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Illustrating a Cool Glass of Beer

Aug 21st in Drawing by Eren Goksel

In this tutorial, we're going to draw a beer glass with some beer in it. We'll create the shiny curly glass with reflection, put some beer in it, add some bubbles, and finally we'll make the shadow and the reflections. Meanwhile, I hope you'll have some fun and learn some cool technics too.

Author: Eren Goksel

I'm a lecturer in Anadolu University. Photoshop, Max, and CorelDraw are my favorite tools.

Final Image Preview

Before we get started, let's take a look at the image we'll be creating. Click the screenshot below to view the full-size image. As always, the layered Photoshop file is available via our PSDTUTS Plus membership.

Step 1

Create a New Document 800 pixels wide by 1100 pixels high at a resolution of 300 pixels/inch. Drag a vertical Guide to somewhere near the middle of the document. Get out the Pen Tool (P) and in the Paths mode draw a path, as in the image below. This is going to be one half of our glass.

Go to the Paths Palette. Command-click the "Work Path" thumbnail to turn the path into a selection. Go back to the Layers Palette, create a new layer, and name it "Half." Fill it with the color #ccd9dd. Then hit Command + D to deselect.

Step 2

Duplicate the "Half" layer (Right click on it in the Layers Palette and choose Duplicate Layer). Flip the duplicate horizontally by going to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal. Move the right piece to the right place. Select the "Half" and "Half copy" layers, then Merge them (Command + E.) Name the merged layer "Outer Glass."

Apply a Gradient Overlay Layer Style. Use these settings: Blend Mode set to Overlay, Opacity at 40%, Gradient set at Black to White, Style of Linear, and Angle set to 153.

Step 3

Duplicate the "Outer Glass" layer and name it "Inner Glass." Hit Command + T to enter Free Transform mode. Then set the Horizontal Scale to 95% and the Vertical Scale to 94%. Hit Enter twice to apply the transformations.

Double-click on the Gradient Overlay Layer Style in the layer Palette to change the settings. Set the Blend Mode to Color Burn and Opacity to 65%. Also, change the Angle to 125. Then position the layer, as in the image below.

Step 4

Now Command-click on the "Inner Glass" layer Thumbnail to load the selection. Go to Select > Transform Selection. Rotate the selection 180 degrees, move it up and place it as shown below. Double-click inside the selection to apply the transformations.

Command + Alt + Shift-click the "Inner Glass" layer thumbnail to intersect the selection with the layer. Create a new layer, name it "Opening," and fill the selection with the color #99b2bb. Set Layer Opacity to 20%.

Step 5

Create a new layer and name it "Reflection." Use the Rectangular Marque Tool to make a rectangular selection that is bigger than the glass. Get the Gradient Tool, choose the "Steel Bar" preset, which is in the Metals Set. Then fill the selection with a Linear Gradient from the left edge to the right one. Hit Command + D to deselect. Go to Image > Adjustments > Curves (Command + M.) Then tweak the curve to get something shiny.

Step 6

Set the "Reflection" Layer Opacity to 50%. Go to Edit > Transform > Warp. Then Warp the gradient to fit in the shape of the glass. Make sure that it is slightly bigger than the glass, as in the image below. Hit Enter to Apply the Warp.

Step 7

Command-click the "Outer Glass" layer thumbnail to load the selection. Go to Select > Inverse to inverse the selection and hit Delete. Hit Command + D to deselect. Set the Blending Mode to Screen and Opacity to 70%.

Step 8

With the "Reflection" layer still selected, click the "Add Layer Mask" button, which is located at the bottom of the Layers Palette. This will add a Layer Mask to the layer. Get the Gradient Tool. First choose Foreground to Transparent and Check Reverse. Pick black as foreground color.

Drag and fill the mask with the gradient. Then pick white as the Foreground Color, uncheck Reverse in the Gradient Tool options and fill the bottom part of the mask with white, as in the image below.

Step 9

Get the Pen Tool (P), choose Paths Mode, and draw a path as in the image below. Go to the Paths Palette and Command-click the Work Path thumbnail to turn it into a selection.

Step 10

Go back to the Layers Palette and Command + Alt + Shift-click the "Inner Glass" layer Thumbnail to intersect the selection with the Inner Glass. Create a new layer and name it "Beer." Fill the selection with color #ffb411. Move the "Beer" layer below "Reflection." Deselect by hitting Command + D.

Step 11

Apply a Gradient Overlay Layer Style to the "Beer" layer with these settings: Blend Mode of Color Dodge, Opacity of 30, Style of Radial, Gradient of black to white, Reverse set to checked, Angle of 90, Scale set to 115%. The gradient is centered to the layer. We want the bottom to be brighter, so we should move the gradient down. You can do it by clicking and dragging while the Gradient Overlay dialog box is open.

Step 12

Now apply an Inner Shadow Layer Style to the "Beer" layer with these settings: Blend Mode of Multiply, Color of #ee6611, Opacity set to 60%, Angle of -90, Distance set to 15px, and Size set to 30px.

Step 13

Duplicate the "Beer" layer. Photoshop will name it "Beer copy." Go back to the "Beer" layer and go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal. Go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (Command + U), and use these settings: Hue of +10, Saturation of 0, and Lightness of +25.

Step 14

Create a new layer below the "Reflection" and name it "Refraction." Make a circular selection using the Elliptical Marque Tool. Pick #fff200 as the Foreground color and #f7941d as the Background color. Get the Gradient Tool, open up the Gradient Picker, and pick Foreground to Background. Also, choose a Radial Gradient. Fill the selection beginning from the center moving toward the outer edge.

Go to Edit > Free Transform (Command + T), and scale it down while holding down the Alt key, as in the image below. Hit Enter to apply. While the selection is still active, go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Set the Radius to 3 and apply it. Now you can Deselect (Command + D).

Now go to Kitchen > Kettle > Have Some Coffee... :) This is a good point to take a break. Be sure to save your document first though.

Step 15

Now we're going to make the bubbles. We'll draw just one bubble. Instead of making copies of it, we'll define it as a brush preset, and populate it using the Brush Tool. Let's create a New Document with a width of 300px, Height of 300 px, Resolution set to 300 pixels/inch, and a Background of white.

Make a circular selection using Elliptical Marque Tool. Create a new layer and name it "Bubble." Fill the selection with white. We'll apply two layer styles to give it a bubble-like look. First apply a Gradient Overlay and use these settings: Blend Mode of Normal, Opacity of 100%, Gradient of Black to White, Style of Radial, Reverse set to checked, and Scale set to 150%. Move the center of the gradient to left and up as you can see in the below image. Then apply an Inner Glow and use these settings: Blend Mode of Screen, Opacity of 100%, Color of white, Size set to 30px.

Step 16

On the Layer Palette, Right-click on the Effects of the "Bubble" layer and choose Create Layers. This will turn the Layer Styles to Layers. Then select "Bubble" layer and two effect layers and go to Layer > Merge Layers (Command + E).

Step 17

Go to Image > Adjustments > Curves (Command + M). You can see the Curves settings in the image below. Go to Image > Adjustments > Invert (Command + I). Now we're going to define this as a Brush Preset. With the selection still active, go to Edit > Define Brush Preset. Name the preset "Bubble Brush."

Step 18

We're ready to brush our bubbles now. Pick the Brush Tool and go back to the beer glass document. Open the Brush Preset picker and pick the brush you've just defined. Open the Brushes Palette, see the image below for the changes to the settings.

Step 19

Create a new layer below the "Reflection" and name it "Bubbles." Open the Brush Preset picker and set the Master Diameter to 8 px. Get white as your Foreground Color and beginning from the bottom, paint the columns of bubbles. The black areas of the brush will be filled with the foreground color, that's why we have inverted the bubble before defining it as a brush preset.

Step 20

We're going to merge the layers, so it's a good time to make some final touches. You can experiment with applying Levels adjustments to the "Reflection" layer to have some variations for the reflection.

Step 21

Select all the layers except the "Background" layer and go to Layer > Merge Layers (Command + E). Name the merged layer "Glass." Duplicate the "Glass" layer and name it "Reflection." Move the "Reflection" layer under the "Glass." Go to Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical in order to mirror the image vertically. Move the reflection down and place it as shown in the following image.

Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Set Radius to 12 and apply. Click the Add Layer Mask button located at the bottom of the Layer Palette. Pick the Gradient Tool and fill the mask with a gradient, as in the image below. The mask will make the reflection gradually vanish.

Step 22

Create a new layer above the "Reflection" layer, and name it "Shadow." Make an elliptical selection using the Elliptical Marque Tool. We're going to fill the selection with a Radial Gradient. Get the Gradient Tool, and pick #fcdc3f as the Foreground color and #adc2c8 as Background color. Fill the selection from the center to the edge with a Foreground to Background gradient.

Go to Select > Deselect (Command + D). Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, set Radius to 14, and apply. You can also bring the Lightness of the shadow a little bit down by going to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation.

Final Image

I finally filled the "Background" layer with a radial gradient from white to pale blue. And that was the final step for that tutorial. You can view the final image below or the larger final image here. Cheers!


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  1. greven August 21st

    Wicked. :) Great Tut. Thanks.


  2. Roland August 21st

    Very nice tutorial. Some nice effects.


  3. andré August 21st

    haha wicked!!


  4. jorisshh August 21st

    Realy nice done :D how can you think up so much things ^^ your a genius


  5. Dboe August 21st

    Nice Curves 8-)


  6. Tom August 21st

    One of the best tutorials I saw on here


  7. JJ August 21st

    amazing, will be using these techniques soon :)


  8. Geoff August 21st

    Needs a little foam to help make it look like beer and not fizzy orange juice. Time for a beer! Cheers.


  9. NaldzGraphics August 21st

    freaking awesome.thanks for this tuts.cheers!!!


  10. Philo August 21st

    Great Tutorial! Nice Result!


  11. Clemson Donnatucci August 21st

    Nice one. Now, I’m all thirsty.


  12. Gary Spedding August 21st

    As a tester of beer I agree a little foam would be good - especially as this is a lager or clear wheat beer style. But I have to say thanks for this tut which has whet my appetite in more ways than one. I will be trying this one soon.

    But first we will be having a sensory session and tasting some of the real thing later today.


  13. Daniel August 21st

    very cool tutorial and very nice technique! thanks a lot. Very useful!


  14. caesar August 21st

    Thankx !!! Great site, great tut !!! Thankx !!!


  15. Dan August 21st

    Some useful stuff there


  16. loswl August 21st

    Great tutorial and the final product is outstanding!!…I love how you applied the reflections on the glass :o)


  17. Collin Brady August 21st

    Great tutorial. I didn’t know about the Ctrl+Alt+Shift to cut the selections. Great techniques!


  18. Yusuf August 21st

    OH my GOD i gotta go try this asap, this one will make a nice mini donate/buy me a drink icon for my blogs paypal donate link, one word to you eren, cheers!


  19. wildwise August 21st

    very stylish


  20. elias August 21st

    very nice, very clean design. thanks!


  21. VertigoSFX August 21st

    Wow the reflections look so believable and it’s such a simple method of doing it! Love it :)


  22. Chris Roche August 21st

    love it im going to try this when i get a chance. thanks


  23. Manuel August 21st

    Yeah, looks nice!
    But I agree Geoff… Without foam it looks more like lemonade.


  24. Shane August 21st

    nice work - and curiously, I’m having a beer right now ;)

    thanks


  25. Martin August 21st

    Can’t wait to get my hands on this piece!


  26. Josh August 21st

    Great tutorial. I think adding foam would have finished this tutorial off quite nicely!


  27. MONSTER August 21st

    looks great


  28. William Ahouma August 21st

    I just can’t believed how skillful you are
    Thanx Eren, I’ll try this one tonight!


  29. Moksha August 21st

    really great


  30. jopicar August 21st

    Nice tut, as always :)
    Thx
    Kindest regards


  31. Danilo August 21st

    Just when i was looking for a way to make foam in PS but you didn’t add it :(

    Anyway great Tut.


  32. VMC August 21st

    Hey, thanks for the very helpful tutorial! I followed it step by step and learned a lot on the way. I love dabbling in PS, but I don’t know how to use the good stuff and this definitely helped.


  33. Coinmaster August 21st

    Great tut, will try . . . bring on the foam :)

    Thanks Eren.


  34. Mark Abucayon August 21st

    that is awesome. I will love to try it thank you for sharing.


  35. m August 21st

    awesome!!
    Thank You for this :D


  36. Delltar August 21st

    Nice tut yeah! (But that liquid looks more like some lemonade, not beer)


  37. stephen velasco August 21st

    nice really nice! im verry new to photoshop. ijust would like to knoe he very basics. you know, like editing a picture/portrait. removing blemishes,pimples, smoothening the skin, whitenning the complextion etc things like that thanks.


  38. Nate August 21st

    Awesome looking tutorial. Great job.


  39. Jonathan Solichin August 21st

    Awesome job! I love how you use the level. I never saw that before. Very interesting and useful. Thumbs up.


  40. Max | Design Shard August 21st

    Very nice glass effect, ill have to try this one, Great


  41. Cameron August 21st

    I like the glass on here but i like the beer on this tutorial more:

    http://kaoz-tutorials.com/ours/beer/


  42. Dan August 21st

    Very nice tutorial. Highly instructive for us photoshop intermediates. Thanks


  43. Serpentarius August 21st

    Very informative… you should add some water bubbles on the outside of the glass to make it look cooler


  44. Steve August 21st

    cool stuff. i just ran through it. this is when having dual monitors comes in handy ;)

    could use some foam, but still furned out great. thanks for helping me learn more about the warp tool, levels, and curves.


  45. insic August 21st

    it doesnt look like a beer to me. coz the glass is too sexy for a beer. very nice tutorial indeed.


  46. mohd kashif August 21st

    good :)


  47. JC August 21st

    This is sick…


  48. crazyhunk August 21st

    awesome tut….

    thanx a lot..


  49. styxz designsq August 21st

    Looks nice!


  50. welkm August 21st

    Very nice , i’ll probably try to add some foam.

    Thanks a lot.

    blog.welkm.fr


  51. cpg August 21st

    The technique is great but it looks like orange juice… with bubbles!!
    Thanks anyway…


  52. Shafeek August 21st

    when i see the result, i got hiccup, its awesome -


  53. jonski August 21st

    excellent tut….i learn a few technique…though my work doesnt really turn that way….thanks!


  54. Zeb August 21st

    Nice 3D effect !


  55. Good-Walls August 21st

    Great tut, easy explain


  56. Gary Spedding August 21st

    insic,

    Aha - depends on the style of beer. Many Belgian beers come in really “sexy” glasses and this beer glass is more for a wheat beer. With over 90 recognized styles of beer its not just for men (or macho women) anymore. So you can have a sexy beer in a sexy glass!

    Enjoy!


  57. Amit August 21st

    very very nice tutorial……………

    i have to try this one!!


  58. zaman August 21st

    nice and smart work!


  59. JiRo August 21st

    fantastic. nuff said. =D


  60. theq August 21st

    needs some foam per sure.


  61. Nemesis Design August 22nd

    I tryed it, but not very easy for a photoshop beginner


  62. Soelberg August 22nd

    so fucking awesome!!! I really love all those awesome effects you have showing us, I’ll try this one as soon as possible :) Thanks alot


  63. ougur August 22nd

    very beautifull example, i tested immediately. :)


  64. Tom August 22nd

    yay a non plus tut

    love it thx ;)


  65. Chris Robinson August 22nd

    really nice! great tut! as “theq” said it definitely needs some head on it


  66. Michelle August 22nd

    Great tutorial, I´ve linked it on my site, that is about photoshop fundamental.


  67. ricardo penachi de camargo August 22nd

    Great! Thanks for You!Linked Forever!


  68. paris vega August 22nd

    nice.


  69. Braden Keith August 22nd

    Clean, nice glare on the glass


  70. Qbrushes August 22nd

    Very impressive stuff right there, Thanks!


  71. Navdeep Singh (Zanetine) August 22nd

    Hmmmmmm…….. Cool ;)


  72. Ela August 22nd

    Nice work keep it up!………………….


  73. Daniel August 22nd

    Awesome tutorial ;-)

    Great effect and learned some new techniques…

    More from this stuff!

    Daniel


  74. AliasArt August 22nd

    This is really great, but I’m too stupid to work it out that it looks good…need more practise.


  75. koen buysse August 23rd

    cool idea, don’t really like the way the “glass” looks…but, it shows some great techniques and ceativity (especialy the brush! )


  76. NextMemory August 23rd

    Wow great tutorial, I have to agree with the others about foam but still, I learned some great techniques which I’ll be sure to carry on with myself.


  77. Michael Konjevic August 23rd

    Nice, but there is something missing: the white horse!


  78. Hani August 23rd

    Superb Effort


  79. ahmed August 24th

    nice tutorial,i tryed it i couid not get the same effect,but i am very near to it.i hope i can do better by the help of your tutorial.


  80. Lawrence August 24th

    speechless :)
    Wonderful tut…..


  81. Lawrence August 24th

    who accomplished you Eren Göksel….?
    Anyway great and Neat work…


  82. Joefrey Mahusay August 24th

    I really like this tut. Great work!


  83. Lene August 25th

    Thank you for a great tutorial. The final result is stunning.


  84. miouh August 25th

    cool

    http://lookpsd.wordpress.com/


  85. Nishant August 25th

    end result is so cool…


  86. Huerto August 26th

    awesome tut, u’re good at drawin yeah, I learned handysmarty tricks of drawin today from u, so thnx alot :D


  87. Ibon August 26th

    great tutorial !


  88. Grafiko August 26th

    nice tutorial, but needs more foam at the top to look like beer


  89. Martin August 26th

    Finally got around to it.

    Nice tutorial, easy to follow and alot of opportunities regarding customisation of the reflections.

    Thumbs up!


  90. Htoo Tay Zar August 26th

    Amazing technique!! But It’s look like orange juice more than beer. =D Anyway, I love this tut.


  91. Dobra August 26th

    Really great tut, ty^^
    The drink dont look like beer and the top of the glass seems to be closed, but great tut anyway.


  92. dr.emi August 27th

    excelent !!! very very impressive… I will try to create it !


  93. aMINE August 27th

    Cooooooool..


  94. ibesoringola August 27th

    Great job bro!


  95. Abhijit .S.Chandsarkar August 27th

    Really a very creative tutorial


  96. Madara August 28th

    How about part 2 showing how to add foam to the top and also show the foam dripping down the side like they do at the bar? Thanks! Great TUT


  97. Sérgio August 28th

    Yep only the foam is missing here, but still great tut


  98. Richard Acquaye August 28th

    This is one of the best tutorials i’ve done! Instead of beer i made a smoothie one :)


  99. Eren Göksel August 30th

    many thanks for your comments. And yes you’re right i should have put some foam on it. I will, as soon as i can find a way to make a pretty good one.


  100. Hussein August 30th

    one of the foolest tutorials i have ever seen !!


  101. Lisa September 1st

    I consider myself a beginner/intermediate user. I worked through this in about an hour…very easy to follow. I plan to have my yearbook class try this to learn photoshop techniques.


  102. Ben September 3rd

    Hello there,

    I dont seem to have that warp tool in my edit— free transform– thingy. Is this a standard thing. Any advice please? mail_fault@yahoo.co.uk
    Excellent tutorial though

    Cheers

    Ben


  103. Katie September 25th

    This is actually helpful for me. At school I help out at a web company and I have to make t shirts for us for unofficial (a pre-saint patrick’s day). I want to make a really cool shirt with glasses of beer or it but all of the glasses I have been finding online I don’t like. This is perfect. And if I need to change it up a little I can too! I love it! It’s fun!
    Thanks :)
    Katie


  104. Otaku-mad October 25th

    Waouh, very nice, thanks for this tutoriel :)


  105. Rory October 28th

    Been looking for a good glass(non window glass) tutorial. Thanks.


  106. sentenza October 31st

    Very nice, thanks !!


  107. Heather November 28th

    I got nowhere with this. For some reason, the duplicate layer did not work.


  108. monxx December 16th

    great tutes


  109. D December 17th

    Kool never knew you can do that with photoshop
    one problem all the shortcuts are for mac and i get stuck on the first one i cant get the work path to be selected.

    or maybe i dont know its selected

    well will try this again

    Well do visit my link you might get paid


  110. Michelle December 31st

    Wow looks great, but when I try it it looks demented and all choppy! Urgh.


  111. VietCung January 3rd

    Oh, Nice tuts, thanks!


  112. Jithin January 9th

    wow ….
    nice tutorial …
    really useful


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