Design a 3D Bottle Label in Photoshop

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This excerpt is from Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Classroom in a Book. Used by permission of Adobe Press. Copyright © 2008. Part of the Creative Edge Photoshop Resources Page.
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In this tutorial, you’ll work on the layout for the label of a bottle of olive oil. You’ll start from an illustration of a bottle, then add and stylize type in Photoshop. By the time you’re finished, you’ll have mastered the following skills:
• Using guides to position text in a composition.
• Making a clipping mask from type.
• Merging type with other layers.
• Using layer styles with text.
• Previewing typefaces interactively to choose them for a composition.
• Controlling type and positioning using advanced type panel features.
• Warping a layer around a 3D object.
To begin, download the compressed folder “Lesson07.zip.” It contains the Photoshop files you’ll need for the tutorial.
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