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So far so good but our milk is a little transparent and I haven't seen milk look like that before so what we're gonna do is we're gonna turn back on our original milk layer and look at that. All of a sudden we have something that looks a little bit more solid. But now let's drop the opacity down on this layer and don't forget in case you don't remember what we are doing here, this is our rasterized type layer. We are going to drop the opacity down to about 80 something percent just so we can see through both of them and I'm gonna drop it down even more, even though milk really isn't transparent it's nice to have just a little indication that we have some kind of liquid there. Now I'm gonna show you something else that's really cool and we're on the layer here that has our effects on it. And what we can do is take advantage of that because since the effect is already applied on that layer we can paint other things with that same affect right on that layer. I'm going to deselect this first of all and see what we have and make sure it looks good and I think it looks pretty fine so far but we are gonna but a little tiny bit of a blur on there and we can even add another shadow if we so desire. As a matter fact I think I'll do that now, I'm gonna just grab this milk layer and I'm gonna drag it to the new layer icon and I'm gonna call it milk shadow. I'm gonna make extremely light shadow. If it doesn't work fine we turned it off so I'm gonna put this underneath the milk and since this layer is already selected let's hide everything else and show you what I'm doing here. I'm gonna put this back to a hundred percent for now and I'm gonna click this button to lock the pixels. This way what we can do is grab our uh eye dropper tool and select a shadow area and we can fill this entire layer and only affect the pixels because we locked the transparent areas of this layer. So I'm gonna fill that in and what I'm gonna do at this point is unlock those uh pixels, drop the opacity down again just so I can see it and I'm gonna go to filter, blur, you guessed it, the world famous Gaussian blur. It's probably the most used and hardest working blur ever made and I'm gonna turn the other layer back on and I'm gonna grab my shadow and I'm gonna move it down a little bit and see whether or not it works or not. It may not work as I said before if it doesn't fine, let's show everything. And let's see I don't know the milk is it's, the shadows showing through too much we could of course add a layer mask and paint everything away. So I'm just gonna turn that off for now and just stick with what we have. What we can do alternatively if we wanted to is we can create a brand new layer and paint a shadow manually and just follow the selections or rather the areas that we want and that affect the layer affect that we have on one of these guys here. So I'm gonna just hide that, throw it in the garbage, we don't really need that so once again we can have the shadow, we can turn it off or we can change the color in there to something a little lighter. So we can play around with that later on if you want to. Now I'm gonna go back to the effect layer and on the effect layer I'm gonna grab a light color, so I'm gonna press D on the keyboard, hit X so I can paint with white and now I'm gonna grab my brush. And what I can do is continue to paint with that effect already applied and I can add some splotches of milk. Like so and just vary the size of the brush if need to be. So I'll make the brush a little smaller and I'll draw a nice big splotch like this and just fill it in like this. And just add a couple more drops of milk like this and maybe even add some on the rim of the bowl like that. That doesn't look too good so let's undo that and maybe one about, let's see, let's try a dropper right about there. That looks better and one there and a little drop there and there you have it, we have our milk effect. What we can do at this point is add a little tiny bit of a blur on this effect just to get rid of some of those edges if we want to so we can go to blur, Gaussian blur and put a tiny, tiny amount of blur on there, just to give it a softer effect. We don't want to make it look like cotton, but just a little bit softer then it looked before and now we have a nice milky effect that'll make a cool ad. Hope you enjoyed this project, experiment with it on your own, try making water, try making other liquids, try even making things like diamonds and that kind of stuff using the same effect. Don't forget turn off the fill to turn off the pixels and retain the special effects that you apply with the layers styles.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 33782
ISBN: 1-933736-98-4
Release Date: 2007-08-02
Duration: 9 hrs / 161 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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