The World of Texture. The first technology to come to a designer's rescue is, of course, photography with its immense creative opportunities and inexhaustible diversity.
Professional designers prefer to look for texture novelty in unusual places.
Theoretically, whatever photography has to offer in the texture realm is directly related to the specific way it combines colors. That's why photos, in contrast, make great backgrounds and fills for sharp-edged text and geometric primitives, and that's why soft gradients and blurring seem so connatural to digitized photography. And since these two texture classes have more than one contrasting aspect , designers have successfully used them together to produce great-looking, sensibly integrated compositions. I don't mean to say that any imitation of a material texture is unconditionally objectionable. Indeed, if not a general rule, this is a trend not to be ignored.