A few days ago, I have published “watercolor painting effect tutorial“. Hope you will have liked this useful tutorials. So today, I have selected a very simple and easy professional topic to make the glass in Photoshop CS5. This tutorial involves very simple techniques so that beginners may also enjoy this fantastic and informative Photoshop tutorial. Let’s start out impressive but very simple glass tutorial.
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Tutorial details:
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 15 Mins
Learn How to Create a Glass in Photoshop CS5: Final Preview

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Lets start to create our glass tutorial in Photoshop.
Step 1
First of all insert your picture in Photoshop as like in preview below:


Step 2
Select Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) and select any part of the image as like in preview.


Step 3
Press (Ctrl+J) to create a copy of selected area so that we will apply glass effect on a new layer.
Go to Filter > Distort > Glass.


Note: You can make glass with other option. Go to Filter > Artistic > Rough Pastels.
After applying these settings we have cool effect. You can see in preview below:


Step 4
In this final step we applying the stroke for showing the glass outline.


Final Preview:



OK, we have successfully create a realistic glass in Photoshop. I hope you will like this tutorial. If you have any question about this tutorial then feel free to share your question with us via comments.