BGPatterns is a fairly small, but quite handy design tool for creating patterns, textures and designs. When you first enter the site, you’ll notice four main tabs—these are your main creating tools: colors, canvas, image and rotate. Under the image section is a selection of patterns and photos which can be tiled and scaled to your liking. From there, you can change location and opacity. Next, you can redo the back ground color using a sliding palette tool. There are five different canvasses to choose from and each can be resized; you can also fine tune the texture opacity. Finally, there’s the rotate tab which is for rotating your image, of course. Your designs can be previewed in the image window on the right hand side. Each design can be downloaded and saved to your very own ‘my patterns’ folder. BgPatterns is free for anyone to use. Check out the pattern gallery and vote for your favorites.