I was asked to do a couple of photo retouching using Photoshop and photos. So here is one of my 1st tutorials on these techniques. All you got to have is a photo and some skills, do let's get going with this one.
I will do this one by using a Photo of a mobile and some techniques that I've learn through these years. Here is our initial photo.
Although the simple drop shadow reflection trick usually looks good in most cases, but this is just to poor and all around used effect.
Use magic wand tool to select all the whites and also the rectangular selection tool to select the shadow next.
Then tap delete to erase all the white background. Oh yea, remember to create a twin copy of the background because you can't erase from the original background.
Next create a layer between the 2 you have already
rounded gradient. We will definitely change the color on some time but now we need it to be green.
Create another one and overlay it this time with reflected orange to transparency layer with blending mode set to Pin light. Do it several times.
I've used twirl effect in Filters>Distort>Twirl on the orange stripes layer.
Moreover I've dropped some effects using the layer styles of this layer.
Here is the overall picture.
Now I've changed the background using Pin light black to white reflected gradient on a new separate layer.
It could be better seen on this picture with some element I've created in the end of the tutorial.
I've also changed the size of my pattern here and used a twirl filter once again.
And remember to drag the twirled object layer to foreground, simply by changing the order of the layers.
Create a copy of our twirl.
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Transform it a little bit.
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Use a mask to create an effect that the curve goes to foreground. (Lower curve)
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Make the same effect like it goes Round on the upper curve.
Once again: our modified background. It was created with Pin light black>to>white reflected gradient.
Some small details can make the design look a lot better.
So make a copy of any curve and transform and place it in layer box like this.
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See the little tail coming from the back of the object? (And of the top left side too) .
And that is it for shall we say commercial design with Photo usage.
