Luxury Textures Design Tutorials

I’m back and glitterier than ever! My mission is to bring you as a full collection of tutorials so that you can make your own collection of beautiful luxury textures. How to make them. Where and when to use them. How you can get an entire collection of free luxury backgrounds to use in your own designs.

In this post, I’m featuring several luxury textures tutorials from basic glitter to gemstones, shimmer tiles, shimmer canvas, and beautiful metallics. Each one of these videos will show you how to make an interesting and unique luxury texture that you can customize with your own colors.

Most importantly, you can create luxury textures without losing the richness of your colors. I hope you enjoy this collection and have tons of fun making all these patterns and applying them to your designs.

Don’t reserve your glitter and luxury textures for Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Luxury textures are perfect for promotions and adding that little extra to brand assets.

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Luxury Glitter Texture

Is less really more or do you need that pop of something in your design?

Let’s talk about glitter for a moment. You want to make an impression but is glitter right for you? Glitter is the first of several tutorials on luxury textures featured in this post. How much glitzier can you get right? But is glitter really a luxury texture? It shines, sparkles, commands attention and it’s exciting!

Glitter and all of its derivatives are attention getters, that’s a given. Still, they don’t have to be overwhelming. There comes a time when we all say, it’ just needs an extra pop, enter vibrant colors, glitter, gold and lux textures to rescue us from the drab mundane world of minimalistic flat designs. I love minimal design, it allows you to perfect every element to the finite detail, Still, even the most conservative brand can get stale at times. With that said, we all don’t have the love for glitter Liberace had.

Follow along with me as I design glitter from scratch in this video all about creating glitter in Photoshop.

Gemstones

These two luxury textures are so easy to make and they have so many applications. Great for luxe typography or as an embellishment for shapes, frames, and decorative objects. Glam up your designs with beautiful gemstones textures. Learn how to make these textures step by step in this quick tutorial.

Glitter Tiles

This is a unique glitter texture that can be used for most projects from web design to typography. In the video, I’ll show you how to make this texture step by step, how to make it seamless so that you can use it in larger projects like web design and I’ll show you a simple glass text effect using this texture as well. All under ten minutes!

Holograph & Metallic Pressed Patterns

Holograph and Iridescent metallics are a great way to add a touch of excitement and luxury to modern brands and masculine design. In this video tutorial, I’ll show you how to make three iridescent pressed patterns and colored metallic pressed patterns. You’ll also learn how to hide pattern seams inside of text treatments and accents.

Shimmery Canvas Texture

This shimmery canvas luxury texture is a very subtle shimmery style with a velvety feel to it. In the video, I’ll show you how to make this from scratch, how to choose the right colors for blending and how to sharpen the texture for a more dramatic effect. Don’t forget to visit the shop to get a ten pack of these textures for free as well.

Embossed Metal

If you love the look of a luxurious tin ceiling tile let me show you how to make it in a matter of minutes in Photoshop. For web design, this style is perfect for interior design, gourmet recipe blogs, restaurants as a background or accent pattern. Also use this as a frame matting for photos, a texture for ornate designs and so much more.

Gold and Metallics

Gold and other metallics are very versatile luxury textures that work with everything from corporate to whimsical. Follow along with me as I create three different gold metallic textures in the video below.

Silk Textures

Silk is a beautiful and delicate texture that screams luxury. This texture is perfect as a luxury background for displaying jewelry, flowers, chocolate, and other romantic elements. Follow along with me as I create a realistic silk luxury texture in this video.

Agate Textures

Agate textures are the perfect abstract texture for backgrounds. Add a touch of shimmer like gold or silver and you have a five-star recipe for luxury. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make agate textures then follow my mixed media tutorial on Youtube to add some shimmer.

Marble Textures

Marble textures are great for accent pieces and backgrounds. These luxury textures are subtle and won’t overwhelm your work. In this tutorial, I show you how to make a basic marble texture and how to add a gold inlay for a more dramatic effect.

Tips to Help You Use Luxury Textures in your design

Visual Weight

Pay Attention to Visual Weight of luxury textures. Don’t underestimate the power of subtle shimmer. Metallic texture especially is a luxury element that lends well to any design from feminine chic to hard masculine and industrial looks. Shimmer can be very corporate and serious depending on the visual weight you give to each element. There must be a balance.

Think outside the box

Don’t box luxury textures in with feminine designs. Likewise, glitter should not be boxed in with childish or loud designs. We tend to have a strong association with specific materials and textures. Thinking outside these conformities can give you a better design.

Using Luxury Textures to Guide the Eye

Use texture and pattern to create areas of interest to guide the eye to particular focal points. Shimmering luxury textures command attention, you can use that to your advantage with design layout. Using emphasis to draw the eye to your focus with strategic layouts. Here is a good article about how to use emphasis in design.

How Color Affects Metallic & Shimmer texture

Pay attention to how other colors affect your luxury textures, shimmery textures in particular. Dark colors will bring out and emphasis a shimmery texture whereas light colors defuse the drama a little.

• On corporate designs, you’ll see small shimmer accents on large amounts of dark color.
• For a Feminine design, you tend to see the shimmer in larger quantities with lighter backgrounds.
• Masculine design tends to use gold, platinum and other metallics with dark colors not necessarily in small quantities. Automotive design typically uses lots of textures like brushed metal and diamond plate.
• Children’s designs use glitter and shimmer to achieve a childlike whimsical look. You will see this in products for preteens and young girls. This is definitely the sweet spot for glitz and glitter textures. For whimsical designs pair luxury textures like glitter and shimmer with vibrant colors and whimsical patterns. High-contrast, visually stimulating patterns feel disorienting for adults but babies love light reflection and tons of contrast. Designing toy and children’s packaging with glitter and vibrant colors catches attention from the right audience.

Is big and busy the only way to stand out and be seen?

If you’re not into flashy sparkles in your design don’t count it out just yet.

You can use luxury textures in a minimalist design. I know that sounds outrageous but it’s not. Simple gold accents or a touch of shimmer to an otherwise flat design can have a major impact on the overall design when it’s done right. By right, I mean simple lines and small accents, very subtle.

When it comes to luxury textures and minimalist design they can coexist but you have to learn the right balance.

Is there a balance between a glitzy and a nice airy design?

I definitely have a double personality when it comes to design. The over the top excitement of gold and glitter get me every time. I also think less is more, how confusing is that.

Mixing glitter and glitz textures requires that you pay close attention to the balance of the design. Glitz is exciting but also overwhelming if used too much. A little goes a very long way. Unless you’re designing Christmas cards or a New Year’s Eve poster in which case we want all the glitter!

Premium Luxury Textures from Creative Market

If you’re pressed for time and need your textures right now, Creative Market has an amazing collection of premium luxury textures. Here are a few of my favorites.

Luxury Textures and Luxury backgrounds Freebies

Make sure to stop by the shop and grab all of our free luxury textures. Here are a few you can grab now and check back soon because we have more coming!

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What’s Next?

Make sure to come back to this post because I will be adding more luxury textures tutorials over the next few weeks!

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