Urban Grit Texture Pack

🔧 What’s Included:

• 10 high-resolution textures (JPG format, average size 20+MB per file), all shot with a 42MP camera

• A variety of gritty, urban materials: cracked walls, aged cement, weathered surfaces, and more

• Instant digital download

• Perfect for city scenes, grungy portraits, and atmospheric storytelling

🎯 Why Urban Grit?

Where my other pack entitled Urban Distress leans heavily into destruction and decay, Urban Grit brings a more grounded realism. It’s about the textures you’d walk past every day in any well-worn city — quietly powerful, deeply layered, and full of character.

Use it on its own for a punch of raw atmosphere, or combine it with other packs like Urban Distress to create complex, layered looks with real emotional weight.

🔥 Why You’ll Love It

• Authentic Urban Character – These textures capture the honest, unfiltered feel of city surfaces—perfect for adding real-world grit without faking it.

• Versatile & Subtle – Strong enough to add impact, but flexible enough to stay out of the way of your subject. Use them for gentle atmosphere or dramatic grit.

• Great with Cityscapes, Portraits & More – Whether it’s architecture, street scenes, or moody portraits, these textures adapt beautifully across genres.

• No Two Are Alike – Each texture brings something different—cracks, stains, wear, and weather—that let you layer in depth and complexity with ease.

Give your photos the grit they’ve been missing.

Download the Urban Grit Texture Collection today and start building beautifully flawed, richly textured edits.

Here’s a preview of what these textures look like. I love the gritty, urban feel they exude and have used them on a lot of cityscapes to create some alternative moods with the images. Remember, after adding the texture to your image, experiment with color and light shifts on the texture to see how it impacts the overall blended image. You can craft some really interesting, original and beautiful works of art this way!

Over time, I’ve come to rely on textures as a creative tool in my photo editing workflow. They can completely transform the feel of an image—adding depth, grit, mood, or just a subtle layer of character. They give me the freedom to interpret a scene in a more artistic, personal way.

When I am out shooting, I keep an eye out for textures that tell a story—weathered walls, cracked concrete, peeling paint—those quiet, overlooked details that carry a unique kind of visual weight. From that growing archive, I selected the 10 most versatile, impactful textures to include in this pack. These are the ones I use most often in my own work.

I call it Urban Grit because each texture was captured in an urban setting and carries the marks of time and wear. But don’t let the name fool you—these aren’t just for gritty cityscapes. They work beautifully across many genres, from landscapes to portraits and beyond. Whether you’re aiming for subtle atmosphere or bold visual impact, this collection gives you flexible tools to make your images stand out.

Tips for Applying Textures to Photos

Here are some tips on how I use textures in my photos in Luminar, but you can apply a texture in any editing program that allows you to create new layers:

• Once the new texture layer is applied, I reduce the opacity to about 25% to start. This gives me plenty of visibility of the image underneath, and I can always go back and change the opacity if I want to.

• Consider applying additional filters/effects on a new layer after you have added the texture. I generally experiment with color tones, contrast, details and light once the texture layer is applied.

• Sometimes I will take an already-edited photo and apply a texture, and sometime I will apply a texture before any edits. Experiment and see what you come up with.

• If you don’t like the color of the texture, you can use Color Balance, Color Temperature, Curves and other filters in Luminar to change the general color of it, so it more closely resembles the look you are trying to achieve.

• Consider using the eraser to remove the texture at a reduced opacity from some parts of the image. Sometimes it looks better when an already-busy section of a photo has a lower opacity of the texture, leaving the higher-opacity parts for sections of the photo that are plain, such as an empty sky.

• You can stack multiple textures for even more creative results. 

• Experiment with blend modes to see how changing them can impact the look of the photo. You can get some really varied looks just by doing this. The two I use most are Normal and Overlay, but each photo is different and it is worth experimenting to see how they impact the shot.

• Have fun!

Fine print:

• Jim Nix/JimNix.com retains full ownership rights to these textures under any and all applicable copyright and intellectual property laws.

• The purchase of these textures is for personal or commercial photographic purposes. By purchasing you agree that you will not resell, redistribute, bundle or otherwise profit from these textures in any way other than as a composite layer within your own photographic or graphic design work.

• You do have the right to modify these textures while using them in your own creations.

• Sharing of these files is strictly prohibited.