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Within the “Sand” group create the top, upper and lower portion of sand as three shape layers with the Pen Tool. Shape layer color is not important as we will delete them later. Create a new layer with the name “Sand lower”. Chang your Foreground and Background colors to #c79e73 and #b7864d. Now fill the “Sand lower” layer with the #b7864d color. Then Filter > Noise > Add Noise. Type 25% as the amount, select uniform as distribution and check monochromatic. After that duplicate this “Sand lower” layer three times. Rename them “Sand falling”, “Sand upper” and “Sand top”.

CTRL-click on the sand lower shape layer to select. Selection still active target the “Sand lower” layer and add a layer mask.

Step 53
Similarly mask the “Sand upper” and “Sand top” layer. In the image below the visibility of “Sand falling” is turned off. You can delete the sand upper and sand lower shape layers now. Next we will create the mask of the “Sand falling” with the Spatter brush we created earlier.

Step 54
Target the “Sand falling” layer and from Layer > Layer Mask > Hide All. This will create a black mask. Now the “Sand falling” layer is completely hidden.

Select the Spatter brush and White as the brush color. Then paint within the mask to reveal the sand texture.

Step 55
Next we will add a Level Adjustment layer to brighten the falling sand more. But we need the Adjustment layer to effect the falling sand only not everything. To take care of that, first CTRL-click on the mask thumbnail of “Sand falling” layer. This will load the “Sand falling” layer mask as a selection. Selection is active go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels. The level adjustment layer will create a mask from that selection. So only the falling sand is brighten. Rename the level adjustment layer to “sand falling bright”.

Step 56
CTRL-click on the mask thumbnail of the “Sand top” layer to load that as a selection. Create a new layer on top with the name “Sand top shadow”. Select a soft brush with 50% opacity and color #463f3c. Paint some shadow on the top part of the sand. Then reduce the layer opacity to 30%.
20 responses to “Create an Hourglass in Photoshop”
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Awesome. Thanks for sharing
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This is terrible.
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i agree
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Thank You so much for giving such details. I created my hour glass for my upcoming DVD. best wishes to you. I will like to explore more and purchase soon.
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Interesting :p :)
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Am unable to download the file.
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I am stuck with step 11.when i make that new layer ”glass upper shadow edge 1” ,i can’t fill it with black,but i don’t know why . Can anybody help me with that?
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wow.. Fantastic steps.. I really like it. keep up :-)
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Awesome… Thanks for sharing..
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your welcome Hetor
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Amazing, from scratch. Great work!
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fantastic
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Unable to load with this link.
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yes! there is also same problem in link….
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