15 Online Background Generators

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I think we all agree that backgrounds, whether viewed on a website, a mobile phone, or a desktop, act as a key visual element that could render the viewing experience from pleasant to utterly disturbing. Of course what we are interested in is to have a great looking background, and there are many simple ways to achieve that.

This roundup is just about that. The list includes online generators that will easily create patterns, stripes, gradients and even tartans, all you have to do is download, tile, and impress!

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    April 23rd, 2009 at 8:50 am

    I`m going to mail a link to my web designer, I`m sure he will give me a discount when I next need work done from him!

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  3. Battitsa
    April 23rd, 2009 at 9:16 am

    Sorry, maybe I wrong for tartamaker. Please Webmaster delete my first comment.

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  6. photo retouching
    April 23rd, 2009 at 3:19 pm

    What a useful site! I have already generated my first couple of gradients!

  7. photo retouching
    April 23rd, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    What a useful site! I have already generated my first couple of gradients!
    Ooops, should have added great post! Waiting for the next one!

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  9. Webmasterish
    April 23rd, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    @Battitsa It’s gone, and I’m glad you clarified that

    @photo retouching Thanks!

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    April 24th, 2009 at 2:52 am

    Lovely stuff!
    Every web designers dream to have quick and easy background generator, used StripeGenerator.com before and its great. Thanks for bringing the others to my attention though.

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  30. Wouter
    May 6th, 2009 at 6:21 am

    We just released a new online pattern creation tool called “Repper”. The basic idea:

    – upload an image
    – move / scale the selection box
    – see the selection repeated real-time in a kaleidoscopic way
    – Download your pattern or copy the link / css

    We are very curious to what people will make with it, so feel free to check it out on http://repper.studioludens.com

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  35. Module23
    May 25th, 2009 at 4:58 am

    Thanks man, very cool collection of useful tools.

  36. Peter
    May 25th, 2009 at 6:51 am

    Awesome list, there is http://gradcolor.com that is a gradient maker, with 4 colors you can select.

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  38. GraceC
    May 28th, 2009 at 10:42 pm

    Fantastic information! Thank you. I was wondering though, I’ve been using bgMaker by Ventdaval.com for almost a year now, it’s one of my favorite sites, but for the last two days, my anti-virus programmer has been blocking the site from me because it says there is a trojan virus there. Has anyone else had this problem lately?

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  41. colordev.com
    July 17th, 2009 at 11:24 am

    site has new kind of evolution based tiled background generator (and, if you happen to wonder, yes, the website hosts also two evolution based 3d bar generators)

    Thanks for making this list

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  43. horrible haridas
    November 20th, 2009 at 12:09 am

    I think there IS some issue with bgMaker and ventdaval.com. Whenever I have the downloaded png files (from bgMaker) open, my mouse functions freeze and I get weird windows behaviour.

  44. Web Design from Lyons Solutions
    December 19th, 2009 at 10:38 am

    Certainly will help cut down on time. However, Photo Retouching I don’t think your web designer would give you a discount for that 😛

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    December 22nd, 2009 at 8:14 am

    Very good list you provided and in my opinion PatternCooler.com is the best among the rest.

  46. herman
    March 3rd, 2010 at 7:37 pm

    @ I`m going to mail a link to my web designer, I`m sure he will give me a discount when I next need work done from him!

    HAHAHA if i was your webdesigner and you sent me that I would just laugh at you. Nothing that can’t be done in the traditional webdesign tools. I hate when people do that. makes no sense. I have google too! learn to build your own site then see if you feel the same way.

  47. Brandon
    March 24th, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    very nice list…lovely article

  48. konetop
    March 29th, 2010 at 5:51 am

    another one
    http://serebrennikova.org/bgr/
    generates background pattern of specified size and colors, random on every download

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    March 31st, 2010 at 6:15 am

    Lovely pictures, awesome these are looking so interesting but professional and artistic pics.

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    June 24th, 2010 at 7:29 am

    Thanks is extremely informative, thank for the content!

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    June 24th, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    ohh i love ColourLovers.com!!

  54. Michael Nunn
    September 3rd, 2010 at 6:27 am

    Thanks for the great list – totally filled all my requirements 🙂

  55. Almekhlafi
    September 4th, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    truly this beautiful backgrounds
    thankyou very very much.

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    October 17th, 2010 at 6:38 am

    lumayan… thanks for list..

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    October 20th, 2010 at 7:31 am

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  61. Lucus Murphy
    February 15th, 2011 at 10:26 am

    Wow, this is really cool. These online back ground generators are really helpful. I think that we can use this tools to create twitter back grounds. Never try these before but I have to try one.

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    March 3rd, 2011 at 9:39 am

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    More power to you.

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    May 18th, 2011 at 3:28 am

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    June 1st, 2011 at 11:35 pm

    we like this

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    June 1st, 2011 at 11:37 pm

    like this

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    July 1st, 2011 at 3:46 am

    This is great! All background is unique. Thank you for sharing this content. Keep it up!

  68. Cathy W.
    July 26th, 2011 at 1:42 am

    great! great! great!
    These are exactly what I’m looking for!

    Yeah, Strip Generator & ColourLover are my favourite!

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    July 28th, 2011 at 4:12 am

    This is going to be superb to help me create a new background for my new venture, will send a link as soon as its done and credit your site!
    And as I say, I love toys like this, any helping hand is better than trying to design something from scratch!
    Nice one and thanks!

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    September 12th, 2011 at 8:43 am

    Thanks for listing!!

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  73. Michael Deal
    October 14th, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    You might be tempted to check out mine too, it’s pretty powerful at combing Textures and Gradients together, and automatically generating the CSS:

    http://mudcu.be/bg/

  74. Website Design Milton Keynes
    November 20th, 2011 at 4:27 am

    Wow, this is great!!

    I have now emailed this article to all our design guys, great article.

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    January 15th, 2012 at 8:35 pm

    Nice blog,
    you can find interesing things on mine too:
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  76. Snarling Dolphin
    February 12th, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    You can do the same as Repper does, in Photoimpact 12 and X3, just use Effect – Creative – Kaleidoscope Effect, select the type you want, adjust the handles on the selection box, and create any type of background image you want. You can also then use Effect – Fills and Textures – Texture Filter, and use ‘Metallic’, or any of the other effects. Cheaper than buying Repper, and you can do about a million other things with Photoimpact X3 too…

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  78. Mike
    March 16th, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    Awesome collection. I will definitely use these. Thanks for sharing.

  79. Mummy Ninja
    March 23rd, 2012 at 11:34 am

    Oh great! Just what I needed! stripedesigner dot com seems to be down. Too bad. T_T

  80. mohamad
    May 1st, 2012 at 9:49 am

    they are gr8
    thnx

  81. Dmitry
    May 21st, 2012 at 12:59 am

    Thank you for nice collection and review!

  82. Sara Mompart
    July 12th, 2012 at 4:29 am

    I will try them all, thanks so much for spending your time on collecting this valuable info.
    Have nice “pattern designs” to all of you, guys!.

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