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Free Textures: 120 Wood, Stone, Marble and Brick Background Photos

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Orange brick wall texture

120 free background textures: brick walls, stone and marble, gravel and pebbles, wood and bark, tiles, paving and roofs, plaster, fabric and metal. Every photo is a flat, even surface, ready to use as a background on a website, in a design or behind text on a slide.

How to download: click a photo to see it large, then use Download. The originals are about 1200 × 800 pixels: right for blog posts, slides, social media, school projects and video call backgrounds.

Brick and stone walls

Red and yellow brick, dry stone walls, cut stone and old masonry.

Orange brick wall texture
Dark rough stone wall texture
Pale brick wall texture
Red brick wall
Grey stone wall
Old mossy stone wall
Pale stone block wall
Grey painted brick wall
Pale crazy paving stone wall
Sandstone wall texture
Pink brick tile texture
Dark small brick wall
Grey rough block wall
Yellow stone block wall
Dark layered stone wall
Rough stone wall in many colours
Sandstone block wall
Dark weathered stone wall
Grey and brown stone wall
Red brick wall
Dark old brick wall
Grey layered stone wall
Yellow stone wall
Grey brick wall in many shades
Colourful stone slabs wall
Grey and brown stone wall

Rock, marble, gravel and pebbles

Granite, marble, terrazzo, gravel, pebbles and rough rock.

Pink granite texture
Dark grey granite texture
Sandy gravel texture
White marble texture
Terrazzo texture with grey stones
Grey pebbles texture
Black asphalt with stones
Red granite texture
Flat pale stones texture
Dark speckled stone texture
Fine grey gravel texture
Pebble floor texture
Dark gravel texture
White and grey marble texture
Dark round stones texture
Brown pebbles texture
Grey granite texture
Grey concrete texture
Speckled stone texture
Beige speckled granite texture
Grey slate stone texture
Travertine texture
Red speckled stone texture
Red and grey gravel texture
Dark rough rock texture

Wood, bark and leaves

Planks and parquet, tree bark, logs, bamboo and dry leaves.

Fallen leaves texture
Wood veneer texture
Chopped firewood texture
Weathered wood texture
Parquet floor texture
Tree bark texture with moss
Dry leaves texture
Dark wood grain texture
Chipboard texture
Wooden slats texture
Plane tree bark close up
Old wooden boards texture
Dark wooden slats texture
Reed fence texture
Red bark mulch texture
Plane tree bark texture

Tiles, paving and roofs

Roof tiles, paving stones, mosaics and wall tiles.

Hexagonal tile texture
Red roof tiles texture
Grey interlocking paving
Pink and grey patterned paving
Circular cobblestone paving
Pale grey tiles
Red and grey tiles in a diamond pattern
Black fish scale tiles
Red cladding panels
Pale grey wall panels
Red fish scale roof tiles
Pale green zigzag tiles
Blue and white mosaic tiles
Grey panel with round bumps
Cobblestone paving texture
Pink roof tile texture
White roof texture

Plaster, fabric, metal and more

Rendered walls, carpet and fabric, corrugated metal, grilles and other surfaces.

Red metal mesh texture
Pink rough plaster texture
Orange and black speckled texture
Moss and gravel texture
Black fabric with coloured dashes
Orange painted wood texture
Light blue wall texture
Woven cane texture
Yellow and white striped fabric
Green fibreboard texture
Green glass wall texture
Green plastic texture
Hessian sack texture
Brown sand ripple texture
Black and white stripes texture
Grey plaster texture
Grey slate texture
Pale pink plaster texture
Blue fabric texture
Metal grid texture
Black and grey stripes texture
Green stems texture
Woven plastic texture
Grey linen texture
Pale yellow wall texture
Grey patterned plaster texture
Yellow plaster texture
Brown plaster texture
Stained concrete wall
Grey plaster with swirls
Grey rough plaster texture
Grey streaked plaster texture
White wall with diagonal lines
Grey corrugated metal texture
Smooth grey plaster texture
Rough white plaster texture

Getting the background right in your own photos

This is a difficult topic for the average photographer to get right: at its best a background can give the subject of the picture context and greater meaning, but at its worst it can overwhelm the subject in the foreground and distract from the intended message of the image.

We all know the feeling when you review your photograph and find, to your horror, a lamp post apparently growing out of your model’s head! The way to counteract this unwanted event is to consciously check the background in relation to the foreground, every time you are about to press the shutter.

If possible, reduce details in the background that make it too “busy” and which would draw the eye away and so distract from the main subject. At one end of the scale you can reduce the ‘depth of field’ and deliberately throw the background out of focus so that the subject is sharp and the background almost disappears. In this way you can make the subject really stand out. In landscape photography, however, the foreground, mid-ground and distance are all essential, so try to layer the image, keeping all parts of the image in focus: in this kind of photography the background could be as, or even more, important than the foreground.

On a web page, a background, also called ‘wallpaper’, can be a pattern, texture, or a normal picture, in fact anything that is used as a background, to place other images on or in front of it. There are millions of different types and styles of backgrounds to be found on the internet, since every website uses them in some form, even if just plain. Backgrounds are also used in presentations, for example using the Power Point programme, where the transparency of the background can be faded so as not to detract from the presentation content. In both cases it is important to make the wallpaper give a visual message in keeping with the tone of the whole web site. As with background music in a film, if the background to the image is too dominating, it can distract the viewer and reduce their enjoyment of the webpage.

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Questions about these photos

Can I use these background textures for free?

Yes, for personal and commercial projects. All we ask is a link back to BigFoto.com; the box at the top of the page has a credit link you can copy.

Do the textures tile seamlessly?

No, they are photos, not seamless tiles. For a repeating background, crop an even area and blend the edges in an image editor.

Used a photo from this page? Please link back to it: Photo: <a href="https://bigfoto.com/themes/background/">BigFoto.com</a>. See Copyright for details.

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