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For the actual project, I think I would take a photograph of actual spices on a table, especially if the table is meant to be in perspective and receding from us. Maybe you could get away with using white baking flour and then coloring it in Photoshop for the different spices.

As a Photoshop exercise, here is my thought. Rather than using the clone stamp, I took your image of the spices and applied a layer mask to it, spelling-out one letter at a time within the mask. (PSD file attached, below.)

• In the layer mask, use a brush set to about 30% hardness and a brush blend mode (not the layer blend mode) set to dissolve. This simulates crumbs of spices falling off the edges of the spelled-out letters. Give the layer mask a 1 pixel feather to soften the crumbs.
• Then I applied a Bevel & Emboss to simulate thickness, as if it's a pile of spices. (I thought about also adding a drop shadow, but then decided against it.)
• Once you've got the first letter done with all the layer styles, copy the entire layer, move it to the right, and redo the layer mask to spell the next letter.
• You may want to find a few more images of piles of spices. Otherwise, all the letters will start looking too similar. You can also rotate, flip, and otherwise manipulate each of your duplicate spice images so that the don't all look the same.
• One last thought... instead of drawing letters by hand within the layer mask, you can find a font that you like, make a selection of the font and use that in the layer mask.
• Here's what I've got:

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