Creating a Photorealistic Glass Effect in Software

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Beerpng; it s a domestic beer, but you ll import it anyway Click Import and then with the loaded cursor, click-diagonal drag until the bottle is placed in the image as shown here

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describes the top part of the glass, from the fill line to the bottle s lip, staying slightly inside the edge of the beer bottle so the edge is not part of the trimming operation you ll perform in a moment You should fill the shape after creating it to better see what you re doing in the following steps any color is fine

Shaping docker Choose Intersect from the selector drop-down list, and then check Leave Original Target Object(s) Click the Intersect With button, and then click on the bottle The shape is deleted because it s the Source Object, and you didn t choose to leave it Apparently the bottle has not changed, but there is a perfect cutout duplicate of the top of the bottle resting on top of an unchanged bottle; you re halfway there you need to trim away part of the bottle using the new intersect shape now

(don t worry; it s hard to see that it s a separate object) Choose Trim from the Shaping docker s drop-down list, check Leave Original Source Object(s), and uncheck Leave Original Target Object(s) Click the Trim button and then click on the bottle, and the

beer bottle is now actually two separate pieces See the following illustration for the docker settings for steps 3 and 4 Now it s on to transparency

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Effects group of tools on the Toolbox Choose Uniform from the selector drop-down on the Property Bar, and then drag the Opacity slider on the Property Bar to about 31 percent As you can see here, your editing work resulted in quite a convincing illustration You can see the stripes in the background peeking through semitransparent glass; the stripes are even tinted a little from the green of the object on top of it

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piece, choose the Drop Shadow Tool On the Property Bar, choose Pers Top Right from the Presets selector drop-down list

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shadow ends closer to the bottle Then, because the bottle should be casting a deep green (not black) shadow, drag a deep green from the Color Palette, and drop it on the end marker, as shown here Kentucky Green works in this example

shadow there s a hole in the shadow where there should be a lighter green, because a shadow cast by green glass through beer would be a little darker than a shadow cast through green glass alone No problem; you draw a fill shape for the missing part of the shadow as shown here, fill the shape with green, and then give it about 50 percent Uniform Transparency

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In addition to using semitransparency, you ll often have the need to fade an object s opacity across an area; the following tutorial shows a fanciful example of a ghost rock guitarist who should fade from 100 percent transparency up to his native semitransparency at the top of the compositing Download Phantom of the Rock Operapng and Festival seatingpng What you will learn by doing is how to use the Interactive Transparency Tool s style and merge mode to apply a fancy effect to an image that already natively has regions of transparency, opacity, and semitransparency The ghost was created in a modeling application using a special material that created varying levels of opacity, and you ll riff on this property by following these steps