Glass perfume bottle

[Purrfeck]

Thanks you guys - barrym67, -=Drifter=-, Brian, Thor, ss-kalm & Gary for all your comments since I've been away.

WOW everyones been busy and posting some fantastic stuff on the forums, its great to see new things!

I just wanted to say, the perfume bottle is not a photograph! I did make it in Xara & I do have the actual perfume bottle and yes I have worked from a photograph to produce it, because the lighting changes quickly. Not all the refraction has been included, as I didn't think it necessary. The mottled background was made with over stretched tree bark bitmap and transparent coloured square placed over the top.
Plain glass tends to pick up any colour thats placed behind it - so I could have used any other colour but it looks better when the colour is similar to the colours already used. The brown shades in this pic happen to be reflections of wooden chairs!
Some of the colours in the bottle are blends, & there are many various fades & transparencies to get the look. Lighting is coming in from the left and to make it more interesting, I added my own touch of lighting at the back to light up an otherwise dull centre, and I added lighting on the side wall as well.
(This probably cancels out the shadow).
The shadow that did not please, (it does appear in the photo), has since been removed and I have added some lines to stop the bottle 'floating'. I thought a few fabric folds would add to the picture without detracting from the bottle itself...

It's by no means perfeck but I had a lot of fun making it & I am pleased with the result.
Here's a revised 'new look'.

Cheers
Michele