Photoshop Tutorial - Logo On Silk

This Tutorial is about a question asked Caractacus. combining-a-logo-pic-with-a-folded-material-pic-vt9546.html

I've worked this piece out in less than half an hour. So it aint such a complicated job. There are just a few points to keep in mind, to get a satisfying result.

First of all, you have to find your Logo and a piece of silk. I just took the first result of google / Images 'silk', and it looks pretty well, high enough res.
For the logo, I just took the Coca Cola logo... I Guess I ran out of Imagination ^^




Next step: Overlaying both images, setting the logo to a certain opacity (50 - 60 %) to have the silk underneath still visible.





When the logo is on the chosen location, you could first wrap it a bit, to lose the flat character of the logo. On the silk there was one very sharp ripple. So I just cutted the image in two parts, and shifted it along that ripple to create a first impression of depth.





Then I started the Liquify procedure. First of all, you should have 'show backdrop' enabled (right down-corner) and you should only select the background layer. Now you can start smudge the image, along the ripples with the tools given on the left hand side. See the help directory to get smarter about the liquify menu. ^^



Its just a matter of having the touch to feel how the logo would blend along the silk. It might help if you enable the grid in the liquify menu. Try ând do it over if it aint the result you wanted. I liquified my image in certain steps. First a rather big smudge brush to create a rough wave in the logo. Followed by smaller and smaller smudge brushes to get the tiny ripples in the logo. My result after liquifying is the folowing:



Then I made the rest of the logo background red, to be prepared for the folowing step: arange the overlay of the logo on the silk.



I aplied some additional shaddows and highlights:





After that, I fixed some small errors. I used smudge stick and brushes to gain utmost detail at the crucial ripples.



I gave it al a litle rotation to come to a more natural feeling. Finaly I added a light and played with brightness / contrast / overlay photofilter / curves to have this as end result:




Any Questions, comments... Please Shoot... ^^
* Impulsive (Jonas) ^^

Very nice tutorial, very original! Thanks for sharing I'm sure this will come in useful at some point!

Cool tutorial, there are perhaps a few beauty spots on the finished project, but overall a nice end-result, plus it's easy to follow
Good work.

I know my work here is done a bit rough. But keep in mind I did the job in less than half an hour, to have a quick tutorial for Caractacus ^^

I also worked in a 1024 x 768 resolution while I used to work 4 - 5x bigger. When I then crop my image to wallpaper size, my errors wont be visible anymore ...

Imp.