Textured Bottles Photoshop walkthrough

by Ben Weeks 22 February 2011

Hopefully you'll have already read the Simple Glass Still Life post on the blog. If you haven't, you might want to, or this one will make very little sense. Following that post there were several requests for a more detailed step-by-step description of the Photoshop process used to create the digitally manipulated images, so that's what this is. Don't say we never listen!

Details of how the original image was created are in the initial blog post so won't be repeated here. Also bear in mind that this walkthrough describes how I created the final image - you may choose to vary elements of the process to better suit your own image and tastes. All digital manipulation was carried out using Adobe Photoshop Elements. Click on any of the images/screenshots in this walkthrough for a larger view.

Original image

Bottles

 

Step 1

1. Open image in Photoshop.

 

Step 2

Duplicate background (Ctrl+J).

 

Step 3

3. Click on Filter, Texture, Grain...

 

Step 4

4. Select 'Horizontal' Grain Type.

 

Step 5

5. Adjust Intensity and Contrast sliders and click Ok.

 

Step 6

6. Image in Photoshop looks like this.

 

Step 7

7. Again click on Filter, Texture, Grain...

 

Step 8

8. Select 'Vertical' Grain Type.

 

Step 9

9. Adjust Intensity and Contrast sliders and click Ok.

 

Step 10

10. Image in Photoshop looks like this.

 

Step 11

Change layer blending mode to Soft Light (or press Shift and + or - keys to cycle through modes)

 

Step 12

 

Step 13

Merge layer and background (Ctrl+E) and save image (Ctrl+S)

 

Final image

Textured bottles