Texture Archives

Free / no Copyright / CC-BY

Here are some links to archives which offer textures "without any copyright", compatible CC licenses or public domain. Attention: If you want to extend this list, note that "free" or the lack of any copyright message doesn't mean anything. To be public domain or "without any copyright", it must be explicitly noted.

• Flickr - mixed CC licenses
• National Biological Information Infrastructure - good for mineral textures, public domain
• LuGher Texture (3400+) - free to use in personal and commercial projects
• Accustudio (~1000) - free of any copyrights
• The Texture Barn (~500) - "Royalty-free textures for computer graphics, illustration, game design and everything else"
• Texturenwelt (400+) - mixed licenses: see single images
• Ben Cloward (~300) - free but author would like to be notified where it is used
• Free3dsTextures (~200) - mixed Creative Commons Licenses - Attribution license would be compatible
• Blender Texture Library (~200) - Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0

Mostly free with own license

The most and the biggest free texture archives offer the textures free for any purpose, but it is not allowed to redistribute them as a texture pack. So, in all cases, we need to print the license and copyright message with every redistribution. As this licenses for textures from these archives are incompatible with the CC-by license, we don't favour textures from these sources. However, we can still include them as long as we mention that these textures may not be freely redistributed by default. Before you contribute any textures of these archives, carefully read their terms and conditions as they all differ from one another:

• CG Textures (30000+)
• Image After (~10000)
• Mayang's Free Texture Library (3800+) - max. 30 textures may be used
• 2Textured (2700+) - "The textures may be used freely in commercial or personal works but reselling or redistributing of the textures on other texture sites is forbidden"
• textures.pedramk.com (~1000)
• Freetextures.org (~1000)
• Texturez (800+)
• Free Texture Site (600+)
• Back of Beyond (~500)
• Zen Textures (450+)
• Noctua Graphics (400+)
• Texture King (300+)