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Understanding the basics of reflection

Understanding the basics of reflection - Photoshop Tutorial

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Understanding the basics of reflection

Reflections don't have to be that complicated, but they are necessary to make something look like it is a reflective object. Like for instance, this particular scene here, the windows. The windows in the store front are glass. Without reflections, they're not going to look like glass. They're going to look like just big hollow areas where you can kind of look into. Getting real close here, we see that this one. Now this one was done back in 1995, it's actually dated down here. See? 1995. Can see right here there's some perfections in the window. Not very clear. This one's a little clear, but not very clear reflections. It's just kind of an indictation that there's reflections there. There's little light glows and so on. Well, if we look at an earlier version of that particular image, and we come in real close because here's where we still have our layers intact. There it is, there's this little reflection. We go in here and we see that there are some layers called reflections, right…

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