creating textures

i can model most things pretty decent, texturing however i dont really understand. i look at peoples work and wonder how they get a certaint texture… take a watch for example. how would you make the texture that is on the inside of the watch…

Here is an example, http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=67775

that looks like a photograph [the texture, not the watch itself]

Hi ,

How to create good texture ?
That was the question i was asking me for long .
The answer is sooo simple … start from a photography or paint them (or mix) , that’s all.

Here is a link for all of you which asking them the same question as me (how ??) :

http://features.cgsociety.org/articles/index.php?cat=tutorial

What to say more, if it’s just : training , training , training :p.

Well …at your camera/brush ;).

Peace :).