Do you wish your lighting would have produced a little shine on a part of your photo? Use this simple Photoshop technique to add that wanted shine in just minutes.
Unmesh Dinda of PiXimperfect provides another simple and useful Photoshop technique, this time for adding a shine to a particular part of a photo. Of course, we would always like to have our lighting to provide a natural shine to our subject, but sometimes that simply doesn’t happen or it isn’t enough for our liking. This video provides numerous examples of where you might want to add a shine to a photograph.
I think this method would be most useful to two types of photographers: wedding photographers and product photographers. For the wedding photographer, the video provides a great example of adding a shine to the wedding bands. For product photography, I can see this being used for more than the typical studio product shot that most people think of when you mention product photography.
This Photoshop technique can be used for almost any image where the product might have a shine. For example, I can imagine using this when photographing cars or motorcycles where there are areas that you would expect a little shine to be present. Or perhaps when photographing a glass product such as a beer bottle or a drinking glass.
Tell us what you think of the technique and whether you think it provides a realistic shine in the comments below.
