1000+ Metal Textures for 2D and 3D Designs
The opportunities are endless when it comes to the uses of texture images for designers. That is why, one of the categories of my posts here is about textures. I already gave you a very comprehensive list of links where you can download quality but free wood textures, paper textures and textile fabric textures. So this time, let us look at another category of textures–the metal textures.
These high resolution free metal images that you will find in this list can be used for architectural renderings, animations, game design and any other computer graphics artwork including web design. Most of these metal pictures are also royalty free and can be used in almost any purpose. I hope you will also find these metal textures useful in your design endeavors!

Metal Textures 01- High Resolution Metal Art Car
Author: thinkdesign

Metal Textures 02- Metal Textures
Source: Amazing Textures
There are 32 high-resolution free metal images that you may download for free. However you need to register first (one time only and free) in order to download the high-resolution version of the free stock pictures.

Metal Textures 03- Metal Texture Collection
Source: Archive Texture
Around a hundred quality metal texture images can be downloaded from this site for free.

Metal Textures 04- Texture Archive
Source: Ben Cloward
One of the many free textures that you can find in Ben Cloward’s site are metal texture images created from pictures of various metal items.

Metal Textures 05 – Metal Textures
Considered as the world’s largest free textures site, this site offers hundreds of metal texture photos filed under 13 subcategories that you can use for your projects.

Metal Textures 06 – Metal Textures
Source: Mayang Textures
You can find really high resolution texture images in JPEG files here at Mayang’s Textures. The metal textures in this site are filed under four sub-categories, namely, corrugated, flat, metal objects and patterned.

Metal Textures 07-Mega-Tex High Quality Textures Studio
There are plenty of high quality metal textures for free download that you can find here.

Metal Textures 08 -Texture bits
The textures that you can download from this free texture library are really high resolotion JPEGs.

Metal Textures 09- Metal Textures at Texture King
Huge number of free quality metal texture images can be downloaded from Texture King. You are free to use them in any way you want. Just don’t redistribute them as your own.

Metal Textures 10- Free Metal Textures from Texture Z
Discover the wonderful colors and textures of the world! Texture Z has quite a few free textures but these have really high resolution!

Metal Textures 11- Texture Warehouse
These are free high resolution of metal pictures for designers and 3D artists. The images that you will find here are licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0). Also, their freeĀ library are updated frequently.

Metal Textures 12 – Corroded Metal-DeviantArt
Author: borysses
The pack contains 10 seamless free images of corroded metals packed as a RAR archive. Each JPEG file has a resolution of 1024×1024 pixels at 96 dpi.

13. Free Metal Textures – Metal textures
Author: priesteres-stock
This set includes four (4) metal texture imagess. Each JPEG file has a resolution of 1000 pixels by 1500 pixels.

Metal Textures 14- Metallic textures at DeviantArt
Author: damerel
This pack contains 11 high-resolution free metal texture images that you can use for non-commercial projects. Checkout the author’s page for more information about terms of use.

Metal Textures 15 – Hard Metal Textures 01
Author: laceratedwristsstock
The set includes four (4) high resolution free images that you can use even non-commercial work. Contact the author to know more about the terms of use of these particular texture.















very useful links…specially CG Textures, quantity and quality, thanks