The more beautiful with Shadow Effect

Consider carefully a number of product advertising, particularly print advertising electronic products, such as gadgets, mobile phones, and the like. Form of what the product images show up there?

The images are created in such a way that seemed luxurious and beautiful. And the most convenient features is the impression of a reflection effect. Consider it, a number of product photos, though looks simple or without additional ornamentation, yet still keep looking good thanks to the effect of this reflection.

Reflection effects can be created in two ways, namely by generating reflection photographed (using a field that can bring such a good image with acrylic), or digitally if so reflected.

For those of you who do not have adequate equipment to create a reflection effect when taking pictures, if the digital way is worth a try. In fact, you can create this impression with ease using any imaging software. In this tutorial, I use Adobe Photoshop CS4. If you use other software, no need to be discouraged. Stages practice more or less the same, really.

It's ready to try? Let us begin.

1. Open the image to be formed products reflections. Make sure you take a photo with the background (background) plain. If not innocent, remove the existing background by selecting an object, perform inverse, then fill the background with a plain color.
2. Make sure your images have the space to form a reflection. If not, dilate the image by clicking on the canvas [Image]> [Canvas Size ...], or press [Alt] + [Ctrl] + [C]. In the Canvas Size box, add the photos to be more wide and long.
3. For example the canvas size of your image is 8cm x 10cm. To create a reflection, add the length of the image to fill the bottom with a number of around 15-20 cm for the "Height", and select the arrow to the top of the "Anchor" to the canvas extends downward.
4. Add the broad canvas photos on the "Width" if necessary. For wide, no need to specify an anchor to a proportional increase space on either side of the canvas. Select the color matches the color of the canvas background image on the "Canvas extension color:". Click [OK].
5. Now the main image by double clicking the layer "Background", then press the [Ctrl] + [A], or click on [Layer]> [Duplicate Layer ...]. Click [OK] on the notification box that appears. Because the condition is always inverted reflection of the position of the main image, you must turn it over.
6. Click the layer duplication, and then click [Edit]> [transform]> [Flip Vertical]. Duplicate layer will be reversed vertically. Change the layer blending mode via the drop-down menu above the Layer dialog box, it becomes [Multiply]. Shear layer to reflect directly beneath the main object.
7. Reflection does not bring the main object intact. Generally, there are gradations in the reflection impression. To make it, use the gradient tool facilities. First, create a first mask layer by clicking layer duplication, then click on [Layer]> [Layer Mask]> [Reveal All].
8. After the mask layer is formed, click [Gradient Tool]. Make sure the color is selected in the two boxes and color-foreground-background color is black and white. Choose mode [Black to Transparant] on the menu "Gradient Editor" on the top, then use the gradient type [Linear].
9. Click drag the gradient tool from the bottom up until close to the main object image position on the layer mask on the duplicated layer. Look, now the object on the layer duplication appeared as vague. So do not look too sharp, a little lower layer opacity value duplication.
10. To resemble a reflection-which usually appear not too sharp and-paste a bit vague blur effect. Click the layer duplication, not a layer mask, then click [Filter]> [Blur]> [Gaussian Blur ...]. Opaque few pictures a few points, then click [OK]. Reflection has become.
    

TIPS: Reflections on the Text
Effect of reflection you can also apply in the text to look more beautiful. The way not much different from the tutorial above. Fun, the text does not need to be picture-in-rasterized process so the gradient (gradient) can be applied.

To be more unique, you can add a reflection effect on the text, such as filter "Ocean Ripple" (reflected in the water bath), or filter "Glass" (reflected in the glass). For the application of filters, text or images should be made dirasterisasi. Way, stay right-click the text layer, then select [Rasterize Type].