These photos have been created by Smashing Magazine readeres in our Smashing Texture Contest. What can you do with them? You can use all textures for both private and commercial projects for free, without any restrictions whatsoever. However, you are not allowed to offer these files for download; please respect the interestes of over 300 participants of our contest. Please also consider the license information attached to the .zip-archives you download from our server. When it comes to usage of textures, different photographers may have different opinions and intentions.

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Jim Ferguson
This image is of a rusted out tank at an abandoned mill.
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Dominic Taverniti
Weathered ocean buoy with dings and peeling paint
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Nathan Van Driel
100-year old sliding metal door from an apple warehouse.
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Abraham Wallin
I came across the back of this old jeep while walking around Height Street and thought it would make for an interesting shot. You just get the feeling that this jeep has been places and seen things in it’s 20 plus years of life. Looking at this shot you’d think it was taken somewhere in the Sarah desert under 100 degree heat. No an overcast day in San Francisco, CA.
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Ross Chrystall
Macro image of rust devouring parts of disused equipment from an abandoned whaling station at Whangamumu Bay in Northland, New Zealand.
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Jamie Winder
Taken in Bangkok, Thailand with a 7.2MP Sony.
Cybershot. Depicts old oil cans, left in an alley.
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Shannon Putchaven
Chair Base
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Prachya Singhto
Thai noodles spoons
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Lim Sheng Han
The textures packaged are a result of a days work scouring back alleys and slumps of Kuching, Malaysia. All the rust textures are shot in macro mode with my humble canon ixus 75 camera.
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Shannon Palmer
Painted Tin Wall
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Jonas Ersland
A shocking-red container-ship.
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Tricia McCraney
rusted, pitted metal
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Mike Smith
A beat up plow (plough?)
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Orlund Norstrom
close up of a steel brush
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Michael Loughran
Macro of a grungey drain near the East River on the UES of Madhattan
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Jase Smith
orange paint on a boxcar hinge, cracked, repainted, cracked, repainted, etc.
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Matheus Siqueira
A rusted iron pillar.
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Efi Moore
Old cracked rusty door
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Tim O’Connor Jr.
This is a detail of an old barrel of photo processing chemicals that has been left out in the elements. It was taken in Hamilton, New York on the campus of Colgate University.
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Joy Carrick
Scratched metal with a bit of rust.The original is a bit larger with more tiles.
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Ross Anderson
Photo of a gate from inner-city shoot I did looking for urban textures to match a website (which never happened, shame).
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Magnus Bogucki
inspired from a fence and the ocean
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Anne-Marie Adams
Aluminium shavings from a lathe.
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Hagop Ashkarian
A macro shot, of the surface of a rusty and wet iron barrel.
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Jacob Andreas
The ceiling of the Beijing International Airport
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Tiago Hillesheim
Roof of British Museum, in London.
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Rachel Smith Turner
Texture is the vent on the outside of an air conditioner unit.
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Martin Pruvost
Internal panel from an air conditioner.
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Ross Chrystall
Macro image of rust devouring parts of disused equipment from an abandoned whaling station at Whangamumu Bay in Northland, New Zealand.
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Craig Sefton
Cracking
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Scott Blackburn
These rivits were found on an abandon water tank between the towns of Crown King and Bumble Bee Arizona. I love the deep texture and the colors.
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Scott Blackburn
This paint peel is found on an abandon water tank between the towns of Crown King and Bumble Bee Arizona.
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Caroline Blana
These are some textures I photographed off an old bike in my backyard.
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Marcus Neto
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Ross Chrystall
Macro image of rust devouring parts of disused equipment from an abandoned whaling station at Whangamumu Bay in Northland, New Zealand.
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Simon Ristevski
Pipes
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Simon Ristevski
Rusting Stripes
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Alexandru Ene
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Mylène Gaultier
Rust and paint on an old gate.
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Aurélien Leroux
rusty gate
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Birgit Engelhardt
This texture is made from an orange rusty container.
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Manoela Borghi
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Noah Schipani-Trivier
this is a texture I shot walking over the 59th street bridge in NYC. this one was of a girder on the bridge and I think the randomness of the rivets makes it interesting.
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Rima Rykule
part of very old gates into jewish cemetery Kaunas, Lithaunia
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Trushar Shah
EXPERIMENTATION / PLAY BASED ON REFLECTION AND BLURS
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Angelie Baral
Lights above an escalator in Paris
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Anne-Marie Adams
Dali Museum roof
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Dilip Patharachalam
This is a pic of a wire mesh that caught my eye
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Luciana Udroiu
The tv sound output.
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Genia Kodash
Rusty surface of the old car
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Costin Burlacu
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Björn Andresen
The texture shows cut off steel girder parts during the tearing down of the "Palast der Republik" in Berlin
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Amanda Johns
This photo was taken at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
I was shooting photos that day for practice, and for use for other possible projects down the road. This photo is on the side of the buildling,
and is the fan exhaust, also known as a fan shutter. I like this photo because of the downwards perspective, and the pattern it shows.
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Xavier Portebois
cheap IKEA spoons put together
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Christian Danz
The photo/ texture shows an old/ rusted and former painted surface of a down spout on a garage.
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Alina Knox
This texture photo is taken in the bed of the old ford truck. It reminds me of a rusty clouded sky.
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Alina Knox
This texture photo is also taken in the bed of an old ford truck.
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Martin Deffner
i made some shots of a flaky hydrant, i wonder if the round shape of the caps can be used as a texture in patterns or the likewise.
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Simon Ristevski
Rusting decay
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Jenn Rodriguez
Rusty car on the beach at Fort Funson, San Francisco.
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Craig Sefton
Old yella
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Torsten Berger
Basement window
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Samantha Warren
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Charles Lonon
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Carlos Santos
Macro photo of part of a old and rusty railway.
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Alexander Palmo
The inside of my fithly microwave.
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Céline Oberlé
Garage Door.
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Johannes Uessem
Taken at Landschaftpark Nord, Duisburg, Germany.

Tiago Hillesheim
Train rail, somewhere in London.
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Ana Sofia Santos
My texture of the ladders of the store "Benneton". i took this photo with my Canon.
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Istvan Vasil
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Jesse Adler
Metal Cobweb. Taken in Germany, in the Rosengarten Park in the City of Darmstadt
Nikon D80 with 18-70mm Nikkor.
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Amanda Bonilla
This texture is from the steering wheel of my car.
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Carsten Klöpperpieper
metal floor plate at Sony Center Berlin, Germany in late evening.
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Dalius Dobravolskas
Metallic pattern found on metal sculpture.
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Jan Quickels
Rusted roof
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Shannon /Sid
Rusted barb wire.
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Jason Langenauer
Photograph of metal swarf, taken outside a metal-working shop on Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada in 2006.
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Stevan Sheets
description: subway wall texture
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Kyle Gillen
The metal mesh which encases the tweeter of an audiophile monitor.
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Giuseppe Scaglione
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This one is going to be big. Smashing Magazine’s readers have created a quite smashing texture gallery:

• Wood, Bark
• Stone, Walls, Brick
• Metal, Rust, Industrial
• Nature, Flowers, Plants
• Water, Ice, Drops, Liquids
• Sand, Earth
• Fabric
• Paper
• Glass
• Fire, Ashes
• Food
• Plastic
• Misc

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