 of these for free download. These backgrounds also have been featured on Beeex.net before, and they can’t be left out in this collection. You can find these patterns here.

29/ Baroque Patterns and Floral Backgrounds

The Inspiration Gallery features a whole lot of baroque patterns from the beautiful renaissance and rococo era. The damask wallpaper patterns are indeed a pleasure to the eye and usually come in creamy, sand color tones of lighter tints or darker shades. Another large category contains floral backgrounds, as well as ivy and leaves. Marble, moiré, mottled and country charm are some of the other categories. Go take a look.

Pattern Generators

Looking for a seamless pattern for your website, but don’t wanna fire up Illustrator or Photoshop? Better so, why get dirty when you can easily get free backgrounds using these pattern generators.

30/ Stripe Generator 2.0

This is a genuine Web 2.0 Ajax Stripe Generator which lets you create seamless patterns on the fly. You can choose the orientation/angle of the stripes, their width, colors and/or gradients. A full-screen preview is also available, so that you can check how your web page background will look before you download the pattern. Go to the Stripe Generator right here.

31/ Background Generator

This is a great little toy: Just like you’d create an icon, pixel by pixel, you simply design your pattern and see it grow seamless on the rest of the screen. We featured the tiled background generator on Beeex.net before – you can go use it right here.

32/ Tile Machine

Just like the above, this is a tile generator which you can use to create free seamless textures. It works similar to the background generator. Check it out here.

33/ Pattern Cooler

Now this is a wonderful innovation. From the countless available patterns on this site – mainly retro and vintage style, all seamless tiles – you select one and in the next step, you are able to change every color of the design. So from a blue background with light blue circles and a yellow dot, you can go to a dark green background with pink circles and a yellow dot. It’s all up to you. After that, you get to set the size of the whole thing and what you get is a perfectly seamless background pattern of your own. Go check this cool site out right now.

34/ Texture Generator

Yet another background generator, only this time with the option to apply texture to the seamless tiles. You select your favorite retro design of the pattern, define a color, its size, and a texture; what you get is your own seamless web background. Great stuff, check it out here.

Various Pattern Galleries

The following websites are galleries that have seamless tile patterns within a variety of categories. Usually, the tiles are smaller and not high resolution.

35/ Backgrounds Archive

You will find tileable web page backgrounds en masse on this site, and also free desktop wallpapers. Website background categories include bricks, edibles, fabric, grass backgrounds, leaves, marble backgrounds, metallic textures, paper textures, rocks, sky patterns, space, stones, stucco, swirls, water textures, and wood; the free desktop wallpapers have categories such as animals, art backgrounds, aviation and automobiles, cartoon backgrounds, celebrities, cities and countries, food and drinks, and more. Check the Backgrounds Archive out right here.

36/ Gallerie 1

Most of these background patterns can be used as a seamless pattern, yet some are high resolution textures which appear not to be tileable. Some good ones are features here, if you can cope with the German category titles – which shouldn’t be too hard, just click on a category and take a look

37/ Absolute Cross

This website has 10 “texture packs” which very much resemble a typical 1990s web page style – a bit retro, yet possibly still useful. Take a look right here (you need to have JavaScript enabled or else you’ll be getting 404s).

38/ Blender Texture CD

At first glance, this website also reminds us about retro background patterns, yet there are some hidden gems among their free textures. The site holds a collection of typical Photoshop patterns that are mostly tileable – well, actually they are not meant for Photoshop, but for Blender, the (very cool) free open source 3D creation suite (much like 3D Studio Max or any other 3D graphics program). But what’s the difference? JPEGs they are. Go ahead and check them out on this page.

39/ 2D Valley

This website has a collection of background tiles that can be used for Photoshop patterns as well. The range is from wood and stone over fabric and metal textures to wallpaper textures and tiles. Go to this site right here.

40/ The Limelite

This site has three pages packed with seamless background tiles. The imagery is mostly object oriented, which means that you will find mostly tiling objects here; but also walls, for instance. They even have one or two animated web backgrounds, which doesn’t mean that you should use them. Check this site out here.

41/ Repeat XY

Repeat XY is a great site for seamless backgrounds with a “search by color” funciton. They have a lot to offer and if you’re looking for great, free web page backgrounds, you should definitely check this site out.

42/ PlanIt 3D

Both tile patterns and texture backgrounds can be found here, in a whole bunch of categories. Watch the license, they want you to give credit to them if you use one of their free textures on your website. Go to this site here.

43/ Pattern4u by Kollermedia

Jürgen Koller runs this great website and blog and features user-generated patterns and web page backgrounds. A variety of categories include vintage patterns, grass textures, paper wall textures, wood textures, and much more. Check out this site right here.

Backgrounds

What doesn’t fit in the textures category, and doesn’t fit in the pattern category, must still have a place. Here is a list of free backgrounds that can’t be called either of the above, but still deserve to be featured.

44/ Spiral Backgrounds

A gallery of spiral background wallpapers. Beautiful and inspiring – if not for your website, maybe as your desktop wallpaper? Go to this gallery here.

45/ Smashing Texture Gallery

Smashing Magazine held a texture contest earlier this year and the outcome was a gallery full of unique backgrounds and textures, most of them high resolution. The categories are: wood/bark, stone/walls/brick, metal/rust/industrial, nature/flowers/plants, water/ice/drops/liquids, sand/earth, fabric, paper, glass, fire/ashes, food, plastic, and misc. Check these free textures out here.

46/ Cool Backgrounds

Paulo from the website Abuzeedo compiled a list of 36 cool backgrounds for your website. Both colorful and dark, they can be downloaded for free right here.

WHAT?/ Rainbow Backgrounds

Yes, we know. Terrible. But MySpace users have the right to exist, too. Sometimes. So here come some cool MySpace backgrounds that have rainbow colors in them. Colorful as hell, and you can go to the gallery here. Make no mistake – use them with Comic Sans.

And no, we do not feature animated web backgrounds.

Here we go, this was the Beeex.net Ultimate Collection of Background Patterns, Tiles & Textures for Websites – we tried to create a complete list and find only the best high-quality textures for you.

Do you know of any site we forgot? Add your favorite free pattern or texture site in the comments, if you like!

Yours truly,
~ Beeex Happy Team

The vector pack contains eight embroidery badges, all in different colors. What you get is vectors in green, red, brown, blue, and white, with various pre-made text graphics inside of them. And as if that wasn’t enought already, the Vibr8 Bros. also included four blank vector graphics with no text – for you to write your own blurb inside of it. How’s that?

Take a look at what is included in this download.

The free vector art file looks like this:

..and it is an AI file for use in Adobe Illustrator CS3. There also is a secondary download, also free, which contains the vector graphics as PNG files (12 of them) – at a decent size, so that you can open them in Photoshop or another graphic design program, if you prefer not working with vector graphics.

You can download this free vector art pack right here. Enjoy!

If you ever wanted to design a flyer, a poster or a website using a sexy girl or a female silhouette in your artwork, then you know that it can be tough finding someting good, useable and free on the internet. Now we’re not talking photography, but vector art – that means that the designer either traced the girl from an existing image, or that he created her from scratch.

Now you could always trace a photograph on your own. We covered a technique to do that in this post, How to Trace a Photo in Illustrator. If you don’t want to do that by yourself, this post is for you. Take a look at what we’ve got for you.

This post contains no nudity, only quality vector art. These files come with a Creative Commons license or a GPL license and are free to use for personal work. The download link for each free vector pack is included with each feature. Enjoy!

Lifestyle Girls Vector Pack 1

This is a fantastic, 4-part set of free vectors – stylish, fashionable, sexy girls (and guys, too) for free download. This part contains 15 high-quality vector graphics. Download Part 1 here.

Lifestyle Girls Vector Pack 2

Part two of this set, it contains 15 vector graphics. Download this part right here.

Lifestyle Girls Vector Pack 3

You guessed it, this is the third part of the lifestyle girls free vectors: download it here.

Lifestyle Girls Vector Pack 4

And, well yeah, the fourth part of this great series. This part contains 19 vectors. Download this free vector pack here.

Dancing Girls

This is a simple set of girls dancing on a red background. Download this free vector right here.

Vector Ballet Dancers

These vector silhouettes of ballet dancers comes from the same artist who designed the vampire girl below. It’s a PDF, you might want to right-click on this link to save it.

Dancing Girls 2

This is a free vector pack of dancing girls designed in great detail. Download this file from here.

Swooshy Vector Art Girls

Here is a great set of vectors picturing sexy girls with sexy swooshes. The free package contains 8 EPS files. The file is hosted on RapidShahe, here is the link to download this free vector pack.

Vector Girl with Swirls

Here is a nice vector graphic of a swirly girl – white on an orange background. Download this file directly from here.

Swirly Curl Gurl

Girl, not gurl, but still. This nice vector art is coming from our friend CreateSk8 and you can download this swirl curl girl directly from here.

More Vector Swirls & a Girl

Yet another girl with swirl hair for you, again from the author of the art above. You can download this file from here directly.

Girl on Bed, Legs against the Wall

This is a vector art of a girl laying on a bed, with her legs up against the wall. You can download this vector graphic here.

Beauty Girl

Four girls that you know from uptown. They only let you take them out if you pick them up in a Mercedes, and during dinner they have to go check their make-up every 20 minutes. Brr. Download this file right here.

Vector Make-Up Girl

This is a woman applying make-up. The color scheme is watercolor, soft, pink and cyan. You can place this vector art on your desktop from right here.

Shopping Girls Vector Pack

This is a very nice set of girls doing something we guys love to do, too. Really. Download this free vector pack from here.

Style Girls Vector Packs 1&2

Take a look at this goodie. What we have are two fully packed free vector packs – oh yes. Stylish style girls they are, and we found them on the later-to-be-mentioned design blog of Ateneu. Download vector Pack 1 and Pack 2.

Fantasy Girl

This is a wonderful vector art work of a fantasy figure. She even has pointy ears. You can download this file from here – it’s a filesharing service and you have to fill in a Capcha field.

Vampire Girl

This is an artwork by Lawrence Bezuska, who is a big fan of Frazetta. Now we don’t know who that is – apparently a sexy vampire of some sort – so we didn’t want to keep this from you Here is the link to the PDF, it’s a vector graphic so you can dissect it in Illustrator. Right-click and save-as on your desktop.

Girls with Guns

This free vector pack contains three girls in bikinis wearing automatic weapons. Ratatatata-ta. Download from this page.

Vector Business Women

This is a collection of three silhouettes of business women. Three vector silhouettes of men in business are also included. These free vectors come from Snap2Objects and you can download the file directly from here.

Asian Vector Girls

These free vectors are about asian girls. They come in a watercolor style. The pack comes in two files, you can find the download links here.

Abstract Vector Art

A wonderful set of free vectors. Download this file right here.

Female Heads

This is a collection of female heads, both in vector format (EPS) and raster graphic (PSD) for Photoshop. You can download it via RapidShare here.

Dreamgirl with Snake

This is a beautiful vector artwork of a pretty girl with… well… we voted here and we think it is a snake. What do you say? Check it out: download here.

Sinning Vector Girl

This is another artwork of the designer behind the design blog Ateneu Popular, but we don’t speak the language he writes in… Nevertheless, he has some very good stuff, like this free vector art for you to download here.

Vector Silhouettes

This free vector pack contains a set of 30+ monochrome countours, or silhouettes, of girls. You can find the download page here.

Cute Vector Girls

This is a set of cute and loveable girls in a hand-drawn style. Download these free vectors from here.

Vector Disco Girl

A sexy girl taking a sip out of her vodka-something. Download her here.

And finally…

Sexy Hottie (yes, it’s a vector)

Now here’s a beautiful, hot girl for you in vector format. Get inspired by this artwork from Ateneu. You can download it right here!

Ok there you have them, the ultimate collection of free vector art girls. Fresh on your desktop. Do you like them?

Enjoy!
Yours truly,
~Beeex Happy Team

What you get is 6 large Adobe Photoshop brushes for the famous design software. The brushes are up to 2048 pixels in size, so for any of you using a version other than Photoshop CS3 (CS2 also still works), you can ask the Vibr8 Bros. to scale them down or release the PNG version on their site. That’s because for versions before CS2, the maximum Photoshop brush size is 999 pixels (or even below that for earlier versions). For CS2+ users though, these brushes are perfect! You can jump to the free download below.

These are the free Photoshop brushes included in the 4.3 MB download…

…and you can go download the free high res Photoshop brushes right here. Enjoy!

You can use these beautiful, free Photoshop brushes with versions CS2 and CS3. For those of you who have an older version of Adobe Photoshop – you can still check them out, because some of the brushes are 999px large. As you might know, larger brushes than that are only supported from Adobe Photoshop CS2.

The Photoshop brushes come as .ABR files, which you have to place in the Presets/Brushes folder on your hard drive. Here is a more detailed installation guide for Photoshop brushes on Beeex.net.

So let’s cut to the chase. This is what you get:

…and you can download these Photoshop brushes right here. Enjoy!

The free Photoshop brushes are all about 2500 pixels large, that’s the maximum in Photoshop CS2 and CS3. The free brush set is perfect for modern, grungy, and a “destroyed” graphic design. Paint splats on walls, or use them for your blog header – they are free to download from Spoongraphics! We find them very useful. This is what you get:

You can get these free Photoshop brushes right here.

Also featured: a set of hi-res Photoshop brushes (they are light strangs) and this collection of free Photoshop brushes on Beeex.net that you might not have seen yet. Enjoy!

These are great! The brand new design blog Vibr8bros.com shows us they are worthy of this title – design blog. They just released a free vector pack full of glossy and shiny, colorful Web 2.0 badges (or stickers). If you use Adobe Illustrator, you should check these out: you get the source AI and EPS files to change, alter and use them with your own text!

For those who don’t want to customize this free vector pack, the Virb8 Bros. included 20 seperate transparent PNG files. These you can use directly and put them on your blog or elsewhere with no hassle.

You can download this free vector pack right here.

This is another tutorial about creating patterns in Photoshop. It includes a download of the pattern kit. It is the last part of this series, the other parts are:

The differences between brushes and patterns in Photoshop,
Photoshop Brushes: install and create,
Photoshop Patterns: install, create #1 and #2.

How to create Photoshop Patterns #2

This simple tutorial shows you how easy it is to play around with Photoshop patterns. In our previous post about creating Photoshop patterns, we featured two tutorials on creating stripes and grids in Photoshop. Here, you’ll find out how to vary your settings to get thicker or thinner stripes, and what to pay attention to when you do this.

In case you prefer easy street, you can also download the pattern kit and use it directly with Photoshop!

You can go to this tutorial here! The download link with the .pat file is right below the tutorial.

It’s still January, but you know what, we don’t care! Neither does Bittbox: after a 2-day server downtime due to a senescent hard drive (honestly!), they reward us with three very ’summerish’ vector sunflowers for Adobe Illustrator!

As you may have noticed……Beeex.net featured quite a few things from Bittbox in the past. Now, to be honest, this kit isn’t one of their best ones, but we still decided to feature it. Although it only contains three sunflowers, they are not bad at all, and they can be quite useful indeed.

These sunflowers come as EPS vector files, you can use them with either Illustrator 10 and up or with another vector graphics editor like Inkscape. Alternatively, you can also download the SVG version of the sunflowers.

You can download this .zip file right here. Enjoy!