Photoshop Drawing Glass Tutorial

Final effect Diagram

1. Before embarking on the design, we need to analyze the glass, and make clear what is the bottom and which layers are on top. The bottom of the nature is the background, because here we need to show the glass transparent characteristics, put on a picture with a color fluctuation, but for everyone to see more clearly, only a single color gradient background foil. Next you need to use Photoshop's Path tool to sketch out the bottom of the glass.

2, that is, the dark part, because the light part of the high point is required to cover the above, the effect see picture 001. Using Pen tool (pen tool) slice 003)

After drawing the outline path of the goblet, press CTRL + the left mouse button in the path panel to click on the outlined path contour, convert it to a selection, create a new layer in the layers panel and fill it with color, and we can fill it with black or dark gray. Then you need to draw the inner wall of the cup.

3, here you need to use the radial gradrent (radial gradient tool) to drag out a light blue to dark blue gradient, of course this color should be slightly brighter than the dark layer just outlined, otherwise there is no contrast, remember to create a new layer before the gradient, see picture 003. Let's draw it from the top of the Cup. First select the Ellipse selection tool in the toolbar, then click the View menu in the menu bar, select Show Rulers (display ruler/shortcut key for ctr+r) in the Drop-down menu, and drag the XY axis line position before 0 degrees above the left of the ruler. Find the top of the cup and the left intersection of the Cup, release the mouse but do not move, and then click on the Ellipse tool to drag out a suitable oval selection area.

4. The cup mouth is made up of a circle of high light and a dark circle, then we just have to use just the ellipse selection strokes two times on it, first create a new layer, select the foreground color is lighter light blue, and then click on the menu bar edit, in the Drop-down menu select Stroke (Stroke) This item, In the pop-up panel will be the width of the line set to 1, the mode is normal, the transparency is set to 100%, after the completion of the Click OK. Click on the upper right side of the image panel, the small triangle in the pop-up menu, select Duplicate Layer (copy layer) This, so that there will be two cups of high light layer, with the mouse to select the top layer, in the graph layer on the lock option to select the first radio box lock Transparent Pixels (lock transparent image part), select the foreground color to be dark blue, then click the Edit item in the menu bar, select Fill in the Drop-down menu bar, then pop the fill adjustment panel, fill the object selection foregroundcolor (foreground color), mode for normal transparency of 100%, click OK ok. In the sidebar to switch to move Tool (Mobile tool), using the keyboard of the down-arrow button ↓ to shift a pixel, then you will find the picture appeared on the prototype of a cup, then we need to sketch the glass a large number of high light and reflection. First Use pen Tool (pen) tool to outline the cup facing our side of the center of the high light, color needs to be given a particularly light blue, the transparency of the layer is 15%~20% or so, see a person likes to adjust (select the layer to adjust, drag the opacity on the layers Panel opacity slider). According to the above method to make the glass wall of the high point of light, the effect see picture 005.

4, in order to make the cup of the outer wall of the high light and the inner wall of light to distinguish between, so the transparency of the layer set to 8% better. I divided the high light of the main part of the cup into five layers to draw, the shape and the transparency are not the same, the color is pale blue, this is the most difficult part of the cup, but also the most easily confused part. The first layer is made up of irregular shapes of two-month teeth, use pen tool to sketch out, the transparency is set to 20%; the second layer is composed of a crescent-shaped, the transparency is set to 60%; The third layer is the first layer of the reproduction version, free deformation amplification, local edge feather, transparency is also set to 60%; The fourth layer is composed of a thick arc along the two sides of the cup main body, the transparency is 30%, and the fifth layer is copied from the fourth layer, but the transparency is different, for about 8%. After the five layers have been generated, you need to create a new layer below the first layer, a radial gradient with light blue to transparent color generates a diffuse circle, and then uses the freeform (accelerator ctrl+t) tool to change it to an ellipse, placing it underneath the cup, That's the bottom of the five layers you just built. See picture 006 for the effect of the overlay on just a few layers.

5, Next we do the leg part of the cup, or the same as the old, with the pen tool sketched out path into the selection, fill the gradient, from blue to light blue gradient composition, transparency of 100%. Create a new layer on top of the layer and use the Pen tool to sketch the high light section of the beard, which is pale blue and is 50% transparent. After two layers have been made, it is necessary to make a deep color of the body of the cup to a transparent gradient placed above the top of the top of the leg, which gradually becomes a linear gradient, with a transparency of 50%. The combination of the cup body and the leg of the cup has a few relatively small high light, consists of three major parts, the first part is the light from the top of the cup into the cause, and four from the big to small linear gradient composition, the color is dark blue to light blue or blue to dark blue, four of which two are slightly similar to the beginning of the first curve hook; The second part is the light from the back of the cup into the front, like a solar eclipse as a sphere cover behind the emission of light exposed part of the third part of the glass front of the light directly caused by the high light, composed of an arc and three irregular points. After the above steps are done, the top half of the cup is finished, see picture 007.

5, then do the cup foot and cup leg junction of the three oval parts, this part can be made in three steps: First, use the Pen tool to sketch out the brightest highlights and fill it with white; the second step uses the Pen tool to sketch out the remainder of the highlight, fill it with light blue; The third step merges the layers that were built in the first two steps, Copy a new layer, and then use the fuzzy tool for fuzzy processing (click on the menu bar filter, in the Pop-up drop-down menu, select Blur, pop-up two menu to select the Gaussian Blur Gaussian blur, in the Gaussian Blur panel of the parameters in the box Input 1.5 carriage return can), Make it look more natural, note that you must place this layer above the top two layers, see picture 008 for effect.

6, the next is the final Cup foot part, which consists of three parts: the first part is a large area of high light, filled by a slightly darker pale blue to bluish gradient; the second part is composed of the shadow of the cup projected to the high light part, with a slight feather in the seam of the quilt leg, making it more natural to integrate into this high light part; The third part consists of the upper light of the cup reflected by the dark part of the foot of the cup. There are more than one aperture, directly using the Path tool to sketch I am afraid it is not realistic, we can be a cup leg and feet of the high light layer to copy, move to the appropriate location, using zigzag tools to get the effect of water ripple shape, Click on the menu bar filter, select Distort in the pop-up Drop-down menu, its level two menu has the zigzag option, note that before executing this filter, you need to pull out an appropriate square selection with the image part as the center. Because the filter needs to be performed in this selection area to achieve our desired effect, see picture 009 for effect.

7, the production method of the cup here is all finished, the following is the final effect diagram, in fact, the technical component is not a lot, most of them are very simple operation, but the analysis of the layer transparent more trouble, if you can skillfully finish the above operation, presumably also on the path, layer proficient in many, Later encounter similar objects can also be copied by themselves. In the shape of the cup need your pen tool more skilled control, is also a modest exercise.

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