Background textures for creating own cards

[Ruth5CCB]

I've moved from PS elements to Adobe Photoshop 2021 and found there are no pre-loaded textures for backgrounds.

I have tried to download the freebies from Adobe but they are such low resolution they pixelate as soon as I enlarge them

Any help as to where I can find some downloadable and usable textures for backgrounds would be helpful

[Derek Cross]

Do you mean the Gradient Editor?

https://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/how-to-use-the-gradient-editor-in-photoshop/

[Ruth5CCB]

Thanks for your reply. I was referring to preset textures/backgrounds that I've used in Elements. It would appear I have to create my own in PS 2021. Elements had a variety of different colours, subjects useful as backgrounds especially for creating gift cards

[Michael Bullo]

www.unsplash.com
search: texture

[Jeff Arola]

If you still have a copy of photoshop elements installed you can find the fullsize Backgrounds in either

(substitute your version number)

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\11.0\Photo Creations\backgrounds

or

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\19.0\Required\Postables\Backgrounds

textures  in

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2021\Required\quickEdit\textures

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2021\Presets\Textures

Mac locations

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/19.0/Required/Postables/Backgrounds

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/11.0/Photo Creations/backgrounds

/Applications/Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021/Support Files/Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor.app/Contents/Required/quickEdit/textures

/Applications/Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021/Support Files/Presets/textures

Also in photoshop under Window>Patterns and load Legacy Patterns and More from the flyout menu.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Ruth, if you have a smart phone, then do you use the Adobe Capture app?  It has a very cool pattern generation tool.  You can generate patterns from the world around you, and save them to CC Libraries. 

You can go straight to @2:40 for patterns, but it has other great features.