Showcasing your work, Use 3D perspective - Continued

Photoshop Tutorial By Björgvin Guðmundsson

Step 3. The reflection

Remember the copies of the 3 layers? I hope you didn’t skip that part.

We are going to use these layers to make a realistic reflection, as if the brochure was standing on a glass like surface.

Select the copy layer of “page 1” and “Flip it vertically”
(edit – transform – flip vertical).

Drag the layer below the top one (page 1) and select the perspective menu. Edit the perspective as showed on the picture below. (I changed the background color to black to be able to see where the 2 bottoms meet; you also might want to zoom in to the image for more precision)



Repeat this with “page 2” and “page 3”, until you have something that looks like this:



Change the background back to white.
Now link the reflection layers together...



... and merge them.



Add a “layer mask” to the merged layer by clicking the layer mask button at the bottom of the layers palette.



Now select the “linear gradient tool” and make it fade from black to white.



Drag from bottom up, from low in the merged reflection layer, and up.
You should now be seeing something like this:



Set the opacity of the layer to 20%



To add a vague shadow, select the brush tool and a soft brush. Turn off all the extra setting in the brush property palette and paint a soft brush on a new layer above the reflection layer. You can then use the Gaussian Blur filter to make it even smoother, and set the opacity down to 5-10%.

And the final image:

Conclusion:

I hope you had a good time learning this technique. Remember to improvise, and try out different settings, shapes and perspectives.

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