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using a generic bottle and a wooden log from Adobe Stock.
When you’re looking for an image to use for the vines, you may
want to choose a log with nice bark texture; this will add charac-
ter to the vines and emphasize their curves. Try different images
to see what kind of results you get and experiment to see if you
like the vines fat or skinny.
[KelbyOne members may download the files used in this
tutorial at http://kelbyone.com/magazine. All files are for personal
use only.]
Step Two: You’ll need to remove the log from the white back-
ground. The Quick Selection tool (W) can make this quite easy,
and depending on how precise you want to be, you can go the
extra step and use Refine Edge to make sure everything is perfect.
Step Three: Once you have the selection made with the march-
ing ants dancing around the edge of the log, press Command-J
(PC: Ctrl-J) three times to copy the selection onto three new
layers. In the Layers panel, click the Eye icons next to the Back-
ground layer and the two lower copied layers so that you’re only
working with the top log layer. We’ll use the other layers later.
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