How to make coffee latte art in Photoshop.
Latte art is the thing that baristas do by
pouring milk foam into your coffee and then
creating beautiful designs in it using various
tools.
Believe me, it's very hard to do.
I tried it and I couldn't get it right, ever.
But I'm going to show you a very simple way
to transform a photo into a beautiful coffee
latte art design using Photoshop.
I'm John, I'm a graphic designer and co-founder
of the Photoshop blog psd-dude.com and this
is my tutorial on "How to create coffee latte
art in Photoshop".
In this tutorial I'm going to show you how
to make coffee latte art in Photoshop using
a Photoshop mock-up.
We will do this in three steps:
In step one we will download and open up a
Photoshop mock-up for the coffee latte art
effect.
In step two we will take a photo and place
it in the mock-up and in step three I will
show you some customizations that you can
do on the mock-up.
So, let's get started.
First we will download the Photoshop mock-up
from PhotoshopSupply.com.
You just go to the PhotoshopSupply.com website
and go to the coffee latte art Photoshop mock-up
and you can download this mock-up for free.
I will place a link to this mock-up in the
description below.
Just click on the free download link.
Now, I already did that so you will get a
ZIP file that you have to extract and we'll
do that here.
The package contains a license file and a
PSD file.
This is the coffee latte mock-up PSD file
which we will open up in Photoshop.
When you open up the mock-up in Photoshop
you will get this: which is a beautiful mock-up
and it contains a logo in the coffee.
So, we will want to replace this with our
own photo.
But first, we need to make a few changes to
the mock-up.
Let's take a look at what the mock-up has.
So, it has several layers and if you go into
this layer group and open up the layer group
you will see that it has several layers and
one layer says that it's "for text and logos"
and another one says that it's "for image".
Because for this Photoshop tutorial we will
use an image for our cafe latte design, we
have to switch off this layer and turn on
the layer for the image.
We can close this layer group and we can continue
with our tutorial by opening up the Smart
Object in this layer, where it says "add your
logo inside".
So, we double click on the Smart Object and
we get into it and you'll see that we have
the original logo that comes with the mock-up.
This is where we will place our image that
we will transform into the coffee latte art
design.
I will just use an image off the Internet.
I will take one from Pixabay.
I think this portrait of young girl is OK.
Just right-click on it, copy the image and
then back into Photoshop, I will create a
new layer by pressing Ctrl + Shift + N. I
will name this layer "image" and then hit
ENTER.
Then I will press Ctrl + V to paste the image.
And let's move it to the center.
I think this looks good.
The next thing that we need to do is to activate
this "Coffee gradient".
What this does it is it that it transforms
the image into the colors of the coffee.
One thing that we have to do here is that
we have to balance these tones according to
to the image.
And this is very easy to do if we go to Image
> Adjustments and Levels, we can drag the
midpoint such that we have a nice balance
between the milky white and the coffee brown
colors.
I think this is OK.
And then, we close this Smart Object, Photoshop
will ask us if we want to save, and we click
"Yes", and our image appears on the coffee.
This starts to look like coffee latte art
design doesn't it?
But, we have a small problem and that is that
the edges of the image are visible here.
And they are too rough.
So, we will go into this layer group.
And this is the layer with the image.
And we'll simply add a layer mask.
So, clicking on the layer and then choosing
the Layer Mask and then we will choose the
Brush Tool, and using a brush with the hardness
set to 0, and we will need to paint with black
inside the mask.
And, if we do this, we will start to hide
parts of the image, so that we don't see those
rough edges.
Yes!
Something like that.
And don't worry if you make a mistake like
this, you can simply switch to white, and
start drawing it back in the image.
Okay, let me make some adjustments.
And this is it!
Our coffee latte art design is complete!
And now, let's see what we can customize further
in this mock-up.
The first thing that you can do is that if
you select this layer group and then choose
the Move Tool, we can move the coffee cup
around like we need, or we can even press
Ctrl + T, and we can make it smaller or larger,
depending on what we need.
And another thing that we can do is that we
have this wood background that comes with
the mock-up.
If we want to use another background that's
very easy to do.
And, I will just head over to Textures4Photoshop,
where I will download a texture.
You will get the link to this texture in the
description below.
So, you can download the texture from there,
and I already did that.
And if I grab this image and place it into
Photoshop, then resize it a bit such that
it covers the entire canvas, then hit ENTER,
this is the way to change the background for
this Photoshop mock-up.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial on "How to
make coffee latte art in Photoshop".
Using the same technique, you can get very
interesting results by taking a photo of yourself
or of family members and transforming it into
a beautiful coffee latte art.
You can also use logos or text messages that
you can turn into latte art designs to post
on Facebook or your Twitter account to get
lots of likes.
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