4 types of stock photos every web designer should own (Part 1)

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Every professional designer has his own personal library of must-have images — images that have multiple uses, that play role as essential building blocks of his design tool box. When it comes to web design, having the trendy photos in your library will help speed up your design process dramatically, since web design requires so many tiny details and elements. Here, we will showcase 4 types of must-have photos for any web designer, and how you can apply them into your designs.

1. The background textures

This is probably the most popular one — the type of image that every designer uses at the begining of their design career. Though seems to be too popular to be noticed, the background textures — when are used in the right way — can make a huge difference to the professionalism of your design. They are simple, easy to eyes and be able to make text stand out. Also, they are ideal for responsive design, since their repetitive partern can be scaled to fit any screen and device, easily.

Tips for better textures usage:

• Make it legible: You can not just pick a photo that is visually suitable and put it on the website. Each type of texture gives a specific, different feeling — be sure that feeling goes hand in hand with the website message.

It’s the thought use a torn paper texture as the background, which looks like the texture of carton boxes, and this goes really nicely with their gift boxed service (DOWNLOAD PAPER TEXTURE)

• Less is more: textures are best used subtly and with a purpose. Ideally, a combanation between textures and something simple always works fine. Also, there’s no need to have a ton of different textures all at once. One is enough.

Weblounge Agency uses wooden texture for only one block on their web layout — which goes along really nicely with high-contrast, solid background color in other blocks.

Recommended collections:

1. MintImages Present: https://goraydar.com/public-favourite/118/MintImages-present
2. A Macro World: https://goraydar.com/public-favourite/125/A-macro-world

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