Free Japanese Foliage Website Backgrounds

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Jake Hurst

I was practicing with Photoshop today and thought maybe someone could use these for something. I provided the PSD for these backgrounds. I really hope some one has fun with these.

Free Japanese Foliage Website Backgrounds 2

Background 1

Background 2

PSD 1

PSD 2 ( right click and save as )

About the author: Jake Hurst

My name is Jake and I'm from the Portland OR area right along the Columbia river. I'm obsessed with Photoshop, WordPress, streetbikes and of course my awesome family!. Follow him on Twitter / Facebook.

31 comments on “Free Japanese Foliage Website Backgrounds”

Chris Coyier on April 1, 2008 at 8:37 pm said:

Very nice Jake! I dig ‘em. The translucent effect of the content block is nice.
Mec on April 1, 2008 at 9:18 pm said:

Thanks Chris! It was kind of hard going from Fireworks to Photoshop but I needed to learn how to use it.
Shayne on September 21, 2008 at 1:52 pm said:

Hey the black one is very nice. Great job!
rivermaya on October 17, 2008 at 8:16 pm said:

love the black one … really really me
thanks for being so creative
monsheri on November 3, 2008 at 9:12 am said:

grate job love it
Mel on November 3, 2008 at 12:25 pm said:

They are very good, but they are a little too small.
Wil on November 25, 2008 at 8:04 am said:

This is really cool but just one thing, I’m getting an error on the PDS file.

Right click didn’t work so I tried just clicking it and this is what I got;

“Address Not Found
Firefox can’t find the server at designerfied.”

Is it just me or did something die?
jake on November 25, 2008 at 10:25 am said:

Ah! Sorry! Bad link. Fixed now!
Wil on November 25, 2008 at 7:19 pm said:

Ah awesome. Thanks heaps!
Wil on November 28, 2008 at 1:09 am said:

Hey Jake.

I’m loving this BG, I’m just about to finish a WP theme with it but I’m having a bit of trouble with Layer 1 of the PSD.
It’s completely black, I’ve checked all the options but nothing is working other than the opacity but that just make is go all the way through from black to completely faded black.
The flowered vine and darkened text box are there and work fine.
If your happy to do it, would I be able to get just the image you used for the greenish coloured background (layer 1)?

Cheers mate, Wil.
jake on November 28, 2008 at 3:37 am said:

Hey Wil, I have tried to find that image but since I moved servers I must have lost it some where.

I think you might be able to find something close to it here http://www.textureking.com/index.php/category/concrete/

If I find it I will send it to you.

If you want send me a link when you are finished with your theme, I would love to see it!

Good Luck!
Alien on October 3, 2009 at 2:12 pm said:

I’m doing a wikispace thing right now & i want to use the black one as my background. But i need the big long code how do i get that?
Jake Hurst on October 3, 2009 at 5:03 pm said:

You need the css?

background: #000 url(image/thebackgroundimage.jpg) top center no-repeat;

image/thebackgroundimage.jpg change that to the real location of the image background.

Also you could do this.

background: #000 url(image/thebackgroundimage.jpg) top center no-repeat fixed;

image/thebackgroundimage.jpg change that to the real location of the image background.
Jessica on November 21, 2009 at 11:35 pm said:

I am slowly getting my website put together hopefully by this Tuesday and I’ve wanted a great background. I love the black one. Yahoo! small business doesn’t really provide the greatest templates, so I’m hoping this will look great with my site. I will definitely be sure to include a link to your site as a thank you. Thank you so much, hun!!

-Jessica
ScriptoManiac on December 5, 2009 at 2:25 am said:

Nice post..Keep them coming Thanks for sharing.
Chuck on December 12, 2009 at 6:25 am said:

Thank you so much for your art you rule!!
Lorena on January 25, 2010 at 2:57 pm said:

Hey!! I was looking at this website and I really like the dark background. I am graduating this year and I have to make my portfolio website. Do you care if I use this background in my site? I’ve changed a little bit the color for a green gradient at the background so it looks simpler but i really love the flowers. So please let me know if I can use it.

Thanks

Lorena
JH on January 25, 2010 at 4:43 pm said:

Yea! Have a blast!!
×—× × ×” on February 23, 2010 at 11:28 pm said:

Great backgrounds!! Thanks alot
Michele on March 18, 2010 at 7:58 am said:

This is lovely! I’m putting together a website (I’m a dark fiction writer) and may end up using this as my background, if I can get it to work. Hope that’s okay? Will definitely link back to your site if I use it. Thanks again!
Heather on March 20, 2010 at 10:34 am said:

Hi I love the first darker greener one. The psd file linked is only the purple one. Could you email me the psd?
Keith on June 16, 2010 at 1:54 pm said:

Hi. Nice job on the backgrounds they look great. I especially like the first one. I just finished school and am trying to put together a small business. I was experimenting with the colors on your background and was wondering if you would let me use it on my site. At least until i have time to finish a background of my own.

Thanks

Keith
Mick Genie on June 18, 2010 at 8:29 pm said:

Wow…Love it..
JH on June 19, 2010 at 12:05 am said:

Thanks!!! Goes good with the WordPress 3.0. I like how easy people can now add a custom background to their site.
Q on July 28, 2010 at 1:01 pm said:

Whoa! Cool thanQs. googled cool web backgrounds and this came up first. I thinQ this may make it on my new updated site.

Mahalo Nui Loa!
James on August 23, 2010 at 3:14 am said:

Awesome Background ^_^

I was just wondering, would I be allowed to use your image in a media assignment??

I’m a student currently studying Year 12 Media in Australia and for my final piece I wanted to do a website. The concept of the website is about dreams and the like and I personally usually associate dreams with fantasy which this background would fit in quite nicely I’m looking to use the greenish image. Would that be okay to use? No profit will be made from my site, just as an assignment
JH on August 24, 2010 at 3:47 pm said:

Yes… you can use it only for non-commercial stuff.
Benji on June 28, 2011 at 8:26 pm said:

Hey there,

I’m not sure what’s classified as non-commerical use so i’m going to ask kindly if i can use this for my band website that i’m making as a personal project which i can later add to my portfolio.

cheers,
-benj,
JH on June 29, 2011 at 11:53 am said:

Check out this link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND
Bernard Doddema, Jr. on September 20, 2011 at 10:56 am said:

Thank you! I used the black background on my site and it definitely makes it pop. For some reason, it doesn’t seem to fit correctly but it’s better than the just plain black it was before!
JakeH on September 20, 2011 at 11:19 am said:

I like it! I wish I would have built it at a larger size. I also lost the PSD.