Creating lighting effect on softdrink advertising using photoshop

final result

Hi , hi , hi again my friend , well … a .. this time , or now , we’ll ,, practice how to create light effect again , but this time aplicated to softdrink advertising .

Many softdarinks is usually being advertised using some poster or flier that places on market or little store , in this tutorial we’ll made it , and give ligting effect on it to make it quite cools , ( I’ ll try it ‘ ~_~ ‘ )

Ok , let’s get started …

Step 1

Open photoshop program and create new project , give it name softdrink ad. Next set the size , mine is 1024 X 768 px .

Set the foreground to #C21515, and the background to #7D0303 , after that pick gradient tools , next click and drag it from bottom to top of project . ( look ,, or .. I mean see at picture )

Step 2

Now… open some sofedrink image . than make selection on bottle using pen tools . ( note : around the bottle )

After you make selection on all around the bottle using pen tools , still in pen , right click on center , than click make selection , so the selection changed from shape to regular selection .

Now , pick move tool , click on selection bottle hold the click and drag it to the project .

After the bottle move to project ( name it bottle 1 layer ) , press ctrl + T on keyboard and set it using scale command , make it well look on project field .

After the bottle quite good look on project field , go to image – adjustment – level , than make the bottle little bit dark.

Step 3

Sow we’ll make shadow for it , the step is : ctrl + click on bottle layer , so the selection on bottle is active.

Next , create new layer between background and bottle 1 layer , name it shadow.

Still the bottle selection , give black color on shadow layer with paint bucket tools. After that click ctrl + D to deactivated the selection . next go to edit – free transform ( ctrl + T ) , pick scale and resize it , and make it well look , use skew command to ( edit – free transform – skew ) , or variate the command to get best position .

Step 4

Create new layer on top , after that pick pen tools and create some circle shape from bottom to top of bottle .

Next , set the brush tool size to 10 px and the foreground color to #3577EF , after that pick again pen tools and right click on shape and select stroke path , select tool : brush and don’t forget to ceck the simulate pressure , than press Ok .