Gradient Backgrounds: 10K+ Free Swatches to Choose From

Having a collection of gradient backgrounds that you can use anytime you need one in Photoshop is a great time-saver. The gradient tool is one of the most useful tools in Photoshop especially for making backgrounds, icons, buttons for the web, among many other things. If you need a tutorial on how to install and use gradients in Photoshop, then check out our previous post about photoshop gradients. Today, we would like to present some fresh, new but free Photoshop gradients that you can use in your designs, both web, and print. As in most freebies, be sure to check first the terms of use before deciding to use any of these free resources. So start downloading or bookmarking them for future reference.

10K+ SWATCHES FOR CREATING GRADIENT BACKGROUNDS

Infinity Family Gradients by Infinity Style
A huge set of gradient backgrounds containing 10,000 swatches you can use in your projects.

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Dooffy gradients by Dooffy Design
Here are 30 beautiful gradient backgrounds swatches that you can use for free even for commercial projects. The downloadable zipped format contains a GRD file you can install in Photoshop.

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Ocean Breeze Photoshop Gradients by Elven Sword A set containing 140 gradient backgrounds that may be useful for creating ocean-themed designs. You are free to use them for both personal and commercial projects provided you follow certain rules of the author. The archived file that you can download contains the Ocean Breeze preview in PNG and the Ocean Breeze.grd (Photoshop gradient file with 140 swatches).

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Emerald Dragon Photoshop Gradients by Elven Sword
This set has a total of 30 green gradient backgrounds for Photoshop. The zipped file that you may download includes the Emerald Dragon.grd file with 30 swatches and a preview image. These are free to use for both personal and commercial purposes under certain conditions. Check out the author’s page for more information after the jump.

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30 Web Gradients by Crazykira Resources
There are a total of 30 swatches in this set that you may use for creating a nice web 2.0 style in your web projects. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

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Monochromatic Gradients by Purple Graphics
Here is a set containing 38 swatches going from very light to very dark in a single spectrum color.

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Dark Photoshop gradients by Scully 7491
This set contains some 32 darker colored gradients that you can use freely under certain conditions.

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Real sky Photoshop gradients by Feniksas 4
A set of swatches representing the true color of the sky from sunrise to sunset to sunny to stormy skies. Free for personal uses only.

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New Photoshop Gradients by Roman
There are 15 fresh dark-colored gradients in this set that you can use for free in your projects.

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Soft Blue Gradients by Infinity Style
A huge set containing 20 soft-blue gradients that you can use in your projects.

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If you need more gradients or if the one you are looking for is not included above, then we suggest that you check out our earlier post on Photoshop gradients.

Author: AllFreeDesigns Staff

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