Anyone know to wrap a label around a beer bottle using photoshop?

**SpoDaddy** · 30 Sep 2009, 05:36 AM

I've been trying to figure this out for days on CS2. Finally I gave up and installed CS4, which appears to have the transform tools I think I need but I still can't get the .psd of my label onto the .jpg of the bottle. Any tips?

**Josh** · 30 Sep 2009, 12:12 PM

Put the label on a different layer and then press "command T" and move it until it's right

**Doc Holliday** · 30 Sep 2009, 12:13 PM

command T only works for SOL.

**Drewbacca** · 30 Sep 2009, 12:17 PM

It's hard to explain because there's some skill involved with it.

I would suggest making your label artwork over the bottle photo layer on a new layer like Josh suggested (make the label artwork in a different .PSD entirely and bring it in flattened on one layer). Trace the bottle shape with the pen tool and create a layer mask using the shape on your bottle label layer. Then bend and use the transform tool to tweak it as much as you can. This is where the skill part comes in, I guess.

That's how I usually do it. Also try to incorporate the shadow and highlights on the bottle in to the label a little bit. It should be a different level of diffuse and shading on it because labels do that stuff different than a reflective bottle. If you have the label looking OK, but want to keep on tweaking to make it better make sure to duplicate the layer and turn one of them off. And then keep on tweaking on the new layer. That way if you fuck up you can fall back on where you were without having to go through the History palette. If you rely on the history palette sometimes you get fucked.

Having a pretty straight on bottle shot might help, too. The more angular things get the harder it will be without knowing how the tools behave.

**cka** · 30 Sep 2009, 03:57 PM

http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/3dtransform/3dtransform.htm

this?

**YellerDog** · 30 Sep 2009, 04:49 PM

Why metal bottles?

**SpoDaddy** · 30 Sep 2009, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by YellerDog

Why metal bottles?

I have to market a new brand of light beer for a class and I went with aluminum bottles because they're easier/more profitable to recycle and they keep beer cold almost an hour longer than glass bottles.