Simulate glossy paper in photoshop

[Dami1]

Hello guys!

I'm looking for a little help on how to simulate a glossy effect on paper right in photoshop.

Have a look, at the attached file to see what I'm after.

Any idea on what would be the best way to achieve this sort of effet. So far nothing I tried looked even close to this.

 

[chitkaran]

Use Filters-> Glass effect... play with the opacities.. adjust the blend mode... and this should give you the effect..

Also, to top it up - add a bit of white on either side - Blurr it and reduce the opacity.. this would give a reflective kind of effect on the paper..

Hope this helps... !! Cheers !!

 

[Remote-Medic]

These are coloured shapes with texture and shading to simulate shiny areas.

See the attached .psd so you can see how I made the image below.

View attachment shiny.psd



Hope this helps mate, pretty simple to achieve but hopefully the .psd will help you see how these are made.

 

[Dami1]

Thank you both. The glass effect what was I after. It works very nicely!

 

[Remote-Medic]

Thank you both. The glass effect what was I after. It works very nicely!

I had forgotten about that filter lol, so used to creating my own although it does work very well. At least you got the answer you needed mate.

 

[NemesisWorks]

I always go for a white to transparent gradient with guassian [ I will never spell that right ] blur if needed.

 

[chitkaran]

Thank you both. The glass effect what was I after. It works very nicely!

Anytime mate... // Hit thanks if this helped.

 

[Dami1]

Hello All!

Last night, I did as you advised on one of of the document i have to work on. Using the glass filter I somehow found a way to create the reflective/glossy effect. This morning I tried several times to do the same things on the other documents but cannot remember how to did it?

I merged the layer on the intial document so I cannot go back to check how I achieved it. For some reason last night when reading Chitkaran post, it all made sense. Today, the same post doesn't get me anywhere.

If I recall well, I did duplicate my layer and apply the glass filter to it. Then I did make a feathered selection of the part I wanted to be reflective and inverted it to finally apply a mask in order to hide the part of the image that does not need to look glossy. I'm left with the part that I want to be reflective, but it's in full color and I dont' seem to find a way to turn it into white. I tried to apply the mask to a white layer, etc... but always end up with the feathered edge instead of what can be seen on the sample in my original post.

I really feel dumb for coming back for help, particularly since I have been able to do it yesterday. Chitkaran, could you post a step by step instruction on how create the effect?

 

[Dami1]

Ok, I've got it this time. I went for lunch, came back, read the direction and got it working on the first time!

Sorry for all the troubles! Thanks again to you all, partcularly Chitkaran!

 

[chitkaran]

Your Welcome Dami1