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I'm trying to create a cover for a cook book. I want to use various powdered spices to create text on a table like someone sprinkled the powder on the table in mounded piles, I have images of various spices that would be perfect to use. If i use the clone tool it comes out looking flat or gets that repetitive look, blending the colours or trying to smooth looses the details in the grains. What would be the best way to approach this? I suppose I could just do it in real life take a picture then edit it around from there but that seams like a waste of perfectly good food. any ideas?