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Spin the bottle 1
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Begin by cutting
the bottle out from
its background, even
if you’re going to keep
the same background
later. Once the label
has been moved you’ll
be able to see through
it, which means you
may need to distort
the refracted view (see
chapter 9).
2
Select the seal,
the two labels and
the signature, and cut
each one to its own
individual layer.
Now for the most
important stage of all:
For each label layer,
select it and choose
Layer > Smart Objects
> Convert to Smart
Object. This will make
the editing process
very much easier.
3
Duplicate the
bottle layer, and
fill it with a flat color.
This will make it much
easier for you to see
what you’re doing.
4
Select all the label
layers, and slide
them to the right, so
they’re more or less in
the right position.
At this point, it’s
worth placing all these
labels in a separate
group, for convenience.
Duplicate the group
so the originals remain
untouched, and add a
Layer Mask to hide all
but the bottle area.
B
OTTLES ARE MOST
often photographed
head-on, which always makes
montages look artificial.
Turning a bottle to one
side can be tricky, but the
high quality of the Friday
Challenge attempts at this
problem showed there are
several different approaches.
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Transformation and distortion
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HOT TIP
To make the
Layer Mask in
step 4, first load
the bottle layer
as a selection by
holding CL
and clicking on its
thumbnail in the
Layers Panel.
Then, with the
group selected,
choose Layer
> Layer Mask >
Reveal Selection.
This will add a
mask to the labels
group that exactly
matches the shape
of the bottle.
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5
Select the layer that contains the main label, and choose
Free Transform Ct Lt. Now press the Image
Warp button on the Options Bar to bring up the envelope
distortion method.
You can adjust the envelope by dragging the handles, the
corners, or the four inner intersections, as we saw on page
page 44. The trick here is to use these handles to reproduce
the curve of the label.
But there’s one more important consideration: because
the bottle is a curved surface, the label needs to get narrower
as it curves away from us. As you can see here, the distance
between the two rightmost vertical columns is much less than
the leftmost columns. You have to adjust all the anchor points
to make them line up in this way.
6
The seal is treated in a similar way, again using Free
Transform and Image Warp to access that envelope
distortion. This time, we need to twist it so the previous head-
on view now changes to a side view. Again, we can do this
by moving the Image Warp envelope handles so that they
produce a curved appearance.
Although we made a Layer Mask for this group that exactly
matches the shape of the bottle, the raised glass of the rim
around the seal needs to break over the top.
Select the seal by CL-clicking on its thumbnail, then
paint in white in this area on the Layer Mask for the labels
group to reveal it.
CONTINUED OVERLEAF
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