reflective surface w/ perspective?

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steveklett
Feb 24, 2004
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Hi-

I am doing some image work for a website. The customer wants "Images like the apple i-pod site" so I looked and what they want is something like this: <http://www.apple.com/ipod/images/index_three01062004.jpg>

If you notice the middle image is at an angle, yet there is still that nice reflective look to it. I need that. I have accomplished the "straight on" images
( < http://64.3.23.106/rtm/Images/Products/CWIS1000/CWIS1000_t.j pg> )

But the perspective angle is proving to be quite hard. For example, this image: < http://64.3.23.106/rtm/Images/Products/netwave/netwave_t.jpg>
I would like to do the reflective surface trick with.

Any tips, tricks or help greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Steve
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Jonathan_Balza
Feb 24, 2004
If you do not have an actual photo with the reflection to work with – which is your best bet – and you can’t model it with a 3d program to get a reflection, then you are pretty much left with 2 options.

– Draw the reflection in manually.

– I have had limited success by flipping a duplicate layer vertically, and then moving individual vertical rows of pixels up to where they should be in the reflection and building from there. It’s not entirely accurate, but that is why you mask out the bottom of the reflection! 😉

A couple of tips if you decide to try this:
1) This is time consuming, but your single column marquee tool is your friend.
2) Make sure you work at a larger resolution then you are planning on finishing up with, especially with this method. You can get some strange artifacts if you don’t with this method.
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steveklett
Feb 25, 2004
Thanks for the reply Jonathan!

Yeah, it’s a bummer there is no way to "exactly" do this. I used what you suggested w/ a combination of the distort tool and basically just dragged it up where it need to be. It’s not pretty though, so I think I will try to get them to shoot it on a reflective surface for the next batch.

Thanks again for the reply!
AP
Alpha_Papa
Feb 25, 2004
Guys I’m just talking blue sky here but why not rotate the image 180 degrees on a new layer and flip (is it horizontal? – I’ve worked too hard today). That will match the perspective. Run a linear gradient mask over it fading from the bottom as Jonathan suggested and reduce opacity. Copy the layer and run another subtle gradient mask from the left or right depending on taste. Delete Layer 2. Adjust the position of Layer 3 if needed. Then dodge the resulting image slightly for shine.

Adam.
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Jonathan_Balza
Feb 25, 2004
Adam, the procedure you described – rotate 180, flip horizontal – is equivalent to just a single flip vertical.
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Alpha_Papa
Feb 25, 2004
And it’s another long day today too! Thanks Jonathan.
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Jonathan_Balza
Feb 25, 2004
No problem. Just trying to help!

Steve, if you updated your image, it looks like you got things working at least a little bit. Good job.
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d._wade_thompson
Feb 25, 2004
after copying your image and flipping control T to transform and then right click and use perspective.

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