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How to Edit Beer in Photoshop Part 2

Compositing, Photoshop Aug 30 , Episode 363

Completing the image in Photoshop

Today we are completing this beer image in Photoshop. We cover the lighting effects as well as adding the splashes around the beer. The trick when doing this sort of composite is to know how much masking needs to be done. Too much and you are wasting your time, too little and you will see elements of the image that you don’t want.

In this image we use blending modes like SCREEN, COLOR DODGE, and COLOR BURN to help with the masking!

Gear Used in This Episode

Wacom Intuos 4 Small

Adobe Photoshop CS6

15" Macbook PRO

Sony NEX 5N

Audio Technica AT2020USB Microphone

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Vincent Senegal

Thanks Arron,

I did photograph a beer yesterday… Anyway you could share your water images so we can try to add it to our photos?
Vincent Senegal

I meant “Could you” instead of “You could”… Sorry for my english..
Carl Constantine

If you used and spilled actual beer like that, it would be classified as Alcohol Abuse
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=621936115 Damian Sanchez

Hey Aaron,

Cool tutorial – but, I can see some splotchy bits at the bottom of the image around the water, just FYI!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/freeflyer09/ Rubén Chase

On the final image, I can see a hard edge on the layer mask down there, close of the Heineken logo, and at the left of the “complete your DNA” phrase. Maybe you can fix it in 5 minutes to make it much more realistic.

Great tutorial, I learned a few things!
Mark

Nicely done Aaron! Very good series.
Anders

Wonderful
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Pan_Natan

My beer photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pannatan/7068568535/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/pannatan/6902617598/in/photostream
http://www.arnoldes.com/ Piotrek

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Barış Benice

Hi Aaron, it’s my AXE Dark Temptation work. Hope you’ll like it.
http://500px.com/photo/13668251
Pan_Natan

And the one with a milk

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pannatan/8264162095/in/photostream