Create a Realistic Energy Drink Can to Present to Clients – Psd Premium Tutorial
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Create a Realistic Energy Drink Can to Present to Clients – Psd Premium Tutorial

on Jun 10th 2010 with 28 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Estimated Completion Time: 30 - 60 Minutes
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your package design skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more after the jump!

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We have all been there before; how can we make our artwork look great when we are presenting to clients? The single easiest way to show something to a client is to show them in a way that they can understand. This tutorial will show you how to create a realistic energy drink in a way that you can demonstrate to your clients. Lets get started!

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I am from Cincinnati, OH USA and have been a professional Graphic Designer since 2005. With a BFA in Graphic Design, I have worked at one of the world's largest branding firms, in-house at a bicycle company, and now am the design manager for a glove manufacturer. I consider myself a jack-of-all-trades with experience in branding, packaging, product design, photography, motion graphics, and 3D.  

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  • Tim Kyde
    Author

    I hope everyone enjoys this tutorial! Please let me know if you have any ideas for any future tutorials.

    • Lyndon

      One question my friend, did you use photos for the can?

      • Tim Kyde
        Author

        Lyndon,

        Sure did. Essentially, this tutorial demonstrates techniques utilizing channel information (highlights and shadows from an image) to re-create those highlights and shadows that you can then place on top of artwork. With this, you can also perform accurate color changes as well (say for example you want to change the top “lid” to a gold, or the base color to a red). Really, once you understand the techniques used, you can apply these techniques to anything, not just a can.

        At my previous job, we used this technique on all of our presentations to clients. It really is a great way to step-up the level of presentations to clients. Not to mention the endless supply of product photography out there (google) that you can lift highlights and shadows from to apply on your own creations.

        Also, for all the premium subscribers who download this, they will see some great extras that I included as well: The plastic wrap on the top of can (which isn’t shown), and some water drops and condensation that give the can an out of the cooler look.

      • Lyndon

        Hey man, thanks for the thorough explanation of your tut. I think I’m gonna make a plus purchase to check this out :D

        Just gotta schedule a little bit of that free time

      • http://www.behance.net/jotte bdesign

        well, he didnt include the wrapper or drops in the tutorial, however, he does have them in separate folders on the project file… ;)

  • http://twitterunique.com TwitterUniQue

    really Awsome !

    Premium Membership , i will try to register..

  • http://ugleh.com Joseph

    really great tutorial, nice job!

  • http://greatdiane.deviantart.com Diana

    only for PS CS5? :(

    • http://www.childmonster.com/ Childmonster

      I think you can use CS3 and CS4 for this.

      • http://greatdiane.deviantart.com Diana

        Thanks!, I mean I can´t open CS5 files (source) in CS3 version (also CS4) ! : /

    • gaurav

      lol thats not important. But only for premium members? :@

    • Tim Kyde
      Author

      Diana,

      All of the techniques used can be used from Adobe Photoshop 6.0 thru CS5. Some of the dialog boxes may be a little different, but it is essentially the same. Please let me know if you run into any issues due to an older version of Photoshop and I will do my best to help resolve.

      • http://greatdiane.deviantart.com Diana

        Thanks, Tim! I will let you know here.

  • endo

    I Hate the premium Tutorials because they are always good and i cant do them because i don’t have premium.

    • http://greatdiane.deviantart.com Diana

      Wow, but for just $9 you can get A LOT of great stuff, and I think is fair for the quality content that PSDtuts offer to us :)

  • http://www.razerdesign.com Kevin

    Thanks a lot! Great tutorial! Can’t wait to start it!

  • Subrat Devkota

    I am not a member and I am from Nepal and I don’t have credit-card too. Please tell me how can i be member.

  • Niels

    Wow :O
    Looks like a photo, great job. Especially the top part!
    wish I was plus :(

  • http://peewee1002.co.uk Peter Sawyer

    Awesome but didn’t vector tuts+ already do this? I understand its different techniques but result is similar.

  • http://aevion.net AEVION

    Awesome… this looks real!

  • Michael Owens

    Damn – now this looks good!
    I wish I could afford a Premium!!!

  • http://www.newsever.com news in pakistan

    premium membership???

  • http://www.acink.dk Andreas

    now… THAT’S a real PSD tut! love it! :)

    thanks

    More of this standard on psdTuts would be greatly appreciated!:)

  • http://laira.pathseek.info/ Laira

    Awesome tutorial . Great Thanks for the posting

  • http://i3mphotostock.com Claire

    Wow! Fantastic looking artwork….. Premium is calling me :)

  • boxofpaperclips

    WOW that is AWESOME
    thank u SOO much, i’m doing an energy drink poster for my visual graphics class and this is REALLY helpful :D
    although, just looking at it, it’ll probs take me like a 2 weeks to replicate it :)
    so good job!

  • boxofpaperclips

    using my own design of course :)

  • boxofpaperclips

    real quick question then i’ll stop my endless ranting…
    how do you just stick your already made label onto the can?