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No need to read all the Photoshop tutorials on the net that are related to realism, many of them are incomplete, incorrect or very frustrating in my opinion.

Just use your eyes jinx. Take for example your first image, analyze what you see. It shouldn't be hard for anyone who knows the basics of Photoshop to duplicate this one, even if the texture would look slightly different. Simple... just copy what you see, that's all, nothing more. Try to figure out what the basic elements are and use that as a start.

Please try it, make it a challenge and be amazed what you've learned by copying this object. Grab any household object and make in Photoshop what you see with your own eyes.

After a while you can even make a lot of this stuff yourself without having an example in front of you. But if you think, "I can't do it", then you will never be able to do it, simple as that.