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Step 1
Place your ship on the illustration's bottom layer. You can import a photograph of a ship with its background mask, use clip art or draw the ship yourself.
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Step 2
Draw your bottle shape. The easiest way is to place the image of a bottle or jug and trace it with the pen tool. Set the stroke width to 3 or 4 pixels and the fill to transparent. The color should be a 20 percent shade of gray or cyan.
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Step 3
Create a scaled copy of the bottle. Choose the "Scale" command from the Object menu Transform submenu. Scale the bottle no more than 99 percent of its width and click on the "Copy" button.
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Step 4
With the copy still selected, hold down the "Command," "+" and "D" keys to create a second copy. Set the stroke of the first copy to 1 pixel white. Set the fill of the top copy to white and the stroke to transparent.
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Step 5
Make a blend of the two lower bottle layers. Select both layers in the Layers palette and choose "Make" from the Objects menu Blend submenu. The two layers will be moved into a new layer called "Blend." Select the top blend sublayer and nudge it slightly to give the reflection a sense of depth.
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Step 6
Open the transparency palette. Select both objects in the blend layer and change the layer blend mode from "Normal" to "Overlay." Lower the transparency to 30 to 50 percent.
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Step 7
Set the blend mode of the topmost bottle layer to "Soft Light." Adjust the transparency to suit. Use the calligraphy brush to paint white reflection highlights in the bottle.
