How To Make A Glass Top For A Table

Today I am going to show you how to make a glass table top in photoshop.
Now there are more advanced ways to do this but for now lets just go with this way. Still it does look pretty cool and is sure to impress people when you make it!!!





First you want to open a new document that is WIDTH-700PX and HEIGHT-600PX. The reason we made our width one hundred pixels larger than our height is because we are going to make an oval table top. Making our workspace this size will give us more working room. Click OK



Mext we are going to make an oval using the ELLIPTICAL MARQUEE tool (if you don't know where the elliptical marquee tool is or don't remember check out my Super Simple Photoshop Puppy tutorial.)






Now there are a couple of ways you can fill this oval in, but for the sake of learning I am going to show you only one way for now. First you are going to command click (CTRL click on a PC) while you are in the MARQUEE tool and select fill.






Then once the window pops up you are going to click on the little dropdown box underneath the CONTENTS box and use COLOR.





Now ANOTHER window will pop up. at the bottom of that window you should see a little box with a bunch of numbers and letters (see the red highlighted text in my photo?) In the box you are going to type 94ddff and click OK on both windows.




So far you should have something like this. Doesn't look like much now does it? But trust me it will get better!!




Now if you look to the left in your little tool bar there should be a tool that looks like a black lollipop on a stick. Click on that. This is called the DODGE tool. The main function of the dodge tool is to accentuate the natural highlights that already exists within colors.




Once you have your dodge tool selected you are going to set your brush size at 60PX



Now here comes the fun part! Take your dodge tool and just hit that oval you created a couple of times going on a diagonal. If you need to look at the picture to see what I mean. See looking cool huh?



Next you are going to go over to the same place you found your dodge tool click and hold and OMG THERE ARE ENTIRELY NEW TOOLS!!!! Select the burn tool (the one that looks like a hand) Now the burn tool is just like the dodge tool only it does the exact opposite. Instead of accentuating the natural highlights in a color it accentuates the natural shadows. But.....wait....didn't we just make the table LIGHTER why would we want to make it dark again? Well patience young grasshoppa enlightenment will soon come.



So now that we have selected our burn tool we are going to give it a brush size of 40PX. Then we are going to brush IN BETWEEN the white highlights we already have. See what I did? Now our glass table has streaks in it.....not those kinds of streaks.....sicko.



So now it is time to enter the final stages of making our table. First we have to duplicate our original table. Just go up to LAYER>DUPLICATE LAYER and click OK. now we have two layers.

TIP!!!! If you can't see your second layer it is because you have to move it away from the original layer by using your arrow.



Now that we have our second layer we are going drag it BEHIND our original layer. To do this go over to the layers palette (that little box to the right that has the pictures of all your layers.) Click and hold on the layer on top and drag it behind the layer underneath it.



So now we have to make our bottom layer darker than our top layer. To do this go up to IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS>HUE/SATURATION



Once you have clicked on HUE/SATURATION a window will pop up. You want to leave the HUE alone but type -4 in SATURATION and -24 in LIGHTNESS click okay.



Now click on the second oval and drag it up right underneath the first one.

TIP!!!! Anytime you want to move an object that is on your workspace you have to make sure you have your move tool selected. The easiest way to do this is just to press the letter "V" on your keyboard.

And there you have it!!! You have just created a glass table top!


Below is an example of how you could use this exact table top!!




Enjoy your New Found table making skillz! And remember to always PHREAK-OUT!!!!