Published on: 2007-03-31 - Views: 32820

In this tutorial we'll see how to modify the reflection on someone's glasses.
Let's take this picture from Sxc.hu.
Sunglasses reflection - photo of a guy with sunglasses
You need an account to download it, but if you're a designer you'll probably already have an account at sxc.hu, otherwise create one, it's obviously free.
Open the photo in Photoshop and zoom to 100%. Pick the pen tool and draw along the lens limit, draw both the lenses.
This image is particularly complicated but other images will have a more regular shape of the lenses without anything in front of them.
Sunglasses reflection - Image 2
When you've finished drawing your document should look like this.
Sunglasses reflection - Image 3
Now still with the pen tool selected right click on the path and choose Make Selection with these settings.
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The path you made with the pen tool should have been converted to a selection
Sunglasses reflection - Image 6
that we'll save in order to use it later, so hit Select > Save selection and name it "Lenses".
Sunglasses reflection - Image 7
Now we need the image we want to be reflected in his sunglasses, I'll use this one
Sunglasses reflection - beach relax photo
Open it in photoshop, drag it into the sunglasses document and resize it to a size you like for the reflection in the sunglasses.
Press CTRL + D to deselect the sunglasses or you won't be able to resize the beach image.
Sunglasses reflection - Image 9
Now drag the image in it's final position over the lenses and go to Select > Load Selection.
Sunglasses reflection - Image 10
and the selection should pop over the beach image.
Sunglasses reflection - Image 11
Now go to Select > Inverse (or CTRL + SHIFT + I) and after this press Delete to remove everything outside the lenses (make sure to be on the beach layer).
Sunglasses reflection - Image 12
Now invert the selection again, create a layer below the beach one and fill the selection with black.
Sunglasses reflection - Image 13
Now select the beach reflection layer and go to Layer > Add Layer Mask > Reveal All.
Load again the selection as we did before, choose a White to Black Linear Gradient and set its opacity to about 50% then draw from down to top inside one of the lenses.
Sunglasses reflection - Image 14
I also set the opacity of the beach layer to 86% and this is my result.
Sunglasses reflection - Image 15