mirror reflections

Creating the reflections

Let's use this shot of a Pentax camera. Note I've carefully cut it out of the background so no slivers of white are showing. Mistakes in removing the background will be glaring once we build the illusion.

To make the illusion, we need a much larger expanse of background. Here, using the Crop tool, we can drag the handles beyond the image area and visually estimate the size we'll be needing. Once you commit the crop, the canvas will be expanded to fit the size indicated.

Since any reflection into glass or a liquid is a 'mirror' image of the original, we have to create that copy. The easiest way is to merely float a copy (Cntrl/J or Cmd/J) and with the Move Tool (Tap V) drag the top, center handle down below the bottom. I'm going to leave the dragged image just a bit compressed. This lends a bit more realism to the scene.


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Monday, May 5, 2008

tricks series starts here

i created this blog to help others to know what i have know by myself work and the results i reached in photoshop using tools and filters in it

i will add the tricks by time so keep in touch from time to time

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