ABSTRACT
We're surrounded by shiny surfaces in everyday life, but we rarely notice them. Working with shiny surfaces can be challenging, but it's sure to make the readers a better artist. Putting things in glass boxes, jars and bottles is a fairly straightforward technique: the trick lies in reproducing the surface of the glass, complete with its reflections and refraction, to make it appear as if the object in question is really sitting inside it. It’s also important to avoid reflections in the surface, unless the readers want to end up in their own montages. Whether or not they want to add rain to their images, creating reflections in surface water is a task that should be within the scope of any Photoshop artist. The key to making this reflection work is recognizing that lowering the transparency will simply allow us to see the reflected trees through it — which could never happen.
