Magnifying Glass Effect - Page 3
Friday, 31 October 2008 23:11

Step 8: Now we will blur the image by small amount so that it looks more realistic. To do these select the Gaussian Blur option from the Filter Menu as shown above.

Filter blur


In the Gaussian Blur Dialog Box set the Blur radius to 3 pixels.

Gaussian Blur

 

Gaussian Blur results

 

Step 9: To make the whole step up look more realistic we will drop the shadow of the magnifying glass on the background image.

Glass drop shadow

 

In the Drop Shadow Dialog box set the various sets to the values shown below.

Drop Shadow options

 

Drop Shadow results

 

Step 10: Now we will add the Inner shadow by selecting the inner shadows option as shown below.

Inner shadow

 

Again set all the different values as shown below.

Inner shadow settings

 

Finished: Here is the Final Image.

The finished magnifying glass effect !

That's it for this Photoshop tutorial, I hope it was helpful.



 
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