Vector Coffee Cup
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create a vector coffee cup in Photoshop by using Vector Masks. You will need a working knowledge of the pen and gradient tools for this tutorial. Vector masks allow us to create a series of shapes on unique layers that can be re-sized without pixelization common in other types of Photoshop files. 1 When creating a vector element in Photoshop I always like to have a piece of reference material to get me started. It makes the process easier and gives me a guage as to how well I’ve pulled off the effect. In this tutorial we will be creating a vector coffee cup like the one below from the good folks at iStockPhoto . Go ahead and copy and past this coffee cup into your new document if you want to follow along at home. 2 Enlarge the photo so it’s easy to see. We will be tracing all the sections of this cup with the pen tool in a minute so it’s important to have the file large enough that it’s easily traceable. Each secti...