››DOWN AND DIRTY TRICKS› ›kelbyone.com039Step Eight: Go back to your log file, hide the S shaped log layer,
click on one of the copied layers below it, and click where its Eye
icon used to be to make it visible again. Repeat the Puppet Warp
process for this log, but this time you only need to bend it slightly
since it’s going behind the bottom of the bottle and then out of
the frame. After practicing on the S shape, this should be a snap.
Step Nine: Now you could create a third section of vine for the
top section by warping the third layer so that you have three
unique vines, but a shortcut is to use the same vine you created
in the previous step for the top and the bottom. Bring them over
to your bottle image and use Free Transform to reshape, resize,
and rotate them, as necessary. Once they’re in place, mask them
so they appear to be coming from behind the bottle.
Step Ten: To give more life to the vines, you may want to add a
little greenery. This could be a patch of moss, flowers, or in this
example, some little sprigs of a plant. Place one section so that it
looks like it’s coming out of the vine and then make a copy and
move it to another location. Transform the copy so that the two
sprigs don’t look identical, and use layer masks to hide any parts
that should be behind the bottle or vine.
Step Eleven: Once those pieces are in place, what’s really going
to help sell the composite is to make sure you have proper shad-
owing. You’ll want to add shadowing where the bottle and the
vine interact, along with dodging and burning any vine areas
that may be too dark or light, respectively, for the environment.
This is the art of compositing, a skill that has to be learned and
practiced. If you want to get better at compositing, you’ll need to
learn where to put shadows and highlights, and then the Dodge
and Burn tools (O) will become your friends. Don’t forget to add
shadows where the vine would be behind the bottle, especially
at the top of the neck. Notice that we also darkened the bottom
of the bottle to give the appearance that you can vaguely see the
vine through the liquid. Step Ten
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