If your designs are too flat and you need to bring them to life, nothing like knowing embed good textures in the right way.
In this post we bring you a compilation of 14 paper textures of all kinds: normal, grained, aged, pressed, white, colored ... Even paper texture packaging. Anything goes to get our creations out of monotony. All images enjoy a license for free use, both personal and commercial, so you will have no problem using them legally. Let's go with the presentations!
Paper textures for your designs
If you've never applied before textures in your designs you may be wondering how to use them. First of all, tell you that it is best to apply textures from Adobe Photoshop. Therefore, the usual procedure (if you are creating an image with Illustrator) is to finish your “base” image, with the color applied if you wish, and then open it in Photoshop and start adding details.
There are two ways to translate textures to your current file in Photoshop:
File> Place> (We look for the image in question)> OK.
File> Open. Once the texture is open, we go to Edit> Copy. We go to the window of our design in Photoshop and click on Edit> Paste.
Differences: if we use the first option, the texture will appear on a layer as a smart object. If we use the second one, the texture will appear as one more normal layer. This is important to take into account when working, to choose the option with which we are most comfortable.
Once we have the texture, it is a matter of playing with the opacity and the layer mode. We could even delete certain parts where we don't need it.
