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Step 9: Decorative Cup Ring Create a new layer called Cup Ring. Select the paths tool. Create a five pixel selection five pixels below the rim. Create selection from path. Fill with black. Deselect all. Guassian blur 1. Lower the opacity to 60. Duplicate the layer, and raise it's opacity to 70. Invert the colors. Add a layer mask to the white layer. Use the gradient tool to create the shine/shadow effect that you've been doing all throughout. If you added color to the saucer ring, you will be using the same method here. Create a new layer, and fill it with the color. Set the mode to Color. Lower the opacity to about 50. Alpha to selection on the dark cup ring layer. Invert. Cut from the color layer. Yet again, if you see a little line around the ring, alpha to selection on the dark layer, and toggle on quick mask. Guassian blur 1. Toggle off. Invert. Cut. |
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Step 10: Back Rim (and Shadows) Create a new layer called Cup Rim. Put it just below the Cup layer. Use the paths tool to create a selection that goes from each top edge of the cup, curves up slightly, and goes fairly far down behind the cup (without coming close to sticking out). Create two new layers called Cup Rim Shadow 1 and Cup Rim Shadow 2. With one of them selected, alpha to selection on Cup Rim. Toggle on quick mask. Guassian blur 3. Toggle off quick mask. Invert selection. Fill with black. Alpha to selection on the Cup Rim layer. Invert. Cut from the Cup Rim Shadow layer you're working with. Lower the opacity to about 10. Select the unused shadow layer. Alpha to selection on the Cup Rim layer. Fill with black. Set the opacity to 12. Add a layer mask. Use the gradient tool as you have been taught in the tutorial to add shadows and highlights (though you may do it slightly opposite this time because it's on the inside of the cup). |
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Step 11: Steam Create a new layer behind the Cup layer and in front of the Cup Rim layer. Name it Steam. Paint with white from below the rim of the cup to about the cup's height above it. (This might also be a beginning step to making whipped cream, but I won't go into those details because I've never tried it.) Guassian blur 50. Lower the opacity to about 40 so you can see what you're doing. Duplicate the layer twice or so. Take the eraser tool and a fairly large round brush, and start erasing in random spots on one layer. Guassian blur 15-20. Repeat on another of the duplicated layers. Leave the last one as it is. Lower the opacities of the layers to about 25. This step isn't necessary, but sometimes it helps to get it to fade easier. Add a layer mask to each layer. Use the gradient (with black as your foreground color and white as your background color) starting above the steam and going down to just above the cup's rim. Copy and paste this into the other steam layers' masks. |
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