Advertising: 
A Pepsi Wet Look With Layers
Steps a to g
Illustration
START

Take an image of a product. I drank a Pepsi and photographed it under my running sink tap.

A) Copy the background layer by dragging it to the new layer icon.
This creates a new layer called Background Copy.

B) Now copy layer two in the same way to create layer 3, called Background Copy 2. This is the top layer of 3.

 

C) Filter > Blur > Smart Blur
Settings for Smart Blur
Set Smart Blur Radius to 10 (adjust it)
Set Threshold =  20
Click quality and set to medium 
Mode is edge only
D) With the top layer 3 type CTRL A
Type CTRL C
(This copies the top blurred layer into the RAM clipboard.)
On Top Photoshop menu click Select > Deselect
E) Click on and highlight the 2nd layer in layers pallette

Then Click the Mask icon bottom of the layers pallette

 



 

 

F) Hold down the ALT key on the keyboard and Click the mask on Background Copy (2nd layer). You should see white...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

G) Edit > Paste to Paste the blurred copy into this white mask layer. 

Having Fun? Now, Select the layer 1 (Background) layer and blur it with 
Filter > Blur > gaussian blur set to 5. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 







 

FINISH
Now click the top layer (layer 3) , and change its opacity from 100%  to 20% or less. File> Save. 

Option: Sharpen the background or bottom layer with Filter> Sharpen > Unsharp mask: Amount of 200,
Radius of 1, and Tolerance of 10.