Photoshop help
Manypeople these days are enamoured with the latest craze of photographingproducts on a glass surface with the product reflecting a very smooth,liquid reflection. Apple made it popular with their iPhone imagery.
In the old days, we had to go to some fairly lengthy set building inorder to accomplish the look, but today you can do it in mere moments.
The object itself has a lot to do with the relative success of thistechnique. Best case scenario is a good, straight-on product shot. Thiseliminates the need for oblique reversals which take a lot of time, andneed to have a perspective slant in order to look convincing.
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 whiteare showing. Mistakes in removing the background will be glaring oncewe 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 imagearea and visually estimate the size we'll be needing. Once you committhe 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 withthe Move Tool (Tap V) drag the top, center handle down below thebottom. 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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