18 Essential Grunge Textures

Today I'm releasing what I feel is one of my best and most useful grunge texture sets to date. Before making the set I determined that I would create three different levels of grunge: subtle, medium, and heavy. I tried to include a variety of all three types in the set, so whether you're looking for a little texture or a lot you should be able to find one that works.

The set includes 18 high-res textures. They were created by combining many different images together in Photoshop, all while playing with layers, levels, overlays, and a lot more. If you're more interested in the process I created a tutorial on it here.

Click on the textures below to download the high-res version or download them all in a zip file at the bottom of the post. Enjoy!

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Comments

[Steve]

sweet! these are great! thanks!

[rebecca]

oooo-la-la Thanks.

[John Newton]

Thank you for some very nice textures. I'm experimenting with using some of your textures with some of my photographs. So far nothing really worth sharing. Nothing to do with your textures, everything to do with my photoshop skills, or more to the point, lack there of.

Regards,
John

[Rose]

Awesome! I can't wait to try them out! Now to find time to play....

[alestemplestudio]

Thanks!

[josh]

Thanks for another set of great textures!!

[nic]

I adore those light textures!! THANKS

[Nienke]

Thank you, these are wonderfull!

[TheMutantCow]

Amazing collection!
Big big thanks for it, really nice ones!

[Monika]

Hi Caleb, thanks a lot for these awesome textures !

[Dima]

Thank you very much.

[Sue]

Thanks SO much for sharing your gorgeous textures! :)

[dr. motte]

thanx a lot. great site and great textures. nicely done realisation. i like also the site is very much in background and gives textures time to effect

[Su Hall]

Wow! These are really cool! I like the variation of grunge in one set. Very nice!
Thank you, sir!
Su

[Nor]

These are wonderful and will work perfectly for a project of mine! Thank you for posting :)

[garbo]

These are a time saver. Perfect for almost every project.
I encourage people to donate a few bucks to Caleb for his hard work.

[Real Estate Logo Design]

Nice Textures!

[Mommyof2girlz/StephD]

Thank you so much for the beautiful textures. I do a lot of HDR but have just started to explore the texture realm so I really appreciate finding wonderful freebies to play with. I will let you know how it turns out :)

[jengerer]

Beautiful textures! Thanks for sharing!

[Media Monstrosity]

Great Set of Textures. Just used No. 11 to create a link back to Lost & Taken on my website :)

[Mattias]

Lovely textures. Good resolution. Will come in really handy in my illustrationwork. Made a donation. Thank you!

[katie]

thanks

[Dek]

These are really nice, just what I have been looking for. I've sent a little something for the coffee fund.

[Logo Guru]

look cool !! i am gonna download some textures !! idea automatically create when i watch this awesome textures !!
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[Augusto]

A beautiful and high quality set of textures! Thanks!!!!!!