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Adding a window reflection

Adding a window reflection - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adding a window reflection

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- [Instructor] The best way to make this window look real is to add a reflection. And we can do that by copying a section of the original image. We'll open our Layers panel, go down to the bottom layer, and now select the Rectangular Marquee tool. And drag a rectangular selection over that side wall. From the three dots to the bottom of the taskbar, we'll choose Copy layer. Open those three dots again, and now paste. We'll switch to the move tool, drag this on top of the window. And why is it coming up behind the window? Well, if we look at our Layers panel, we can see that that reflection layer is beneath the window area, because it was copied from the original background. We can drag it above our New Orleans view and tap the clipping mask icon, so it's only visible where it overlaps that layer. Let's put our panel away. And we'll tap the Transform button so we can scale it. And the trick here is to make sure that the…

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