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Collecting these images was so fun: every position from this list triggered different associations. Glass, silver plates, coweb, needles, even the surface of the remotest planets! Things you can’t avoid if you’re a creative thinker. So we invite you to join this winter trip and pick the assets for your magnificent graphic design projects!
From immense glaciers and icebergs to lovely little frozen drawings on the windows — the aesthetics of ice in all its manifestations brings nothing but extreme excitement and admiration. The idea of these shots being made by nature herself is mind-blowing: it’s crazy how sophisticated ice textures like these are not artificial. Start scrolling through these hand-picked assets and you’ll see what we mean.
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Our Team’s Top Pick
Frost Watercolor Backgrounds
elements.envato.com
Beautiful, naturally and modern looking winter watercolor images! Perfect backgrounds to any kind of contemporary, print, web or social media project. Classic clean and realistic hand-painted textures in huge resolution! This ice texture pack features 40 different backgrounds, so you won’t be deprived of creative means.
Artistic Frost Textures
pixelbuddha.net
Feel the severeness and roughness of the edge of the world, having discovered 8 fascinating ice texture images. Bringing the threatening beauty the land of eternal ice is known for, they embrace pure charm and outstanding quality for any project possible. These hi-res textures remind ice-painted glass, solid ice block floating in the sea and will go as far as your fantasy will take them.
Christmas Ice Texture
elements.envato.com
You’re looking at nature’s winter mirror, what do you see? Tons of little frozen lines, cracks and the immense darkness hiding behind them, somewhere far away. Such an impressive shot can serve as a great ice texture background for a graphic design project or just as a screensaver, why not?
Ice Glacier Frozen Cold
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Sometimes it’s getting hard to believe that the frozen mountains like these are just the huge packs of water. Their ice crystal texture and deep blue color fascinate at first sight. Look at the snowy parts, encapsulated there forever, creating a completely unique pattern. Try adding it to a digital collage or moodboard and unveil its potential!
Beautiful Abstract Blue Ice Texture
elements.envato.com
Here’s a mildly mind-blowing concept for you: there are no identical ice cracks in the whole world. It’s an obvious fact but if you process it a little bit, the realization strikes your perception. Like this very cracked ice texture with its little broken threads, crossing the area. Can’t help but see tons of frozen ice sticks in there!
Black and Gray Floral Area Rug
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In winter there are endless beautiful details around us if you keep your eyes open. The icy gems of nature are like nature’s pop-up art gallery. This picture shows one type of detailed nature art, which blooms for a while, and may in the next hour be gone — if the sun catches the glass.
Abstract Blue Ice Textured Background
elements.envato.com
Great news, you’ve found an ice mine, filled with blue crystals, scattered all over the place! No ordinary man can tell the difference between the real crystal and this frosty masterpiece. Use this ice cube texture to add some fairy-tale vibes to a composition or to decorate some themed product presentation.
Photo of Bubbles
pexels.com
Millions of tiny bubbles are stuck in this blue ice texture forever: so sad and beautiful at the same time. Was it a mountain river? Or a remote spring? Maybe the frozen lake? It is for us to guess while you’re coming up with another idea of how to apply this texture to a project you’re currently working with.
ICE — 15 Textures
creativemarket.com
Discover the aesthetics of 15 ice texture images, looking so different! Spot the places where the ice melts a little, forming the peculiar imagery or the layered ice patterns, looking like glass panels stacked together. Even staring at them is pleasant, what would it be like to see them in action?
Ice Textures
behance.net
Inspired by a documentary about Lake Baikal, huge rift lake in Russia, the source of many biological species found by scientists. There’s a lot can be said about the uniqueness of this wonder of nature, you better check out this perfect frozen ice texture! It’s like a night sky full of stars was put into an ice frame, so fantastic!
Christmas Ice Texture
elements.envato.com
Minimalism together with an infinite source of details you notice only when taking a closer look at the picture. It’s an unthinkable beauty of ice texture you won’t recreate that successfully by yourself. So grab this high-resolution texture and amaze everyone with the projects made out of it!
Pattern Winter Cold Ice Texture
pixabay.com
Remember looking outside your window on a frosty winter morning? The frozen ice pattern hypnotizes with every element, built into the composition. Fresh glacial fragments cover the ice texture, inviting to solve the left puzzle or read the hidden message.
50 Seamless Ice Patterns Bundle
creativemarket.com
All patterns from this bundle are tileable with 1024×1024 px dimensions. The set contains 50 ice texture images, which you can use directly in your design and 5 .pat files with 50 seamless ice patterns for Adobe Photoshop. All crystal clear and charming!
Free Ice Image
unsplash.com
Broadening your horizons can pay off with unique discoveries! This ice texture background was shot on the ice on the fountain in the author’s yard. So simple yet so genius! You can see blue, white, grey, purple and black colors in it, shining in every frozen triangle.
Ice Frozen Texture Mockup
elements.envato.com
Turn any image, illustration or photography into a frozen one with this ice texture mockup! The package contains a PSD file with 3 frozen ice styles. It guarantees a fast and easy editing via the Smart Object Layers and well-organized folders. Changeable background color is another thing to like this mockup for!
Ice Texture
deviantart.com
Something between ice and silver texture, resulting in this lovely glistening frozen asset, is free for download. Scale and rotate it, change transparency and opacity to carry out the look you’re aiming at in your project. Leaving the credit for the author is not obligatory but it would be a nice thing to do!
Frost and Sunlight Texture
elements.envato.com
Frost and sunlight on winter glass draw magnificent feather-looking ice texture shots! It’s a true treasure for any winter to Christmas-related project: you can use it as a background, pattern base, photography overlay, a part of your moodboard or website decoration. Once you have it downloaded, a chance to use it comes closer!
Full Frame Shot of Snowflakes
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The best ice texture images are those taken with your camera, right? This is the case, where nature gave a chance to grasp the beauty of winter weather. A myriad of snowflakes got caught in the thin layer of ice, forming an aesthetically-pleasing asset for your future design project.
Frozen Photo Overlays
creativemarket.com
These frozen overlays were created to carry out ultimate realistic pictures that will look indistinguishable from the physical world look. They are likely to add tenderness to your work, which you can share on social media or put on printed materials. If you want to make an overlay brighter just duplicate it. Add different overlays with different blending modes to create a unique combination!
Ice Rink Frozen
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This one is totally genuine hockey ice texture! Not the artificial one but the winter morning-like to funny slide on. The light reflections make it look more romantic and appealing, so you can think of a backstory for this artistic shot. Edit it if needed or just leave everything as it is — the picture is already an attention-getting masterpiece.
30 Seamless Ice Textures
creativemarket.com
Here’s another association an ice texture can relate to: the plastic bag! A multi-purpose set of 30 high-quality seamless textures can serve as an inexhaustible resource of images for your projects even if they’re not exactly ice-related. Imagination is a powerful tool you can unleash with the right set of digital goods!
Broken Tiles on Road Photo
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Like an ornament made of gemstones, this cracked ice texture can serve as a pattern if it’s in skillful hands. It’s surprising how one image can cause the feeling of admiration and some notes of fear at the same time. Do you see it? Maybe it’s the darkness of the bottom or the fear of falling under the tiles. Anyway, these things don’t interfere with the image’s aesthetics!
Christmas Ice Texture
elements.envato.com
The item in this collection, that will totally be appreciated by the Frozen fans! It literally is about to sing the “Let it go” theme from the cartoon as it resembles the main color palette. All in all, this frozen ice texture is neutral enough to be used as a background basis for some of your digital projects as well as become an inspirational piece for any pattern.
Ice Seamless Patterns
creativemarket.com
This is the third volume of Tileable Ice Patterns, containing 10 jpeg files and 1 pat file with 10 ice textures. With these foil patterns, you can create backgrounds for any purpose: business cards, banners, websites, greeting cards, etc. Enjoy the best quality patterns for a reasonable price!
Abstract Ice Patterns
behance.net
Are these ice texture images or some space shots made by NASA? So radiant with awesomeness, each shot belongs to a fine art series visual artist and landscape photographer Jan Erik Waider. All photos were taken in the Sachsenwald forest near Hamburg, Germany. Another manifestation of the fact that the most talented artist is nature herself!
Eiskristalle Hardest Frozen Texture
pixabay.com
Is it an ice texture or a layer of silver? Even after so many images in this collection we still can find pretty unusual pieces of digital art. That’s the best part about files like this one: their look can serve for as many projects as possible, fitting various themes and fields.
Ice Photoshop Overlays
creativemarket.com
Become a Father Frost for your photography and images with this set of 30 ice texture overlays. Available in high-resolution, they are compatible with Photoshop, Gimp, Paint Shop Pro and other software, allowing you to work with layers. The package contains 10 overlays in PNG and 20 overlays in JPG. And a word about the aesthetics: each texture is flawless and magical!
Free Nature Image
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What if a blue ice texture comes as an acrylic painting, reflecting the same color palette? It’s surely helpful to have something like this for a change in your toolbox. The high resolution gives you a carte blanche on zooming in and looking through tons of details, making this shot unique.
Two Ice Natural Art
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Cracked ice looks so tangible and nice! If you don’t have time to go photo-hunting every winter for magnetic shots like this one, then you definitely shouldn’t miss this free cracked ice texture. Get yourself a life-time supply of these photos to never be out of resources when inspiration comes.
Crystalline Textures
creativemarket.com
More mesmerizing frozen ice texture images! This pack is full of 16 natural crystalline textures in rich organic blue hues. Continuing our game in associations, this one would totally be a reminder of tangled neural connections. Or a frozen spider’s web. Or a stash of tiny needles. You see? We can go on forever with these artistic visions.
White Feathers Illustration
pexels.com
Adorable and gentle snowy feather on a frozen ice texture will be a perfect background or screensaver as well as cope with a role of your packaging design, a product presentation or themed collages. It’s available for free so nothing holds you back from getting this cutie for your collection.
