Tutorial

This is not exactly like the tutorial because she used an actual photo of wood while I had to create my own. I  need to play with the displacement maps a bit more because this only has a bump map on this version. I understand that the lighting isn't cool either but I just wanted the object to be visible. I found that the mapping was relatively easy and I had a photoshop texture map in no time. I found that making a wood texture in photoshop is awful and difficult when you haven't used photoshop in over a year.  I had some issues with the quality of the photoshop files and the quality of the textures but I will make sure that the quality is higher next time. I might just redo this tutorial with actual photographs to see if that makes any difference. http://www.joyoge.com/listing/how-to-make-old-tree-textures-in-photoshop-tutorials

http://www.3dtotal.com/index_tutorial_detailed.php?id=1169&catDisplay=1&roPos=1&page=9#.UPhEbG9QXoJ

These are the tutorials that I followed.