'Photoshop'

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" Faking the 3D look using Photoshop"
by Vinny Chirayil





Creating the Vase

With the 'Path' tool, draw a vase. Repeat the 2D to 3D magic. Only, this time instead of one gradient, 2 will be required. I then blended the edges of the 2 gradients to get a 3D vase.




Shadows next.Carefully, paint shadow on the neck of the vase with a brush tool. Draw a black ellipse at the base of the vase. Repeat the previous technique used for the ball. This time, I added a second shadow for the vase as if cast from a light at the front right. Add the reflection of the table on it. Now the interesting part. To instantly add the ceramic gloss to this vase, draw the shape shown in the image, convert to selection, increase its brightness. Do not fill colors. This will remove the shading present in the reflection.




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