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The Elegant Studio Shot


This tutorial shows a quick way to take your normal, boring product shot and make it look more professional and elegant. This isn't a new trick, but it's a really quick process with Photoshop.

Open your image. I started with this photo of a banana from PhotoSpin.com. I masked out the banana and slightly rotated it.

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Behind my banana layer, I added a Gradient Adjustment Layer. Adjust the colors
to something yellowish, or whatever color you want, and fading to black.

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Set the Gradient Adjustment Layer to Style: Radial. I increased the scale to fit my banana better.

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Make a rectangular selection on the lower 1/3 of your image. Add a new Solid Color Adjustment Layer under the banana layer and above the Gradient layer. Fill it with black.

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Select your banana layer and press Command + J to duplicate it. Select your lower, original banana layer and press Command + T to bring up the free-transform. Right-click on your bounding box, and choose "Flip Vertical".

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Drag your new, flipped layer down, so that the bottom of the top layer, matches the top of the bottom layer. Confused? Picture:

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Click on the Add Layer Mask button on your Layers Palette or go Layer > Add Layer Mask > Reveal All. Select the Gradient Fill Tool G and select your default colors D. With your Layer Mask selected, drag your Gradient from top to bottom until you get a nice reflective effect.

The Elegant Studio Shot Tutorial: Final Result

And that's pretty much it. I explained it out in this tutorial, but it's a few quick steps for a nice effect.



Author's URL: Tommy Maloney
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