If you are designing fashion logos or advertisements for fashion magazines, then creating a lipstick container can help add some graphic elements to your design. This is also a great tutorial for learning how to draw and apply different gradients using Photoshop. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the steps required to make a lipstick container.
1. Create a new file of your choice.
2. Create a new layer by pressing Shift+CTRL+N together.
3. Select Rectangular Marquee Tool and draw a rectangle in the middle of the canvas. Keep the selection active, select the Elliptical Marquee tool. Press shift while dragging a new circular selection to create the selection shape as shown below.
4. Select Gradient Tool (or press ‘G’) and create a new gradient like shown in the figure below:
5. Fill the selection from left to right and cut the lower portion of the filled layer to obtain a shape like this:
6. Create a new layer. Select the Elliptical Marquee tool and draw a circle. Fill it with the Gradient Fill as shown in the figure. Place this layer above layer 1.
7. Create a new layer and select Rectangular Marquee tool to draw a rectangle. Select the Elliptical Marquee tool, hold down the Shift key, and add a circular selection just over the rectangle as shown in the figure below:
8. Fill it with same gradient as in step 6.
9. Now, right click on this layer and select blending option and use settings as shown in the figure.
10. Place this layer just above the circle layer which we created in step 6.
11. Duplicate this layer by pressing CTRL+J. Press CTRL+T to change the size of the layer as shown in the figure. After transforming, press Shift+CTRL+{ to send the layer backward. Your image should look like this.
12. Create a new layer again. Draw a shape with the help of Elliptical Marquee tool. Select #AB4D47 as foreground and # 641C1D as background color. Select linear gradient tool and fill the selection from left to right. Now, go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise and give these values:
13. Draw a circle as shown in the figure and fill it with # AC4E48 and place it as shown in the figure.
14. Now, group and merge all layers and use the line tool to draw a black line as shown in the figure.
