Help with making it look realistic

[Gamereaper93]

Good Day
I am very new to photoshop so i was able to make this black boards have a wooden finish to it but can you please help me with some advice to make it look more like the 3rd picture where it looks abit more realistic? i really want to get this right thank you so much!

 

[IamSam]

OK..........Your image is too small, so I will show you the basic idea.

You create a cutting board using the Rounded Rectangle tool. It does not matter what color it is.
When you have the cutting board just how you like it, right click the layer and choose rasterize.


Now drag and drop your wood texture into the document and position to cover the cutting board.


Now right click the wood texture layer and choose, Create Clipping Mask.


Now all that's left to do is to add a Bevel & Emboss layer style on the "template layer" to give the cutting board dimension.



This exact same technique and principle applies to multiple cutting boards in a document.

 

[IamSam]

Here is a (much larger) cutting board template. The white BG has been removed from this layer.



Here I have dragged and dropped a wood texture and transformed/positioned over the first two cutting boards as I explained above.


Now I clip the wood texture layer to the template layer.


Added a few more different wood textures to the top row in the same manner......


This is one large wood texture added to the second row. This is more in line with your original question.


Then clipped...


All that's left to do is to add a layer Bevel & Emboss layer style to the template layer.



Work as large as you can!!! You can always make it smaller!!!

 

[IamSam]

Same wood texture on all cutting board templates.

Wood texture is just copied and re-positioned using the Move Tool.



Or the whole wood texture covering all cutting boards.
This breaks the repetitions of the wood grain.