thank you for your quick replies! i used crazybump to create these normal maps (not from the diffuse, though, from height maps). but it's not about normal/specular maps; i want to polish my diffuse maps first. i'm quite happy with the two i linked, but what i need i a general workflow how to process my raw images to get…
I looked at the post you linked. You are showing diffuse and normal maps. What about specular maps? That together with some sweet lighting is usually all you need to make it look good :)
No spec? That really helps sell the material. Aside from the obvious graffiti scrawling off the side of the box nothing looks horribly wrong so far. You might want to check out crazybump its pretty useful for doing things like this. But be careful what you feed it, it can go horribly wrong pretty quick if you start…