3 Backgrounds tips, tutorials, techniques & resources
63 Impressive Website Background-Images: Trends, Resources and Tutorials
"In this post you will see how web designers had carefully created background images to influence how the websites is visually distinct but considerate of their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content."
Awesome up your design with A.B.
"A new trend in web design is the rise of ambient — or auroral — backgrounds (A.B. for short). One of the spearheads of the new trend is Drew Wilson and with this tutorial Drew pulls back the curtain and lets you in on all his little secrets."
Wallpaper
"A selection of unique wallpaper designs that can be reproduced to any scale. These wallpaper patterns repeat on all sides so you can use them to fill custom shapes and backgrounds in your own designs."