Photoshop Zone

  In this Photoshop Effects tutorial , we’re going to look at a classic Photoshop effect for wedding photography, placing the wedding couple inside a wine glass. This is a very easy Photoshop effect to create, requiring nothing more than a few basic tools, a layer mask, and a few minutes worth of effort. We’ll be finishing off the effect with a slightly more advanced blending option, but "more advanced" definitely doesn’t mean "more difficult", as we’ll see. If you’re not into wedding photography, you can use this Photoshop technique to place images inside any glass object, like a bottle or even an hour glass, and it also works great for placing images inside bubbles which is always a fun thing to do. Any recent version of Photoshop will work just fine. Download our tutorials as print-ready PDFs! Learning Photoshop has never been easier! Here’s the two images I’ll be using in this Photoshop effects tutorial: The wedding couple. The ...

Final Image Preview To start off you will need to create a new Photoshop document and set the dimensions up as mine are in the below screenshot.  To create a new document simply press ‘CTRL N’ on your keyboard or go to the file tab and select new. Next we can head over and grab our liquor bottle stock; for this quick manipulation we will be using a shot of a Kai vodka bottle. Our stock can be found here : http://intoxicologist.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/kai-vodka-bottle-shot-dark.jpg Once you have the stock just drop it into your new document; once its in your new document just simply move the stock around until its in the center of your canvas. The move tool is the ‘V’ key on your keyboard. Next we will be adding in some color to our bottle. To add in the color we need to make a new layer which is ‘CTRL SHIFT N’ on your keyboard, so that we don’t mess up our stock.  Once your new layer has been created we can grab the brush tool by pressing ‘B’ on yo...