Have you’ve already had the idea to make a glass style Photoshop creation? If you’ve ever tried to create a glass texture in Photoshop you will have noticed – just like me! – that adding a glass effect is definitely not a walk in the park. But you can get your transparent jars with glass effect as Photoshop Download right here to make your own glass style creations!
I honestly believe that creating a glass glare effect in Photoshop is one of the hardest things in image editing.
It took me hours over hours to create these glass jars that I used for my Glasshouse I-III photomanipulation series.
After having put in so much work, I decided to make these transparent jars with glass effect available for other artists who also wish to create glass-style pictures in Photoshop!
Transparent Jars With Glass Effect – Photoshop Download
Two High-Resolution PSD Files with altogether 94 individual & fully editable Photoshop Layers.
What you will get when downloading the Transparent Jars With Glass Effect
You will get two high-resolution PSD files with altogether 94 individual layers.
Each file comes along with a whole lot of single layers that you can switch on and off and edit yourself. The jar frames and reflections are all on separate layers so they can be edited as well, changed in shade and opacity etc.
The jar cracks and splashing pieces of glass can be switched on and off so you can use the jar as intact or broken. You can easily add content into the jar as the center is transparent!
Please note: The watermark that you see in the pictures will not be in the PSD files!
The first glass jar file (with a light gray background) consists of:
- 50.6 MB
- Resolution: 3888 x 2988 px
- Five groups (intact jar, broken jar, glass cracks, splashing pieces of glass, glass pieces inside the jar)
- Altogether 72 PSD layers
The second glass jar file (with a dark gray background) consists of:
- 20.4 MB
- Resolution: 2977 x 2705 px
- Two groups (intact jar, broken jar)
- Altogether 22 PSD layers
A few examples of beautiful artworks done with my Transparent Jars With Glass Effect Photoshop Download:
Paris au Nom de Quoi? by Silviya on DeviantArt
Spider Queen by Elchanan on DeviantArt
Arabesque by Endorell-Taelos on DeviantArt
How to add a glass effect in Photoshop
If you’re wondering how to add a glass effect in Photoshop, it’s all very easy with this PSD download. Because there are already shiny, reflective glass effects on the individual PSD layers, you only need to duplicate those layers that include the glass effect.
You can then move the copies around to see where you want to have the additional glass effect in your image.
To not have exactly the same glass reflection, you can flip and rotate the layer, or you can use the transformation tools (warp, distort, skew).
This will not only prevent two glass reflections from looking absolutely the same, but it also allows you to adapt the glass glare effectively to the jar’s imagined form in Photoshop. It will help to make your particular artwork look more real and authentic.
Stone Heart – Cabinet of Curiosities by laeti-k on DeviantArt
How to make glass in photoshop
Want to know how to mask glass in Photoshop? It’s not big deal with these pre-made jars!
Let’s say, you want to use the ‘breaking’ glass jar with the glass spatters splashing away from it for one of your creations. But you don’t want to have all of the glass splatters, just a few.
No problem – even if you’re not so familiar with Photoshop yet!
First of all, not all of the glass splatters are on one and the same layer. That means you can switch off a layer and there will already be fewer splatters.
If you want to reduce the splatters even more, you can do so as follows:
Select one of the layers that includes some of the glass splatters you want to remove. Add a mask to that layer by going to Layer > Layer Mask and choosing Reveal All. This will add a ‘white’ mask to the layer leaving its content visible. Alternatively, you can also click the little Add layer mask icon at the bottom of your layers panel.
With that done, go to the Brush Tool and select a black color.
Adjust the Opacity and Flow settings of the brush according to how many glass splatters and how strongly you want to edit them out.
If you want to remove a lot of the splatters, like completely, choose a brush with high Opacity and Flow. If you just want to make just some tweaks here and there, go for lower Opacity and Flow.
→ How To Change The Opacity Of Part Of An Image In Photoshop
Of course, you can also do the opposite and increase the amount of glass splatters! Just duplicate the splatter layers and tweak them around as you wish. You can scale them up or down, distort, warp and skew them.
Here’s one artist who created a beautiful artwork by increasing the amount of glass splatters and making them smaller.
Glass Curse by FrostAlexis on DeviantArt
Put stuff behind the glass texture in photoshop
Making things appear like they are behind the glass is not a child’s play. Have you ever tried to use a regular JPG stock image of a glass jar and make something look like it is within that jar?
Even when you’re using blending modes, lens flares and other highlights, etc., it’s not exactly easy to achieve a glass effect.
On the contrary, it’s quite hard work and it doesn’t always turn out well.
But the Jar Effect Photoshop Download makes that a piece of cake for you, too!
The ‘intact’ jar comes with altogether 22 individual PSD layers, the ‘breaking’ jar has 72 layers.
These glass PSD layers can be moved around as you wish. That means for you enough options to add new layers in between the existing ones and place your stuff into the jars just the way you want it.
Download the glass effects Photoshop jars
You can download the Glass Jar Photoshop files by simply clicking on the download button below.
Transparent Jars With Glass Effect – Photoshop Download
Two High-Resolution PSD Files with altogether 94 individual & fully editable Photoshop Layers.
You will get the download immediately upon checkout and can start right away creating your own works!
After that, you can always log back in to this site and download the file again. The download will be available to you for 30 days.
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I hope enjoy working with your Transparent Jars with Glass Effect Photoshop Download and I wish you lots of fun making beautiful creations. Don’t forget to tag me on Instagram @ginangiela, or post a link here in the comments. I’d love to see your creations!
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