okay here goes im trying to shoot a product image for a company and they want to have their pictures look like this www.jaewhy.com/tom.jpg . The pictures i took for them right now looks like this www.jaewhy.com/pix2.jpg. If you look at tom picture you can see that they have a colored shadow. My question is how do i make that color shadow that looks the image. Does anyone know or have any tips to offer me or any website that can direct me to laern this technique thanks.
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Question about shadows
Started by chowroast, Jul 12 2007 02:01 PM
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 02:12 PM
yeah sorry just relazied i posted in the wrong section =x
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 02:33 PM
That particular effect is reflection, not shadow 
Because the bottom edges image that you're trying to reflect aren't all even, it would be really hard to effectively get a realistic reflection. What I mean by that is that the lenses are further down than the ear pieces of the glasses.
The best way is to have it reflect when you take the shot. I don't know of a way to make a realistic reflection with that image in photoshop.
Because the bottom edges image that you're trying to reflect aren't all even, it would be really hard to effectively get a realistic reflection. What I mean by that is that the lenses are further down than the ear pieces of the glasses.
The best way is to have it reflect when you take the shot. I don't know of a way to make a realistic reflection with that image in photoshop.
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 04:38 PM
thx for the reply yea i guess reflection was what i meant. I have tried to rotate , twist and turn that imagine but i have no clue how to replicate that effect it seems that it might be antoher different pair of glasses but its too good and perfect to be another picture shot. I don tthink its something wrong with the picture i have they have many other examples of that with similar shots as mine also if you try to replicate it with toms jpg u cant do it either so i dont kno whow to do it.
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Posted 16 July 2007 - 12:22 PM
its impossible to make photoshop calculate a accurate reflection of anything that isnt photographed at a 90 degree angle to the reflective surface, at best you can tweak the pixels to fool the ye somewhat but it blurs the reflection in a nasty way and requires manual work.
You get the best reflections if you can reconstruct the object fully in 3d and use the applications renderer capabilities to make the angled reflection.
Otherwise you more or less have to use a light-tent or a reflective surface (such as a piece of polished glass or a mirror) to get the reflection into the photo and then tweak it in PS to rid it of unwanted reflections and other things that can appear in the photo.
You get the best reflections if you can reconstruct the object fully in 3d and use the applications renderer capabilities to make the angled reflection.
Otherwise you more or less have to use a light-tent or a reflective surface (such as a piece of polished glass or a mirror) to get the reflection into the photo and then tweak it in PS to rid it of unwanted reflections and other things that can appear in the photo.
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Posted 17 July 2007 - 05:10 AM
Dance, on Jul 16 2007, 07:22 PM, said:
You get the best reflections if you can reconstruct the object fully in 3d and use the applications renderer capabilities to make the angled reflection.
my idea also.
If you've got the original product there are 2 ways:
1. make the photo the way you want (almost) from scratch
2. remake the object in 3d and then put in in a scene you want.
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