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1. Re: Reflection: make something look like it's sitting on a reflective surface (object at an angle)
Mylenium Jul 8, 2011 10:44 AM (in response to agentpuddles007)The second image simply is a 3D graphic, not a montage. If you expect anywhere the level of clean reflections from a conventional photograph, then you may either consider giving up right now or lock yourself in and learn how to patch up your flipped over image to more correctly represent the shape. That's the whole point - you can't warp something that isn't there and that would be the reflected "undersides" which never were in the original image to begin with. It's certainly possible, but it will be a lot of work and such patching up either requires excellent classical painting skills or more photosto to use as clone sources. After that, it's merely a matter of cleaver use of free transforms and warping tools such as Puppet or Liquify. Anyway, I guess you just found out why most fake reflections fade away and peopel don't bother with this too much - simpyl too much work and nobody pays for it.
Mylenium
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2. Re: Reflection: make something look like it's sitting on a reflective surface (object at an angle)
agentpuddles007 Jul 8, 2011 10:52 AM (in response to Mylenium)Ok, what about something like this? Or is this image also a graphic created? Here's the thing. True, it can't "create" what isn't seen already in the image, but it can create what IS seen, and nearly everything in the reflection can be seen. It just needs to be flipped under. I guess it makes sense that Photoshop in 2D can't do it, but if not, is there another 3D program that can? Or Photoshop 3D? I feel like Mac uses these reflections all the time, and I read/heard here that Keynote has a simple option to apply this effect.
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4. Re: Reflection: make something look like it's sitting on a reflective surface (object at an angle)
agentpuddles007 Jul 8, 2011 11:31 AM (in response to tfkelly42)Wow, that looks great! I'm impressed. Well, maybe I'll try some duplication and see what comes of it. I had started to do that but it seemed so complicated. I'll try again now, and hopefully any imperfections will be hidden by the gradiant.
The question is still out there, however, if anyone knows a solution! Thanks for the help.
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5. Re: Reflection: make something look like it's sitting on a reflective surface (object at an angle)
Noel Carboni Jul 9, 2011 9:00 AM (in response to agentpuddles007)That pretty much is the solution, if you're not able to 1) photograph, or 2) 3D-generate the object.
One other thing that can help occasionally is to do an Edit - Transform function (e.g., Skew) on a duplicated and flipped object. This works well on flat objects, such as screen grabs, that you want to create some depth with.
Some other info:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2993422#2993422
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/653168
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/866251
-Noel







