I made this label a while ago but never shared it. It was originally for a cider I made and had a green background. My first beer (a pumpkin ale) is currently halfway through the secondary so I figured I'd get a new label ready, taking advantage of my old label.
It was tricky to get the label to fit the Guinness bottle properly, since the label must be arced slightly. I ended up writing a quick JavaScript calculator that inputs the top arc length (measured by taking a string around the bottle) and the bottom arc length, and the label height, and calculating how big the arc must be. Then it was a matter of putting it into photoshop and warping my image.
If anyone has had this problem before I'd be happy to upload the calculator for public use.
It was tricky to get the label to fit the Guinness bottle properly, since the label must be arced slightly. I ended up writing a quick JavaScript calculator that inputs the top arc length (measured by taking a string around the bottle) and the bottom arc length, and the label height, and calculating how big the arc must be. Then it was a matter of putting it into photoshop and warping my image.
If anyone has had this problem before I'd be happy to upload the calculator for public use.