What's going on guys if your new to the channel, my name is Ehsan
I'm a photographer and videographer and on this channel
We'll talk about everything camera related from shooting to the editing and also gear reviews and in today's video
I'm gonna show you how to create a window reflection effect in Adobe Photoshop
We all saw and loved photos that showing a person sitting or standing behind the window with all of the Street and buildings
reflections on the window
for shooting those images
We need to be in the right place at the right time and we all know that is hard to achieve sometimes
but as I mentioned before we can do this effect in post-production as well, of course
It's not going to create the exact same look but it is fun to know and have this effect in the pocket
So without further ado, let's jump into
To pull off this effect we need two images
First an image from a person and second image from a street with all of the cars and buildings
To a start drag the second photo on the first one first
You have to adjust the second layer choose free transform from the Edit menu or hit the command T or ctrl T
Then adjust the second layer size to a proper size
Window reflections are always rivers. So flip the second layer horizontally
By going to edit menu
transform and hitting the flip horizontal
For the next step change the second layer blending mode to lighten
And reduce the opacity until you feel satisfied with the result
Around 40 is usually a good result
as you can see the street image looks like a window reflection now
But we have to do some more adjustments
first we have to reduce the sharpness of Street image layer
to do that choose Gaussian blur from the effect menu and choose about five on the radius
You can see the difference now
There are some reflections on the girls face that I prefer to remove
So create a white mask by choosing this little icon
Make sure the foreground color is black and draw with a soft brush on the areas that you want to remove
Drop the opacity and flow to 40%
It's a bit better now
Try to add some contrast by adding a curves adjustment layer
Make sure you enable the clipping icon. So this layer just applied to a street layer and do the same adjustments as I do
For the next step, I'd like to add some warm color to the image to make the overall look more realistic
Hit this icon and choose photo filter
Then increase the effect to about 60 or 70 percent
Now I like it more but I don't want the warm color on the whole image
So choose the gradient tool and draw from the right button to the center
For the final touch add some brightness and contrast and we are good to go
This is before and after defect
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