Creating Car Reflections

  • This is another request and a big thank you to Ian F. for this request. Ian was working on a Photo of a VW (sweet little car), he cut the car out and put it on a black background but needed some help with the reflection, this one is a good example where the ‘standard’ type of reflection wont work.

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    (Right Click on the link above and ‘Save’ it to your hard drive to practice!)

16 Comments
  • #1 avatar zvika
    November 23, 2011 7:43 pm

    Thanks,many happy returns,my best wishes for you birthday.

  • #2 avatar Mario Mifsud
    November 23, 2011 2:31 am

    First I would like to give you my best wishes for you birthday. Ad Multos Annos my friend. Regarding the video tutorial is very helpful as usual, and professionally explained. Also the shade is perfect as it should be.

    Best regards.

    Mario Mifsud

  • #3 avatar Jenene
    November 22, 2011 11:48 pm

    Many happy returns, Shane. Thanks for the gift. This was totally awesome!

  • #4 avatar Susan M
    November 22, 2011 7:40 pm

    Good wishes for your birthday, Shane. May there be many happy returns. Thanks for the pressie!

  • #5 avatar Leslie Bradshaw
    November 22, 2011 6:43 pm

    A little belated, nevertheless a Happy Birthday, Shane. Wishing you great success in every year to come, and …. thanks for your birthday present.

  • #6 avatar Meera
    November 22, 2011 6:33 pm

    A great birthday gift to us…A belated happy birthday once again

  • #7 avatar Ross
    November 22, 2011 3:54 pm

    Hi Shane,
    Can you give some tips about brightening video footage and also adjusting hue and saturation on footage.
    Regards
    Ross

    • avatar Shane Goldberg
      November 22, 2011 4:29 pm

      Most video editing software that I’m aware of has a ‘Brightness’ slider that can brighten video footage. Even iMovie on the Mac does. 99% sure Sony Vegas does, Final Cut Pro does. etc.

  • #8 avatar Jay O.
    September 30, 2011 12:09 pm

    Great video, Shane. You make it look so easy. And, now it is!
    What about the reflections in the front wind screen? I see trees and sky. Is there a way to remove those to get that “showroom” look to the image?
    Thanks for the lesson.

    • avatar Shane
      September 30, 2011 12:22 pm

      Hey Jay,

      Thanks for the comments and feedback. Yes, this is not my original photo and the windows definitely need some work, certainly you could put whatever you wanted in the windows and another thing I would do is remove the grey from the other windows as in theory they should be somewhat see thru but at the moment they are see thru to grey but there is a black background so they should have more black than grey. Shane

  • #9 avatar LandofCleve
    September 30, 2011 9:33 am

    Shane,
    When I attempted to download the picture of the VW I got an error message, “Can not download golf.tif from this website XXXXXX.amazonaws.com. Internet Explorer can not access this website.”

    • avatar Shane
      September 30, 2011 10:25 am

      Please refresh the page and then right click on the file and select your option to save file or save linked file or whatever your browser options give you. :)

  • #10 avatar Jim Cummings
    September 29, 2011 11:04 pm

    Great tut! Now I need figure how I can use that in the “real” world.
    Jim

  • #11 avatar hsmelter
    September 29, 2011 9:16 pm

    Shane – Ian is right; you make it look so easy and logical. I personally learnt a lot. Thanks

    • avatar Shane
      September 29, 2011 9:28 pm

      Thanks Henk ;) Much appreciated.

      • avatar Bonita
        November 25, 2011 5:30 pm

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        Happy birthday to you Shane hugs.Thank you so much for this tutorial i loved it and all you do to help us out. Know you are loved and appreciated hugs Love ya Blessing to you and your family and loved ones.

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