Ultimate Round Up of Free Photoshop Patterns
Published in DesignPhotoshop users can save a lot of time and create beautiful designs by using patterns. Photoshop’s presets (like brushes, styles, patterns, custom shapes, and gradients) are highly-powerful tools when used effectively.
Whether you are creating your own custom patterns or using pre-made patterns that you have downloaded for free or purchased, having an arsenal of patterns at your disposal will allow you to quickly create high-quality work. Patterns can be extremely useful for a variety of different types of design including websites, business cards, flyers, posters, and much more.
Patterns are often used as backgrounds. Sometimes more subtle patterns are used to give a background some texture or character as opposed to just using a flat, solid color. This is especially common in web design. You can see our article Showcase of Patterns in Web Design for some inspiration and ideas about how you can use patterns in your own web design work. In other cases, the pattern may stand out and be a more dominant part of the design.
In this post we’ll showcase 50 sets of free Photoshop patterns for your own use. I think you will find them to be highly useful for quickly giving great effects to your designs in Photoshop. You may also be interested in our recent post, Ultimate Collection of Free Photoshop Styles.
If you’re looking for high-quality Photoshop patterns that you can use in your own commercial projects you may be interested in some of the pattern sets that we offer at Vandelay Premier. GraphicRiver is another excellent place to get quality patterns for affordable prices.
These patterns are awesome for backgrounds, especially when you are looking for a vintage effect.
Simple pixel patterns are a great choice when you are looking for a subtle background pattern. Every web design should have some quality pixel patterns in their pattern library.
An interesting and colorful pattern that may be appropriate for your fall-inspired designs.
These patterns have a cool metal effect.
A different pattern that may serve as an effective background.
Like pixel patterns, grids are also exceptionally useful for web design backgrounds.
Looking to re-create a vintage wallpaper effect? These patterns are a great choice.
Tileable Stone, Pavement, and Marble Textures
Repeating texture patterns are perfect for backgrounds when you want large areas of texture without using a huge photo that will slow down page loads.
Vintage Retro Grunge Wallpaper Patterns
The patterns have a unique retro look.
Excellent for abstract backgrounds and space-inspired design.
These can also be used to create subtle patterns for backgrounds.
If floral designs are what you are looking for, be sure to check out this set.
Stylish repeating baroque patterns can be very useful for vintage designs.
A set of floral-inspired patterns.
This is another very unique set of patterns that has a distinctive grunge feel.
What can be better than a background full of skulls?
A unique swirly floral pattern.
More baroque patterns are available here.
An interesting set of patterns with a sort of abstract floral design.
Nature-inspired designs can make use of these grape vine patterns.
This set is another option for subtle patterns to be used by web designers.
A simple striped pattern can be extremely useful, and this set takes a slight variation by adding some texture.
Dots can be subtle or more dominant, depending on the contrast between the dots and the background.
An intricate, hand-drawn style pattern.
Another great option for nature-inspired designs.
If you love Helvetica you may be able to find a use for this ABC pattern.
Swirls always seem to be useful.
If you’re looking to replicate a plaid pattern, this set can make it very easy.
A pattern with interesting geometric shapes that is sure to play tricks on your eyes.
This set includes a lot of texture.
Grungy Natural Beige Patterns – Part 2
More textured and grungy patterns can be found in this set.
Seamless Colorful Grunge Polkadot Patterns
The simple polka dot can prove to be very useful.
A set of green tint patterns in a variety of different designs.
Paper textures are highly useful, and repeating tileable paper textures are even more useful.
A colorful, fun pattern.
These patterns are very useful for posters, flyers, and space-inspired web designs.
Another set of pattern patterns, this one feature colorful options.
A set of very rough and grungy repeating textures.
A variety of different textures are used in this pattern set.
Metal patterns are always great for backgrounds, and this set includes some nice tread plate patterns.
More textured patterns in this set.
This pattern set is useful for creating your own abstract backgrounds.
More metal patterns for awesome backgrounds.
A set of patterns made with various vector shapes.
A beautiful, repeating paper texture pattern.
Cloud patters can be an excellent background for nature-inspired design.
Subtle scanline patterns can be used on top of your photos.
A great choice when you need a dark metal background.
The same thing, just in a lighter version.
A beautiful set of plaid patterns.
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Great list.
Thanks for the mention
The best collection for me is the Baroque patterns..so wonderful set. My last work have a background like this!
Great collection, thanks for putting this together.
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This is great, especially for a youngin’ like me who’s not earning a living from design thus can’t afford much
Very much appreciated.
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I’m restarting my blog by deleting all my posts and restarting. It needs a new look and I would greatly appreciate this. Thanks.ss
Thank you for sharing very nice collected
The patterns are of great use for compositors ,i guess it will be of great help in 2k projects,as bg with effects..
Thank you so much for devoting a great deal of your time and effort to give us these wonderful sets! Greatly appreciated.
Totally fantastic! One of the best resource collections I’ve seen– thanks so much for making it available, much appreciated!
thank you so much for sharing these wondering patterns with us, and great discover of high quality patterns for projects.
Keep up the great work!
– Angel
Thanks, I think I’m downloading just about everyone of these awesome patterns! Can’t wait to try them out on my latest projects.
thanks they are really good
i am downloading a lot