Download these royalty-free photos for free and use them wherever you want in your designs, but please don´t re-distribute the pictures (RF does not mean copyright-free; you can use the image source links here, though).

A third one like this, if I see a good amount of downloads I´ll provide some more rust and grunge textures the next days.

Visits to old luxury houses on hot summer days can be fruitful from a photographic point of view, and provide some nice additions to a texture library, so here are two royalty-free photos of ornate wallpapers. Layer these vintage damask wallpapers in Photoshop with some of the grunge textures posted here before, and you will get easily some marvelous retro backgrounds for your designs.

I spent a visit to some hidden, abandoned houses the last days, and beside a lung full of fresh air I brought a memory card full of photographs with me, of which I will make the one or the other available here as free royalty-free images, the first set of textures featuring pretty handmade bricks.

If you need more stock images of brick walls, check here.

A classic, burst rust bubble (my engineer friends get really excited about this sort of damage). These stock photos were not sharpened, so you may want to apply a little bit later in your Photoshop designs.

Download these grunge textures by clicking on the pics here and use them as royalty-free images in your creations but please don´t re-distribute or re-sell the photographs themselves (I want to keep the licensing terms as liberal and simple as possible.)

Another close-up photo of a nice orange rust bubble with a grunge paint background.

Today some cake pictures to continue the series of royalty-free images of food. And sorry, I don´t have the recipes at hand, but you came most likely not here for that, but to get some background textures for your designs. Try  this one - a close-up photo of a fruit cake made from organic apricots:

Or these two stock images of a plum cake:

All of them very different, but delicious… In early summer, my favourite is surely this homemade strawberry cake:

And colorful it is, too (but quite a demanding subject to photograph). Download hi-res images by following the links in the low res pictures.

Number one, a close-up photo of a pile of old books:

Download the higher resolution files by clicking on the pics.

Royalty-free photo number two: A still life image of a pile of antique books:

And number three, the background / close-up picture / paper texture:

They may seem a bit strange, but as I have a fancy for old, weathered wood, and spend a good amount of time in alpine landscapes photographing it, and as some of that makes interesting backgrounds and textures, I thought I will prepare another set of royalty-free stock photos (and let people download them for free). As a designer you probably have the one or the other use for it.

Two old wood textures:

A lighter colored background:

And two rather abstract photos of piles of wooden sticks used for farming:

Mediterranean markets are usually full of delicious things, and if one does food photography and has a decent kitchen to mess around in, too, it makes for an inspiring source of colorful textures and abstract backgrounds. So I decided to select some pictures of dried fruits as free royalty-free images and post them here for you designers. See what you can do with it. The first two stock photos are close-up shots of dried dates:

Perhaps food photos are not yet often enough used as abstract backgrounds and textures in designs, considering that basically every human being has a very physical relationship with edible things and is naturally appealed by them. And the  possible color schemes are almost endless. (In fact, a lot of trend colors are regularly named after food or botanicals, so the influence always was and is clearly there).

Anyway, a quite colorless picture of dried figs (they were as sweet as they look):

By the way, I´m going to repeat myself here, but in order to download high res photos click on the low-res pics. (Or download those if you just want to post them on your food blog, and the size is sufficient and suits better.)

If you are looking for an orange background, try this image of dried apricots:

 If you run a cooking or recipe blog, you can probably do with the following food stock images:

A display of onion and other vegetables on a market. (Click for high res photo). Related, a background of red onion:

(In case you are new here, you can download these stock photos under a free royalty-free license, see terms of use at the bottom of the page).

A cabbage image:

And a rf background with red potatoes, close-up photograph:

Plus a potato photo in vertical orientation:

More images of cooking ingredients to come.