Used lightly these aluminium foil textures make great backgrounds. They also create particularly awesome effects when overlayed on text.
I love using textures in my work. Today I was designing a New Year's Eve poster and wanted to use a tinfoil texture as the background. I downloaded a couple of free textures and they looked super good, but I figured it couldn't be too hard to make my own.
So I popped down to the store and picked up some aluminium foil (or aluminum as our American friends will say!), plugged in my scanner and got to work.
Boy was I wrong, scanning crumpled foil is a nightmare and you'll see a bunch of my errors in these files (sorry).
Scanners – at least my scanner – isn't made to capture images in a large focal area. They're made to capture flat scans of paper. The crumpled surface texture of the foil, therefore, results in a lot of blurring in the peaks and troughs of the foil.
Aside from a little cropping, I haven't done any post-processing on these textures so you will see a bunch of imperfections. Nonetheless, I did choose the best of the scans to share with you today 🙂
Other Resources You'll Enjoy:
- General Purpose Grime Textures
- Aluminium Foil Textures
- Abstract Neon Background Textures
- Bamboo Patterns for Photoshop
- Free Hi-Res Concrete Textures
I have used these same textures in the feature image up at the top, but first I did run them through the Sharpen filter twice to give them that extra sharp effect. To achieve the same effect, simply open the texture in PS and go to Filter > Sharpen.
If you'd like to change the colour of the textures, add a colour overlay in the FX panel and set the blend mode to Overlay. Or, you can clip the textures to coloured text or other layers and set the texture blend mode to Overlay. I'm sure you'll figure it out!
File info:
There are 11 high-resolution textures included in this download. Each texture is a full-sized unedited 300dpi grayscale A4 scan. As usual with the rest of our freebies, this set of free foil textures is complete Uncopyrighted. Enjoy!
Aluminium Foil Textures Pack Preview:

These tinfoil textures are simple, raw scans of everyday kitchen foil.

There are a variety of 11 aluminium textures included in the pack of varying crumple intensities.

These foil textures make great backgrounds when used lightly, and help create fantastic text effects.

I'm not sure if there's any difference between aluminium and aluminum textures, but if there are I'm sure some of our American followers can point it out to me 😉
What do you think of these aluminium foil textures? Would you like more like this? Leave a comment and let me know below!
17 comments
Thanks for the share…
You’re very welcome @cherrielheikes:disqus!! 🙂
Hey thanks very useful…
No probs @eltuti:disqus ! Glad you like them 🙂
Cool! Thank you very much!
Su
You’re welcome @suruha:disqus! Enjoy!
Thank You 😉
You’re welcome @ludovic_francois:disqus!
Way too cool – thank you for your tireless work!
You’re welcome @impreziones:disqus!! Hopefully I’ll find the time to make something new today too 😉
whatever it is, I’m sure it’ll be awesome!
Love these. Thanks!
You’re very welcome @elizabethlang:disqus!
Where can I find the link to download this foil pack?
Might want to change wording for these Premium Aluminum Foil Textures on this page: http://designercandies.net/free-retro-text-styles-photoshop-cc/ . Says they are free and the link sends you to this Premium page.
Oops! Thanks for letting me know about that Ron! We recently changed to have a members-only section to help support the site, there’s still some mistakes littered throughout the site I need to fix-up! But thank you again for letting me know. You can join and download new items here: http://designercandies.net/go-premium
2021. This texture is still useful for my projects. Thank you so much.