6 Rules for Realistic Reflections in Photoshop

By Dawn Pedersen · 06/24/2009 ·

Check out these botched Photoshop jobs. Can you tell what went wrong in each?
3quarter-wrong-angle2

doublereflect

not-flipped

round-flatbottoms

squashed

Many thanks to Photoshop Disasters Blog for bringing many of these bad Photoshop jobs to my attention.

If you have any feedback or samples of botched Photoshop reflections, I’d love to hear from you in the comments below.

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7 Comments

By Koushik S, 07/12/2009 @ 10:00 am

Good one mate !!
By john, 07/13/2009 @ 12:12 am

You are just forgetting one major thing! Add a little of shadow between the 2 images and it adds a little extra dimension to it… just try it.
By Dawn Pedersen, 07/13/2009 @ 11:00 am

Thanks, Koushik, and thanks for the suggestion, John!
By Bryle, 07/16/2009 @ 12:32 am

Know what?!i don’t have formal training in PS..but because of you..i took up all your tutorials….it’s good…like to thank you ma’am…still got lot to learn though
By Dawn Pedersen, 07/16/2009 @ 8:44 am

Thanks, Bryle! Glad I could help.
By Thomas Pedersen, 12/04/2009 @ 10:29 am

Great tutorial though I’m looking for somthing that can make the reflection from a image that has different levels instead of just the flat bottom like this image for example: http://www.ptemplates.com/demos/ccv4/images/uploads/sunglass1.jpg

any suggestions?
By Joe Stubler, 12/28/2009 @ 10:40 pm

Great article, I was having a heck of a time finding info/tutorials on photoshop reflections. I found quite a few botched reflections on bestbuy.com check out the icons on their category pages, computers for example, some of the reflections look right but a lot are botched.. It looks like they just had so many to do they just rushed their way through.